Hasta La Ideas

This project demonstrates a solution in achieving a successful, sustainable design, by combining a found, renewable material (cork) (bark) with advanc..

VIA (Valorisation de l’Innovation dans l’Ameublement) è un’istituzione francese impegnata nella scoperta e nella promozione dei giovani designer francesi. L’attività è portata avanti da ben 30 anni, durante i quali ha ottenuto risultati straordinari: basti pensare che nomi come quelli di Philippe Starck, Ronan e Erwan Bouroellec, Matali Crasset, Philippe Nigro e Mathieu Lehanneur sono stati notati per la prima volta proprio dal VIA.
VIA seleziona i giovani creativi più interessanti e li aiuta ad entrare nel mondo del lavoro in varie maniere: fornisce assistenza tecnica, li mette in contatto con le industrie, finanzia la realizzazione dei loro prototipi e allestisce esposizioni durante fiere organizzate in tutto il mondo.

Un compito davvero lodevole e produttivo. Onestamente è un lavoro che gli invidio, peccato che in Italia non esista un ente simile: se mai qualcuno vorrà mettere in piedi qualcosa del genere mi faccia sapere!
Passo ora a presentare alcuni dei migliori progetti scaturiti dall’edizione 2011 del VIA, che ho potuto vedere durante l’ultimo Fuori Salone di Milano.

Uno dei prototipi più seducenti, e già pubblicato da diversi blog, è quello dei cestini Corbeilles disegnati da Pierre Brichet. Questi oggetti sono realizzati curvando fogli di compensato di betulla tagliati a laser. Oltre a possedere un chiaro valore estetico, i cestini sanno valorizzare le intrinseche qualità del materiale: spessori minimi, grande flessibilità e resistenza.

La lampada Saturne di Béatrice Durandard è un altro progetto che non poteva passare inosservato. Un anello disposto intorno al corpo sospeso della lampada proietta la luce verso una superficie in rame, che regala una tinta calda alla luce tradizionalmente fredda dei led.

Case è un mobile contenitore formato da moduli indipendenti stampati in resina di PLA, una bioplastica a base di mais o alghe. I moduli possono essere facilmente impilati e accostati per creare colorate composizioni. Progetto di Antoine Phelouzat.

Mi è piaciuto molto anche il comodino Felix di Gregoire de Lafforest: sopra un familiare tavolino a tre piedi è stato montata una capsula a doppia conchiglia, la cui parte superiore scorre su quella inferiore.  La luce proveniente dal comodino può essere così modulata regolando il grado di apertura.

Infine ho scelto il tavolo Rythmique fonctionnelle di Emilie Colin Garros, fabbricato partendo da un unico foglio di metallo precedentemente tagliato a laser e poi piegato. Il tavolo permette di comprendere facilmente il passaggio dalle due alle tre dimensioni, e l’unicità di materia, struttura e decoro conferisce all’oggetto una sobria eleganza.

Per vedere anche tutti gli altri progetti nati dell’edizione 2011 del VIA, vai a questa pagina. Te lo consiglio caldamente.

Competition: we’ve teamed up with the makers of Sugru to give away ten packs of their plastic modelling clay for hacking products.

The self-adhesive material can be used to customise, improve, strengthen and mend pretty much any object in any material. It cures at room temperature overnight and becomes tough, flexible, heat resistant and waterproof after 24 hours.

Sugru is one of over 100 curiosities on show as part of the Power of Making exhibition at the Victoria & Albert museum, which opened yesterday.

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Competition closes 27 September 2011. Ten winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Here’s some more information from Sugru:

Makes your stuff perfect (for you)

Why are so many products just so bad? Uncomfortable tin openers, leaky trainers, they get our goat! Why should you have to spend £20 on a designer tin opener? You shouldn’t! Hack the one you have instead. Power to the (handy) people!

Makes your stuff last (really long)

Sugru can help you dramatically prolong the life of your stuff. By applying in some cases even a teeny tiny bit to your things, you get to keep them for much longer and decrease your impact on our wee world. Repair with gusto!

Very science-y indeed

Extremely clever scientists have been working on Sugru for over 5 years to give it as many great physical properties as possible, so it can be
as versatile and useful as possible for you.

