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Long before modular furniture became an obvious choice, Antonia Astori was already inventing a new way of living: fluid, flexible and structured. As co-founder of Driade, she laid the foundations for an essential, elegant and visionary approach to design, in which furniture becomes a true tool for shaping interior architecture.
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In interwar Denmark, a maverick architect forever changed our relationship with light. By designing his famous PH lamps for Louis Poulsen, Poul Henningsen created a design that was at once scientific, democratic, and poetic. A look back at a lighting revolution that began in 1925.
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Author of several books on industrial furniture, translated into multiple languages, Brigitte Durieux has played a key role in the growing interest surrounding these simple, robust metal creations, most of which were originally designed for the workplace. A portrait of a woman driven by a passion for collecting and for …
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From sourcing trips with his antiques-dealer father to television appearances today, Damien Tison has always followed his instincts, combining 20th-century pieces with much earlier works.
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At a time when many of his colleagues were marveling at the possibilities offered by petroleum-based materials, Jean-Louis Avril (1935–2025) set out to use a material as commonplace as it was humble: cardboard.The career of an iconic designer of the 1960s and 1970s.
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In 1968, Giancarlo Ciancimino designed a collection for Mobilier International that was as elegant as it was ingenious: modular furniture built around a four-leaf clover-shaped aluminum profile. A symbol of technical modernity and aesthetic balance.
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From the Brussels flea market to the creation of LUMI PRESS, Jean-Lou Majerus has made lighting design both his passion and his mission. A collector, researcher and publisher, he devotes his books to major Italian manufacturers such as Oluce and Stilnovo, restoring these icons of modern lighting to their rightful place …
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Every flea market and market season, the same words come up again and again: design, vintage, decor, industrial...But behind these often-confused labels lie very different realities. At Undesignable, we believe that using the right word does justice to the object itself. Vocabulary matters.
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In 1960, Copenhagen’s SAS Royal Hotel became Denmark’s first skyscraper and a modernist manifesto by Arne Jacobsen. From the architecture to the iconic Swan and Egg chairs, the Danish architect explored the idea of a total design project, in which every detail contributes to the user’s experience.
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In 1968, Maria Pergay surprised the design world with an unexpected material: stainless steel. Neither a sculptor nor a decorator in the traditional sense, she created a distinctive new language combining rigor and poetry. Her functional, luminous and timeless furniture opened a radically new path in the landscape of French …
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