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Shopping with Common Cents | Inform Under $100

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There is a common misconception that to shop at Inform, you must posses a great deal of wealth. This couldn’t be further from the truth. We carry a vast range of products with all sorts of price points. Our collection is not based on price, luxury or exclusivity; simply put: we carry the best products for your home, from around the globe.

Take for instance the Aalto Votives and Kivis from Iittala(above); both are priced from under $20 yet exemplify great form, function and superb quality in craftsmanship.

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Flash Factory | Inform & Tom Dixon

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Join us on November 27th from 11am until 5pm to witness Tom Dixon’s new Etch lamp and Etch candle holder in production.

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Flash Factories in Milan and Hong Kong

What would normally be a static furniture showroom window is transformed into a Flash Factory where the processes of industrial production are brought directly to the customer. A limited number of exclusive products are made and sold on site. Etch is a digitally manufactured collection that includes a light and candle-holder in brass. Everything is sold on a first come first serve basis. Visitors can purchase a version that has been fully assembled at the factory window, or a flat-packed version to complete at home. The Flash Factory demonstrates Future Industry and the new found power of the designer, able to service world markets with the latest products in greatly reduced time scales.

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Shedding a Light on Deflation

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A client of Inform came in with an estimate the other day. It was dated November 13th, 1989. The client wanted to know if we would honour the estimate even though it was over 20 years old.

“I do not think we can do that” replied the salesperson.

Yet upon further examination of the estimate, the salesperson replied:

“I can’t honour it, but I can do one better. $200 better”.

The item in question was an Artemide Tizio Classic Black Table Lamp by Richard Sapper. In 1989, the lamp was $655. However in 2010, Inform sells the exact same light for $431. That’s $224 less!

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Taschen | Passion in Print

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It all began with a young boy, Benedikt Taschen(above), selling his paintings of vampires on the sidewalks of Germany in 1970. Ten years later, through passion for images, words, photography, film, and support from his family and mentors, Benedikt opened a comic book shop in his native city of Cologne.


Benedikt as a boy, the first Taschen bookstore, their first publication, present day headquarters

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Taschen books. They continue to stick to their credo: don’t underestimate or bore your audience.

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111 Navy | Recycle Happiness

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The Coca-Cola Company and Emeco have combined their most iconic products, the Coca-Cola contour bottle package and the famous Navy Chair, to create a new chair made from at least 111 recycled plastic bottles. The aptly named “111 Navy Chair” debuted earlier this year at the 2010 Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, the top furniture trade show in the world.

“The 111 Navy Chair is a reflection of our commitment to sustainability, constant innovation and originality in design,” said Kate Dwyer, Group Director, Worldwide Licensing, The Coca-Cola Company. “This latest addition to our line of rPET licensed merchandise underscores the fact that Coca-Cola bottles are valuable recyclables. It is another step in our vision to recover and reuse all of our bottles and cans.”

Nancy and Niels are in London and have spotted the 111 Navy. Pictured to the left is a London retailer’s display, below is at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Jean Nouvel.

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Limited Edition Sigg Bottles | Coupland & Inform

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A collaboration between Inform Interiors and Douglas Coupland for Vancouver’s Covenant House. As water is a beloved substance, ‘My hotel Year’ is a beloved story. Personally signed and numbered by Douglas, each ‘zine’ accompanies an Inform Interiors limited edition SIGG water bottle ($60.00 CAD).

Douglas Coupland is a Canadian fiction write as well as a play wright and visual artist. His first book, the 1991 noel generation X: tables for an accelerated culture, was nominated for the books in Canada first novel award, became an international bestseller and popularized the terms “McJob” and “Generation X.” Much of Coupland’s work explores the unexpected cultural shifts created by the impact of new technologies a middle class North American culture.

Persistent themes include the conflict between secular and religious values, difficulty in aging and taking on adult roles, ironic attitude as a response to intense media saturation, and pop mass culture.

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Nothing Grows Old Faster than the New | Briccole di Venezia

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We found some interesting pieces at the Milan Furniture fair this year. Among them, Matteo Thun’s Briccole Venezia, a craggily beautiful table made from salvaged Venetian mooring posts. The manufacturer, Riva 1920, has always been open to experimentation when it comes to realizing their designs. Briccole Venezia is no exemption. This table is inspired by the Grand Canal in Venice.

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Annual Warehouse Sale

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We’ve been working hard preparing our annual warehouse sale. An epic sale event that runs for two days. A time for us to shed some weight and prepare for all the new goods we ordered in this years fairs. Clients from all around come to see what great deals they can find (some even fly in just for this event).

We hope to see all who can make it there!

Click here for a sneak peek!

Click here to see the warehouse on Google Maps.

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Moleskine | The Importance of Doodling

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Many of my best ideas come to me lying in bed, letting my mind relax right before sleep takes me over. Often, I wake up knowing that just a few hours prior, I might have had a moment of genius, an epiphany that would could surely be a success, only, I can’t remember the idea itself. Some nights I visualize great displays of visual stimuli with particular details that tie the whole piece together – So many times I have wished that I had some sort of device to quickly and easily record these fleeting thoughts. Yes, I know that “there’s an app for that” but loading screens, chubby fingers that don’t tap where need be and the lack of a pen or stylus just do not inspire me, nor serve my needs in the way that I require. I’ve discovered Moleskine since.

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Designer Focus | Tom Dixon

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A self-taught designer-maker from London England, Tom Dixon has combined the creative with the commercial throughout his career.
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He fell into design by accident when he found himself with “time on his hands” while recovering from a motorcycle accident. As an art school drop-out with no technical training, he taught himself how to become a designer-maker in 1983 after discovering welding when trying to repair his motorbike.

Dixon’s D-I-Y approach to design matched the post-punk mood of the early 1980s. Having made his name – but little money – by making and selling limited editions of his welded furniture – chairs such as the S Chair and Pylon Chair(above) – he tried his hand at retailing, by opening a shop, Space, to sell his products.

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