2012-03-20 15:56:26 // Design Daily Team
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The Pompidou Centre in Paris has picked up three large works from David Trubridge's Icarus installation for its permanent collection – a major coup for one of our very own designers.
2012-02-17 16:17:52 // Design Daily Team
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Dutch vodka brand Ketel One has established its first permanent dedicated bar in London, designed by Jenner Studio's Christopher Jenner.
2011-07-14 09:07:07 // Deirdre Robert
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It's Bastille Day, and much like everyone uses Saint Patrick’s Day as an excuse to finish work early and start drinking, Bastille Day gives you the excuse to indulge in copious amounts of wine, cheese, croissants and even perhaps the occasional escargot. It’s also the chance to indulge in some beautiful French interior design.
2011-05-23 08:30:00 // Sue Gillbanks
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Kitchen and bathroom designer Sue Gillbanks’ career has spanned over 30 years. Having worked at Alno & Poggenpohl, and having also run her own independent kitchen design company, she now finds herself at home as a director at Kitchens By Design. In this blog, she tells us how the latest technology and building techniques are being used to create bathroom spaces that are functional, innovative, unique and timeless.
2011-02-04 15:58:22 // Design Daily Team
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Roger Billington, director of SW Architecture Studio, a multi disciplinary design practice in China, is looking for interior designers from New Zealand to fill the following positions...
2010-11-01 15:45:07 // Design Daily Team
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We’re loving these wallpapers from Paper Room. Inspired by the honesty of raw materials, they’re a super quick way to transform a home or work space into an urban loft style retreat. The photographic digital prints look like the real thing, whether a naturally aged concrete wall, old weathered bricks, or a wooden fence with character. These materials transferred onto wallpaper transform a space, giving it a completely different architectural appeal. The Feature Industrial range is available on two bases; wallpaper and reStick MATT.
2010-09-21 12:28:25 // Vicki Holder
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Capitalising on her flair for reinvention, interior designer Liz Kerby of Workspace Design creates contemporary spaces—and furniture—imbued with an intriguing sense of history.
2010-09-07 14:57:52 // Vicki Holder
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In stark contrast to typically timid financial office fit-outs, this confident and colourful interior in an inner city suburb of Brisbane shouts personality plus. Entered in this year’s Resene Colour Awards, the project didn’t score a win but it still gets our vote.
2010-08-06 09:48:01 // Design Daily Team
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If you want a sneak peak of New Zealand’s up and coming design talent, you might want to start with the Design and Arts College of New Zealand’s graduating exhibition, from the interior design department.
2010-08-04 16:43:29 // Paul Leuschke
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The winner of the Resene Total Colour Master – Nightingale Award, Paul Leuschke, likes to use a lot of colour in his corporate projects. It’s a way to make client interiors more memorable, says Paul, from Leuschke Kahn Architects, who was awarded top honours in the inaugural competition with a design for accountants Grant Thornton in Fanshawe Street, Auckland. Although he favours quite a bit of colour in public spaces, Paul tells Design Daily he wouldn’t want to live with vibrant hues everywhere.
2010-08-02 15:15:44 // Design Daily Team
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Going to hospital never looked so appealing or at least, so curious. Frank Gehry’s (the man behind the Experience Music Project, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the Art Gallery of Ontario) latest steely project, the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, recently opened in Las Vegas. World of Architecture news explores further into the hospital’s recesses.
2010-08-02 13:50:06 // Design Daily Team
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Who said accountants were dull? A striking accountant’s office has been awarded top honours in the Resene Total Colour Awards announced in Auckland On Thursday evening, quashing the myth that accountancy offices are dull and boring.
2010-07-28 17:32:14 // Design Daily Team
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This week we profile Katrin Sonnleitner, a product designer’s whose work has been exhibited worldwide. Her work is known for dealing with the relationship between human and object, as well as crossing borders between art and design.
2010-07-26 11:18:21 // Vicki Holder
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Giving the likes of Rodney Wayne a run for his money, a succession of fresh, hip new Hair Co stores is poised to pop up all over the country. Moroccan hairdresser, developer and entrepreneur Joseph Brookes has arrived in New Zealand to recreate his London franchise success story. His goal is to capture the youth market with a well-priced, good value, fun hairdressing service.
2010-07-23 10:24:03 // Vicki Holder
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If it hadn’t been for an aversion to being tucked away in commercial kitchens, Natalie Du Bois would have pursued her early career as a chef. “My father was Belgian,” she explains “and we were brought up with some very unusual foods....
2010-07-20 12:00:00 // Deirdre Robert
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German-born Jens Sieber is a leader in automotive interior design. He's headed the interior design for the Audi R8, GT, the A1 and the futuristic RSQ for the I Robot film. Currently in New Zealand to launch Audi’s flagship model, the new A8, he took some time out to share his premium design thoughts with us.
2010-07-19 14:57:31 // Design Daily Team
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The colourfully gifted among us are set to be honoured next week when the winners of the inaugural Resene Total Colour programme are announced.
2010-07-19 09:55:53 // Vicki Holder
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At a time when many designers have felt the weight of the Recession, Paul Izzard has been busier than ever. His visionary and often fun approach to retail has seen him become very much in demand recently...
2010-07-02 13:00:21 // Vicki Holder
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Residents of the city of Guangzhou, in south-east China are enjoying contemporary apartment designs from the drawing board of Ignite Architects in New Zealand.
2010-06-23 16:30:35 // Vicki Holder
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Mark Gascoigne trumped this year’s 2010 RED (Retail Design) Awards winning 8 of the 18 categories. How has he cornered this neck of the design woods so neatly?
