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Friday 4 December 2020

Basta, Verpan and Tsar Carpets showcase products on Dezeen Showroom

Finnish furniture brand Basta (above), Danish manufacturer Verpan and Australian brand Tsar Carpets are among brands showcasing products on Dezeen Showroom this week.

Furniture, including seating and tables, as well as a selection of lighting designs have been added to Dezeen Showroom, which is an affordable space for brands to launch products and showcase their designers and projects.

Read on to see the latest products:

Ponte sofa by Marcel Wanders for Basta

Basta presents Ponte sofa designed by the brand's creative director, Dutch designer Marcel Wanders.

The flat-packed sofa is built on a foldable frame so that it can be easily assembled, disassembled and transported without the need for tools.

Find out more about Ponte sofa ›

Nota sofa by Note Design for Basta

The Finnish brand also presents Nota sofa designed by Stockholm-based Note Design Studio.

The sofa is available in brown-grey, cream or blue material, while the legs are finished in either black-painted steel or polished brass.

Find out more about Nota sofa ›

Wick portable lighting fixture by Graypants

Lighting designer Graypants showcases Wick, a portable lighting fixture that reinterprets the conventional chamberstick candle holder.

The lamp is ignited through a touch sensor on its rim and displays three different lighting levels, ranging from the soft glow of a wavering fire to a radiant reading light.

Find out more about Wick ›

Haze lamp by Samuel Wilkinson for Zero Lighting

Swedish brand Zero Lighting presents Haze pendant lamp designed by British designer Samuel Wilkinson.

The lamp features a central globe that has been wrapped in 3D-printed fabric. The weaving of the fabric creates a surrounding dark "haze" on the outer edges of the globe.

Find out more about Haze lamp ›

The Spanish Chair by Børge Mogensen for Fredericia

Danish manufacturer Fredericia showcases The Spanish Chair designed by furniture designer Børge Mogensen.

The chair features a leather backrest with circular cutouts and wide armrests where users can place cups and glasses, removing the need for side tables.

Find out more about The Spanish Chair ›

Post Collection by Cecilie Manz for Fredericia

The brand also presents its Post Collection by industrial designer Cecilie Manz, a range of chairs and tables made with solid-wood frames.

Both Post Chair and Post Table are intended to suit a wide range of settings including restaurants, hotels, homes and offices.

Find out more about Post Collection ›

Pantop light by Verner Panton for Verpan

Danish manufacturer Verpan presents its re-release of the Pantop light, which was originally created by Danish designer Verner Panton in 1980.

The light comes in a palette of eight new colours including forest green, mustard yellow, baby blue, soft pink and varying neutral shades.

Find out more about Pantop light ›

Chromatic flooring collection by Tsar Carpets

Australian brand Tsar Carpets presents its Chromatic flooring collection, which features six futuristic carpets informed by surrealism.

Each carpet is available in a range of colour gradients and are intended for use in hospitality spaces such as hotels and offices.

Find out more about Chromatic ›

Chatpod by Impact Acoustic

Acoustics specialist Impact Acoustic showcases Chatpod, a soundproof booth designed to create private space for meetings or calls in offices.

The booths come in 25 colours and five different sizes, including a single-person pod for standing or a six-person pod with seating.

Find out more about Chatpod ›

Ceto horizontal chandelier by Ross Gardam

Ross Gardam presents Ceto horizontal chandelier, which features patterned glass designed to emulate the undulating surface of the ocean.

The lights, which have been created in Gardam's Melbourne studio, use mouth-blown glass sourced from Adelaide and aluminium components from Melbourne.

Find out more about Ceto horizontal chandelier ›

Ashby table by Lemon

Furniture brand Lemon showcases Ashby, a table made from Bianco Carrara marble or travertine with a circular top and a central faceted base.

The table can be used in a range of settings, including offices where it can be used as a meeting table or at home where it can be used as a dining table.

Find out more about Ashby table ›

Pando ceramic pendant by Mullan Lighting

Irish brand Mullan Lighting presents Pando, a cylindrical pendant light with a crackled exterior.

The ceramic light is made using recycled brass and natural clays, which come in three colourways including black clay, red iron and blue earth.

Find out more about Pando ceramic pendant ›

Rail by K-Array

Italian audio manufacturer K-Array showcases Rail, a strip of overhead lighting with inbuilt speakers.

The track of LED lights is 1.2-metres-long and features the smallest-ever speakers offered by the brand.

Find out more about Rail ›

About Dezeen Showroom

Dezeen Showroom offers an affordable space for brands to launch new products and showcase their designers and projects to Dezeen's huge global audience.

As well as benefiting from exposure to Dezeen's three million monthly website visitors, products featured on Dezeen Showroom will be included in our Dezeen Daily newsletter sent to 170,000 subscribers and benefit from Dezeen's incredible SEO.

Dezeen has the highest SEO ranking of any design website with a domain authority of 87, according to SEO analytics service Moz, meaning products listed on Dezeen Showroom are more likely to be found by searchers, while links from Dezeen Showroom to your site will be more valuable than from any other design site.

