The website of Voga, Britain’s foremost replica furniture importer, boasts that the firm “was created to make great design accessible to all”, before adding: “The greatest mid-century furniture designs are back where they belong: in your homes.” Except they’re not. They are in fact in a warehouse in County Kildare where, unless the UK […]
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The innovators: this solar table charges your phone without direct sunlight
With an orange-striped surface on its steel frame, a new table from London-based designers Caventou appears to be an ultra-modern piece of furniture for an arty homeowner. A closer look reveals a port on the side where phones can be recharged using power gleaned from solar cells that cover the surface. Rather clever. It’s the […]
VIDEO: The man who grows trees into chairs
A designer in Derbyshire says he has found a new and dramatically more efficient way of making furniture. Read the full story here