The 2018 trade fair calendar kicks off with IMM Cologne - where family owned luxury Italian brand RIVA 1920 are showcasing LINEAR, a stunning solid timber sideboard by Sydney industrial designer David Knott ⚡️⚡️ + Following a debut in MILAN last year, the cabinet now in Blackened Vulcano Ash and Aged Bronze accents is certainly one that will become a treasured furniture investment ✔️ + @davidknottdesign @fanulifurniture @riva1920_official @immcologne #riva1920 #supportoriginaldesign #supportaustraliandesign #buywellbuyonce #immcologne #furnituredesign #industrialdesign #authenticdesign #authenticdesignalliance (at imm cologne)

The 5th edition of FOG Design+Art San Francisco showcased over the weekend supported by 45 International galleries & 20th century contemporary dealers. + 💥💥VANITY SCREEN💥💥 a one-off work by Melbourne industrial designer @christopherboots debuted in NYC @collectivdf last May, was shown by @thenew.la gallery + @thwentiethdesign at FOGFair + Made from solid bronze, quartz crystal & lapis lazuli, the screen recently featured in @archdigest ⚡️⚡️ + 💥💥METEOR lights 💥💥a special edition of smokey quartz & quartz crystal also exhibited @fogfair + 👉Established in 2016, THE NEW presents unique & limited edition works that cross disciplinary boundaries between art & design, launched by Stefan Lawrence, founder of Twentieth, a premier contemporary design showroom. + #buywellbuyonce #supportoriginaldesign #supportaustraliandesign #authenticdesign #handmade #limitededition #collectibledesign #designart #fogdesignandart #thenewla #twentiethdesign #christopherboots #australiandesign #authenticdesignalliance 📸@christinefrancis x @jamesbrains (at FOG Design+Art)

SACCO by Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini & Franco Teodoro (1968) for Zanotta ⚡️⚡️ + Who knew that an experiment in ergonomics: a flexible chair that would respond to the body’s movements - would become an instantly recognisable object over subsequent decades?🤔 + “The Sacco was characteristic of modernist designers’ experimentation with new materials. Plastics such as polystyrene were readily available by the 1960s; nonetheless the designers’ decision to fill a synthetic leather shell with Thermocol pellets in order to create a chair was pioneering.” Financial Times 2017 + @zanotta_spa @zanottadesign @cultdesignau #sacco #designicon #designinnovation #theoriginal #furnituredesign #zanottasacco #supportoriginaldesign #buywellbuyonce #stopdesigntheft #authenticdesignalliance

UP Series (1969/2000) by Gaetano Pesce for C&B Italia / B&BItalia + “We have to answer people’s needs, create something useful, give joy and happiness.” Pesce + These 1960s Pop Art icons were described by Pesce as "transformation" furniture. Pieces were shipped compressed in a thermosealed vacuum container which, when unsealed, caused the foam to expand back to its original size and fully form within one hour. + The ottoman shackled to the female form inspired chair - symbolizing the shackles that keep women subjugated + @bebitalia @spacefurniture @gaetano.pesce #italiandesign #furnituredesign #gaetanopesce #supportoriginaldesign #authenticdesign #buywellbuyonce #authenticdesignalliance

livening up the neighbourhood 😎 @steen_jones x @authoritycreative @bondimassive #bondibeach #thesnapassembly (at South Bondi)

WOMB Chair by Eero Saarinen, KNOLL (1946) + “Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.” Eero Saarinen + Florence Knoll requested “a chair that was like a basket full of pillows, something I could curl up in” + @knollinc @dedece #eerosaarinen #wombchair #florenceknoll #furnituredesign #designicon #buywellbuyonce #authenticdesign #supportoriginaldesign #stopdesigntheft #authenticdesignalliance

👏👏Congratulations in spades to @tom_fereday for this clever chair that incorporates seat adjustment - winner of @mercedesbenzau x @broadsheet_syd @broadsheet_syd sponsored by @cultdesignau ⚡️⚡️🥂✔️ + SIA will join @nau_design for Cult collection - launching March 2018✨ + #tomfereday #supportoriginaldesign #supportaustraliandesign #furnituredesign #industrialdesign #buywellbuyonce #authenticdesign #authenticdesignalliance

Jaime Hayon for @milwaukeeart ✨handmade crystal ✨#afrikandohayon @jaimehayon ✨ + #authenticdesignalliance #jaimehayon

