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Pantone, the international authority on colour, colour systems and the leading technology company for accurate communication of colour, has named "Greenery" as its 2017 Colour of the Year. Here are some products you can find at GRShop.com that will give you a very green 2017. Danish lighting ...

For those of you lucky enough to be heading to London, UK before September 26th, like this happy blogger, check out the Ron Arad exhibition at the Ben Brown Gallery in the Mayfair area. The exhibition at Ben Brown Gallery is the culmination of Ron Arad's most recent work, spanning sculpture, ...

American furniture brand Emeco has accepted an out-of-court settlement from IKEA after accusing the Swedish furniture giant of copying its Emeco 20-06 stacking aluminum chair, designed by British architect Norman Foster. The agreement makes clear that Emeco owns the intellectual property rights ...

Born in Denmark in 1916, Jens Risom turned 100 last week. Congratulations to this iconic designer! Risom left Denmark for the United States in 1938 and was working as a freelancer in New York City specializing in furniture and textiles when  he met Hans Knoll. The pair collaborated on an ...

Richard Sapper, an industrial designer whose extraordinary career gave us the highly engineered Artemide Tizio Lamp, the Alessi Espresso Maker and the Sapper Kettle has died at age 83.   Sapper offered some clues as to what constituted a classic. "It’s when the form of an object ...

Portraits of Harry Bertoia from a photograph contact sheet for Knoll publicity materials.     2015 marks the centennial celebration of the world-renowned sculptor and designer Harry Bertoia. Bertoia was a complete and gifted artist. Knoll historian Brian Lutz said, ...

It was with deep sadness that we at GRShop and Gabriel Ross heard the news that architect and designer Michael Graves, had passed away on March 12, 2015, suddenly, peacefully and of natural causes. He was 80 years old. Michael Graves was born in Indiana in 1934. He trained to be an architect ...

The year 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the Cassina LC Collection and the death of Le Corbusier, 1887 – 1965, the Swiss-French architect, designer and urban planner.   In 1965, Cassina took over production of the licensed works of Le Corbusier and his collaborators, Pierre ...

Finally some good news on the question of illegal copies and knockoffs of Italian furniture designs that have inherent creative and artistic value. The manufacture and marketing of products which "slavishly imitate the stylistic and aesthetic features of iconic pieces of Italian design" has been ...

You don’t have to venture outdoors this autumn to view exciting and vibrant colour changes. The iconic Eames Plastic Shell Chair , designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1948, now comes in nine new fun colors. This September Herman Miller has expanded the colour range to include: java, blue ice, ...