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Monday, December 21, 2009

mydeco Reveals the Ten Design Graduates to Win a Place at Tent London

A adaptable adobe table, a bank of clocks and an eyeball abrade and adhesive are just a few of the absurd designs by the ten architecture graduates to win a coveted abode in Tent London’s New Talent Zone as finalists in the http://mydeco.com Design Class 09 competition.

The appliance website’s Design Class 09 antagonism offered a once-in-lifetime befalling for three advantageous architecture graduates to angle their final projects to mydeco architecture axle members, Sir Terence Conran and Philippe Starck. Students admission in 2009 submitted their final year projects for a adventitious to win and ten of the a lot of accomplished accept been called to appear at the London architecture show. Finalists were best by board from mydeco and Tent for boldness of account and the abeyant appulse the designs may accept on approaching lives.

Three advantageous winners will now be best by Conran and Starck and accustomed a career-defining befalling to present their final projects to them in person. Winners will be appear in a few weeks.

View all the mydeco Tent Winners at http://mydeco.com/tent-london-talent-zone/

•Hannes Grebin’s Cozy Furniture. Germany Hannes took afflatus from "common standards of cosines and taste" for his wonky active allowance furniture. Hannes said, "The starting point was archetypal appliance in an boilerplate seventies active allowance and the affinity associated with it. The designs allocate with the acclaimed symmetries of appliance and actualize 'living sculptures' instead.”
•Erwin Zwiers’ Claytable and Leave your appearance abaft collection. Netherlands Erwin Zwiers produced two sets of adaptable table and chairs. He said, “The afflatus for the ‘Leave your appearance abaft collection’ comes from the beach. With ‘Claytable’ the benevolence of the adobe apparent agency you can play, appearance and advance it. The applications are broad; they are fun for both accouchement and adults. The adobe table could be an ideal in accessible spaces like dentist and hospital cat-and-mouse rooms, schools and nurseries, or accumulated begin areas.”
•Hélène Uffren, Hard Look, UK Helene Uffren's 'Hardlook' architecture subverts accustomed kitchen accessories with an absorbing crop on a abrade and adhesive which appearance an eye affray at the end of the pestle. She says of her work, "I focus on apparent depth, baloney and illusion, to actualize added ambit through circumscribed vision. I ambition the eyewitness to become allotment of the work, pulled in and transported by the act of viewing."
•Per Emanuelsson & Bastian Bischoff, Humans back 1982, Clock Clock. Sweden Clock alarm is a bank fabricated of 24 chiral clocks that cleverly displays the time digitally. The brace accept aswell developed a blazon chantry on this basis. This ancestor will be apparent at Rhösska design-museum in Göteborg from June till mid of baronial 2009.”
•Jaebeom Jeong, Grid chair. Korea Jaebeom said, “The anatomy of chairs we accept accepted is a animal accomplished by affiliation effects, and annihilation added than functionally accepting the minimum anatomy to sit.”
•Nicole Mueller, Maison Sauvage, A–Z tabletop. Germany Nicole produced a beginning crop on table ware. Nicole says “A–Z is a tabletop abstraction that unites academic dining with the casual. The abstraction is to accommodate a accumulating of individual altar that can either angle by themselves or be aggregate calm into a array of artefact curve as able-bodied as into a absolute ceramics set. Ranging from academic to playful, accidental to poetic, A–Z is consistently anatomic and user-optimised."
•Matthew Woodhouse, Linear construction, UK Matthew Woodhouse was aggressive by the acceptable pikestaff aberrant address and the 3D sculptures of Naum Gabo in authoritative his alloyed stool. Matthew says, "My designs focus on absolute aspects aural design, archetypal forms accommodate a canvas to check the accustomed altar we use. I aim to architecture appliance with personality, pieces that will by itself advance with age."
•Mikaela Johansson, 'It's not what you anticipate it is' wallpaper, UK Mikaela won with her arbitrary 'It's not what you anticipate it is' wallpaper architecture featuring rifles formed into added acceptable floral patterns. Mikaela strives for the abnormal in her architecture work; “I like designs that accept some affectionate of quirkiness to it, that accept something added conceptual abaft them; admirable designs that accomplish you anticipate and catechism things.”
•Olivia Decaris, Working Drop from the Drop series. UK Olivia Decaris created the 'Drop' alternation of calm apartment structures to accommodate "intimacy, aloofness and concentration". As able-bodied as the 'Working drop', the alternation appearance a Dining bead and Sleeping drop. Olivia comments “This Working Drop is based on ergonomics. It is decidedly able in accessible spaces, to be encapsulated, cut off from the alfresco sounds and added disturbances.”
•Omri Barzeev, Zaza. Israel Omri Barzeev will be assuming his 'Zaza' armchair in the Tent London aptitude zone. Omri describes his activity Zaza as "a new armchair created and based on analysis and affiliation of assorted substances in seek of the morphology. Zaza is adjustable and presents an according accord amid architecture and usage."
See the ten finalists in the New Talent Zone at Tent London, which takes abode from 24-27 September 2009, at the Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London.
High resolution images accessible on request

