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(Images via: Shanghai Cultural China, Boston.com, Arch Daily)
When you’re awarded the highly coveted position of official host city to the world’s latest, greatest and inarguably grandest exhibition fair, you better be prepared to spend some major dinero (or in this case, Yuan) to put on the glitz. At a personal expense of $4.2 billion dollars, [...]

Starting today we will demonstrate that we can keep a promise meaning this week will be mainly about showing you surprising interior design ideas we found at the Milan Furniture Fair. First off, here are some pictures of an interesting tableware storing system. This is great especially for cups and plates and could be an [...]

Portrait artists all have their own ideas about what makes for a great portrait: something that glorifies the subject, something that shows it in harsh realistic detail, or something that reflects the essence of the subject. Others take all these options, and add one more: make it big. Whether for effect or out of necessity [...]

The last week I was with Lavinia in Milano at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile were we saw a lot of interesting stuff. Some of the pieces we saw there were really innovative, others were usual pieces of furniture. After seeing lots and lots of stands with furniture I’ve discovered a stand that really impressed [...]

Here’s one for all of you sports fan out there. We saw this unusual ski clothes hanger while checking out some of the creations of individual designers presented at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. We thought some of our readers would perhaps be inspired by such a “product” and even be tempted to create [...]

While casually strolling through the Milan Salone del Moble we ran into some very interesting looking chairs. We photographed them (the last three pictures) and couldn’t help staring at them for over five minutes. We also saw people looking at them in a particular eye-brow raised fashion, while also checking out if they are comfortable [...]

As some of you already know, we were recently in Milan checking out the latest in design trends. And it’s been a busy week in which we gathered plenty of information and took gigabytes of pictures. This means we are packed full with ideas and looking forward to share them with you guys. One of [...]