Journal

Lamps Made for One Building at a Time
Lamps Made for One Building at a Time
Le Corbusier designed lamps only when a building needed them. Each one Nemo produces comes out of a specific project. Read more...
Held Together by Tension, Not Screws
Held Together by Tension, Not Screws
Two architects and a cabinetmaker on the island of Amager. Every piece is built around one visible principle — a wedge, a friction fit, a pull. Read more...
No Welding, No Heat, No Filler
No Welding, No Heat, No Filler
Jonas Trampedach joins raw aluminium with rivets hammered cold. Because you can see how it was made, the rivets are the only ornament. Read more...
Steel That Was Inflated, Not Carved
Steel That Was Inflated, Not Carved
Two thin sheets welded together and blown up with compressed air. The process decides the form, so no two come out the same. Read more...
Two Artists Who Make Furniture Out of Colour
Two Artists Who Make Furniture Out of Colour
Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen do not apply colour to a finished object. The colour and the material are the design. Read more...
Thirty-Six Modules and Forty Colours
Thirty-Six Modules and Forty Colours
Peter J. Lassen did not design a piece of furniture. He designed a set of parts and left the arrangement to whoever owns them. Read more...
A Student Exercise That Became the Bauhaus Lamp
A Student Exercise That Became the Bauhaus Lamp
Moholy-Nagy set the brief: a table lamp in glass and metal. Wagenfeld finished it in 1924, and it is still made under a licence he granted himself. Read more...
Why Tolomeo Moves With One Finger
Why Tolomeo Moves With One Finger
The mechanism is hidden inside the tubing. That is the entire trick — and the reason the lamp is in the collections of MoMA and the Met. Read more...
The Lamp That Borrowed Its Idea From a Sailing Boat
The Lamp That Borrowed Its Idea From a Sailing Boat
Two black tubes and a single wall fixing. Charlotte Perriand took the swing from a boom. Read more...
Evolution of USM Haller
Evolution of USM Haller
Fritz Haller set out to design furniture that could grow and change alongside the people using it. Sixty years on, the modular system he built for USM still hasn't needed... Read more...