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Flugger Coloured by Eilersen

The Danish furniture company Eilersen is known for upholstering their sofas with their own fabrics that you can't find anywhere else but on their furniture. Eilersen search for textiles at the trade fair Proposte at Como in Italy, or they’ll have them specially designed and exclusively woven. This provides Eilersen with a wide variety of colours, textures and weaves, which can be combined crisscrossed with both uni- and multi-colored fabrics.

Colour plays an extremely important role when deciding fabrics. Eilersen emphasizes that the furniture will help create harmony in a room, when the furniture, the fabrics and the wall colors should fit mutually, supporting and enhancing each other in perfect harmony.

Therefore, Eilersen has started working with Danish paint manufacturer Flügger to develop a color universe that supports the company’s goal of aesthetic harmony.

In collaboration with Flügger’s color architect, Anne Christensen, the first three colors have already been launched, bearing the names Antwerp (dark blue), Como (pink) and Geneva (gray-green). Another three new colors are on their way and will be ready for next season. This gives consumers the opportunity to create a complete interior, where both walls, design furniture and interiors are harmonized.

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Shaping your day needs your help

The designers have come up with a fantastic lighting design called VIA.

Three shapes. One shade.

You can own one or two, table or pendants for a pledge.

The VIA shade pledge starts at $170 NZ dollars

Get yours here

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/729082533/via-3-in-1-lamp?ref=card

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Amped

Danish designer Simon Legald has designed a sophisticated range of lamps called Amp. The lamps are characterized by their high-quality materials of glass and marble. These add a visual fragility and sensuous heaviness to the design.

The idea for the lamp's shape came when the designer was restoring an old 1960's radio. While searching for spare parts for the radio, he was captivated by the glow that emits from the tube amplifier. The simplistic oval shape and the glow of the lamp is an obvious reference to this, just as the name Amp refers to the English term; tube amplifier. Each lamp has been carefully designed to ensure just the right balance between hard & soft and transparent & opaque. Simon Legald says: "One can't always define where an idea for a new product comes from. But this time the inspiration was drawn directly from radio and hi-fi equipment. This is clear in the design of Amp. There is something special about the round, transparent shape of a tube amplifier that I thought would translate nicely into a lamp. I opted for the same type of glass used for an hourglass, as the shape had to be curved and narrowed in. To counterbalance the delicacy of the glass, I used marble. I think that the two materials work well together."

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Swirl is Growing

After a huge demand Le Klint have released two new additions to the Swirl range. A ceiling and a wall lamp. Both look stunning and both are available in small medium and large sizes.

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999 New Blue Eggs

Fritz Hansen has re launched a limited special edition of the iconic Egg chair, designed by Arne Jacobsen. The special edition is inspired by the indigo blue colour, which Arne Jacobsen originally used when he designed the world-famous Room 606 at the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen in the late 50's early 60's

The special edition of the Egg is produced in only 999 copies. The chair is upholstered in indigo blue Canvas fabric from the textile company Kvadrat, and as a special effect the chair’s has dark brown leather piping. Every chair has 1200 hand-sewn stitches and the base has a special burnish that matches the chair blue and brown colours.

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Counterfeiters sentenced in blatant judgements in Denmark and Sweden

Over the last couple of years several Danish furniture and lighting manufacturers have sued a number of UK based websites, who were aggressively selling and directing their marketing towards the Danish and Swedish markets.

Besides, a couple of counterfeiters have been reported to the Danish and Swedish police, who identified and seized major stocks of replicas in Denmark, Sweden and Germany belonging to UK based sites. Several people have been arrested and taken into custody, and counterfeit design products worth millions have been seized by Police in Sweden, Germany and Denmark.

The key issue is that the Danish design products are all protected by copyright in Denmark and Sweden whereas the products are not protected in the UK due to a shorter copyright term. The majority of the replicas are manufactured in Asia – imported (legally)into the UK – and then shipped to Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

This summer the judicial systems in Denmark and Sweden sent a very clear signal:

“It is illegal to sell and direct marketing of replicas to a market, where the design furniture is protected. It makes no difference that the website distributing the products is based in a market, where the products are not protected.”

