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  • Red dot award 2012 for 'Visions of' product line

    Desso has received a ‘Red Dot: Product Design’ Award for its ‘Visions of’ carpet line. The red dot is a quality seal for aesthetic forms and lasting trends, handed out each year during one of the most renowned design contests in the world.

    This year, 1,800 manufacturers and designers from 58 countries participated in the contest. A jury consisting of 30 international experts tested and evaluated a total of 4,515 products in Essen, Germany. Desso’s Visions of has an elaborate and innovative product design, according to this year’s jury.

     

  • Live Session - Desso Headquarter - March/April 2012

    The Circles of Architects® is a source of inspiration. Not only to architects and designers that are invited but also to Desso. It is a springboard for the conception of new ideas and an evaluation of concept developments based on prototypes. Incorporated are topics such as innovation and current and future technological developments and trends. It is all about Co-Creation.

     

  • PATTERNS@PLAY Collection

    CARPETECTURE® is a new way of thinking, incorporating elements from modern international architecture to create emotionally expressive carpet designs. It looks at the changes in architecture, in how people think about space, atmosphere, colours and materials. When moments in architecture are used to inspire carpet designs there is synergy. The carpet becomes more than a floor covering; it performs alongside other architectural elements. Intensifying the sensation.

  • New Circles of Architects Live Sessions 2012

    Let's co-create Innovative Design

    We have taken the first steps in organising new live sessions of the Circles of Architects® for 2012. The sessions will be inspiring, informative and will include a spectaculair presentation of the new DESSO Master.

  • Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia

    Desso carpet tiles have been integrated into an installation artwork in Australia by one of the world’s leading contemporary artists. The exhibition, 'I Packed the Postcard in my Suitcase', by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist has just opened at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in Melbourne.

  • DESSO® Named as Trendsetter of the Year

    Desso has been named amongst the top businesses to watch by Dutch trend watcher Hilde Roothart.  In her book, ‘MOOD11’, she identifies the top trends of the current year as being OPPOSE, BEHAVE, ADAPT, REDUCE, CLEAN, BLOW and UPLOAD. The recognition has been awarded based on Desso’s Cradle to Cradle® strategy, which is used in this book as a working demonstration of the trend ‘CLEAN’.

  • The Power of Colour

    Architecture is the context in which the product ultimately appears. You need to know how architects work, what inspires them. I see it as my task to inspire textile designers with the world of architecture. Co-creation produces better engineered products. Products with better performance and functionality. Products that make sense and are wanted.

  • Verso. The Soft Answer to Hard Floors

    Verso evolved from market demand for a harder, even floor with a soft appeal. Scandinavia is an example of a market which, compared with other countries, is less inclined to choose carpet. Therefore, this was our challenge: how to create a hard floor with the visual appeal of textile.

Agenda

Heatherwick Studio: the exhibition, 31 May - 30 September 2012, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

As part of a season of events celebrating British design, the V&A presents the first major solo exhibition of the work of one of the most inventive and experimental British design studios practicing today.This exhibition will show the enormous variety of projects that Heatherwick Studio have worked on over the last two decades spanning the disciplines of architecture, sculpture, engineering, furniture and product design. Click here for more info.

Clerkenwell Design Week, 22- 24 May, London

Clerkenwell Design Week is a three-day annual festival celebrating design’s creative richness, its social impact and its power for change. Run in partnership by Media 10 and Mix Media Ltd, the event is now in its third year and has been established to celebrate Clerkenwell as the heart of the design industry Desso will participate and is showcasing the thinking behind the strategy and the company’s journey to combine a sustainable and successful business with stunning carpet design and innovation at its core. Click here for more info.

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Bivouav, 7 October – 30 July 2012, Paris

A fabulous Bivouac, staged across 1,000 square metres in Galerie 3 of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, this exhibition of works by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec sets out the result of almost fifteen years of mutual collaboration. Their first major solo show in France, Bivouac highlights an exceptional international career, during which the two brothers have worked with some of the greatest names in design, been crowned by numerous awards and the presence of their work in public collections. Click here for more info.

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