The third Material Vision – Materials for Product Development, Design and Architecture, International Trade Fair and Conference – ended on 23 November 2007 with a slight increase in the number of visitors. On the two days of the fair, 2,034 product developers, architects and designers from 27 countries came to the ‘Forum’ of Frankfurt Fair [...]

RadTech Europe (RTE), the European Association promoting the use of UV/EB technology, recently announced the three 2007 winners of the RTE Awards for Innovation Competition at its biennial RTE Conference & Exhibition held in Vienna 13th-15th November 2007. Open to all companies utilizing UV/EB technology, the RTE Awards for Innovation Competition recognizes and encourages innovative [...]

After nine years’ development, Domotex Asia/Chinafloor (DACF) has firmly established itself as the largest floor coverings show in Asia and one of the world’s best places for sourcing and selling floor coverings. The 10th edition of DACF will take place at Shanghai New International Expo Centre during March 11-13, 2008. DACF 2008, consisting of 5 [...]

The 12th International Exhibition on Woodworking Machinery and Furniture Manufacturing Equipment / The 12th International Exhibition on Furniture Accessories, Materials and Wood Products (also known as WMF 2008) will be staged at China International Exhibition Centre (CIEC), Beijing, P.R. China on March 7 - 10, 2008. The upcoming edition is the largest ever, in both [...]

Innovative domestic lighting has entered commercial production using plastic laser-sintering machines. Martina Methner reports.
One of the leading methods so far for rapid prototyping has matured to a technology for batch-sized, optimised production – including end products and spare parts. The technology creates parts directly from CAD data, without the need for moulds.
Based on CAD models [...]

Alberto Alessi always dreamed of becoming an architect. Instead, he joined the family firm — upscale Italian homewares company Alessi — and did the next best thing: hired them. In his 36 years as CEO, Alberto has tapped some of world’s best known architects, transforming Alessi from a manufacturer of boring stainless steel tableware into [...]

Conventional furniture is in contact with the earth through gravity. Floating Bed overcomes this
fundamental power and falls towards the sky. Four thin cables assure its motionless position and form the only contact with the ground. Thanks to the smart use of permanent magnetic material Floating Bed cancarry a load of 900 kilogram.
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Conventional furniture is in contact with the earth through gravity. Floating Bed overcomes this fundamental power and falls towards the sky. Four thin cables assure its motionless position and form the only contact with the ground.
Thanks to the smart use of permanent magnetic material Floating Bed can carry a load of 900 kilogram.
With a [...]