Table B by Konstantin Grcic for BD Barcelona Design

Dezeen Showroom: German industrial designer Konstantin Grcic has updated BD Barcelona Design's iconic Table B in two new widths.

Award-winning Table B is one of Spanish furniture firm BD Barcelona Design's most celebrated table designs and received a prestigious Red Dot Award in 2011.

Table B comes in two new lengths

Grcic has redesigned Table B in two new tabletop widths of 70 and 90 centimetres for both indoor and outdoor use.

The 70-centimetre tabletop model is a desk design that will suit those who work from home.

A 70 centimetre desk version is available

Table B has different standard lengths and can also be made to measure, with the longest available length being six metres with whole profiles.

"Rather than dating, Table B has always looked to the future," said BD Barcelona Design of Grcic's updated models.

The designs are further diversified with new table legs options, available in cast aluminium, steel rod and wood.

Product: Table B
Designer: Konstantin Grcic
Brand: BD Barcelona Design
Contact: sales@bdbarcelona.com

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LXR18 armchair by Martin Ballendat for Leolux LX among new products on Dezeen Showroom

This rounded armchair that can be equiped with a small writing table that can swivel over the seat is among 13 new products featured on Dezeen Showroom this week.

LXR18 armchair by Martin Ballendat for Leolux LX

LX18 is a distinctive rounded armchair intended for relaxing and lounging, which was created by German designer Martin Ballendat for Dutch furniture brand Leolux LX.

The chair, which has an optional side table that can be attached to either side of it, is made to order and comes in an array of leathers and fabrics to suit offices, public spaces or residential environments.

LXR18 was featured on Dezeen Showroom this week alongside products including a height-adjustable foldaway desk designed for both sitting and standing positions and ceramic tiles that emulate some of the most coveted varieties of stone.

Read on to see the rest of this week's new products:

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LX662 armchair by Frans Schrofer for Leolux LX

LX662 is a high-backed lounge chair intended for lobbies and lounges, created by Dutch industrial designer Frans Schrofer for Leolux LX.

The chair, which was designed to maximise comfort and privacy for its sitter, is composed of a curved back with exaggerated winged sides and a slim metal base that comes in a four or five-prong option.

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LXR03 chair by Thijs Smeets for Leolux LX

LX03 is a highly customisable swivel chair that can be adapted to suit any interior space, which was created by Amsterdam designer Thijs Smeets for Leolux LX.

The chair can be tailored with a wide range of colourful upholstery and can be finished in a choice of aluminium or oak. Users can select from two different sizes for the height of the backrest and the chair comes with an optional footstool.

Find out more about LXR03 ›

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LX671 chair by Christian Werner for Leolux LX

LX671 is an ergonomic chair suited to conference and meeting rooms, created by German designer Christian Werner for Leolux LX.

The chair features a contoured shell seat with curved armrests and a choice of a trapezoidal steel base, a swivel base or solid oak legs.

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LXR10 armchair by Studio Truly Truly for Leolux LX

LXR10 is an armchair with a fluid form that folds and bends and has an adjustable headrest, created by Dutch designers Studio Truly Truly for Leolux LX.

The chair is composed of a wraparound plywood shell that can be customised in mismatched leather and fabric upholstery, with a base that can be finished in polished aluminium or powder-coated colour.

Find out more about LXR10 ›

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Lugano seating range by Rock Galpin for Morgan

Lugano is a seating collection comprising a signature lounge chair, a smaller lounge chair and a dining chair, created by Rock Galpin for Morgan.

The collection, which is designed with a "make once, make well" approach is distinguished by the chair's cocooning backrest and plush cushion seats.

Find out more about Lugano ›

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High Back Chair by Bodil Kjær for Cassina

Italian brand Cassina has updated and reissued High Back Chair with new finishing options, which was originally designed by Danish architect Bodil Kjær in 1955.

The chair, which was originally conceived for young people to unwind after a day of using uncomfortable office furniture, has a soft seat and backrest made from recycled polyurethane foam.

Find out more about High Back Chair ›

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Le Monde de Charlotte Perriand tableware for Cassina and Ginori 1735

Porcelain maker Ginori 1735 teamed up with Cassina to create the Le Monde de Charlotte Perriand tableware collection, which is informed by the photography of French architect Charlotte Perriand.

The tableware comprises service plates, dinner plates, bowls and dessert plates all marked with abstracted motifs, including a fishbone and the circular bands of a tree trunk.

Find out more about Le Monde de Charlotte Perriand ›

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Musa+ ceramic range by Fiandre Architectural Surfaces

Musa+ is a collection of ceramic finishing materials for floors and walls that comes in a myriad of formats and styles, created by Italian brand Fiandre Architectural Surfaces.

The collection comes in a neutral-toned palette that makes it suited to any residential or retail environment. These range from warmer hues such as Umber Brown and Midnight Black to cooler tones such as a Chalk white and Pearl grey.

Find out more about Musa+ ›

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Marble Lab tile collection by Fiandre Architectural Surfaces

Marble Lab is a collection of ceramic tiles that echo some of the most desired varieties of stone, created by Fiandre Architectural Surfaces.

