Kartell is bringing back its 4801 chair designed by Joe Colombo, first manufactured in 1965. The curvy, low-slung piece is the only chair the company ever produced in wood. To mark its 60th anniversary, Kartell is re-issuing it, this time in plastic, just as Columbo originally specified it.

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Kartell 4801 Chair, Reissued

As part of the DMY 2011 Asia Exhibition tour , which presented innovative German design objects and products at seven different fairs and festivals in Asia, Sascha Grewe exhibited his A-Z stools / tables with storage. The A-Z stools are made of MDF and are available in — get this — 250 colors! The stools can be used as seats, side tables, shelves or simply as typographical objects. I don’t think I’m ready to see this alphabet furniture trend go just yet.

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A-Z by Sascha Grewe

In its second year, Time 02 is an experimental design exhibition curated by Tal Gur and produced by Prime . Located in Jerusalem’s Hansen Hospital, a hospital built at 1887 as a treatment center for lepers, the show runs from 12/4 to 12/9. Twelve designers were invited to participate in this year’s exhibit, creating one original work in a short time period.

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Time 02 2011

Nendo has a solo exhibition going on through the end of August at the National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute that features two collections: Thin Black Lines and Dancing Squares. Thin Black Lines s a collection of furniture formed from “Still Black,” whose installation looks Dancing Squares is a collection based on the concept of “Active White,” which has been installed onto a room-sized sketch affixed to walls and floor with a fish-eye lens-like effect as though viewers are seeing it through a tiny water drop. Photos by Daici Ano. Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook . © 2011 Design Milk | Posted by Jaime in Art , Home Furnishings | Permalink | No comments

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Mind-Bending Nendo Exhibition in Taiwan

In 2010, the exhibition The Invisibles by Tokujin Yoshioka took place at the Kartell Flagship Store. This year, he has a new exhibition, The Invisibles Light , in which he has created a series of “invisible” chairs and tables from transparent acrylic that seems to become part of the air.

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The Invisibles Light by Tokujin Yoshioka

POST FOSSIL: Excavating 21st Century Creation is a dynamic new design exhibition curated by internationally renowned trend-forecaster Li Edelkoort being shown at Design Museum Holon in Israel now through April 30, 2011. Including works from over 60 contemporary global designers, the curated collection showcases the use of organic materials and primitive methods by designers who are returning to the roots of making things.

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POST FOSSIL: Excavating 21st Century Creation

Joost van Bleiswijk and Kiki van Eijk present new work at VIVID Gallery in Rotterdam now through January 5, 2011. The works of Joost van Bleiswijk and Kiki van Eik in this exhibition reinforce each other in a positive way through juxtaposition — the tough strength of Joost’s heavy steel plates against the fragility of Kiki’s airy and less systematic structures give an additional tension to both artifacts. For this exhibition Van Bleiswijk worked only with thick steel plates and a blowtorch to create the “no screw no glue rough” edition. He made sculptures that could be art pieces but also used as tables or cupboards.

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New Work from Joost van Bleiswijk and Kiki van Eijk

Luxx Box has launched a few new products at the Quench Exhibition at PLSMS gallery during Design Tide Tokyo . Descriptions below from Luxx Box. NeoRoc Debonair meets punk… Like a street kid who spends all their time in a library, NeoRoc has a loud mouth and the smarts to back it up. NeoRoc is an unexpected mash of rococo style refinement and rebel color unleashed to unite the middle classes.

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New from Luxx Box

Sunday, I took some time to check out the Hanging Around exhibit of permanent collection of modern and contemporary lighting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art . Here are a few of my favorites from the exhibition: First, I love the Lüster Chandelier, a tongue-in-cheek 2D LED chandelier by German Ingo Maurer. Also by Ingo Maurer is this 2003 lamp called “Wo bist du, Edison?” (“Where Are You, Edison?”).

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Hanging Around at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Terence Conran of The Conran Shop has chosen 54 key pieces of furniture of the 20th century to be part of the Conran Classics Collection. The Conran Classics will be on display in an exhibition at The Conran Shop Chelsea and The Conran Shop, Marylebone from September 10, 2010 – November 1, 2010. In celebration of the new collection and exhibition, members of the Conran family including Terence Conran, Sophie Conran, and Jasper Conran have been captured with their favorite piece of furniture by renowned photographer Julian Broad for the accompanying Conran Classic catalog.

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Conran Classics from The Conran Shop