The Lugano collection includes a large signature lounge chair and a smaller lounge chair with plush cushioning
The seating is composed of an upholstered backrest that embraces the user and a plush cushion seat supported by a simple timber frame.
The range was designed with what Galpin describes as a "make once, make well" approach to adhere to Morgan's ongoing commitment to sustainable design.
The Lugano dining chair features a curved backrest supported by an elegant timber frame
Each chair consists of three components – the back and armrests, the seat pad and the frame – all of which can be replaced or updated over the chair's lifetime to reduce its environmental footprint.
Lugano can be upholstered in a wide array of fabrics and leathers while the solid timber frame is available in certified beech, walnut, ash or oak as well as 11 different polish colours.
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Dezeen has teamed up with Holcim to host a live talk about Striatus, a 3D-printed concrete footbridge that the building material company built in Venice with Zaha Hadid Architects and Block Research Group at ETH Zurich. Watch live from 3:00pm London time.
Moderated by Dezeen's chief content officer Benedict Hobson, the talk will explain how the Striatus bridge was conceived, designed and constructed, and explore the implications that the project has for the future of construction.
Striatus is a 16-metre-long bridge built by the Block Research Group at Swiss university ETH Zurich and Zaha Hadid Architects, in collaboration with concrete 3D-printing specialists incremental3D. The project was made possible by Holcimwith its custom-made proprietary concrete ink.
The unreinforced arched bridge comprises 53 hollow blocks, each printed from 500 layers of concrete, which are held in place solely through compression.
Philippe Block, founder of the Block Research Group at ETH Zurich, will appear on the panel alongside Shajay Bhooshan, senior associate at Zaha Hadid Architects and founder of ZHA CODE, the firm's computational design research group. Representing Holcim on the panel is Nollaig Forrest, the company's head of communications and public affairs.
Philippe Block is founder of the Block Research Group at ETH Zürich
Block is a professor at the Institute of Technology in Architecture at ETH Zurich, where he leads the Block Research Group with Dr Tom Van Mele. He is also director of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research in Digital Fabrication.
He studied architecture and structural engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and then at MIT in the US, where he earned his PhD in 2009.
Bhooshan is a senior associate at Zaha Hadid Architects and founder of the Computation and Design group at Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA CODE).
Alongside his role at Zaha Hadid Architects, Bhooshan is also a PhD candidate at the Institute of Technology in Architecture, ETH Zurich, where he works at Block Research Group as a research assistant.
Additionally, he works as a studio master at the Design Research Laboratory master's degree program at London's Architectural Association.
Previously, he worked at London-based stadium architecture firm Populous, and completed his master's degree at the Architectural Association in 2006.
Nollaig Forrest is head of communications and public affairs at Holcim
Forrest is head of communications and public affairs at Holcim. Prior to this, Forrest acted as vice president of corporate communications at Firmenich, a producer of fragrance and flavour ingredients.
She has also held senior communications roles at Dow, DuPont and the World Economic Forum, and is a member of the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium Advisory Council.
To find out more about Holcim, visit the company's website or follow it on Instagram.
Seven antique pine cabinets have been stripped and painted both inside and out to form a colourful furniture collection, created by Dutch duo FreelingWaters and unveiled as part of London Design Festival.
The exhibition marks the first collaboration between calligrapher Job Wouters and muralist Gijs Frieling under the name FreelingWaters. It is the first project to be commissioned by Wrong Shop Projects, a new platform founded by Sebastian Wrong that brings together artists, designers and artisans to create bespoke pieces.
FreelingWaters has stripped and painted seven antique cabinets
On show as part of the Design House group exhibition at the 14 Cavendish exhibition space in London, the collection examines the benefits of upcycling and presents 18th and 19th-century pine cabinets transformed by a colourful fusion of graphic design, folk art and calligraphy.
Once seen as redundant and outdated, the pine pieces have been upcycled to be more relevant for today and to make a statement against a culture dominated by mass-produced objects.
The pieces are painted both inside and out
"Rather than bringing new objects into an overcrowded culture, FreelingWaters explores the concept of upcycling, applying a thin layer to create a complete visual shift in appearance," Wrong Shop Projects explained.
The cabinets are finished with traditional casein paint, which is made using milk protein and has been used to colour everything from pop artist Andy Warhol's iconic Campbell cans to Italian painter Giotti's bright blue fresco in the Scrovegni chapel.
The cabinets were upcycled to be relevant to today
"The project is very materialistic in terms of the colour, the intensity and the process of where they get the paint," Wrong told Dezeen.
"They source the pigments from specialist suppliers and then mix them in their studio with a milk product in a medieval technique."
Frieling and Wouters focused on cabinets in particular because of their "architectural quality and secret surfaces".
All of these surfaces, even the hidden ones, are painted in bright monochromatic colours and geometric patterns, with the duo's name and the date of the collection written on each piece as if they were signed and numbered editions.
"Calligraphy is a dying trade and so is folk art," Wrong explained. "And yet they're both modernists so they're playing with these skills to create something that is much more contemporary and relevant for today."
Casein paint was used to finish the cabinets
The collection on display at 14 Cavendish, which will also be exhibited at Design Miami's first-ever fair in Asia later this year, is one of three that FreelingWaters is creating for Wrong Shop Projects.