For added information
Please acquaintance Michelle Saxby at the mydeco columnist office: michelle@mydeco.com, 020 3384 1337

About mydeco
mydeco http://mydeco.com was founded by the administration aggregation abaft lastminute.com, one of Europe’s a lot of acknowledged anytime online businesses. mydeco.com brings calm added than 3 actor home ceramics articles from over 1500 retailers. From high-end to top street, accumulation bazaar to niche, you will acquisition what you are analytic for on mydeco after accepting to canoeing the top street.

About mydeco architecture board
Co-chaired by appearance icons, Sir Terence Conran and Philippe Starck, this artistic assertive consists of experts and innovators from every across of the home, including Tara Bernerd, Kelly Hoppen, Marc Newson and Kirstie Allsopp. These internationally-acclaimed designers action the account of their years of acquaintance and their visions for the approaching of the architecture world.

Key website appearance include:
•Shopping: seek the UK’s a lot of absolute database of home articles by price, discount, colour or dimension.
•Design my room: body a basic archetypal of your home and accept from over 60,000 3D pieces of appliance to annoyance and bead into your allowance to check.
•Community: allotment artistic ideas, tips and tricks with 73,000 members, ask questions and advertise designs.
•The magazine: get the latest account from the interiors world, apprehend appearance and trend watching advice.
•Buy the look: appearance hundreds of alarming looks from acclaimed designers, celebrities and even acclaimed hotels. Tailor the attending to your account and ascertain your own claimed style.
•Shop by style: from adventurous to retro, acquisition hundreds of beautiful articles in categorised by a ambit of styles.

mydeco Scoops Double Win at Retail Week Rising Star Awards

Jenna Anians, New Business Development Manager of arch appliance website, http://mydeco.com, biconcave a bifold win at the Retail Week Rising Star Awards. The adolescent retail authority best up the gong for ‘Online alone of the Year’, as able-bodied as traveling on to win the all-embracing ‘Rising Star Award’ at the alluring accident at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London, assault accustomed retailers like B&Q and Sainsbury’s to the top spot.

The awards, organised by Retail Week, celebrates arising aptitude above the industry and recognises those who accomplish a absolute aberration to their company's performance. The board were afflicted with Jenna’s ambitious affection and her agog absorption in online, adage “she showed aberrant ambitious aptitude that is not alone proving invaluable in her accepted role, but that will drive her on to become one of the retail names to watch in the future.”

Responsible for establishing and advancement retail partnerships at mydeco, Jenna abutting six months afore barrage and has been active in active the retail ancillary of the business to the able bazaar position it is in today.

Jenna said, “mydeco.com is the UKs arch aperture for the home area and we consistently strive to breach new arena in convalescent and acceptable the online arcade experience. Within my role at mydeco, I am accustomed the abandon to analyze new ideas, and abound absurd relationships with retailers above the accomplished home sector. To accept two awards in one black advanced of artery and adhesive retail giants like B&Q, Sainsbury’s and Figleaves, is a absolute honour and makes all of the harder plan and backward nights feel account it. In such a boxy bread-and-butter climate, new and agitative multi approach approaches to retail are vital, and accumulate activity absorbing for all involved!”

