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Bocci Video Competition
Other | Published on December 17, 2010
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Holiday Donations 2010
Other | Published on December 8, 2010
This year, we have taken a new approach to allocating our annual donations. The Inform staff was charged with the responsibility of finding charitable organizations which we would contribute to. Several wonderful charities were chosen, some for personal reasons, some simply for the better good. Below is a brief description of the organizations and the reasons why each donation was made.
If you are fortunate enough to have a little extra time and/or money to spare this year, we encourage you to give to those who could really use your help.
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Flash Factory | Inform & Tom Dixon
Event, In Store | Published on November 18, 2010_
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Join us on November 27th from 11am until 5pm to witness Tom Dixon’s new Etch lamp and Etch candle holder in production.
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Flash Factories in Milan and Hong KongWhat would normally be a static furniture showroom window is transformed into a Flash Factory where the processes of industrial production are brought directly to the customer. A limited number of exclusive products are made and sold on site. Etch is a digitally manufactured collection that includes a light and candle-holder in brass. Everything is sold on a first come first serve basis. Visitors can purchase a version that has been fully assembled at the factory window, or a flat-packed version to complete at home. The Flash Factory demonstrates Future Industry and the new found power of the designer, able to service world markets with the latest products in greatly reduced time scales.
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Mies van der Rohe | The Will of an Epoch
Architecture, Designer Focus | Published on November 1, 2010
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was born on March 27th, 1886, as Ludwig Michael Mies, in Aachen, Germany. Classically trained as a stonemason, at 19 he moved to Berlin where he worked for Bruno Paul, an art nouveau architect and industrial designer.
Mies’ professional focus was to define new architectural and design styles that reflected a more modern and industrialized time. Along with Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Mies is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of Modern architecture. His infamous quotes “Less is more” and “God is in the details” ring true to his architectural projects as well as his furniture and interior designs. He promoted purity in his minimalist style which was often referred to as “skin and bones” architecture by Mies himself.
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Nest | Homes on Burnaby Mountain
Design Information, Inform News | Published on October 25, 2010
One of the wonderful things about working at Inform is the diversity within the staff and our clients. We
have the opportunity to use our skills in different aspects and to work on projects of all sizes and
varieties.I was thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Sharron Bortolotto from BBA Design. Together we
furnished the presentation centre for the Nest development at SFU.
Sharron’s vision to use “real” furniture, “classic” furniture and furniture that was accessible to everyone,
drew me to the project. All of the items used in the Mosaic Homes presentation centre are standard size
and can be purchased through Inform Interiors. There were no custom made beds or sofas’ trying to
make the suite appear larger than it really was.
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IDSwest 2010
Inform News | Published on October 20, 2010
Last Wednesday through Sunday, at the new Vancouver Convention Centre, there was a thrill for the senses. The talented and very organized folks behind Interior Design Show West provided the interior design industry of the West Coast and beyond a chance to show off their latest and greatest. There were countless exhibits, insightful speakers and brilliant designs from well established and emerging creatives.
We exhibited some of what we have to offer in design excellence from around the world. Lines of fluorescent tape ran across our booth and over pieces that led to panels reading the names of those piece’s countries of origin.
Clockwise from top left: Bensen Format shelving prototype, Emeco 111 Navy chairs, Flos Superarchimoon lamp, Cappellini Proust chair, Zannota Sacco / Bocci 28 sercies / Bensen Brix / Vitra Vegetal chair and Flos Glo Balls / Shawn Place’s SP210
Some of the Inform team enjoying opening night with friends
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Marcel Wanders
Designer Focus | Published on October 12, 2010
_Marcel Wanders is originally from Boxtel, Holland and graduated from the School of the Arts Arnhem in 1988. Wanders’ fame started with his Knotted Chair, which he produced for Droog in 1996(image right).
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He has designed for B&B Italia, Poliform, Moroso, Flos, Boffi, Cappellini, and Moooi, founded in 2000, of which he is also art director and co-owner.
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Two of Wanders’ recent interior designs.
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Cappellini | Classically Contemporary
Brand Focus | Published on September 28, 2010
It all started in 1946, Enrico Cappellini opened a small workshop in Carugo, Italy. Since it’s origin, Cappellini has never been boring nor absurd, often with a healthy dose of humor, other times proposing simple, dynamic formal solutions: these are the characteristics that make the Cappellini collection full of vivacious fractures and contradictions. The company has since been taken over by Enrico’s son, Giulio(picture left).Cappellini continues to seek out new talent with varying temperaments, that don’t create a real “Cappellini’s style” but compete to form a balanced and logical collection.
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Book Review | La Maison de Verre
Literature | Published on September 23, 2010
La Maison de Verre (literally ‘The House of Glass’) is a modernist masterpiece that almost nobody has ever seen. Here, for the first time in English, is it’s inside story.
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Eileen Gray | Slight yet Substantial
Designer Focus | Published on September 16, 2010
Eileen Gray was born on the 9th of August, 1878 to Eveleen Pounden and James Maclaren Gray, a wealthy family of south-eastern Ireland. She was the youngest of five children. Eileen’s father was a painter who encouraged his daughter’s artistic interests. He took his daughter on painting tours of Italy and Switzerland which encouraged her independent and somewhat rebellious spirit.
When 22 years old, her father died. She went to a world’s fair in Paris where Art Nouveau was the main style, Gray was a fan of the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who’s work was on exhibit. Gray would go on to study art in Paris, at the Académie Julian and Académie Colarossi.
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After moving to London, Gray came across a lacquer repair shop in Soho where she asked the shop owner, Mr. D. Charles, to show her the fundamentals of his work. She later returned to Paris and met one of her employers former contacts, Seizo Sugawara. He originated from an area of Japan that was known for its decorative lacquer work._
Sugawara emigrated to Paris to repair the lacquer work exhibited in L’Exposition Universelle. She found after working with Sugawara for four years that she had developed the lacquer disease on her hands, she persisted though it was not until she was thirty-five when she finally exhibited her work.
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