FRANKFURT – Germany’s Ambiente truthful stretches the space of 53 soccer fields, filling 12 multi-floor halls linked by folks movers like these you encounter in airports. There have been roughly 5,000 exhibitors at this yr’s occasion, which suggests there was an terrible lot to see. How do you decide the perfect merchandise? You’ll be able to’t. However there are a couple of that stood out and earned HAT tags for both their intelligent design, use of recent or progressive supplies, or distinctive perspective. Right here’s what we discovered:
Consider it or not, these “minimize” tumblers from Japanese maker Kinjo are made out of silicone, not crystal. They’re versatile, unbreakable and won’t cloud over time. Though their composition just isn’t a lot completely different from different silicone merchandise, a singular manufacturing course of renders them as clear as a chunk of glass or crystal barware. Three types can be found.
Please Wait to be Seated is a Copenhagen-based furnishings firm acquired by fellow Danish producer Eva Solo in January. Its collection of lamps and pendant lighting contains the brand new Planet wall lamp, which is supposed to resemble a planetary array. Powder-coated metal disks, accessible in 4 completely different shade choices, magnetically connect to a metal bar, so you may transfer them round in any method you want. An oblique halogen bulb behind the black disk casts a gentle glow on the wall behind, for a play of sunshine and shadow.
Fellow Danish firm Trademark Living, based by Jan Thormman (proven right here), makes new merchandise out of outdated issues, similar to these bicycle elements from India which were repurposed into a dangling rack (or easy wall sculpture, should you select).
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