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Ramped-up pop-up: Colette drives in to Design Miami

Miami – Paris concept retailer Colette has developed a novel way to plant itself front and centre among the cool kids of Design Miami/ 2013 – a drive-in take-away art pop-up that lets fans literally take away art and fashion knickknacks.

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Food & Drink

About time: One to clock at Art Basel Miami Beach

Miami – Human thoughts about time are as old as time itself. For Art Basel Miami Beach 2013, design collective Inventory will host a multidisciplinary exhibit, TIME, which explores how time is understood and how humanity connects to an ephemeral construct of its own making.

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Luxury

Crystal palace: Artificial forest promotes conservation

Miami – You cannot make crystals without water. As a natural resource, water is an essential part of life. For its installation at Design Miami/, Swarovski Crystal Palace – the main sponsor of the event – commissioned Brazilian architect Guilherme Torres to articulate the idea of conservation into an architectural structure.

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Luxury

Tokyo Motor Show 2013 preview

Renowned for its exciting future-facing concepts, the Tokyo Motor Show opens this week with all the key Japanese car brands plus a few European ones planning to unveil major new models. This year marks the 43rd Tokyo event, although its history is twice that long, as the show only takes place every two years.

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APAC

Beijing Design Week 2013 : Top 10

Re-use, recycle, re-invent. These were the broad themes of Beijing Design Week 2013, which brought traditional Chinese culture to life, while retrofitting it for the modern age. Several exhibitors challenged themselves to find new living spaces in the ancient city, while others celebrated everyday objects, from old Chinese record players to the…

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Retail

World Retail Congress: Martha Stewart and Mindy Grossman talk women's retail

Martha Stewart and Mindy Grossman talk women’s retail.

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Marketing & Branding

London Design Festival 2013

A lively and experimental mood was in evidence at the 2013 London Design Festival, which explored vibrant colour applications, visions of science and all of its mechanisms.

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Retail

World Retail Congress 2013 preview

London – A macro-economic retail overview will be central to this year’s World Retail Congress (WRC) in Paris, where more than 1,400 retail industry delegates will gather on 7–9 October to discuss market trends, the omnipresence of omni- channel retail and changing consumer shopping behaviour.

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Luxury

The Conductor

Light switches are going the way of sundials and typewriters. Soon, apps and sensors will have rendered them obsolete.

Browsing 2013

Ramped-up pop-up: Colette drives in to Design Miami

About time: One to clock at Art Basel Miami Beach