Posts will remain on the Showroom section indefinitely and will not incur renewal fees once the initial payment has been made for the listing.

For more details email showroom@dezeen.com.

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Rail by K-Array is an LED lighting strip with built-in speakers

Dezeen Showroom: Italian audio manufacturer K-Array is launching Rail, a strip of overhead lighting with tiny inbuilt speakers.

Rail is the first product developed by K-Array's new KSCAPE division, which was set up to create "out of the box" audio solutions.

The 1.2-metre-long track of LED lights contains full cone speakers – the smallest ever offered by K-Array.

Rail's LEDs are sourced from renowned Japanese manufacturer Nichia.

"KSCAPE embodies our relentless quest to push the limits  of possibility – in design, in performance, in breadth of functionality," said K-Array CEO Alessandro Tatini.

"To give designers solutions to their endless creativity and rediscover the true potential of sound in everyday life."

Product: Rail
Brand: K-Array
Contact: tom.riby@k-array.com

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UK architects feud over airport projects as Architects Climate Action Network urges staff to take action

Paper planes by Architects Climate Action Network

Climate action group ACAN has called on architects at Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects to take "meaningful action outside of your employment" amid an escalating row over airport projects.

The body condemned the two studios for refusing to stop designing airports and urged staff to take action over an issue that is dividing the profession.

"If you work for Foster + Partners, ZHA or indeed any practice, please know that you are welcome to join our movement and take meaningful action outside of your employment," said Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) in a statement on its website.

"It is vital we speak truth to power and take action together."

The call came after the two London architects resigned from Architects Declare, another climate action group, following criticisms of the practices' ongoing work in the aviation sector.

It coincided with the UK government's announcement of plans to cut carbon emissions by 68 per cent by 2030, compared to 1990 levels. The plan does not include international aviation or shipping emissions.

Architects Climate Action Network's paper planes — This summer, ACAN urged members to send paper planes to Foster + Partners

The resignations show that "there are many practices who are really only interested in pursuing business as usual," said Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN).

"Statements from both of these practices are rooted in obsolete, hubristic ideologies which bear much responsibility for our failure to respect planetary boundaries," added the network, which this summer urged members to send paper aeroplanes to Foster + Partners in protest against its airport projects.

Feud over airport projects escalates

ACAN's statement, posted yesterday, comes amid an increasingly acrimonious row over whether working on new airport projects is compatible with decarbonisation goals.

The network said Foster + Partners had "made it clear that continuing to enable aviation expansion is more important to them than being part of a collective industry effort to address the largest crisis of our time."

"They have signalled very clearly that tackling the climate crisis is not their priority, especially when doing so would conflict with their business model."

However, architecture writer Christine Murray, editor of The Developer, asked why ACAN and Architects Declare were picking a fight over aviation, which accounts for around three per cent of global carbon emissions.

Meanwhile, new construction and existing buildings are responsible for around 40 per cent of atmospheric carbon, Murray pointed out on Twitter.

Squabble has "divided the profession into good guys and bad guys"

"Instead, for example, could you write angry letters to all the practices specifying coal-fired bricks, concrete and stainless steel in, like, every single house-extension and new house in the whole country?" Murray tweeted.

"Instead, you've got architects sitting back congratulating themselves for not designing airports they were never going to be asked to design, while most of the country (and the newspapers) now think designing airports is the problem."

"If someone can explain what's been gained by this, I am seriously all ears," Murray wrote. "But you didn't stop the airport. You've just divided the profession into good guys and bad guys."

Founding signatories resign from Architects Declare

Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects, the UK's largest and third-largest architecture firms, were founding signatories of the Architects Declare movement, which advocates a shift to sustainable construction to help avert climate and biodiversity breakdown.

However, both resigned from the network this week after ongoing criticism of their continued involvement in new airport projects.

In its resignation statement, Foster + Partners said it was committed to sustainability but felt that aviation was vital to tackling climate change.

"We believe that the hallmark of our age, and the future of our globally connected world, is mobility," said Norman Foster, founder of Foster + Partners.

"Only by internationally coordinated action can we confront the issues of global warming and, indeed, future pandemics," Foster said. "Aviation has a vital role to play in this process and will continue to do so."

A day later, Zaha Hadid Architects resigned citing "a significant difference of opinion with the Architects Declare steering group on how positive change can be delivered."

Photography and drawing are courtesy of Architects Climate Action Network.

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Haze lamp by Samuel Wilkinson for Zero Lighting

Dezeen Showroom: London-based designer Samuel Wilkinson worked alongside Swedish brand Zero Lighting to create Haze, a lantern-like pendant lamp that's wrapped in 3D-printed fabric.

The Haze lamp that Wilkinson has made for Zero Lighting is meant to offer a contemporary take on traditional Chinese lanterns. It features a central globe that has 3D-printed fabric stretched across its exterior.

At the top and bottom of the lamp is what Wilkinson describes as wooden "collars", which tidily conceal the ends of the fabric.

