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The Arco Lamp: a Floor Lamp That Shines Even When You Are Not Using It
Posted by Eloy on Oct 4th 2021
Why could be a floor lamp so relevant in an interior decorating process? Choosing the perfect spot to place your floor lamp can be a challenge that requires a lot of cunning, strategy, an
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How comfortable is the Womb Chair, actually?
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Aug 7th 2020
Eero Saarinen
designed the Womb Chair in 1946 after a brief meeting with Florence Knoll at
the Cranbrook Academy of Art. According to history, she told him that she
wanted a chair that she could ju
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Designer of the Week - Alvar Aalto
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Jan 21st 2019
After 20 DOTW articles, we were looking to do a little of a return to form. The more recent articles were longer, wodier, and featured both big and not-so-big names in the mid-century fur
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Designer of the Week: Robin Day
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Jan 17th 2019
Mr. Robin Day, OBE, and a Fellow of the British Royal
Chartered Society of Designers, was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire,
England in 1915. Along with his wife, Lucienne Day
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Designer of the week: Gerrit Rietveld
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Jan 15th 2019
The Dutch were always a very influential part of the
Scandinavian Modern movement, if not the most important, as many would argue.
From those influential designers, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld stands
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Manhattan Home Design's Lighting Guide: Ambient lighting
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Jan 14th 2019
This is the second part on our series dedicated to lighting.
Here we’ll talk about ambient or general lighting, which should’ve been the
first part of the series, probably. Ambien
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