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Alberto Alessi - Profile
Product design firm Alessi seems to be going from strength to strength. Now with the third generation of the family at the helm, in the hands of Alberto, the founder’s eldest grandson, it is fresh from presenting the Alessi bar and café at designjunction for the London Design Week. Alberto Alessi talks to FX.
Frank Verity-designed art deco cinema converted into hotel
Architect Flanagan Lawrence has retained many original features in its design for the new Shepherds Bush Pavilion hotel, west London
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec - profile
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have made a career out of questioning, provoking and reinventing various genres, chalking up an enviable list of clients and trophies, and insisting on the freedom to work on exactly what pleases them. When dream commissions manifest themselves so easily, what drives and inspires this unique design duo?
Alvar Aalto: Second Nature - Exhibition review
It was in 1933, in the unlikely location of London’s luxury food purveyor, Fortnum & Mason, that the British had their first taste of the relatively unknown Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and his curvilinear plywood furniture.
Can you guess the classic novels from these photographs?
Italian photographer Paolo Gotti's latest exhibition is a series inspired by the iconic settings of famous novels - how many can you guess?
Designer Anastasiya Koshcheeva makes lounge chair out of tree bark
Russian-born designer has used birch bark - a material she says is ripe for revival - to create a lounge chair and ottoman
12 buildings that won architecture awards in 2014
We profile some of our favourite buildings that won architecture awards this year.
How the world of lighting design has embraced sustainability
A green or sustainable approach to design has nothing to do with embracing a ‘whole earth’ hippy aesthetic. It’s about a more intelligent and future-friendly approach to sourcing materials, managing waste and creating commercially, economically and socially sustaining environments people want to inhabit.
A letter from… Quaglino’s
When it opened in London’s exclusive Mayfair, Terence Conran’s Quaglino’s captured the spirit of the Nineties. Now the subject of a multi-million pound makeover, Johnny Tucker returns, after a 15-year absence, to taste its wares
Barnabas Calder on Denys Lasdun’s Royal College of Physicians
This year Denys Lasdun’s iconic Royal College of Physicians building in Regent’s Park celebrates its 50th anniversary, coinciding with the centenary of the architect’s birth. Barnabas Calder, architectural historian at the University of Liverpool, and Lasdun expert, describes why it is still one of Lasdun’s best, and also best-preserved, buildings
