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The Living Vroom Collection
What do furniture and cars have in common? Not a lot you would think but these car makers are proving otherwise. We look at five examples where car makers have stretched their design muscles to furniture. 1) Smart and BoConcept As well as designing cars, the partnership between BoConcept and Smart also resulted in a furniture and homeware collection. The “smartville collection” of furniture and home accessories was jointly...
Home is where the Smart is
Want a hipster car to match your hipster furniture? We investigate the BoConcept Smart. The cabin of your car is a place you spend a lot of time in. It needs to be comfortable and functional just like your living room. Smart has taken this idea one step further and teamed up with BoConcept, the contemporary designer furniture maker, and made a special edition of the tiny two-seater city car. It might seem like an odd collaboration at...
The Lure of the Red Carpet
From super models to super stars no big premiere entrance is complete without the obligatory super car. We discover why carmakers cannot resist the lure of the red carpet. The launch of Sky Living’s new entertainment series “The Face” in September was a glamourous affair – the red carpets were rolled out, camera flashes popped and the show’s three stunning supermodel presenters did the obligatory pouting and posing for the camera....
Going Upmarket
Ailing French carmakers are ambitiously making plans to target the luxury car market. We ask is this the right approach to redress falling sales? There was a time in the not so distant past that superminis were superminis, estate cars were what you bought if you needed more space, there was no such thing as a crossover, luxury cars came from the big German trio, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi, and French manufacturers made an art form...