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Arne Jacobsen 111 Mixer Tap for Vola

In 1968 Verner Overgaard and Arne Jacobsen created the first VOLA mixer 111 for the National Bank of Denmark building in Copenhagen. The design hides the mechanical parts of the mixer are leaving only the handles and spout exposed. Vola taps have been manufactured in Denmark for over 45 years. Vola

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Erik Magnussen EM77 Coffee Vacuum Jug

Erik Magnussen EM77 Coffee Vacuum Jug

Design/ Interiors/ Objects

The EM77 Coffee Vacuum Jug for Stelton was designed by Copenhagen born Erik Magnussen. The vacuum jug’s patented tilting top lets you serve with just one hand and also has a screw cap allowing it to be used on the move. Stelton

Maarten Van Severen .03 Chair

Maarten Van Severen .03 Chair

Design/ Furniture

Maarten van Severen studied architecture at the Art Academy in Ghent and produced his first furniture in 1986. In 1990 he began a collaboration with the architect Rem Koolhaus and started to concentrate on interiors. The .03 chair is designed to be unobtrusive yet comfortable and is made of  resilient polyurethane integral foam. The chair is designed to respond to the body by flexing. Maarten’s collaboration with the family owned Swiss manufacturer Vitra commenced in 1996. Vitra

David Thulstrup ARV Chair for Noma

David Thulstrup ARV Chair for Noma

Design/ Furniture

The head chef and founder of Noma, René Redzepi, commissioned Studio David Thulstrup to create the ARV Chair. The design of the chain draws from Danish tradition but has a contemporary and timeless quality. The chair is manufactured by Brde. Kruger, a firm that was founded in Copenhagen as a woodturning company and dates back to 1886. Brdr Kruger

Stirling prize 2016 Caruso St John Newport St Gallery

Stirling prize 2016 Caruso St John Newport St Gallery

Architecture

Newport Street Gallery involved the conversion and transformation of a street facing a railway line in Vauxhall, south London, into a free public gallery for artist Damien Hirst’s private art collection. Three listed Victorian industrial buildings, formerly carpentry and scenery painting workshops for West End theatres, have been remodelled and flanked at either end by entirely new buildings; one with a spiky saw-tooth roof. RIBA.

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