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A table designed by Diego Giacometti sold for £106,000 at Bonhams, New Bond Street today (10 March 2010), as part of its Post War and Contemporary Art and Design sale. Entitled Table Torsade, and cast circa 1965, it had belonged to the late English actor James Mason (1909-1984) since the late1960s.
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Good Magazine highlights a new illustration from Sam Loman that incorporates subway design into a map of the human body.
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Parsons The New School for Design recently launched the website The Copyright Corner.

Developed by Michelle Bogre, an associate professor in the photography program of the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons, it is intended as a place for debate and dialogue about copyright and other important intellectual property issues.
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Image:HouMinn’s OSWall (background) and Mary Ellen Carroll—MEC design studios with Kevin Topek and Carlisle Vandervoort’s Hydroponic Curtain Wall (foreground) Courtesy of Diana Pau

PRATT MANHATTAN GALLERY PRESENTS SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION WITH FOCUS ON INNOVATIVE MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH Exhibition Features Brand New Work that Examines Fascination with Architectural Skins of Buildings and Their Role in Sensorial Space

Pratt Manhattan Gallery will present “Envelopes,” an exhibition that will explore new and sustainable potentials of the architectural surface in terms of the skin of a building and also as a sensorial space that envelops the body. “Envelopes” will feature full-scale, interactive models accompanied by architectural renderings in the form of drawings and computer animations, and documentation of the process of investigation into these models from eight international firms and designers.
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These limited edition cans are designed to raise awareness of The Heart Truth, the women’s heart health program. Tom Gauld also helped create a series of animations for the campaign, two of which can be viewed here.
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More than 300 photographs from 19 different countries poured in, proving the achingly iconic coffeehouse chair – Thonet’s 214 (formerly No. 14) – is as up-to-date as ever.
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This spring Zona Tortona will literally be the playground of the guys from La Bolleur for five days since they decided to bring their Mini Golf Club abroad!

During the Milan Design Week you’ll find their space at Via Vogehra 11 in Milan, Italy.
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Sanyo’s new Eneloop Hybrid Bicycle will be able to charge up while being ridden on flat ground, Crunch Gear reports. Normally, such electric bikes only gather energy when braking while going downhill. The bicycles will be able to travel up to 55km on a full battery, which would take about 280 minutes to charge up.
The Eneloop is scheduled to go on sale in Japan in April. Via:[PSFK]