In a civil case the Danish Maritime and Commercial Court sentenced two UK-based replica sites on 20 May 2014¹. The Court decided that it is illegal to sell counterfeits from a UK site to Danish customers. The counterfeiters were also sentenced to provide compensation to the rights-holders.

In a similar criminal case investigated by the Swedish IPR Task-Force - the Court in Stockholm on 25 June 2014² sentenced a UK registered site and its CEO to 6 months imprisonment and a substantial fine of more than one million SEK and confiscation of its domain name. Moreover, the counterfeiter had to pay the Danish lighting manufacturer Louis Poulsen one million SEK in compensation for the infringements. The counterfeiter had during an 8 months-period sold a substantial number of counterfeit design lightings infringing the copyright of Louis Poulsen – to Swedish customers via the internet. It was considered an aggravated circumstance that the counterfeit lightings did not meet the security requirements as well as the correct certification for electrical products in the European market.

In another major criminal investigation in Sweden, the IPR Task-Force raided a stock of counterfeit design furniture and lighting just outside Stockholm in April this year and seized app 3000 counterfeit items and SEK 2,5 million in cash. This case is pending prosecution. Danish Police is currently investigating 2 major criminal cases, where two stocks were identified in Denmark and Germany. Organized crime is involved in these cases that are both pending. These decisions, that are also supported by recent EU case law show that organized IT criminals are sophisticated and that theft of intellectual property is not an accepted business model. 

“We are very pleased that law enforcement work together across borders and achieve successful investigations to eradicate these cross-border criminals – law enforcement did a tremendous job in these cases” - Corporate IPR Manager at Louis Poulsen Erik Lindevang Madsen said. The consumers’ safety is put at risk, which is a serious issue and besides, they risk that their products will never arrive and their investments may be in vain. The consumer who for some reason wants to sell his replica product again, cannot sell this in Denmark or Sweden, because it is protected by copyright in those markets”, Mr. Madsen commented.

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Comeback of the Year!

The three major Danish furniture and interior magazines, Bo Bedre, Bolig Magasinet and Costume Living, have just awarded their annual design awards. The Comeback of the Year award was given to the Søborg chair, which was designed by Børge Mogensen and produced by Fredericia Furniture. The reasons for choosing the Søborg chair: “It is simple, cool and extremely refined. It is Børge Mogensen in a new way – more light, elegant and organic than we know him.”

The Søborg chair was launched in 1950. It is unusual because Børge Mogensen did not normally work with moulded plywood.

Fredericia Furniture has reintroduced the Søborg chair to the market in 2014.

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Luminous Textile

Phillips have teamed up with Kvadrat, together they have created the 'Luminous Textile'.

The 'Luminous textile' is a revolutionary new way to enhance interiors with light, texture and dynamic visual content. A totally unique ambient lighting system, it integrates multi-coloured LEDs seamlessly within beautiful white or coloured textile panels. The result is a “mood wall” that can integrate lighting into a building’s architecture and emphasise the concept of any room. And because of the range of fabrics and the sheer flexibility of the content, its creative potential is phenomenal.

Phillips have a range of imagery content for you to choose from to display or you can upload customise your own. All you have to do, is download the software they provide. Simple. Here's an example.

http://vimeo.com/85528969

Thanks to Kvdrat, even with the lights off, the panels continue to enhance the space with their range of 'Soft Cell' fabrics. The cell it's self has been designed with a tension mechanism to keep the fabric perfectly stretched, in doing so, the panel is not affected by temperate or humidity and will stay looking good for years to come. 

The Soft Cells are designed for acoustic comfort by broadband conditioning in all relevant octaves between 200 - 4000 Hertz and can be tailored to the acoustic's of any interior.

The panel's come in standard and custom sizes and can be arranged any way anywhere, with a range of fabric choices available the options are endless. 

Watch more here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYY3TLn1kuw

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100 Year Old Wishbone

Carl Hansen & Søn has marked the 100th birthday of the furniture designer Hans J. Wegner through a wide range of events.