David Kelly, mydeco CEO, said, “The accomplished mydeco aggregation is abundantly appreciative of Jenna and her achievements on account of our retail ally and customers. It is attenuate to accept anyone so adolescent and yet so adequate in such fast affective bartering space.”

mydeco.com is the UK’s aboriginal and arch appliance accession website. It brings the best web 2.0 alternate capabilities, arch functionality and alarming agreeable calm into one chargeless and easy-to-use package, authoritative it the absolute online area for anyone cerebration about the home. Collecting calm 3 actor articles from over 1,500 home articles retailers, the website aswell boasts a beautiful annual arranged with advice, an avant-garde clothing of 3D allowance planning accoutrement and a thriving, 70,000-strong community.

For added information
Please acquaintance Michelle Saxby at the mydeco columnist office: michelle@mydeco.com, 020 3384 1337

About http://mydeco.com http://mydeco.com>
mydeco was founded by the administration aggregation abaft lastminute.com, one of Europe’s a lot of acknowledged anytime online businesses. mydeco.com brings calm added than 3 actor home ceramics articles from over 1500 retailers. From high-end to top street, accumulation bazaar to niche, you will acquisition what you are analytic for on mydeco after accepting to canoeing the top street.

Key website appearance include:
• Shopping: seek the UK’s a lot of absolute database of home articles by price, discount, colour or dimension.
• Design my room: body a basic archetypal of your home and accept from over 65,000 3D pieces of appliance to annoyance and bead into your allowance to check.
• Community: allotment artistic ideas, tips and tricks with 70,000 members, ask questions and advertise designs.
• The magazine: get the latest account from the interiors world, apprehend appearance and trend watching advice.
• Buy the look: appearance hundreds of alarming looks from acclaimed designers, celebrities and even acclaimed hotels. Tailor the attending to your account and ascertain your own claimed style.
• Shop by style: from adventurous to urban, acquisition hundreds of beautiful articles in categorised by a ambit of styles.

mydeco.com Launches New OUTLET Guide to Discounted Homewares

mydeco.com, the UK’s arch home appearance and arcade website, has responded to chump appeal by ablution a best adviser to beautiful and heavily discounted homewares products. mydeco Outlet is a daily-updated, curated accumulating of the hottest homewares bargains from about the net, all with 40% - 80% off the aboriginal price.

mydeco is aswell alms a account cost to shoppers who active Outlet editors to abundant deals that go on to be featured in the site’s new hand-curated Outlet section.

David Kelly, mydeco CEO said, “The acknowledgment from our users was bright - they bare our editors’ advice hunting out the a lot of beautiful discounted products. mydeco Outlet offers something different and useful; it makes abiding our users see the actual best deals through a curated arcade experience. We aswell capital to acknowledge our association and accumulate them involved. The ‘Bargain Challenge’ is advised to accolade those humans who acquisition beautiful discounted articles on mydeco.”

Every day mydeco editors manually seek 3 actor homewares articles from 1,500 retailers analytic for discounted articles that fit the brand’s beautiful guidelines. Each anniversary the Bargain Challenge allows adeptness sales shoppers to ‘win what they find’ by analytic mydeco for articles with 40% - 80% off the aboriginal amount and announcement the artefact links into the mydeco forum. If the artefact goes on to be featured in mydeco Outlet, the finder is entered into the account cost draw. The Bargains Challenge champ is called account by mydeco editors who are analytic for articles with beauteous discounts and on-trend appearance credentials. See the Bargains Challenge forum: http://mydeco.com/outlet-bargains-challenge/

For added information
Please acquaintance Michelle Saxby at the mydeco columnist office: michelle@mydeco.com

About http://mydeco.com
mydeco.com was founded by the administration aggregation abaft lastminute.com, one of Europe’s a lot of acknowledged anytime online businesses. mydeco brings calm added than 3 actor home ceramics articles from over 1,500 retailers. From high-end to top street, accumulation bazaar to niche, you will acquisition what you are analytic for on mydeco after canoeing the top street.

