Bulgarian Furniture Design - a Higher Level

I am impressed with the growth of Bulgarian furniture design - both, as quality of design and implementation, that we saw at the annual exhibition "BULGARIAN PRODUCT DESIGN: FURNITURE" this week, organized by MD MAGAZINE. They are beautiful and functional, made of quality materials:

Uilo Sofa, BoBox, 4th Armchair

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Cosh Next to Me

Ilian Milinov - Hestia sideboard

Ilian Milinov - Multifunctional Table

Just some of the most impressive designs.

The exhibition is part of the annual Melba Design Festival.

Fabric effects - IKEA’s collection VÄSSAD, Inspired by and Completely Produced in Bulgaria

IKEAs new collection VÄSSAD that is going to be launched this month has been completely created at Bulgarian production facilities. Today the lead designers of the collection Kunt and Mariane Hagberg presented the collection at Generator and shared additional information on what inspired them to create it.

The exhibition and the presentation was organized by the Bulgarian Studio Komplekt.

VÄSSAD

A light-weight, decorative wool blanket inspired by traditional Bulgarian Rodopa blankets

Modern Bulgarian design with ancient origin

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How do you like it? This is a perfect modern interpretation of traditional Bulgarian embroidery motives created centuries ago.

no-13-scarf

The author of these beautiful creations is a young Bulgarian graphic designer Gergana Stankova, who has researched and found these beautiful ancient patterns from the cupbords of our grandmothers who have inherited them on their home textiles and costumes from their grandmothers. Then she has found a way to transfer these on modern scarves and other accessories based on the beauty of Bulgarian folklore embroidery patterns. Enjoy:

Sofia Design Week 2010

 Yesterday was the official opening of  Sofia Design Week 2010.
This is its second edition. The topic of this year’s event is More or Less. The Program  includes exhibitions, workshops and other events, but, like last year, its most interesting event, according to me, is the forum where international designers share their experience and discuss their projects and issues of design.

I was pleased to see the first presentation - it was by Charlotte Cheetham, author of the ManyStuff Design Blog, France. “Every morning I check Manystuff” and “Every morning I do Manystuff “. This summarizes my approach and also the approach of Manystuff’s faithful visitors" - it was good to meet a 'colleague', but it was also interesting to see how blogging can be just a starting point to further practical activities.
A lot is being written nowadays about the power of blogging - Manystuff is a very good example about this. It not only reflects the author's choice of interesting design events, mainly in the area of graphic design, but it also acts as a database for Charlotte Cheetham's projects - exhibitions, publications "promoting the new graphic design scene by curating and publishing".
She considers her blog to be" a catalyst, motivation of her activities and for people to do things". And she obviously achieves results - thousands of international visitors every day, several printed publications, many curated exhibitions and international events promoting graphic design and interesting new designers!

 

100% Design London - Preview

This September (24 - 27) 100% Design London celebrates 15 years of design excellence as the UK's leading architecture and design event showcasing everything for the modern building and interior.
It includes world-class interiors show 100% Design, innovative and sustainable architectural products event 100% Detail, cutting-edge materials exhibition 100% Materials and emerging talent showcase 100% Futures.
I am proud to announce that CHERGA - a group of young Bulgarian designers is invited to participate in the latter one - 100% Futures.

The products that are going to be exhibited include:





- Tetragon table and chair, design by Svilen Gamolov ;












- Cubba-Bubba 5 in 1 chair system, design by Velichko Velikov;

















- Cradle of the light - colourful decorative lighting that can be used separately or arranged in different combinations, design byNikolay Mihaylov;

- a furniture set, named “Arrow”, made completely out of cardboard, designed by Konstantin Achkov;























- Kite - lighting system, design by Nikki Candelero.
























- Foldable table/desk, design by Ivan Arnaudov;