The weaving of the fabric appears to intensify at the outer edges of the globe so that, when the lamp is switched on, there seems to be a dark "haze" surrounding it.

"The idea arrived by accident after testing some 3D knitted fabrics for another project on top of a round form in the studio," explained Wilkinson.

"By chance we noticed this hazing effect that happened as the light faded around the form due to the thickness of the fabric," he continued. "From this discovery, it was a case of developing the elements to refine the design and try to bring it together in an attractive way."

Suitable for homes or workspaces, Haze is available in black, white or petroleum, a teal-blue shade. The lamp can be suspended on its own or as part of a group to create a more dramatic visual effect.

Product: Haze
Designer: Samuel Wilkinson
Brand: Zero Lighting
Contact: info@zero.se

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Dezeen's top 10 quirky furniture designs of 2020

Continuing our review of 2020, we've selected 10 of the most charmingly unusual furniture designs from the past year, from a futuristic birthing chair to sagging shelves made of foam.

The Metamorphosis by Tadeas Podracky

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Tadeas Podracky rejected formal design methods when creating these unconventional furniture objects, which he made by layering materials like "a bird weaving its nest".

Podracky crafted the Rietveld chair (pictured) from wood, before messily covering it in layers of black, white and yellow paint and carving away at it with a chainsaw.

Find out more about The Metamorphosis furniture ›

Concrete Melt Chair by Bower Studios

This liquid-effect chair by New York-based Bower Studios features a pale concrete top that drapes over a metallic base and forms folds on the floor.

Bower Studios wanted to make the concrete seem like it was melting over its base structure to give the solid material a fluidity that isn't typically associated with it.

Find out more about the Concrete Melt Chair ›

Maximalist furniture by Messgewand

Romain Coppin and Alexis Bondoux, who make up Messgewand studio, designed a series of kooky furniture from amalgamations of waste and found objects, including wood, metal, foam and plastic.

The designers created a "collage" of random items to make each piece before adding ornamentation, paint, surface work and decoration details. The resulting designs offer an alternative to the highly polished products that most designers develop for mass production.

Find out more about Messgewand's furniture ›

Soft Cabinets by Dewi van de Klomp

Dutch designer Dewi van de Klomp made these squishy, warping shelves from green and pink foam rubber – a material typically used for cushioning in car seats and wall insulation.

The Soft Cabinets take on new shapes depending on their contents, sagging and twisting as books, magazines, plates or glasses are stored inside.

Find out more about the Soft Cabinets ›

Ultima Thule by Stiliyana Minkovska

London-based architect Stiliyana Minkovska designed three futuristic birthing chairs to support women during different stages of childbirth.

The chair collection, called Ultima Thule, aims to offer an alternative to "hostile" hospital maternity wards. The Solace Chaise (pictured) is designed for postpartum or recovery use, and is partially enclosed to give the mother privacy.

Find out more about Ultima Thule ›

A Wild Sheep Chaise; Dolphin Hotel Club Chair by EJR Barnes

EJR Barnes wrapped this cuboid-shaped chair with venetian blinds, which are inset into its sides and back and bordered by cork window frames.

Strip lights hidden behind the blinds softly illuminate the chair to give the impression that "there might be something behind them". The chair is just one of many designs by Barnes that he creates with "a wry smile".

Find out more about the A Wild Sheep Chaise; Dolphin Hotel Club Chair ›

Envisioned Comfort by Marija Puipaitė and Vytautas Gečas

Tufted, pink velvet seats droop over interlocking wooden dowels in this Envisioned Comfort furniture collection by designers Marija Puipaitė and Vytautas Gečas.

The dowels are cut at different lengths to form undulating, ergonomic surfaces that fit the shape of the user's body. The more poles that are incorporated into the structure, the more detailed the curves will be.

Find out more about Envisioned Comfort ›

Rockito seat by Thomas Musca and Duyi Han

Designers Thomas Musca and Duyi Han took cues from brutalist architecture when creating this squashed-looking, reinforced concrete bench, which is part of a wider collection of chunky furniture items.

The Rockito bench (pictured) was conceived as an abstract take on the traditional rocking chair, and features a sharply curved seat with eight voids that give it the appearance of a squashed set of shelves.

Find out more about the Rockito bench ›

Mother of Pearl furniture by Plasticiet

Dutch startup Plasticiet kneaded and stretched slabs of recycled polycarbonate plastic like taffy to make the Mother of Pearl furniture items, which feature a swirling, shiny finish reminiscent of the natural material after which the collection is named.

The designers wanted the collection to bring new value to recycled plastic.The resulting, monolithic forms take cues from primitive human-made stone artefacts from the final part of the Stone Age.

Find out more about the Mother of Pearl furniture ›

Foame chair by Bonnie Hvillum

Bonnie Hvillum's bio-foam Foame chair was displayed as part of the Ukurant Objects exhibition that took place during this year's 3 Days of Design festival in Copenhagen.

From a distance, the bumpy chair resembles a glossy black stone, but is in fact made from a squishy, biodegradable foam-composite of charcoal that the designer developed.

Find out more about the Foame chair ›

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