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Field Of Eames
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
There are few people who have had greater impact on the way we live than Charles and Ray Eames. Their chairs and houses did for furniture and architecture what Steve Jobs did for the computers. The first exhibition of their life and work took place this autumn at the HKDI and it has helped to spark a global reappraisal of the couple's contribution to modern design.
In The Living Room
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Salone del Mobile is the biggest event in Italy's furniture design calendar -- and now the world. We explore the great innovations from this April's packed-out fair in Milan and look forward to its exciting Shanghai debut.
Modernist Mastermind
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Hong Kongers will get a rare insight into the life and works of trailblazing designer George Nelson when an exhibition of his work arrives in March. Alex Price looks at what all the fuss is about.
Let The Chair Speak
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Boris Berlin co-founded Komplot Design in 1987 with Poul Christiansen and in 2010 he joined with Aleksej Iskos to launch Iskos-Berlin Design. Together the two companies have focused on creating inspirational works that act as an antidote to the excessive noise of modern culture, expressing a "philosophy of silence" that Berlin explained to Summer Cao.