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Mushroom mycelium is a longtime favorite material here on Eclectic Trends and has appeared throughout the years in a few trend lectures. On this occasion, we'd like to show you how mycelium mushroom grows into …
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Brave Ground – Color Of The Year 2021 By Dulux
The season of paint color trends for next year starts as per today with the first Color Of The Year 2021 by Dulux who presents Brave Ground. Think of the feeling of being surrounded by clay, soil, or sand and the need for down-to-earth decisions and environments. Think …
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Portable Cooking Kit By Jisun Kim
Jisun Kim is a South Korean multidisciplinary designer, working on interior, furniture, presenting the Portable Cooking Kit. Having and wanting to become more autonomous is one of the key drivers of all my trend presentations, so it comes as no surprise, I was looking m …
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IKEA Japan launches a 10 pieces clothing and merchandising line
After the famous incursion of the blue Balenciaga bag (2.000 USD) based on Ikeas's FRAKTA plastic shopper (0,99 USD), it was just a question of time; the Swedish home-furnishing giant would react. IKEA Japan launches 10 pieces of clothing and merchandising line …
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Not Your Typical Newsletter: This Is The New Wednesday Journal !
After a few years of sending newsletters, we felt it was time for some change. The until now weekly newsletter becomes the Wednesday Journal, and after the first publication, we couldn't be happier with your reactions and comments. This is what you get upon subscrib …
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CREATIVE WASTE, SUSTAINABLE & MINDFUL DESIGN
Mycelium mushroom grows into a living coffin
Mushroom mycelium is a longtime favorite material here on Eclectic Trends and has appeared throughout the years in a few trend lectures. On this occasion, we'd like to show you how mycelium mushroom grows into a living coffin and how fungi could be used as burial marker …
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COS launches RESELL To Buy Or Presell Pre-Owned Pieces
COS launches resell - a platform or resale business to buy and sell pre-owned styles in an effort to give their clothes a longer life. Sustainability is also about maintaining pieces in a longer lifecycle, but this move responds. also to the fact that overproduction i …
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Sowden x HAY – Color In The Kitchen At Its Best
The Sowden x HAY family is growing, and if you haven't seen the playful and functional collection yet, here goes the total of all pieces they currently have. It's refreshing to see that much color again in a kitchen accessories collection. The novelty is not only the de …
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Hotel June, a place to be when having staycation in mind
Warm natural woods, mustard-hued sprinkled terrazzo, and few but well-intended pops of color come together at Hotel June in Los Angeles. Located in a timeless mid-century modern building, Hotel June, a spinoff property by the high-end Proper Hotels features a more app …
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How To Translate An Abandoned Pool Taken By Nature As A Store Concept
Bringing the outdoors in is a term we've heard for a few years now. But how does this look in the Retail Universe where daylight is often spare and plants have a difficult time getting enough nutrients? Located in São Paulo, the first permanent flagship store The Ga …
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Privacy, Rest, and Acoustic Protection For Tomorrow’s Public Spaces
We already shared that acoustic design is having its momentum inside and outside our homes. But where is the limit of noise acceptance? According to experts, noise levels in office spaces where conceptual work is carried out should not exceed 55 decibels. Here goes a …
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COLOR INSPIRATION
Color Inspiration No.29: Lavender, Toffee, Coriander, Saffron, Orchil (Ebook)
As part of the September Issue and our biggest Wednesday Journal edition to date, we are releasing the latest Color Inspiration No.29 featuring Lavender, Toffee, Coriander, Saffron, and Orchil. The color story comes again as a downloadable ebook with hex codes to wor …
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Color Inspiration No.28: Classic Blue, Pumpkin, Corn, Peach, and Plum (Ebook)
Color Inspiration N°28 has a focus on Classic Blue, Pumpkin, Corn, Pink Peach, and Brown Plum. The color Blue has been all over the news after Pantone nominated it the color of 2020. It has indeed become an inspiration for many to apply in the month to follow. S …
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Color Inspiration No.27: Iris, Coffee, Satin, Biscotti, and Ginger (Ebook)
Color Inspiration No.27 has all the right hues for the cold winter days: Iris, Coffee, Satin, Biscotti, and Ginger. Color Inspiration No.27 has a calming mix, echoes the first lazy days of this season, during which the only thing we need is a comfy and warm sweater a …
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Villa Ortizet – Bringing Rocky Outdoors In
The past months have shown an unusual creative boost of 3D projects within the interior design scene, and the curve is the star of all. I bought a print of Charlotte Taylor's work a couple of years and haven't stopped finding her work on the net ever since. This is o …
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The Poetry Of Self Portrait By Ziqian Lu
We're not sure when we've seen such beauty of muted self-portraits lately. Now that the prefix SELF has gained a whole new perspective, this kind of work gains an unexpected momentum though the idea is to shy away from eye-contact by exposing her body as a medium of exp …
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A set of headphones grown from bio-materials
In the endeavor of reducing the use of materials that are not environmentally friendly, Finnish studio Aivan in collaboration with scientists from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Aalto University created a set of headphones grown from bio-materials. //The technology and the headphones The headphones were named Korvaa. In the Finnish language, it has an anatomical meaning" Korva", "ear." While "Korvaa" is a verb, …
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Unmanned coffee shop concept by Nendo
In this unmanned coffee shop, designed by Japanese studio nendo and located in the observation deck of Roppongi Hills, customers are asked to prepare the coffee themselves. Five kinds of roasted beans await in a vending machine that looks and acts like a capsule toy. The grinding process is automated (pic 4), and all you have to do is start …
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This is not a time where personalization of taste and style are taken into account, but personalization of NEEDS has become the merging driver. The relevance is different, and brands might consider that change. >> More in video I
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More than three billion people live in countries whose borders are totally closed to nonresidents. That means the prospect of border restrictions leads to a higher preference for local over global products and services. We get a taste now on how that could work; we’re back to LOCALISM.>> More in video II
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Mood board created for Grohe to show elements of their Essence faucet line. Sanctum Sanctorum corresponds to a tailor-made trend report we developed previously for the client. I get often asked what makes a mood board a strategic tool, and I'd …
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