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Crumpled sheets of metal appear to float inside or wrap around the low tables in a collection by design studio Fredrikson Stallard currently on show at the new David Gill Gallery in London (+ slideshow).

The Crush collection includes a glass table with a polished metal sheet inside it and a bulbous mirror with a hollow pocket on one side.

There’s also a low table wrapped in a sheet of polished metal that appears to fall to the floor. Explaining their process, Ian Stallard and Patrik Fredrikson said: “We made tiny models in aluminium, which were then scanned in digitally. You still get the sense that the metal is doing what it wants.”

Also on show is a teal blue version of their Pyrenees sofa, which is hand-sculpted from a block of upholstery foam. The original sofa is now in the V&A museum.

We previously featured a fibreglass armchair and footstool by Fredrikson Stallard, also shown at David Gill Galleries.

The collection can be viewed until 27th October at David Gill Gallery, 2-4 King Street, St James’s, London SW1Y 6QP.

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Here’s more information from the gallery:

An exhibition of new work by Fredrikson Stallard comes to David Gill’s stunning new gallery in London’s St James’s this September.

The show, called Crush, will feature a series of new low tables and chaises inspired by the sensuous form of crumpled metal sheet. These will include an extended chaise created from black painted steel rods and upholstered in a sleek ultra-suede skin; glass unit tables containing polished metal sheet in black, gold and silver which creates tantalizing reflections of the surrounding space; and low tables draped with a sheet of polished metal that spills luxuriously on to the floor.

The new work perfectly represents Fredrikson Stallard’s ability to create a meaningful relationship between work done by the hand and the computer. “We made tiny models in aluminium, which were then scanned in digitally. You still get the sense that the metal is doing what it wants,” they say.

Also on show will be a new version of key Fredrikson Stallard piece – the Pyrenees sofa – which they have created in a teal blue. A green version of the Pyrenees, an exercise in hand-sculpting an unusual sofa form out of a vast block of upholstery foam, is in the collection of the Victoria + Albert Museum in London.

Ian Stallard (b. 1973 in Essex) and Patrik Fredrikson (b. 1968 in Sweden) graduated from Central St Martin’s in, respectively, ceramics and industrial design. They formed Fredrikson Stallard in 2003. They joined David Gill Galleries in 2006 and shortly afterwards their first pieces, the shocking pink Bergere armchairs made in rubber and highly polished steel, were exhibited at the Design Museum.

David Gill had been watching them for a while, attracted by their fusion of artistic creativity and technical perfection. His subsequent support has enabled them to pursue some complex projects that have stretched the possibilities of both materials and ideas. “They work against the odds and with great optimism,” says Gill. “But the ultimate reward for this process, this refusal to give up, is work that offers extraordinary resolution.”

David Gill opened his first gallery in London’s Fulham Road in 1987 and he was the first London gallerist to start producing limited-edition design pieces, initially working with the French design duo Elisabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti. Moving to a 30,000 sq ft warehouse space in South London in 1999. David Gill works with key design and art practitioners including the architect Zaha Hadid, designer Alexander Taylor and ceramicist Barnaby Barford.

In April this year, he launched his latest space in the prestigious St James’s district of London. The interior has been designed by London architect Tom Croft, who has also created Mayfair galleries for Pilar Ordovas and Timothy Taylor.

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A braille printer and an electric suit to prevent muscle spasms were among the products for people with disabilities included in an exhibition curated by Swedish design body Svensk Form for the London Design Festival.

Above: Inerventions’ electrical body suit to prevent spasms in people with muscle dysfunction

Svensk Form organised Design For Every Body at the Swedish Ambassador’s residence in London last week to showcase Scandinavian products that improve people’s quality of life. Among the items were various products to assist people with disabilities or impaired movement.

Above: Braille Box printer by Index Braille

Svensk Form’s managing director Ewa Kumlin said the products were examples of “humanistic” design. “More and more designers like to work with the problems that really matter,” she told Dezeen. “This kind of human focus has always been the backbone of the Nordic design philosophy.”

Above: Tobii eye-tracking technology worn as glasses

Among the products were a braille printer by Index Braille and the Elektrodress by Inerventions, an electrical body suit that eases pain and reduces spasms in people with nerve disorders and muscle dysfunction.

Above: computer adapted with Tobii eye-tracking technology

Another product selected by Svensk Form was a computer add-on developed by technology company Tobii that allows users to control the screen with their eyes.

Above: John armchair by Peter Andersson for NC Möbler

There was also an armchair for people with impaired mobility by designer Peter Andersson for furniture manufacturer NC Möbler. The armchair has a higher seat than most, a handle at the back allowing it to be moved easily and a pocket for an iPad.

Following their appearance in London last week, Kumlin said the objects could soon form part of a travelling exhibition.

Dezeen recently featured a one-handed condom wrapper for people with disabilities as well as a series of stories about Paralympic design.

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Here’s some more information from the organisers:

Following last year’s success, the Ambassador of Sweden, Ms Nicola Clase, again opens up her Residence for a fruitful exchange between Swedish and British design during the Paralympic Games and the London Design Festival. Some of Sweden’s foremost producers and designers will meet with their British counterparts in two seminars titled Design for Every Body.

In today’s design, we find a growing humanistic approach with the end user in focus, and designers wanting to work with problems that really matter. Several products will be shown at the Residence, each of which has a different target group and purpose, yet all of them are aiming to increase quality of life. Some are made to save lives, others to increase function at various occasions or stages of lives, or simply to make every day life a bit more enjoyable. The products will be on hand and available to test together with the people behind the products.

On show will be Elektrodress, which eases pain for nerve disorders; an innovative braille printer; tools to increase our senses; a computer screen directed by the eyes; a dignified and functional chair for old age; gear for the city cyclist; children’s safety helmets; an office chair for women, revolutionary sanitary products; rain coats for the urban chic, laid-back brogue slippers and much more.

This seminar is a collaboration between the Swedish Embassy in London, Svensk Form, the Swedish Society for Crafts and Design and the Association of Swedish Engineering Industries.

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