The flatpack Ply stool, a collaboration between furniture designer Michael Marriot and fashion designer Paul Smith for the London Design Festival. Ply is designed from five pieces of untreated plywood screen-printed with patterns by Smith. The pieces slot together like a jigsaw and fasten with a zip tie attached to the seat.
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Paul Smith is 2010 Stockholm Furniture Fair Guest of Honor
September 9, 2009 – 10:00 am
Next year’s Guest of Honor at Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair is British designer Paul Smith. This is the seventh year in a row that a top international designer has been invited to design a lounge, which in 2010 will be located in Hall A for the first time. Previous Guests of Honor [...]
Maharam and Paul Smith; Michael Maharam Talks Collaboration
July 21, 2009 – 4:04 pm
British fashion designer Paul Smith approached Maharam in 2002 after seeing I Morosi alla Finestra (The Lovers at the Window), a 1930 Gio Ponti designed silk, at a Ponti retrospective at the Design Museum in London. Smith proposed I Morosi for use as a lining in his men’s jackets, eventually incorporating Maharam textiles in his [...]
Paul Smith’s Trash Bunny
June 3, 2009 – 10:47 am
Design Museum and Beefeater 24 have commissioned 15 designers and artists to design pieces for Super Contemporary, an exhibition which opens today, June 3, 2009 at the Design Museum. Participating designers include Zaha Hadid, Tom Dixon, Paul Smith and others. Smith created the New London Rubbish Bin to be used in Covent Garden and Holland [...]
