Parc Folding Chair - Habitat

Outdoor folding chair with lacquered beech slats on galvanised steel frame. Suitable for occasional outdoor use. 

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McNally Jackson Cafe - Front Studio Architects

The owner of McNally Jackson Books, one of the largest independent booksellers in downtown Manhattan, wished to re-conceptualize the café and seating area as a place evocative of literature. The newly realized space creates visceral connections to the act of reading in each programmatic function.

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Cafe Independants - Wakabayshi Hiroyuki

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Marlin - Barbara Hulanicki

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Lets Pizza

Imagine having fresh pizza, cooked to perfection, with a choice of three toppings – in less than three minutes! It may sound too good to be true but, thanks to Let’s Pizza UK, it’s now a reality. 365 days a year.

The Let’s Pizza vending machine is already a major success in Italy. And now, it’s attracting widespread interest among fast-food vending connoisseurs in the UK.

A revolutionary new pizza concept...

Let’s Pizza kneads the dough, forms a round, adds tomato sauce, layers toppings – and then bakes it all in front of your very eyes. There are no frozen pizzas here; Let’s Pizza is a mini-pizzeria that’s open 24 hours a day!

It’s that simple – we’re revolutionising the hot food vending industry! Delivering reliable pizza vending for food outlets, coffee shops, universities, student accomodation, colleges, caterering companies, events, budget hotels, independent businesses…the list goes on. Thanks to its unique design and solid business proposition, the Let’s Pizza vending machine is being widely adopted in public venues and at private events.

Fresh Pizza? Let’s Pizza. Any day, any time, any place.

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BAMN

BAMN! provides American comfort food that just makes you happy. We offer tasty and high quality food to fuel people on the go. It's the return of the automat, filled with juicy, mouth watering burgers, mac & cheese krokets, chicken fritters, new york grilled cheese sandwiches, curly fries, green-tea soft-serve and lots of other great and delightful treats - made fresh throughout the day.

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Malaysia Airlines Golden Lounge

Self service counters in the airport lounge

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Red Hot World Buffet

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Yo Sushi

Founded in 1997, YO! Sushi brought the concept of a Japanese ‘kaiten’ sushi bar that delivered food to customers via a conveyor belt travelling 8cm per second to the masses, and became the original and most famous sushi brand in the UK. YO! Sushi was a brand new concept in dining and catapulted Londoners into the 21st century which made us the most talked about dining experience. Our customers queued around the block as we gave the capital a slice of Urban Tokyo. The experience was fun and exciting, whilst the food was revolutionary and made lovingly, as AA Gill (Sunday Times) pointed out in his review stating it was “the best sushi in London" and Fay Maschler (Evening Standard) said she had “seen the future and it is fun".

By 2001, YO! Sushi was the market leader in sushi restaurants and (we like to think!) inspired supermarkets to start selling packaged sushi to the Great British Public, allowing people in areas where YO! Sushi restaurants hadn’t arrived yet to take their first steps in discovering how tasty and healthy sushi can be...

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Automat

A couple of years ago, a van pulled up in front of Steve Stollman's vintage goods store on Houston Street.

The van's driver, a scrap-metal dealer from Brooklyn, hauled out several cardboard boxes of what appeared to be vending machine parts and dropped them on Mr. Stollman's floor.

''How much do I owe you?'' Mr. Stollman recalls asking.

''Forget about it,'' the man replied.

The day before, the dealer had sold Mr. Stollman 85 rusted Automat machines for $100 apiece. Sorting through the mess of beveled glass and twisted metal, Mr. Stollman suddenly realized that he had the means to reconstruct what was once a great New York City tradition.

Indeed, for generations of New Yorkers, the Automat vending machine was the source of the archetypal workaday lunch. Throw your nickels in the slot, open the window, pull out the roast beef and the sweet potatoes, watch the coffee pour out of the lion-, dolphin- or duck-head spigot, sit down at a table with three other strangers, eat, bus your own tray and leave...

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Novasonar - Invisible loud speakers

Sound is wonderfully invisible. So why should you have to see loudspeakers? Architects and interior decorators have been asking this question for generations. There are numbers of approaches to conceal loudspeakers in walls, ceilings and furniture. Up until now, however, they have always resulted in sound being compromised. With the Novasonar system by ML Audio a revolutionary new solution has been found.

The Novasonar system directly converts walls, ceilings or furniture into sound bodies without sound or room design being compromised. A new age of audio technology has been born. The Novasonar system by ML Audio brings technology and design together like no other architectural component.

Thus Novasonar offers revolutionary possibilities in the field of audio technology. We would like to put this potential into service of your creativity.

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Nightmares Fear Factory, Canada - Metro

Haunted houses naturally have something of a reputation for frightening the wits out of people but, in this case, the attraction itself is trumped in the scare stakes by the reactions of its patrons.

The Nightmares Fear Factory, the oldest haunted house in North America, has turned its customers’ contorted faces upon being spooked into something of an internet sensation.
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The Hepworth Gallery - David Chipperfield

Sublime intervention - RIBA Journal

Part fortress, part monastery, David Chipperfield’s serene clean lines marry fine art and an industrial site in Hepworth Wakefield, the town’s powerful cultural citadel

Words Hugh Pearman 

It is set on an industrial island in the River Calder and is even more cut off by a busy trunk road and 1960s bridge slicing past one end of its site. A working boatyard lies opposite, various fine but abandoned mill buildings are its neighbours. The centre of Wakefield is some distance away, and anyway the city loses out to nearby Leeds as the main regional centre. So David Chipperfield’s latest art gallery, the Hepworth Wakefield, has a job to do. This is the most down-at-heel of contexts. It was not previously any kind of ‘destination’, though the excellent nearby Yorkshire Sculpture Park will bring passing cultural trade. Inevitably, this £35m project forms part of a regeneration plan for the riverside, so will become less isolated...

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