Stylus is the leading source of information and inspiration for the consumer-facing industries. Founded and led by Marc Worth, founder of WGSN – the definitive information service for fashion industry – Stylus provides a fresh and authoritative approach to product design and development, filtering high-level macrotrends and cultural coverage into concrete, commercial analysis. Headquartered in London, with presences in New York, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo and Sydney, Stylus will be rolled out in the UK, US, Europe, Latin America and Asia. The content is valuable for buyers, merchandise planners, product designers, as well as brand planners, marketers, and executives.
www.stylus.comSince 2002, the Swarovski Crystal Palace collections have aimed to stretch the imagination, demonstrating that the notion of a traditional chandelier can be beautifully reinvented. Whether designers choose to marry cutting edge technology with contemporary lighting design or use nature as their main source of inspiration, the results have always thrilled and captivated, with each designer breathing new life into the traditional chandelier aesthetic. Previous designers have included Ron Arad, Yves Behar, Paul Cocksedge, Vincent van Duysen and Karim Rashid.
www.swarovskisparkles.comTai Ping is a custom carpet and rug company
that is rich in resources, contemporary in
sensibility and global in scale. Over the last fifty years, Tai Ping has created rugs that are
increasingly sought for luxurious and prestigious interiors – from hotels and casinos to Park Avenue residences, private jets and yachts.
Design emporium Talisman expands this September with the opening of a brand new store in the heart of London’s Belgravia. Situated off the Pimlico Road, the new store will offer a more evolved yet equally eclectic mix of vintage and contemporary design – covering European statuary, antiques and mid-20th century furniture, accessories and sculpture – that has made the New King’s Road showroom such a key destination for interior designers and collectors alike. In a district already renowned for art, antiques and design, the expansion of this new store promises to further this reputation beyond the design community and its private clients.
www.talismanlondon.comThe Belvedere Hotel in Mykonos opened for the 2010 season with a dynamic new look, the debut of a new Martini Bar, lobby, private VIP residents’ lounge and new luxury rooms, all of which reinforce the hotel’s position as one of the most chic and desirable destinations in the Greek islands. A ‘super-team’ of experts has been assembled by the Belvedere’s owners Nikolas and Tasos Ioannidis to achieve the new look Belvedere including Nobu Matsuhisa and George Calombaris, Neil Barrett. The new look interiors are courtesy of another Camron Client David Rockwell. Collectively these creative talents have delivered a hotel experience unlike any other in Greece. Camron is overseeing an international media programme to re-launch the hotel.
www.belvederehotel.comTwyford Bathrooms, part of Sanitec, is the UK’s leading manufacturer of bathrooms. Founded in 1849, Twyford has pioneered some of the most important sanitaryware designs, and perseveres to create suites for all lifestyles, tastes and budgets.
www.twyfordbathrooms.comTo celebrate London Design Festival, Veuve Clicquot will bring the Mathieu Lahanneur-designed Once Upon A Dream sleep unit to the Andaz Hotel, official hotel partner of the London Design Festival, where the dream capsule will play host to design luminaries and London tastemakers as they read excerpts of their favourite books aloud to champagne-sipping audiences.
www.veuve-clicquot.comYves Béhar is the founder of fuseproject, a San Francisco based design agency contributing to areas including technology, furniture, sports, lifestyle and fashion. Béhar brings a humanistic approach to his work with the goal of creating projects that are in tune with the needs of a sustainable future, connected with human emotions and self-expression. Examples of fuseproject’s diverse commissions include the world’s first $100 laptop for One Laptop Per Child, a partnership with Jawbone – a leading mobile phone headset company – and the world’s fastest electric sports bike for Mission Motors. Yves Béhar’s innovative designs have garnered more than 150 awards and in 2009 Yves Béhar was one of two industrial designers invited to speak at Davos.
www.fuseproject.com