The collection includes 12 colours and is available in traditional or larger format sizes. The tiles come with a choice of polished or semi-polished finishes, along with a matt anti-slip finish.

Find out more about Marble Lab ›

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Follow Me table by Mara

Follow Me is a space-saving and height-adjustable desk that allows users to easily move between sitting and standing, created by Italian office furniture brand Mara.

The table can be folded and stored away when not being used. Each desk is patented with Mara's "no-gravity" system, which means that the table can be adjusted without the need for electricity, batteries or pumps.

Find out more about Follow Me ›

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Vela acoustic ceiling panels by Impact Acoustic

Vela is a series of colourful ceiling panels with sound-absorbing capabilities created by Swiss brand Impact Acoustic.

The panels, which are available in an assortment of 28 colours, patterns and shapes, are suspended from the ceiling and made from a sound-absorbing material made from recycled PET bottles.

Find out more about Vela ›

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TwoWay acoustic desk organiser by Impact Acoustic

TwoWay is a desk organiser designed to be easily transported and stored away, created by Impact Acoustic.

The organiser, which is made of sound-absorbing felt, can hold laptops, cables, pens, notebooks and other office essentials.

Find out more about TwoWay ›

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Invisible Studio installs waterside bee house at Somerset hotel

Invisible Studio has unveiled the Beezantium, a lakeside apiary for honey bees in the grounds of The Newt hotel in Somerset.

With a hive built into its walls, the Beezantium is designed to house a bee colony, but also serve as an exhibition centre for hotel guests and visitors.

The Beezantium is located on the edge of a lake

Invisible Studio founder Piers Taylor designed the building as "a folly in the landscape", referencing the whimsical pavilions that have been created in English formal gardens for centuries.

The design features various sculptural flourishes, including a curving roof clad in copper shingles and punctured by oval-shaped windows.

The curved roof is clad in copper shingles

Other details are designed to suit the building's practical function, for instance, the walls are clad in large panels of unseasoned oak that offer natural holes for the bees to enter through.

A system of copper pipes has also been built into the building's structure, to make it easier for bees to fly in and out.

The walls are unseasoned oak, with gaps where bees can enter

"The Beezantium has been designed to provide a sensory, otherworldly experience," said Taylor.

"It appears jewel-like, quirky and playful, almost like a folly with a glowing copper roof. But instead of being only about pleasure, the Beezantium is a purposeful building designed to house bees in observation hives in the external walls."

The apiary is built into the walls of the building

While the trend for beekeeping in cities has had a negative impact, threatening the survival of other bee species, the Beezantium's countryside setting makes it a good location for an apiary.

The Newt in Somerset is located at Hadspen House, a former country house with an 18-hectare estate in rural Somerset.

"Established local colonies have been relocated to the apiary and the beekeeper is one of the most experienced in the world," Taylor told Dezeen.

The building contains an educational exhibition about bees

The site chosen for the Beezantium was previously used as a rubbish tip. But Taylor and the hotel owners, Karen Roos and Koos Bekker, felt that a waterside location would suit the building well.

"Lakes feature prominently in the tradition of follies," said Taylor.

The exhibition tones in with the building's honey oak interior

"Also we wanted the surprise of entering a building that looks small from a distance, but is much larger when you enter," he continued.

"Then there's a surprise at the end, when you've moved through the exhibition, and the landscape is presented through a bay window."

Oval windows puncture the curved roof overhead

Invisible Studio worked with Dutch design agency Kossmanndejong on the interior and exhibition design.

With the apiary in the walls, there was plenty of space in the centre of the room for an interactive showcase featuring hexagonal education panels and a large seating pod.

The yellow tones of the exhibition complement the walls, which are lined in slats of polished honey oak.

The space is naturally lit, thanks a skylight overhead and the large bay window.

The building is located at The Newt in Somerset hotel

The Beezantium is not the only design that Invisible Studio has contributed to The Newt in Somerset. Taylor also designed the gym building, which he imagined as one giant window.

Other recent projects by the practice include a slate-clad home on Cornwall's northern coast and a retrofit of Taylor's own off-grid home.

Photography is by Jim Stephenson.

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Deakin Law School by Woods Bagot features zinc cladding and fluted concrete towers

Architecture practice Woods Bagot has completed a university building for Deakin Law School in Melbourne comprising a zinc-clad volume and a fluted concrete tower.

The Deakin Law School is a new campus building for Deakin University, which has campuses in Geelong, Melbourne and Warrnambool.

Woods Bagot incorporated fluted concrete and zinc panels across the university building

The building is comprises a trio of stacked zinc-clad volumes, used to house learning spaces, and a tall, concrete fluted tower that houses ancillary spaces.

Adjoining the stacked volumes is the building's main wing, a rectangular glass structure that is used primarily for teaching and contains traditional learning spaces.

"The refined and limited palette of concrete, zinc and glass relates directly to the formal expression of the building and how it responds to the site," Woods Bagot principal Bruno Mendes told Dezeen.

