striving to archive and preserve lost artifacts of design history and make them available to future generations

Tone Selmer-Olsen and Håvard Breivik

urban design

Pure Gold brings together 53 designers and approximately 75 of their objects to explore value creation from garbage and scrap materials in European and non-European contexts

Home is a tired lullaby

Original 1227 Desk Lamp Jet Black Cooper Hewitt Branded striving to archive and preserveWhen automotive engineer, George Carwardine chanced upon a formula for a new kind of spring, he had created the blueprint for a groundbreaking articulated task lamp that could combine ultimate flexibility with perfect stability. Two years later the Original 1227 desk lamp was born. Today, this highly adaptable and engagingly anthropomorphic light, is a point of pride of Carwardine's native Britain. It has been referred to as a minor miracle of