Forms & Functions
September, 2010

Focus: five bikes for city cruising

Utilitarian ideals, new technology and modern Shapes transform bicycle design
By Tory Healy

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Modernist footbridges in France and Portugal

Two footbridges – one in France, the other in Portugal – create a perfect merger between advanced ­engineering and eye-popping drama
By Paige Magarrey

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Retail therapy: two new showroom interiors in Milan

Eye candy was everywhere in Milan during Salone. Even Local retailers got in on the action by opening scene-stealing interiors and installing innovative ­displays
By Tory Healy

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More

L.A. Reno

An otherworldly addition to a suburban L.A. house

Prototype

Land Peel, a mat that transforms into furniture

What's On

Snøhetta at Cambridge Galleries; Charlotte Perriand at the Museum of Design Zurich

Et Cetera This season’s Issey Miyake Bilbao bag; a chair cast in steel and copper by Thomas Heatherwick; Matthew Soules’ public urinals in Victoria, B.C.; and more


 





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