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A hopeful sign of change appears from Japan, via Finland, as 21st-century furniture designers wait in the wings. | | By Suzanne LaBarre
After designing offices for some of the leading environmental groups in the country, Envision Design takes on its biggest challenge yet: creating a new headquarters for the U.S. Green Building Council that puts the organization’s ideas—and ideals—into action. | | |
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Observed
Productsphere
By Paul Makovsky
Furniture manufacturers pick the products that should succeed despite the downturn.
In Production
By Belinda Lanks
Monica Förster designs a svelte task chair custom-made for women’s unique sitting habits.
Materials
By Mason Currey
To develop an affordable chair for children, a Swedish design firm turns to a new material with vast potential.
Enterprise
By Eva Hagberg
Struggling contract-furniture companies experiment with the idea of selling space instead of furniture.
Reference Page
By Kristi Cameron and Claire Levenson
More information on people, places, and products covered in this issue of Metropolis.
| | By Cathelijne Nuijsink
Kazuyo Sejima’s latest project, an apartment building in Yokohama, Japan, is an intricate composition of curves and voids that delicately balances privacy and community.
By Paul Makovsky and Belinda Lanks
George Nelson—architect, industrial designer, writer, editor, gadfly, and master impresario. Now the talented team behind one of design’s great figures reveals the method to the madness—and how his greatest genius may have been his skill in bringing them together.
By Jonathan Glancey
Industrial Facility masters the fine art of stripping function to its most elegant and elemental.
Sometimes a need or demographic requires a more focused approach to design. These five products are all the better for fulfilling one very specific function.
By Belinda Lanks
By Julie Taraska
from Herman Miller
By Mason Currey
By Kristi Cameron
from Doro
By Kristi Cameron
from Nood Fashion
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