In 1895, Johann Bretz created his first cosy “Kautsches” (couches) in Gensingen, a German wine village on the Rhine river. Today, his great great-granddaughter Carolin Fieber – a fashion designer and stylist trained in Milan, Paris and London – is completing the evolutionary pathway by putting the ancestral Kautsch to contemporary rebirth with new sofas, armchairs, stools, tables and rugs.
Hand made in Germany by Bretz.
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Irish architects De Blacam and Meagher, have designed this house above the Village of Dalkey.
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Swedish designer Måns Salomonsen has sent us photos of a bar table he created, which is the result of a school project at Sweden’s Steneby University, where he was required to make a table with a metal underframe.
Måns says:
In my project before this one, I made a stool that could move 3-dimensionaly (http://salomonsen.se/playful.html), I worked with a twisted shape/form in that one and wanted do develop that form language in the bar table. I was experimenting with different ideas on how to include a foot rest in the same construction. I found the material in the tabletop, aluminium foam, on a material fair about 2 years ago and found that interesting. Now was the first time I got an idea on what I could use that material for. So I got some material samples from KG Fridman, a company in Sweden who sell that material and ordered Araldit plastic that i coloured black. The idea was to use the pattern created from the bubbles in the aluminium. So the surface is filled with plastic that harden and then grinded down so I got the contrast between the shiny aluminium and the black palstic. The tabletop has a stainles steel edge as protection.
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