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Office pods that replace parked cars and technology that brings nature into the home are among the proposals named as finalists of the Davidson Prize.

April 15, 2021 3:44 pm London-based design studio Pearson Lloyd has developed a new stairlift, which aims to offer a “user-centred” solution to an often-stigmatised product. Flow X has been developed with mobility company Access BDD, a division of global tech company TK Elevator. It is the result of 10 years’ worth of “research, design and development”, according to Pearson Lloyd. “Designing for our future selves” As Pearson Lloyd co-founder Luke Pearson explains, ageing populations mean developing “quality healthcare related products” is more important than ever. However,...

Cross chair by Pearson Lloyd for Takt Dezeen Showroom:Pearson Lloyd has designed the wooden Cross chair for Danish furniture brand Takt to be easily taken apart, repaired and recycled. The Cross chair owes its name to the distinctive intersecting slats that hold up its seat and anchor the four legs. The chair comes in a light oak finish This structure can be disassembled in only a few moves so that broken parts can be replaced where necessary and the entire chair can be recycled at the end of its life.The Cross chair is made using only wood from FSC-certified forests, which are not harvested ...

Environmentally, retrofit makes sense and for designers there is so much opportunity Weston Adventure Playground. Macintosh says: ‘Internally there is a mezzanine level with a bench running all the way along the main space, where the children who were less rumbustious or more reflective could retreat and do their homework in a more secluded area.’ Source:  Joe Low Done judiciously and sensitively, retrofit is one of the biggest contributions the construction sector can make to help reduce embodied carbon, writes Emily Booth The picture of a child hurtling through the air, hair flying...

Building study: Yorkton Workshops by Cassion Castle with Pearson Lloyd The practice connected two ‘ramshackle’ buildings of different eras to create  a new studio for design firm Pearson Lloyd – a worthy winner of this year’s AJ Retrofit of the Year Award, says Fran Williams comment and share Pearson Lloyd purchased its 550m 2 Hackney warehouse building in 2017 and approached Cassion Castle Architects with the idea of transforming it into a new HQ for the product design practice, a place to test its concepts and furniture prototypes. The multipurpose premises, completed late last ye...