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Light and Building – Frankfurt Germany 2014

John Bechini from Viabizzuno Australia recently traveled to Frankfurt to attend the worlds biggest trade fair for lighting. We sat down with John to find out just what is on the horizon for lighting. [caption id="attachment_16615" align="aligncenter" width="740"]John Bechini from Viabizzuno Australiain action John Bechini from Viabizzuno Australiain action[/caption] How many years has Light +...

the Goldern Canary

Jake Phipps’s idea of the cage traces the tradition of canary's in homes. Canary presence in households dates back to the Egyptian and Roman civilizations; in Middle Ages and in English courts, it was a sign of good manners to have canaries in the sitting room. Thus, an icon of British high-ranking state turns into a CASAMANIA object-lamp....

The New Steel Stool

After two years of development to create a no-screw, no-glue system allowing the New Steel Stool to be used as a side or coffee table, book holder or shelving system, the Steel stool is influenced by traditional English craftsmanship and Provencal rawness. The stool tries to express the direct simplicity found in real traditional antique Provencal furniture and...

geometric deer head

New from Malabar is a modern take on the classic taxidermy head mount paying tribute to the powerful animal whose strength lies in its antlers. Antler is a handmade piece, carved from wood and coated with a unique copper leaf. Complimenting the antler is  Malabar's center table with it's copper leaf coated top and walnut wood structure inspired by...

direct illumination

SCOUT would like to let you know about two new outdoor lights from Ernesto Gismondi, the founder and visionary behind Artemide.

Now available in Australia, his latest outdoor designs Epulo and Provoca feature high performance LED light sources and offer two varying solutions for outdoor flood lighting.

Epulo features a cleverly engineered spherical joint that allows extensive directional light control...

Searching for Australia’s Ultimate Green Interior Project

Green Interior Awards Are Open and they are searching for Australia’s Ultimate Green Interior Project. The search is being done via an Awards program co-presented by our good friends Australian Living and Universal Magazines. Home Design Magazine Australian Living Awards is about shining the light on those who use green interior products in their projects. “It is important for industry...

Setting fire to the rain

Ak47 develop designs that shun the obvious, venturing into questions that are still unexplored. The aim is to qualify simple objects; to enhance them and characterise them with the quest for a particular process, the innovative use of materials and a care for detail. And we couldn’t agree more; AK47 pushes the boundaries and the way we think escaping the bonds of fleeting fashion to...

in full flight

The Muybridge series is a digital approach to transporting classic dynamics onto standalone jersey garments created by the T Shirt Issue. For their second study on temporal change in 3D, a bird in full flight is rigged, animated and exported into T-shirts. The T-shirts represent three frozen frames from the animated flight, displaying a different position of the...

irregular light and form

Abel an industrial designer whom lives in Santiago, Chile, South America shares his “New edition terracotta lamp” with us... The lamp was born from experimentation together with Chilean artisans who work with ancestral craftsmanship creating contemporary objects employing traditional techniques. The main objective is to create a play of light and shade with its irregular edges in order to illuminate different types of space. One can use the process...