The Individuale set of four chairs by Guido Garotti is designed with the aim to intrigue through its artful composition and complex details. Created using high quality materials and local Italian craftsmanship, ensured the sets endurance and unique personality. Each chair has varying characteristics, from the obvious difference in cushions and colours to the unique features of the wood used for each chair. The highest quality leather, wood and steel are chosen for their narrative and aging properties to create…

Villeroy & Boch brought examples of their latest collection of premium bathroom designs to the Sleep Event, including the O.Novo asymmetrical washbasin and Subway’s Vanity Basin. They also encouraged visitors to get creative with the innovative Your Style – Your Design – Your 360° Projects competition. Competition entrants expressed their creativity in colour on an iconic Villeroy & Boch ‘New Wave’ plate and winners of the prizes will be decided by friends and family voting via the Villeroy & Boch…

Hansgrohe, the mixer and shower specialist, presented a stylish selection of showers, taps and thermostatic mixers, many with integrated water saving features, at the recent Sleep Event. Electronic basin mixers save water and provide contact free, hygienic operation, perfect for offices. For the first time in 2011, Axor has introduced electronic basin mixers for wall mounting, an addition to the Axor Citterio and Axor Uno2 collections. Axor Citterio is characterised by its shiny surfaces with precise, linear contours and Axor…

UK lighting manufacturer Astro, presented an array of bright new designs at the recent Sleep Event. The D-Light, one of Astro’s latest ingenious LED wall lights, has a slim rectangular profile that provides a lightness of design, and inside which a 3watt LED casts a gentle glow up and down the wall. Available in a choice of white or anodised aluminium, the D-Light measures 260mm wide by 160mm deep. Astro products are created by a talented in-house team who ensure…

Ilse Crawford’s loft apartment near London’s Borough Market has the lingering aroma of last night’s cooking – something cumin-y and exotic. Floor-to-ceiling shelves are heaving with architecture books and trinkets, among them a phrenology bust and a collection of glass teapots twinkling in the warehouse window. Sheepskin throws and feel-me fabrics have been strewn over the backs of chairs and the sofa, and the designer herself has managed to clear a spot for her laptop at a cluttered table in…

If you were passing through Victoria train station in early November you may have come across a giant Jenga tower in the middle of the concourse. The structure could easily be dismissed as one of those hip interactive advertising campaigns but for the slogan “Stop Burning Our Trees” charcoaled into each oversized block. Up the road in Westminster, people in light-green sweaters handed out saplings and leaflets carrying the same message. The campaign is the latest move by the Wood…

It’s been a long morning for Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger, the two halves of design practice Antenna. Fresh off a plane from New York, the pair have been thrust into an early morning press conference at Knoll’s Clerkenwell showroom to launch Antenna Workspaces, the studio’s first foray into furniture. They field questions from the dozen or so caffeine-fuelled hacks with aplomb; Moeslinger later admits that due to email troubles they had no idea what to expect and duly winged…

A raft of challenges faced MoreySmith when it came to turning the vanilla Cat A office space in north London’s Regent’s Place into the new headquarters of media giants Aegis Group. The move, a culmination of a two-year strategic property review, is the first time that the company’s various brands (including Vizeum, iProspect and Carat) have come under one roof. Previously spread around London, in locations ranging from the Qube near Tottenham Court Road to the Tea Building in Shoreditch,…

Sculptural, geometric and expressively modern are not adjectives usually attached to town halls. But the town of Viborg, in Denmark’s Jutland, decided to discard any notion of archaic pomp when commissioning a building to house the 900 employees and public-facing services central to its administration. The need for the new building, which was designed by Henning Larsen Architects, came from a reorganisation of boundaries within the country that brought about a fusion of five municipalities in Viborg. Henning Larsen Architects’…

Bringing readers the story of this BBC North project in Salford has been a long time coming. onoffice visited way back in May, when, to be fair, a lot of the interior was quite literally under wraps. Designers ID:SR only felt ready to talk about it after the summer when, explains its head Helen Berresford, “the majority of those designated to be in are in.” The interiors arm of Sheppard Robson architects clinched this highly significant scheme in 2008, which…