The classic image of the bedside lamp has been revisited by Kartell technology and transformed into an industrial product. Made of transparent or coloured injected polycarbonate, Take is available in various chromatic tones, offering a very wide range of choices: crystal, orange, blue, yellow, red and others. The shape comes from the joining of two […]
A survey of GfK reveals what people think about using smartwatches for payments. The consumers opinions are different in the various countries considered. In Germany 20 percent of respondents were interested in this kind of use, in South Korea they were 28 percent and in the UK 27 percent. The payment options offered by smartwatches […]
Today we have an appliance for everything, for each task and for each function, so that, in the narrow modern houses, there is no more space for storing all the devices. But which of these have really changed men life? And which we could not do without? If we should establish which is the most […]
The Rinascente department store in Piazza Duomo in Milan and the Smeg’s flagship store in via della Moscova have put on sale the new citrus juicers and two-slice toasters from the Sicily is my love collection, a series of kitchen products made entirely in Italy by Smeg in collaboration with Dolce&Gabbana. Over the next few […]
Joseph M. McGuire, Aham President and CEO Aham, Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers of North America and Canada, is asking Congress to permanently transfer administration of Energy Star for home appliances from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) back to the Department of Energy (DOE), which managed the program from its inception in the 1990s until […]
Food and design are two worlds that find a perfect union in the kitchen and if we speak of Italian kitchen the ‘wedding’ becomes a point of reference all over the world. Today more than ever, since this made-in-Italy furniture field expresses a very high, sartorial and flexible quality, even when we are speaking about […]
The solid know-how of Prisma in the world of the great catering, land and naval, gave birth to Abimis, the Italian brand of kitchens, conceived for domestic spaces, that maintain the use the professional performances. For the next edition of Salone del Mobile.Milano, Abimis will present its Atelier line, with two models: Chelsea and Bagutta. […]
Twenty S.p.A., company operating in the consumer electronics market and owner of Magnadyne brand, announced that it has completed successfully the acquisition of Sèleco, the historical Italian brand born in the 60s as a division of Zanussi, and become autonomous in 1984. It was a very important brand becoming in 1986 the first Italian producer […]
Increasing its market share in China and developing new smart home solutions. These are the main goals of Haier for this year. The big Group will more than double capital spending to capture a greater share of the country’s e-commerce sales and produce new smart products. «Many of our stores are in the smallest cities […]
Lukas Burkhardt has been nominated chief operating officer of Franke Group and has been appointed to the management board. He is now responsible for the group-wide operations functions, including procurement, production, logistics and supply chain management, as well as the group-wide operational excellence program. The manager has been working in the company since last February […]
Franke Group has recently put a new woodchip plant into operation at its Swiss headquarters in Aarburg. The initiative responds to the wide sustainable program of the company that, since the start of this year, has been sourcing its electricity exclusively from Swiss hydropower. Thanks to these measures, the group now covers the entire heat […]
Foscarini, Italian brand of design lighting and lamps, will take part to the Design Shanghai Fair, where an installation by Ferruccio Laviani narrates the company’s universe at Booth CG-145. At the Shanghai Exhibition Center, from 9 to 12 March 2016, Foscarini will offer visitors a walking through experience: an hypnotic sequence of metal structures that […]
Foscarini, Italian brand of design lamps and lighting solutions will present its collection at the next edition of Stockholm Furniture Fair, the event that will take place from 9 to 13 February 2016. The company will exhibit with an high emotional impact installation designed by Ferruccio Laviani. An architecture aiming at telling a brand story […]
Binic, the small lamp signed Foscarini and designed by Ionna Vautrin in 2010, has been renewed with new kind of tones to offer a new light for the next year. The young French designer has identified a color palette inspired, on the one hand, by the optimistic style of the ’50s – with bright yellow, […]