Key website appearance include:
• Shopping: seek the UK’s a lot of absolute database of home articles by price, style, discount, colour or dimensions.
• Design: body a basic archetypal of your home and adorn it from over 75,000 3D pieces of furniture, accoutrement and accessories all accessible to buy.
• Community: allotment artistic ideas, tips and tricks with 80,000 members, ask questions, see other’s designs and show-off your designs.
• The blog: get the latest account from the interiors world, accumulate abreast on trends and industry developments.
• Buy the look: appearance hundreds of alarming looks from acclaimed designers, celebrities and even acclaimed hotels.

mydeco.com Launches Design Led Range of Virtual Furniture in Sony’s PlayStation®Home

Known for acid bend innovation, mydeco has fabricated a name for itself in the basic appliance apple with its 3D Complete Room Planner, a web-based appliance that lets associates adorn 3D apartment from a database of 75,000 3D modeled pieces of furniture, all accessible to buy from top artery food and designers. The affiliation with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe will see the website affairs an iconic accumulating of basic appliance to design-hungry gamers absent to show-off their architecture accreditation in their PlayStation apartments.

PlayStation Home is a community-based amusing gaming network. It allows users to actualize avatars based on themselves and collaborate with others, as able-bodied as decorating their homes with items bought from basic stores. The move comes as the amount of the US basic appurtenances bazaar hits $1 billion and analysts appraisal a common account of up to $6 billion, with gaming micropayments accounting for about 75 per cent. Membership of basic worlds is aswell appear to accept developed by over a third (39%) in the endure quarter.*

Annabel Kilner, mydeco Senior Business Development Manager said, “It’s an agitative move in a new and accretion market. We are the UK’s arch home appearance and arcade website and amorous about avant-garde technology that makes beautiful decorating easier. Customers apperceive that they can acquisition beautiful articles for their absolute homes on mydeco. We’re extending this to all the homes accepting created in PlayStation Home to enhance the gaming acquaintance in the aforementioned way.”

Daniel Hill, Home Business Manager, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe said, “Home has been accessible to the accessible for about a year and in that time; we accept abundantly added the aggregate of agreeable accessible to both acquirement and for free. Introducing mydeco to Home will not alone accompany added options for users to personalise their experience, but is addition abundant archetype of the cantankerous over amid the absolute apple and the basic world.”

The mydeco abundance will be begin as a acknowledgment in Threads, Sony’s own abundance from today. Each archetypal will amount 1.99 Euros but the abominable Marilyn Monroe aggressive aperture daybed will be chargeless to all abundance visitors.

The mydeco PlayStation Home artefact ambit includes:

•Faux Zebra Ottoman: A account account in any setting, to be acclimated as a coffee table or seat.
•Iconic 60’s argot and lip sofa: An iconic daybed with a mydeco architecture spin.
•Flamingo attic light: A different attic lamp which will be the talking point of any banquet party.
•Bomb table lamp: Like aboriginal articles again this beautiful table lamp is absolutely one to add to your active space.
•Painted coffee table: This oriental aggressive coffee table in dove-tail blah adds actuality and appearance to archetypal or abreast interiors
•Indoor plant: Handsome abode bulb that survives able-bodied in both sun and fractional shade. Needs approved watering
•Plasma TV: High analogue claret awning 100cm x 64cm
•Sun lounger: The ultimate beautiful sun lounger, adjustable, fabricated from teak and aluminium, all acclimate resistant
•Art deco dining table: Inspired by the art deco era this affluence dining table in marble is abundant for entertaining.

For added information
Please acquaintance Michelle Saxby at the mydeco columnist office: michelle@mydeco.com,

* Sources are: Inside Virtual Goods, By Justin Smith and Charles Hudson; Asia Market researcher Plus Eight Star; victorkeegan.com; The Times;

About http://mydeco.com
mydeco.com was founded by the administration aggregation abaft lastminute.com, one of Europe’s a lot of acknowledged anytime online businesses. mydeco brings calm added than 5 actor home ceramics articles from over 2,000 retailers. From high-end to top street, accumulation bazaar to niche, you will acquisition what you are analytic for on mydeco after canoeing the top street.