Anniversary activities are rounded off by the launch of a special edition of the best-selling Wegner chair through the age The Wishbone Chair from 1949. What makes this chair so special is That the chair is made from beech tree planted in 1914, the year of Hans J. Wegners birth. The wood comes from a sustainable forest on the Danish island of Funen The wood for the special edition has been carefully insulated and specially tagged throughout the production plant at Carl Hansen & Son.

The special edition of the Wishbone chair is available in various types. Each copy has a unique origin label with a serial number and a certificate of authenticity, identifying that this version of the Wishbone chair is made from 100 year-old beech tree.

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Poul Henningsen 120th Birthday

To mark Poul Henningsen's 120th birthday on 9 September, Louis Poulsen is launching the new PH 3½-3 pendant. The PH 3½-3 pendant is based on Poul Henningsen's original drawings from the late 1920s and early 1930s, featuring his renowned three-shade system. The pendant has metal shades, available in green, yellow, red and white. The fixture housing is silk mat brown and made of copper. All colours are based on Poul Henningsen's colour universe. Like the designer, the fixtures are colourful!

As an extra feature, all shades have a white painted rolled edge, accentuating the familiar profile of the three-shade fixture and creating beautiful optical symmetry.

The shades are pressed at Louis Poulsen's factory in Vejen, by Louis Poulsen's own staff – a craft only very few are trained in.

Although the fixture is over 80 years old, it is both modern and classic at the same time, making it ideally suited to a broad range of interior design environments. It is seen as a charming, rustic, functional and unpretentious fixture. 

Poul Henningsen was called the light artist, to which he responded: "If you create art, you are an artist – good or bad. And illuminating a room is most certainly art!"

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Fredericia in Tokyo

The J49 Project was back at Fuji Rock Festival. Started in 2012 after the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, The J49 Project is a charity effort for helping survivors in Japan. All the bands performing on Green Stage, including Franz Ferdinand, Arcade Fire, and Jack Johnson, will autograph a J49 each night, which will then be auctioned with proceeds going to Benefit for Nippon, a charity assisting residents of the Fukushima region. Image: Junji of 'The Roosters' https://www.facebook.com/TheJ49Project

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Happy 75th Birthday Vipp!

They celebrated surrounded by beautiful flowers, good food and great ideas.

The results are outstanding.

Watch the celebrations here..... http://vimeo.com/98415594

They have also been changing lives one cup at a time.

Vipp have opened a pop up coffee shop where you can get, a cup of tea or coffee with something sweet on the side, which will set you back 100 Krone about 20 NZD.

In doing so you are supporting Doctors without Boarders, an international humanitarian organisation, that provides emergency medical care to some 70 countries around the world.

And.....you get you very own Vipp cup.

That is one treat I would not feel guilty about in the slightest.

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Tivoli v’s Montana

The Tivoli Gardens are situated in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founder Georg Carlensen had told King Christian VIII that “When people amuse themselves they do not think of politics” He obtained a 5 year charter to create the gardens and The Monarch granted Carstensen the use of 15 acres of land for an annual rent. In 1843 The Tivoli Gardens opened their doors and are now the second oldest amusement park in the world.

In 1955 Verner Panton was asked by Tivoli Gardens to create a chair for a restaurant in the park. This lead to the creation of VP’s 1st Chair. A chrome plated steel tubing covered with peddigrohr (wicker) or plastic stringing. The seat and backrest form a single unit as does the base frame with vertical bridges to connect the two pieces. The chairs were manufactured by Fritz Hansen.

In recent years, Joakin Lassen owner and designer for Montana, a design company in Denmark, rediscovered the design in 2003 and put it back into production and re-launched the ‘Tivoli Chair’ to the market in 2004.

When the chair was re-released the Tivoli Gardens wanted payment for the use of their name and Montana refused. After many years of dispute and appeals, the Supreme Court recently ruled that Montana pay 2 million Kroner plus interest to the Vitoli Gardens for violating the theme parks trademark by naming one of their products the ‘Tivoli Chair’

Montana has now renamed the chair ‘Panton One’ and the design remains in production.