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Designer of the Week: Achille Castiglioni - Featuring the Arco Lamp!  Eight months ago, art and design enthusiasts around the world celebrated the 100 th birthday of Achille Castiglioni, one of the foremost Italian designers of the mid-century modernist period, and co-creator of the inimitable, unparalleled  Arco lamp. Born in Milan in 1918, Achille showed an early passion for the artis …

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 (a renowned British textile designer) he created modern pieces of furniture that helped Britain get into the mid-century modernist craze. High Wycombe was already famous as a furniture-production town many decades befor …

Continuing our examination of the latest and most important trends in furniture for 2019, we’re back with two trends that will definitely shape most living spaces around the country. There are a lot of trends that we can identify and make use of in 2019, but we have reduced that number to four, as we explained on part one, so you can have a better understanding of what to get. Here are the …

A new home means new beginnings, new friends, new furniture, and probably a new dining set. However, not every dining set is created equal, even if most of them do tend to look the same. At Manhattan Home Design we want for you to get the perfect dining set, not the prettiest or most affordable. Here’s a handy two-point guide on what to look for on a dining set to make sure it’s the r …