"Previously, I've focused much more industrialised production and I sell limited-edition prints and posters from designers," Wrong explained. "So this was a chance to start a new project with new people."
Each piece is emblazoned with the duo's name and the date of the collection
Wrong Shop Projects will continue this legacy by commissioning bespoke collaborations and site-specific installations between artists and designers.
The FreelingWaters collection was exhibited at 14 Cavendish as part of London Design Festival 2021 from 18 to 26 September. See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.
With two weeks left to take part in the Dezeen Awards 2021 public vote, here is an update on votes cast so far in each of the 12 architecture categories.
Public vote winners will be announced 18-22 October. The public vote is separate from the main Dezeen Awards 2021 judging process, in which entries are assessed by our star-studded panel of professional judges.
We'll be announcing the Dezeen Awards 2021 winners online in late November.
Who's in the lead?
With 36,011 votes received so far, here is a snapshot of which projects and studios have received the most support. There's still time to influence the results so keep voting!
26 per cent – NCaved by Mold Architects
24 per cent – Xerolithi by George Sinas
22 per cent - Mazul by Revolution
12 per cent – Mt Coot-Tha House by Nielsen Jenkins
Nine per cent – Casa Ter by Mesura
Seven per cent – Setoyama by Moriya and Partners
32 per cent – Nodi by White Arkitekter
26 per cent – Sanya Farm Lab by Clou Architects
20 per cent – Guha by RAW Architecture
15 per cent – Frizz23 by Deadline Architects
Eight per cent – Imatra Electricity Substation by Virkkunen & Co. Architects
Developer Unboxed Homes has created a terrace of customisable homes in Peckham, south London, which were designed by architecture studio Poulsom Middlehurst.
Described by the developer as "London's first custom-build homes", the houses on Blenheim Grove were designed to be sold as structural shells so that people buying the properties could customise the interior layouts and finishes.
Poulsom Middlehurst has designed a terrace of custom-build homes in south London for developer Unboxed Homes
"We believe that we are the first to offer 'new build shells' to Londoners," said Unboxed Homes founder Gus Zogolovitch.
"We are not trying to maximise our returns at Blenheim Grove, we are trying to make something new," he told Dezeen.
"Building an airtight, watertight, structurally sound shell which has the flexibility for customers to design a space that works for them."
The three-storey houses were built alongside a railway track
Each of the three-storey houses was designed by Poulsom Middlehurst so that a variety of layouts could be created within the split-level buildings.
Unboxed Homes could then sell them either as raw weathertight structures or as finished homes.
The developer believes that the partially finished homes give buyers the flexibility of a self-build home, but without much of the associated hassle.
The homes can be sold as structural shells
"There are literally millions of people who would like to self-build their own home," said Zogolovitch. "However, this remains really hard."
"The idea of Blenheim Grove was to make it easier for people to self-build by having us do a lot of the work for them," he continued.
The houses were designed to have flexible interiors
The homes are an example of a slowly emerging trend for customisable homes, said Zogolovitch.
"Custom build is when a developer gets involved in the process of a self-commissioned home," he said.
"In our case at Blenheim Grove, we have built the shell, in other cases in other parts of the country, customers buy serviced plots and then build their own homes," he continued.
"Custom build has the opportunity and chance to make self-build a reality for many hundreds of thousands if not millions more people."
Buyers can choose layouts and fixtures
The five houses, two of which have now been split into apartments, stand alongside a railway track near Peckham Rye Station.
As the site narrows, the smallest house is nearest the station with the largest at the other end of the terrace.
The homes were built in light brick and each have a sunken outdoor space alongside the road and a large terrace between the second and third floors.
"We wanted to create a terrace of shells, which we felt struck the right balance between leaving the owner with enough scope to be creative and to fit it out themselves and yet to remove a lot of the headaches of self-building," said Zogolovitch.
Unboxed Homes founder Gus Zogolovitch believes custom-build homes could help solve the housing crisis
Although Zogolovitch is extremely positive about the benefits of custom-build housing, building the terrace at Blenheim Grove was delayed by several years.
"The development has taken far longer than expected," said Zogolovitch.
"The complexity of what we are doing, while simple to explain, is completely new in the development landscape," he said.
"This means that every single person on the project had to operate at the top of their game – sadly our industry is rife with people who take little pride in what they do and we had to deal with lots of problems on site. This led to delays which led to customers dropping out of the project."
The delayed development is now complete
To date, Unboxed Homes has sold four of the houses, including the two that were split into apartments.
"We have now finished the shells and have sold four – with just one home remaining, which we will be fitting out to a basic specification – the idea being that people want space not specification – it's another experiment!"
Four of the five terraced houses have sold
Despite the issues on the project, Zogolovitch believes that custom build could be one solution to supply the houses needed in the UK.
"We are unquestionably in a housing crisis – not only do we build poor quality poorly designed homes, but they are also environmentally damaging and very poor value for money," he said
"If we want to change the hegemony of the volume house-builders we need to create houses that are fit for 21st-century living," he continued.
"It is by putting the power of choice into the hands of the occupier that we will break the crisis."
Project credits
Developer: Unboxed Homes Architect: Poulsom Middlehurst QS: Measur Engineering: Michael Barclay Partnership
