Etel For Espasso

New furniture designs and reissues by Brazil's modern masters now on show in NYC

Celebrating many generations and over six decades of Brazil’s rich history of design is the new exhibition at Espasso, a NYC gallery that features Brazilian design. Starting today, 20 September 2011, the group show presents beautiful furniture design from the country’s top architects and designers to America, much of it for the first time. Uniting the designers—Arthur Casa, Dado Castello Branco, Isay Weinfeld, Jorge Zalszupin …

Slow Tech

Designer Hugo Eccles unveils four smart ways to ensure social downtime in a London Design Week group show

While many designers are working hard to develop new applications that would foster more streamlined social networking, the group behind the London exhibit Slow Tech are intelligently conceptualizing how to take time off. Created by Wallpaper Magazine editor Henrietta Thompson and Protein, the group show “encourages people to take time off from their little shiny screens,” explains participant Hugo Eccles. Working with designer Afshin Mehin, …

Saporiti Luxury Towers

An opulent box designed to store life's most precious memories

by Adele Chan Presented in Asia two years ago, the first-ever Saporiti Design Award Exhibition showcased the works of nine promising Singaporean designers who were tasked with creatively conceiving luxury towers that would hold, store or display opulent objects. The Italian furniture brand awarded the prestigious trophy to Ministry Of Design, a studio whose illustrious works include the the recently opened Club Hotel in Singapore …