Following the success of the K Town pilot project in Göttingen, Karstadt opened a second K Town store in Cologne on 14 September. This new shop concept forms a key part of the "Karstadt 2015" strategy. K Town will contribute further to ...
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An additive created in a unique collaboration between the University of Sheffield and the London College of Fashion which can be washed into clothes so the wearer purifies the air as they move could be available within just two years. ...
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Christie's fall impressionist&modern art auction achieves$205 million(£129 million/€160 million) Rare masterpieces by Claude Monet,Wassily Kandinsky and Constantin Brancusi led the November 7 Evening Sale of ...
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UK-Nick Gray from London-based creative lighting and design practice Renegade'imagineered'a dramatic and striking lighting ambience-both outside and inside-London's iconic Tate Modern art gallery,which hosted the new James Bond Skyfall ...
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The Eames Lounge Chair and ottoman, officially titled Eames Lounge (670) and Ottoman (671), were released in 1956 after years of development by designers Charles and Ray Eames for the Herman Miller furniture company. It was the first chair ...
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field Conditions,on view from September 1,2012,through January 6,2013 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art(SFMOMA),bends and blurs the boundaries between conceptual art and theoretical architecture,using the notion of the"field"to ...
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Lately,Klik Systems has engaged in'Luminous',the world's largest interactive light installations opening in the new Darling Quarter precinct in Sydney's Central Business District(CBD).Klik Systems provides LED systems for the large new ...
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Cooper-Hewitt Director Bill Moggridge announced the winners of the 2012 National Design Awards,which recognize excellence across a variety of disciplines.The award recipients will be honored at a gala dinner Wednesday,Oct.17,at Pier Sixty ...
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This second technique was a bit more challenging since the artist has to be very careful when working with such a delicate material as a sheet of tempered glass. This field was typically divided into two sections. One of these sections ...
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An event hosted in a London gallery will showcase LED lighting products from Taiwan, focusing on how the products combine with modern art, decoration, and everyday life. Fig. 1. Event poster According to the Photonics Industry & ...
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An event hosted in a London gallery will showcase LED lighting products from Taiwan, focusing on how the products combine with modern art, decoration, and everyday life. Fig. 1. Event poster According to the Photonics Industry & Technology ...
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The Southern California Institute of Architecture(SCI-Arc)announced that 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize winning architect Thom Mayne of Morphosis has been elected a SCI-Arc Trustee. "Thom Mayne is the quintessential SCI-Arc ...
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LONDON—After screening"Star Wars"for his students,a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pointed to a"remote"—as droids or robots are called in the movie—with which Luke Skywalker had been practicing his ...
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