Imaginative, zany, innovative, fun design is alive and well across Europe. Thank goodness the graduates from the best design schools across the continent continue to challenge and innovate. We need this if the UK and Europe are going to continue to maintain their reputation for high quality design, at a time when some governments (ie […]
Gallery FUMI loves to surprise with new innovative furniture where designers cleverly used science and art to transform unexpected materials such as glass, lead or expanded polystyrene into something new and perhaps apparently impossible, like contemporary seats, tables, lights and benches. French designer Thomas Lemut has created solidity from transparency with GLASS MEKANO in which […]
One of the most influential contemporary Dutch furniture designers, several of Maarten Baas’s unique works have been on show at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Mayfair, which has recently moved from the ground floor gallery to a much larger and more flexible space immediately above. Now the furniture is on its way to the Groninger […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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