Cures at room temperature: Sugru is like modelling clay when you take it from its pack. Once it’s exposed to air, it cures to a tough flexible silicone overnight using the moisture in the air. Working time = 30 mins. Cure time = 24hrs (3-5 mm deep).

Sugru is designed to stick to as many other materials as possible. It forms a strong bond to aluminium, steel, ceramics, glass and other materials including plastics like perspex. Sugru is resistant from -60 °C to + 180 °C. It gets hot and cold but it won’t get softer or harder or melt.

Sugru is silicone, so it’s completely waterproof and durable outdoors. It’s easy to clean with soap and water, oh and it’s fine with sea water too. When Sugru cures, it’s flexible rather than rigid. Which means that you can repair things that need to be able to move like textiles, cables, or shoes. Once it’s cured, Sugru is pretty much like other silicones – durable in the harsh soapy conditions of your washing machine and dishwasher.

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Photo: Alexandre Guirkinger

Back in June, we told you about director David Lynch being in the middle of an effort to construct a nightclub in Paris based on his film Mullholland Drive. The club finally opened this weekend, letting paying visitors (it’s a members-only establishment, with varying rates between roughly $1,000 and $2,000) get a first peek at Club Silenceo. Among those getting that early look was the Guardian‘s Fiachra Gibbons, who finds the space to be just as mysterious and meticulously designed as both Lynch and his work. Here’s a bit:

You do feel you are descending into another world as you go down the six flights of stairs into Silencio. Buddhist cocktail bars with their own bijoux cinemas, library, dream forest and stage straight from Twin Peaks are thin on the ground, even in the second arrondissement. One minute you are in the dark, the next you are in a golden tunnel of mini-mandalas. The effect is somewhere between nirvana, a classy Cincinatti cocktail bar circa 1975, and Goldie’s mouth.

The director’s Facebook group, Lynchland, has a number of images if you’d like to see more.

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Visitors to this timber tea house sit beneath a woven rope dome with a gilded skylight and a hanging teapot in the middle.

The building, named Black Teahouse, was designed by Czech studio A1Architects and sits beside a lake and woodland near the city of Česká Lípa.

The teapot is suspended from the ceiling by a knotted length of rope and nestles into a crevice in the floor.

The round walls of the building are coated in clay plaster and integrate three flower vases.

Large doors slide back from both rectangular and arched openings in the walls of the tea house to open it out to a sheltered deck.

The exterior of the larch building has been charred.

A1Architects also recently completed an apartment where a stainless steel net takes the place of a banister – see our earlier story here and see all our stories about A1Architects here.

Another tea house featured on Dezeen in the last month is a music room that hangs like a lantern – click here to see all our stories about tea houses.

Here’s some more text from A1Architects:

Black Teahouse

Place

On the southern edge of garden The Black Teahouse reflects itself in water level of small dark lake.

Large and exceptionally cultivated garden becomes natural part of nearby pine forest and its southern edge defined by S-shaped lake with grassy banks makes beautiful surroundings of the family house. And the Teahouse is just part of this carefully designed scenery.

There is fabulous view of the lake, which could be admired by the host and guests from the teahouse. It is a small place to gather, it is a place for a cup of tea.

Teahouse

The inner space of the teahouse could be adjusted by the sliding doors, so there are more levels of perception of nearby landscape. One could enframe his own preferred view as a painting in the interior.

There is a play of sunbeams in gilded skylight, when the teahouse is closed. The whole interior is crowned with knitted geometry of cone soffit made out of sisal ropes. The hearth is the central point of the room, from which the space flows to large veranda built with larch planks.

The veranda is a unique space for watching the water level and the life beneath. There is another important motif next to the knitted soffit in the interior, it is a rounded wall with clay plaster which integrates three bamboo vases as a reminiscence of famous japanese tokonoma – the niche for flowers and caligraphy.

The Teahouse is carefully designed to become a natural part od the landscape and so the green roof is a fragment of grassy surroundings.
The whole house is covered with charred larch facing.

Authors: Lenka Křemenová, David Maštálka / A1Architects
Place: Czech Republic, Česká Lípa

Carpenter: Vojtěch Bilišič, Slovakia
Interior area: 3,50 m2

Veranda area: 10 m2
Realization: Spring 2011

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Tea House by David Jameson	Hat Tea House by A1Architects	Tea house by David Maštálka