Archive - Uncategorized RSS Feed

711000 Sheets of Paper at Stockholm 2013

Architect Gert Wingårdh and Finnish illustrator Kustaa Saksi joined forces at the Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair to produce this incredible installation for the Hello! Show.

Continue Reading…

The Milky Way in your living room

Tokyo Based Studio Niji have created this simple light using the latest lighting technology.  Shoji Katsume, director of the studio, designed the Lactea lamp. Lactea means ‘Milky Way’ in Latin and is designed to express balance and continuity.  Continue Reading…

Stattman Neue Moebel Opens Online Shop

Siblings, Nicola and Oliver Stattmann, operate German manufacturing company, Stattman neue Moebel from their family workshop in Aschberg, Germany.

Continue Reading…

An Ordinary Exhibition

Above: Road Sign by Jock Kinneir & Margaret Calvert (1964)

Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things opened this week at the Design Museum in London. The new permanent collection Continue Reading…

Scraplights by Graypants

The intriguingly named design studio, Graypants, has launched the equally intriguing Scraplights Continue Reading…

Unexpected Pleasures at the Design Museum

Above: Karl Fritsch, Screw Ring (2010).

An exhibition of contemporary jewellery from the perspective of the maker and the wearer is currently on show at the  Design Museum in London. Continue Reading…

Demi Lamp for Design House Stockholm

Swedish designer Matthias Stenberg has designed the Demi lamp for Design House StockholmContinue Reading…

Printing Buildings

Universe Architecture is trying to revolutionise the field of architecture. The Landscape house resembles a giant mobius strip Continue Reading…

Concept Bike that does what it says on the aluminium

We received this exciting project in our inbox this morning. This bicycle concept by Paolo De Giusti was finished only a few days ago and promises to be…. a bicycle; it doesn’t have a USB Continue Reading…

Hi-Tech Bohemian Crystal

Above: Stone designed by Jirí Pelcl

After spending several years gathering dust, glassware is becoming exciting again. Despoke came across BOMMA, originally known as Bohemia Machine Glass, Continue Reading…

Ready Made Curtain by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

French  designers, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, have teamed up with Danish textile manufacturer, Kvadrat  to release the simple Ready Made CurtainContinue Reading…

London Art Fair

Above: Sir Peter Bake, London – River Thames – Regatta, 2012. Paul Stolper Gallery

If you are in London this week, head down to the London Art Fair at the Business Design Centre in Islington. Artists such as James Capper Continue Reading…

Battersea Power Station

Phase 1 of Battersea Power Station apartments went on sale on Monday (14th January) and over 75% of the apartments Continue Reading…

Help Improve Despoke… Take our Survey!

Take our SURVEY to create better content for you!! Enter for the chance to win £100 of design vouchers!

Time Wasting on a Wednesday

Google is Celebrating Frank Zomboni’s birthday today. In honour of the man who created the self-propelled ice-resurfacing machine, Continue Reading…

Page 1 of 1612345»10...Last »