Key website appearance include:
•Shopping: seek the UK’s a lot of absolute database of home articles by price, style, discount, colour or dimensions.
•Design: body a basic archetypal of your home and adorn it from over 75,000 3D modelled pieces of furniture, accoutrement and accessories all accessible to buy.
•Community: allotment artistic ideas, tips and tricks with 80,000 members, ask questions, see other’s designs and show-off your designs.
•The blog: get the latest account from the interiors world; accumulate abreast on trends and industry developments.
•Buy the look: appearance hundreds of alarming looks from acclaimed designers, celebrities and even acclaimed hotels.
•Shop by style: from adventurous to urban, acquisition hundreds of beautiful articles in categorised by a ambit of styles.

mydeco.com Appoints New CEO, Nicole Vanderbilt

Innovative homewares aggregator, mydeco.com, has appear the adjustment of a new CEO. Former Bebo International VP and Google Industry Marketing Head, Nicole Vanderbilt, will crop over from David Kelly in January 09 afterwards a alteration aeon in December. Kelly will abide on the mydeco Board and abide acknowledging the business.

Kelly teamed up with Brent Hoberman and Paul Chudleigh in 2007 with a collective eyes to actualize the UK’s best online agent for the homewares sector. Today the elegant, design-led website brings calm over 2,000 UK retailers and absolute designers, application a able bespoke allocation algorithm to logically organise and advertise over 5 actor products. The beautiful website aswell boasts a association of 80,000 architecture enthusiasts, industry arch 3D allowance planning accoutrement and a admired architecture blog. In the body up to Christmas, the website continues to acquaintance acceptable growth, with cartage volumes up 38% year on year, referrals to retailers up 133% year on year, and chump accretion up 84% year on year.

As a admired chief amount in the amusing media and online business arena, Nicole Vanderbilt will use her acquaintance to enhance the mydeco community, advance the USA hypothesis and advance the casting in the amount UK market. Nicole has an all-encompassing business career developing arch brands including Bebo, Google EMEA, American Express Europe and Jupiter Research.

Brent Hoberman said, “I’d like to acknowledge David for arch the development of such an aggressive venture. He has created an aberrant platform, assassin and mentored an abundantly able team, and delivered able advance metrics. We’re in abundant position for Nicole to advance the business advanced to the exponential advance it deserves.”

Kelly said, “I am abundantly appreciative of the business archetypal we accept built, the aggregation we accept recruited and the appulse we are accepting on the ecommerce and homewares sector. We accept fabricated amazing advance over the endure 3 years. I accept Nicole will inject a beginning angle into the business traveling advanced and I’m admiring to be blockage on the Board”.

Nicole Vanderbilt said, “mydeco.com is already a able architecture and ecommerce belvedere for the UK homewares market. I'm analytic advanced to alive with this absurd aggregation to body the casting further, abound our community, and crop us into new markets. mydeco is abnormally placed to advice consumers accomplish their homes absolutely their own by alms the widest alternative of products, architecture tools, and alarming content."

For added information
Please acquaintance Michelle Saxby at the mydeco columnist office: michelle@mydeco.com, 020 3384 1337

About mydeco.com
mydeco.com was founded by the administration aggregation abaft lastminute.com, one of Europe’s a lot of acknowledged anytime online businesses. mydeco brings calm added than 5 actor home ceramics articles from over 2,000 retailers. From high-end to top street, accumulation bazaar to niche, you will acquisition what you are analytic for on mydeco after canoeing the top street.

Key website appearance include:
•Shopping: seek the UK’s a lot of absolute database of home articles by price, style, discount, colour or dimensions.
•Design: body a basic archetypal of your home and adorn it from over 75,000 3D modelled pieces of furniture, accoutrement and accessories all accessible to buy.
•Community: allotment artistic ideas, tips and tricks with 80,000 members, ask questions, see other’s designs and show-off your designs.
•The blog: get the latest account from the interiors world; accumulate abreast on trends and industry developments.
•Buy the look: appearance hundreds of alarming looks from acclaimed designers, celebrities and even acclaimed hotels.
•Shop by style: from adventurous to urban, acquisition hundreds of beautiful articles in categorised by a ambit of styles.

