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Locale: where art and shoes meet

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Diane Chan | Comments

Categories: Architecture, Interior Design , Shopping, Fashion

Aldo shoes and Pompei A.D., the creative agency behind such retail stores as Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters, have teamed up to create Locale, ­a shopping mall experience inspired by cafés, galleries, and other popular urban meeting places. 

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Q&A with Ceramic Artist Li Xiaofeng

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Tory Healy | Comments

Categories: Art, Shopping, Fashion, Q&A

In our September issue, now on newsstands, we show how Li Xiaofeng used his fractured ceramic aesthetic to create a unique polo shirt for Lacoste. For this web exclusive, Azure went behind-the-scenes with the prolific artist just before he debuted his off-the-rack line, and specially made sculpture at Paris' Musée des Arts et Métiers in June.

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Teroforma at the New York Gift Fair

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Elizabeth Pagliacolo | Comments

Categories: Product design, Events, Shopping

The kitchen accessories manufacturer presents a delightful collection of modernist-minded designs during the New York International Gift Fair, taking place from August 14 to 19.

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Desk Accessories Re-booted

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Paige Magarrey | Comments

Categories: Product design, Shopping

A trio of new products from Foscarini, Coalesse and Hitachi bring the smart, fun and functional to the desktop.

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Lexus hybrid as art

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Paige Magarrey | Comments

Categories: Product design, Art, Shopping

L.A. firm Nondesigns has created an art installation inspired by Lexus's newest hybrid. 

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