These 🔅gems🔅 by Charles Wilson for INTERPRETATIONS V take the plate. Literally!! 🔆 + Eight designers were invited by @andrewcsimpson to explore a single material - this year PAPER (Cellulose) - each delivering the ultimate experimentation of that one material, the installation shown at DESIGN-MADE. + @charleswilsondesign @design_made_ presented with @factorydesigndistrict + #paperdesign #interpretations5 #designmadeaus #authenticdesign #authenticdesignalliance

Hot on the heels of the little known Government inquiry into fake indigenous art / objects - this great piece of investigative journalism lifts the lid how Australian businesses wholesaling Indonesian copies of aboriginal ‘style’ products - 👉 are pricing genuine Indigenous products out of the market 😠 with the fake products dominating by being the most widely available + There’s even been a Federally- funded FAKE ART HARMS CULTURE campaign 🤔 .... now there’s a thought ....🤔 + 👉worth the read // link on our FB👈 The 2nd image in this post were fake products two doors away from the cafe where we read the article. There were no authentic products found in the Bondi tourist strip..... the article cites 80% of stores visited in Surfers Paradise were peddling Indonesian made products 😱 + @goodweekendmag @katrinastrick written by Frank Robson #fakeart #knockoffs #getrealbuyrealsupplyreal #aboriginalart #indigenousdesign #authenticdesign #authenticdesignalliance

👏Hello HOUSE LAB - great article ✔️KEEPING IT REAL ✔️ 👉link on our FB👈 + "Australia is one of the few countries in the world where it is actually legal to import and sell replica furniture. As long as the word ‘replica’ appears in front of the name, you can even sell a piece by its original name, often including the name of the designer. It is a loophole that has spawned an entire industry here – while in the UK, for example, this practice attracts enormous fines and even imprisonment.” + Image @vitra @livingedge @hermanmiller via @houselab_au + #replicaisfake #buywellbuyonce #supportoriginaldesign #authenticdesign #authenticdesignalliance

✨all we want for xmas ✨FOLKIFUNKI by @jaimehayon for @vistaalegreofficial ✔️ + With images inspired by folklore the collection is produced by heritage Portuguese porcelain house (est. 1824) - these beauties c/ @store.wallpaper @wallpapermag + #vistaalegre #jaimehayon #buywellbuyonce #supportoriginaldesign #authenticdesign #authenticdesignalliance

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, this would not be a water meeting 😂😂💦💧💦 #yesitswork #waternotwine @colbystacey #authenticdesignalliance (at North Bondi Fish)

⚡️ADA partner spotlight⚡️ 👉designfarm_perth are our first WA members ✔️✔️becoming ADA relaunch partners to help us change the design ‘copy culture’ in Australia 👏👏👏 + Hosting HOME GROWN DESIGN last month - 100 industry members joined our talk honing the challenges of local design & manufacture, sharing the commitment required to create quality locally made furniture collections! + 👉STRAND chair by @adamcornishdesign 👉MALLOY table by @adamgoodrumstudio launched @nau_design at designFARM’s impeccably presented Perth showroom + 👌What to help us relaunch? Show your commitment to supporting & promoting original design - ask us about ADA Partner offers now! + #designfarmperth #ADApartner #naudesign #adamcornish #adamgoodrum + #stopdesigntheft #replicaisfake #supportoriginaldesign #supportaustraliandesign #authenticdesign #authenticdeisgnalliance

⚡️⚡️When @paulsmithdesign does @anglepoise it’s a winner ⚡️⚡️✔️ + @paulsmith #colourblock #getrealbuyrealsupplyreal #buywellbuyonce #authenticdesign #authenticdesignalliance

Vitra Design Museum exhibition // THE POWER OF DESIGN + Shortly after Charles and Ray Eames married and moved to LA, they began focussing their attention on plywood. The couple explored various uses for the material as well as the extent to which it could be moulded into complex forms. + #eames #eamesexhibition #charlesandrayeames #vitradesignexhibition 📸Mark Niedermann // RG @eamesoffice @vitra @vitradesignmuseum

😱Live on Gumtree. No words. Design lovers - help us help us stop design theft ⚡️⚡️ 👉Inbox us for details 👈 * This must stop. Who resells a fake Featherston bought for $1500, that has a broken leg, for $200?!! + #replicaisfake #stopdesigntheft #grantfeatherston @grazia_and_co @gordonmatherindustries #supportoriginaldesign #supportaustraliandesign #authenticdeisgnalliance