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New from Vitra - Chairless - 23 April 2010
Chairless is a seating device for the modern nomad. This sturdy strap of fabric allows its user to sit down in a relaxed manner – without seat or backrest. An excellent solution for picnics, music or movies in the park, waiting in a crowded airport, reading on the beach and on countless other occasions. Chairless is so light and compact that you can carry it with you wherever you go. Based on a traditional strap used by the Ayoreo Indians from Paraguay, Chairless was designed by Alejandro Aravena and developed in...
Urbis Designday - 30 March 2010
Urbis Designday returned for its 5th year, only to go ‘Off the Grid’. A new collection of collaborators were able to interpret this theme as inspiration dictated – bringing a fresh perspective to New Zealand design’s big day. The 2010 event paired creative minds from architecture, multimedia, furniture, landscape and fashion design with a baker’s dozen of Auckland showrooms. Sub.stra.tum This year Cite was joined by Mike Hodgson of The Dub Module and Chris Macmillian of Mulk, dynamic artistic collectives that create multimedia installations for live events. For March 20th, this...
Panton Classic Auction @ Webb's - 26 March 2010
Misery, WORLD, John Reynolds Three of Cite’s favourite New Zealand artists have each reinterpreted and transformed the iconic Panton Classic – celebrating its 50th birthday in 2010 – and one of these fantastic chairs could be yours! As part of the Webb's important works of art auction on the 30th of March these three one-off pieces will be auctioned individually, with all proceeds going to a good cause – the Unitec Department of Design and Visual Arts. If you didn’t make it to Urbis Designday, you can see the chairs for yourself at...
Books For Schools - 20 December 2009
This Christmas the Books for Schools $600 vouchers go to Meadowbank School, Westmere School and Victoria Avenue School. Each of the schools receiving the voucher is able to choose from an extensive range of literacy and numeracy learning material from the Sunshine Books and Galaxy Kids ranges produced by Wendy Pye Publishing. Wendy Pye Publishing is known worldwide for the development of multimedia material, in particular animated CD-ROMs developed in-house here in Auckland, which link with a range of printed activity books and little books. Offices and partnerships with Wendy...
HomeWork - Individual Office Packages - 18 December 2009
We spend an increasing amount of time at our home computers, whether it’s for work, entertainment, bill paying or updating iTunes. A comfortable, ergonomic home office environment is key to productivity and enjoyment. And so you don’t have to search for the right combination of home office furniture, we’ve already done the HomeWork. New HomeWork packages Studio Satellite Innovator
