Shoppable app to launch on Apple TV, embedding retail site behind browsable content from The Journal. Triathletes Johnny Brownlee and Alastair Brownlee featured in The Journal, covering Mr Porter’s April visit to shoot training in Yorkshire. British actor Tom Hughes models latest Prada, new to Mr Porter. Also new: LINLEY furniture and accessories.
Cereal Magazine celebrated launch of Copenhagen Guidebook in Muuto’s showroom. Rooftop party also held in Copenhagen to celebrate 10 years of Muuto – E27 pendants above 250 guests. Upcoming: DOTS metal hooks from Lars Tornøe (aluminium, brass), FOLDED shelves from Johan Van Hengel (steel, mounted) OPEN candelabra from Jens Fager (aluminium alloy).
Japan’s Futtsu gas-fired power station goes live with maximum capacity 5,040 megawatts (second largest gas-fired power station in world) and will integrate GE’s cloud-based platform Predix in No. 4 block (three GE gas turbines, 507 megawatts each). Intel will work with Predix to make manufacturing facilities more smart and connected. GE to build custom blades to retrofit 50-year-old power plant in Wedel, Germany.
June: 100m² monobrand showroom opened in Prague’s industrial Holešovice district, in partnership with exclusive agent, Konsepti. September: Taccia 2016 LED launched, returning to 1958 Castiglioni brothers design with plastic bowl reflector. Tate Modern devoted area of new Switch House to British designer Jasper Morrison, titling the collection Thingness with Superloon floor lamp and Luxmaster ceiling Light.
Musk gives Mars update (spacex.com/mars). SpaceX aims to transport 1m people to Mars over next 50-100 years using Interplanetary Transport System (ITS). Goal is to reduce cost per ton by 5 million percent. First test of Raptor: 3x thrust of Merlin. Anomaly in early September: pre-launch static fire of AMOS-6 Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex resulted in vehicle loss (upper stage oxygen tank failure).
Early September, 4,300 Superchargers worldwide. Model S now world’s quickest production car (0-60 mph in 2.5 sec and first to go 300+ miles). Tesla voted Forbes’ world #1 most innovative company for the second year in a row. SolarCity and Tesla to merge into one company – emphasis on Powerball and Powerpack as central to the ‘storage’ element of the new company. SolarCity stockholders to receive 0.110 Tesla common shares per SolarCity share.