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Frankie Range development

The new Frankie Range has benefited from a little break over summer and we’re moving forward with the designs with some renewed vigour.  Late last year we substituted the aluminum shade for a recycled felt shade and we are very excited about using this new eco product in conjunction with beautiful FSC certified South Island Beech.  

The range has solidified into a family of 5 products: A single pendant lamp, a double pendant lamp, a table lamp, a floor lamp, and a coat stand.  

We’ve had our application to exhibit at the ICFF in New York accepted so in May we’ll be premiering the prototypes at America’s largest annual furniture fair to gauge the popularity of the new range and see if people are as excited about it as we are.

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Early Concepts for a new lighting and furniture range

Rebecca and I have been sketching away and developing some ideas around a new range of lighting and furniture that can be made from a few simple components made from timber and aluminum.  Below are some of the rough timber, card and foam core mockups that indicate the general idea and form of the pieces.  The floor lamp, table lamp and pendant all share the same components making this a modular system.

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Exhibition / installation at Designmade Wellington What to do with a stack of handle-less umbrellas, a small concrete corridor and a couple of days drinking Designmade’s super strong coffee? Come and see the latest installation of Designtree’s products at Designmade in central Wellington and check out what we’re up to. The exhibition opens Monday 2nd July for 4 weeks. We’ll be in-store at 10am on opening day for a chin wag if you’d like to come and visit us. Designmade is open for trade customers 9-5 weekdays, 23 Marion Street, Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand, Phone:04 496 8450

Exhibition / installation at Designmade Wellington

What to do with a stack of handle-less umbrellas, a small concrete corridor and a couple of days drinking Designmade’s super strong coffee? Come and see the latest installation of Designtree’s products at Designmade in central Wellington and check out what we’re up to. The exhibition opens Monday 2nd July for 4 weeks. We’ll be in-store at 10am on opening day for a chin wag if you’d like to come and visit us.

Designmade is open for trade customers 9-5 weekdays, 23 Marion Street, Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand, Phone:04 496 8450

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Party Pils

The wonderful people at Cloudy Bay Winery threw a party recently for the opening of their new project – The Shack.  Apart from the amazing wine (of course) the food was incredible, the music was groovy (thank you Mr Nathan Haines) and the Shack Guesthouse featured some beautiful works from some of New Zealand’s top designers.  Orchestrated by architects Tim Greer, and Paul Rolfe, our Pil Lamps hung with designs from David Trubridge, Nathan Goldsworthy, Hayley King (aka Flox), Nigel Whitton, Ben Masters and Sue and Gary from The Boiler Room

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Designed to delight

The lovely people at NZ House & Garden came over for a cup of tea earlier this year, took some photos and asked us some questions. We’re pretty chuffed to get a 3 page spread, a big thank you to Rebecca Lancashire for the write up and Paul McCredie for taking the photos! Check out the June issue of NZ House and Garden for the full article.

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Nectar Wins Best Commercial & Green Product


Four awards are offered within The Edge, these are judged by a panel of leading Australian and international designers.  Rebecca’s Nectar lamps gained the admiration of the judges and earned the Best Commercial Product award as well as the Best Green Product Award.

The judges comments about the Nectar Pendant Lamp Collection were:

“Extremely well resolved modular concept, striking and original, unusual, scalable and flexible, economical and excellent commercial potential.”

“Here is a product that does not look like an eco product yet displays deep green thinking, proof that good design must embrace sustainability, a product that is emotional, a tribute to nature and makes post industrial waste attractive.”

We are totally chuffed to have received this recognition for Rebecca’s designs.  The reaction from architects and designers to the Nectar lamps as well as our other products over the fair has been really positive and we’re really excited to be entering the Australian market.

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Designtree at The Edge in Sydney

Designtree has been awarded a spot at the The Innovation Showcase at the 2012 Australian International Furniture Fair in Sydney.  Rebecca and I will be packing our swimmers and donning our thongs for a week in Australia.

We will be exhibiting at The Edge – a section of the fair focusing on emerging design talent.  The Fair is a trade only event that runs between the 1st and 3rd of February 2012, come in and say Gidday.  For more information and for registrations follow the link here.

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Designtree Competition – We have a winner | December 22, 2011

Tell Us Your Problem competition – We Have A Winner!

After some good discussions and debates Rebecca and I have agreed on a winner for the Tell Us Your Problem competition.  Congratulations Tracey for submitting her messy kitchen scraps story.  Tracey’s problem provides us with a good design challenge and Rebecca and I are looking forward to figuring out a groovy solution.

Thank you to all of you who entered the competition, we had lots of great entries which have allowed us to pick up on common frustrations around the home and office.

Well done again Tracey we’ll be sending out your gift vouchers so you can get your hands on some Designtree goodness.

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Designtree Competition – Win a $250 Gift Voucher Tell us your problem. What design needs, problems or frustrations do you have around the house or office? “Rebecca gets frustrated with untidy piles of shoes at the front door ”.  “Tim keeps putting his keys and wallet down and has trouble finding them when rushing out the door”. Tell us what irks you around the home or office – the problem that we see has the most potential to stimulate an innovative design will receive a $250 gift voucher for any Designtree product. Click here to enter the competition  – competition now closed

Designtree Competition – Win a $250 Gift Voucher

Tell us your problem.

What design needs, problems or frustrations do you have around the house or office?

“Rebecca gets frustrated with untidy piles of shoes at the front door ”.  “Tim keeps putting his keys and wallet down and has trouble finding them when rushing out the door”.

Tell us what irks you around the home or office – the problem that we see has the most potential to stimulate an innovative design will receive a $250 gift voucher for any Designtree product.

Click here to enter the competition  – competition now closed

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New Standup Laptop and Book Stand Video

We’ve had a few people receive our Standups as gifts and due to the lack of instructions they have not really known what to do with them, so we’ve made a little video showing what Standup does and how it goes together (see below). Also our fantastic intern Julie is working with us to develop some instructions which we will slip in the envelope with Standup.