Thomas & Vines was a Modenus favorite at this year’s Tent London with a collection that demanded your attention. Thomas & Vines is the UK’s premier flock coating company. The company, established in 1949, has been providing the best of flocking to luxury brands, acclaimed …
With snow on his boots and a renewed love for Scandinavian design in his heart Modenus Tim has returned from the Stockholm Furniture Fair with endless pictures of his top picks from the show. This is part one – more to come. And we start …
Should you find yourself in, or even near, New York today a trip to Boutique Design, or BDNY as it is known, may be required. And should you be lucky enough to find yourself there a trip to the Coast …
We first saw this at Salone in Milan but were reminded of it as we flicked through the pages of the latest issue of Mix, our favourite trends and design magazine from the good, and very clever, people at Global …
We came across Liam Treanor at the New Designers show in London and were impressed by the simple elegance of his work. Liam also shows a great understanding of the constraints of the industry and of batch manufacturing techniques as …
SixNineThree are bespoke furniture makers from South East London – East Dulwich, no less. Paul Smithson, Simon Westcott and Adam Astle craft furniture according to their clients wishes with a remarkably light touch producing work with elegance and simplicity, witness …
Maybe we should stop writing our interior design blogs at the end of the day. Maybe we should go to fewer trade shows. Only then are we likely to stop dreaming of the perfect sofa to collapse on. Truth be …
A tweet from @decorex2011 alerted us to the wonderfully strange BRC Designs, a furniture studio based in Spartanburg, South Carolina under the leadership of the distinctly idiosyncratic Benjamin Rollins Caldwell – a man who is apparently enthusiastic about being photographed …
We spotted this beauty while putting together the Modenus At Large preview for AD Home Desingn Show later this month. It’s called Portable Stool from Board by Design and we suspect it is probably only slightly less comfortable if you …
The good people at Squint seem to believe we all need a little color in our lives. OK, maybe not a little. They use woven English damasks and shot silver and gold satins with Swarovski rose crystal and pearl detailing. …
I was never great at putting up shelves. I think it had something to do with my somewhat relaxed attitude when it came to spirit levels. As I grew older, and more experienced I developed a more successful technique which …
I have a thing for cold weather and warm, heavily textured knits which is slightly ironic since I spend most of my life in the blistering Florida sun. So in lieu of wearing them which isn’t practical and potentially fatal …
One of the highlights of the London Design Festival, for Modenus was the Tramshed exhibition in Shoreditch. It was one of the smaller sites but packed full of interesting design of a very high standard. One of the companies which …
ProjectUDesign, sponsored by BiOH – the makers of soybased polyols that replace a portion of petroleum chemicals in foam products in collaboration with Century Furniture, Ultrasuede and Savannah College of Art and Design, is engaging talented design students to create …
‘Imperfetto’ in the sense of ‘unique and exclusive’. This is how Laboratorio dell’imperfetto likes to think of its the fibreglass, wood and leather objects produced in its factory in Gambettola – Italy. Each piece is made from a mould, then …
Ok fine, I know I have to accept that even temporary human cloning is just not a good idea no matter where you stand but there are instances where I would really like to be able to design, blog, develop …
This has been around a while, but the Ku-dir-ku from Contraforma is worth showing again. Is it weird, scary or just funny. We really don’t know! A new twist on the rocking chair available in red or black. And there …
Adidas commissioned Thai artist Ratinan Thaijareorn a.k.a. ISE to paint a couple of chairs in the window of the Adidas Originals store in Siam center, Bangkok. She used acrylic paints, made Adidas very happy by gathering a good crowd, and …
