Renault Twin’Z by Ross Lovegrove

Fancy meets function in a glass-roofed, luminescent commuter car

The Twin’Z was unveiled at La Triennale during Milan Design Week as the fifth concept car in Renault‘s six-petal “cycle of life.” The car represents the “Play” petal, embodying the theme with a silhouette and material construction reminiscent of a running shoe. The French company teamed up with Welsh furniture designer Ross Lovegrove—known for organic lines and crystal-clear vision—to realize the project, his first automobile …

Madeleine by Amy Radcliffe

A student project puts scent-capturing in the hands of the masses

Presented at Tom Dixon’s Most fair at Milan Design Week, Madeleine is a student project from Amy Radcliffe of University of the Arts London. The simple device captures scents so they can be replicated chemically. Composed of two parts—a graduated dome and a ceramic geometric vacuum with leather straps that holds a simple glass odor trap with a filter inside it. According to Radcliffe’s instructions, …

Re-lighting Gino Sarfatti Edition N°1 by Flos

The first in a series of reconfigured lights originally created by Italy's brilliant designer

Gino Sarfatti is possibly the most important lighting designer in the history of Italian design. Between founding the beloved Arteluce in 1939 and selling it to Flos in 1973, the self-taught designer had over 600 lamps and “light fittings” under his name. 2012 would have been Sarfatti’s 100th birthday, and to mark this occasion Flos joined up with curators Marco Romanelli and Sandra Severi Sarfatti …