Zinc was used to clad the curving, stacked volumes

Education spaces are spread across five levels and aim to offer students study areas that are suited to both formal and informal learning.

Alongside traditional teaching spaces like lecture halls, an amphitheatre and study areas, the building also contains technology bars, group working pods and individual workspaces.

Paving at Deakin Law School has a tonal and geometric pattern

The three zinc-clad volumes, located at the front of the building, have a stacked arrangement and contain what the studio describes as "premier learning spaces".

These areas were primarily intended as lecture halls and presentation spaces, but can also be transformed into collaborative or group workspaces when not in larger use.

Woods Bagot used glass across the structure to provide views across the surrounding landscape

The end of each stacked volume is sliced to incorporate glazing that stretches the width and height of the space, orienting the interior and providing views out to the surrounding site.

Although curved in form and clad in zinc, the large, glass wing is visually connected to its adjoined stacked volumes through their part-transparent elevations.

Warm-hued wood and white plasterboard covers the walls and staircase

The fluted concrete tower houses the building's stairs, toilets, and service core, while also doubling as a buffer that protects the rest of the structure from the harsh sun.

"The monolithic fluted concrete to the west is a solar buffer to this elevation, whereas the choice of zinc is well suited to being moulded around the three main complex sinuous forms," said Mendes.

"Glass is the final abundant material used freely to ensure unimpeded views of the lush landscape are maximised."

Woods Bagot used timber and white plasterboard throughout the interior in an effort to create a simplistic finish and frame views of the surrounding green landscape.

Spaces were designed to be used for both formal and informal learning

"The interiors are also restrained, concrete, white plasterboard and timber are the materials of choice," said Mendes.

"The abundant use of contrasting white surfaces help frame views of the green landscape beyond," he explained. "The tonal green palette of the informal spaces and timber cladding were chosen to provide some warmth to the interiors."

The curved forms are sliced to reveal learning spaces inside

A wellness garden on the ground level and a winter garden on the fifth floor were also incorporated into the building.

The wellness garden includes native plants, a deconstructed creek and tiered seating, while the winter garden features a vertical plant wall and large glass louvres.

The concrete tower contains the building's services and circulation core

"It is a calming, natural space," Woods Bagot principal Sarah Ball told Dezeen. "There are spaces to connect, study and collaborate as well as quiet and relaxing zones to take some time out."

"The student campus learning experience was at the heart of every design decision. The new building has created an immersive, highly engaging student learning experience."

This year, Woods Bagot has also unveiled a concept for electric vehicle charging stations in Downtown Los Angeles and completed a library building in England with a faceted wooden ceiling.

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Kim Kardashian launches first pop-up SKIMS store in Paris

Art director Willo Perron has designed the first pop-up store for Kim Kardashian's underwear brand SKIMS, which is in Paris and furnished with glossy, chunky display units and partitions.

The temporary SKIMS store is located in a 2,800-square-metre ground floor space at the entrance of the Parisian department store Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann.

The SKIMS Paris pop-up store by Willo Perron is replete with chunky partitions and display units

Central to the store's distinctive design is the shiny, beige-coloured partitions and shelving units.

"The whole concept was based on there being no hard corners, everything is round with soft edges and all the pieces are super glossy," Perron told Dezeen.

"I wanted people to feel like they had to touch it. It's also reminiscent of body forms and the curves of a body."

Customers can try on the underwear brand's selection in the chunky changing rooms

Underwear, shapewear and loungewear items are displayed inside chunky, beige cupboards fitted with hooks. Built-in shelves and nooks offer additional display space for clothes.

Customers can try on items inside the thick-walled changing rooms which are framed with soft pink curtains.

As they shop, visitors can also enjoy macaroons by pastry chef and chocolatier Pierre Hermes, which come in the same neutral colours as the collection.

Underwear, loungewear and shapewear are displayed on hangers and on counters

The store was informed by the underwear brand's ethos which is committed to providing an inclusive range of sizes and shapes for all bodies.

"The ethos of the brand is about shape, curves, and skin tones," Perron explained.

"We just expanded upon that existing language. It should sit somewhere between levity and sensuality. It wants to be playful but sexy at the same time."

Adding to this language, Perron decided to use colours and materials that similarly reflect the brand. A thermoformed plastic coated in glossy beige was used throughout.

"The color choices were made based on the Skims collection and the color palette they use," he said.

"The material is predominantly vacuformed and some of it is traditional carpentry with the same finish as vacuformed pieces" the designer continued.

Perron wanted to reflect the inclusive ethos of SKIMS

Other details include posters of Kardashian wearing the collection and a giant version of the SKIMS logo on the front of a partition near the entrance of the store.

"I also really love how the SKIMS logo feels like this very amorphic shape and I wanted to continue that into a real space," said Perron.

The colour choices match the clothing palette used by the American brand

The SKIMS pop up shop is open until Tuesday 5 October in the Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann.

Other fashion pop-up stores include OutThere Lab, a pop-up shop in New York designed by fashion brand The Arrivals.

In Sardinia, a pop-up store for circular-economy engineering company Minwiz gave customers the opportunity to purchase items made in-store from donated materials.

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