EXHIBITION: SALONE Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Danish designer Hans J. Wegner, Paul Smith and fabric company Maharam collaborated with Carl Hansen & Søn on a limited edition collection of some of Wegner's most iconic works, including the CH07 Shell Chair upholstered in Big Stripe (pictured below). Paul Smith selected his favorite Hans J. Wegner pieces to launch a collection that gives the designs a new vitality. Reader Service No. 274 48 Moroso's Diatom is a 100-percent aluminum vertical stacking chair for indoor and outdoor use designed by Ross Lovegrove. Inspired by the beauty and logic of natural lightweight structures, the computer-generated design results from the logistics of contemporary aluminumpressing technology and its origins in the automotive industry. It takes its shape from the frustum of a diatom, a primordial single-cell organism with a silica skeleton found in bodies of water. Reader Service No. 275 contractdesign.com MAY 2014http://www.contractdesign.com