scholten & baijings

Traditional crafts and natural materials, deployed in unexpected ways.Their work add an invigorating injection of raw nature to contemporary design.

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The NOW Top 10 lamps

'Apaya'floor lamp by Ayala Serfaty with Irit Dolman

'Blood'lamp by Mike Thompson.A single use lamp,you break off the top, dissolve a small amount of powder in the liquid contents, cut your finger and drip blood into the solution.

'The brave new world 'lamp by Freshwest for MOOOI.

'Cinderella' lamp by Studio Mkkink and Bay.

'Diva' by Peter Netedal and Thomas Kalvatn Egset.

'Hope' lamp by Gomez Paz and Paolo Rizzato.

'Bulbs' lamp. As if infected by a disease, designer Pieke Bergmans’ Light Bulbs slump and die away slowly as they add a warm, amorphous glow to the space in which it’s placed.

'Light Vase' by Bong Kyu Song with Lee Youn-Choul

'E27' by Mattias Stahlbom

'Spacewalker' by Constantin Wortmann.

PAUL SMITH in Paris

La Tourette is a 1930s bistro that Smith has left pretty much as he found it , including cracked tiles , peeling walls and tarnished mirrors.
It is a luxury store that looks increasingly shabby -chic-just love it.

Asics Origami Lounge

Sipho Mabona started folding planes as a 5 year old.After 15 years of designing paper aeroplanes, he studied the art of origami in the hope of discovering new shapes.And when Asics celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2009 , Nordpol and Hamburg asked Mabona to design the Asics lounge for the world athletics champions , held in Berlin.

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