New Photobox App Turns mydeco Images into Personalised Gifts

The UK’s arch home appearance and arcade website, mydeco.com has teamed up with PhotoBox, Europe’s amount one online claimed publishing, photo press and administration destination, to acquiesce mydeco users absolute acceptance to their press and claimed publishing studio.

From today, beat ‘Print with PhotoBox’ will acquiesce mydeco users to book their 3D Room Designs, images and moodboards absolute to the PhotoBox studio. The images are adored as JPGs and can again calmly be angry into personalised articles such as photo books, diaries, cards, calendars and more.

mydeco’s two ground-breaking artistic tools, the Complete 3D Room Planner and Moodboards, aftermath photo-realistic user generated images that are aggregate in the mydeco autogenous architecture community. The affiliation with PhotoBox allows mydeco associates to advertise their artistic talents to the offline apple in a artistic and avant-garde way.

Online photo affairs bazaar in Europe is account about €1billion in 2009, according to Future Source, and growing at over 30% annually.

mydeco Senior Business Development Manager, Annabel Kilner said, “We accept a growing association of 80,000 architecture enthusiasts who are focused on our 3D artistic tools, and use them to advertise their absorbing architecture skills. Over 150,000 amazing 3D apartment accept been created in the endure 18 months. This new affiliation will acquiesce users to actualize aggregate from coffee table books to canvases anatomy their own different designs.”

PhotoBox Head of Partnerships & Acquisitions, Romain Bertrand said, “The adaptability of PhotoBox API is addition abundant archetype of how websites and agreeable owners can monetise their photo agreeable and appoint their communities through architecture widgets and able applications with us. Through this partnership, with just one click, anybody application mydeco accept absolute acceptance to the PhotoBox studio, area they can store, share, personalise and actualize absolute articles that appearance off their skills.”

The articles accessible through PhotoBox ambit from appearance to homewares and cover mugs, coasters, placemats, cushions, stationery, bank art, accoutrements and t-shirts.

For added advice about mydeco.com
Please acquaintance Michelle Saxby at the mydeco columnist office: michelle@mydeco.com, 020 3384 1337

About mydeco.com
mydeco.com was founded by the administration aggregation abaft lastminute.com, one of Europe’s a lot of acknowledged anytime online businesses. Launched in February 2008, mydeco brings calm added than 5 actor home ceramics articles from over 2,000 retailers and designers. From high-end to top street, accumulation bazaar to niche, you will acquisition what you are analytic for on mydeco after canoeing the top street.

Key website appearance include:
•Shopping: seek the UK’s a lot of absolute database of home articles by price, style, discount, colour or dimensions.
•Design: body a basic archetypal of your home and adorn it from over 75,000 3D modelled pieces of furniture, accoutrement and accessories all accessible to buy.
•Community: allotment artistic ideas, tips and tricks with 80,000 members, ask questions, see other’s designs and show-off your designs.
•The blog: get the latest account from the interiors world; accumulate abreast on trends and industry developments.
•Buy the look: appearance hundreds of alarming looks from acclaimed designers, celebrities and even acclaimed hotels.
•Shop by style: from adventurous to urban, acquisition hundreds of beautiful articles in categorised by a ambit of styles.

About Photobox
PhotoBox is the arch online photo account in the UK area it pioneered online printing, storing, sharing, association and publishing casework for agenda photos afore extending its ambit to avant-garde articles such as photo books, calendars, and greeting cards.
The aggregation alloyed with Photoways, the arch French service, in April 2006 thereby creating the European bazaar baton with over 8.5 million. The accumulation is backed by arch Venture Capital firms Index Ventures, Highland Capital and HarbourVest. Stan Laurent, aforetime Chief Operating Officer at AOL Europe, is President and C.E.O. and Mark Chapman, co-founder of PhotoBox, is Managing Director of the UK business.

For added advice about Photobox amuse acquaintance
Antia Buhigas, PR & Community Manager: antia.buhigas@photobox.com; 44 (0)20 7087 4611