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Product news: British designer Tom Dixon’s latest collection, launching at MOST in Milan next month, includes solid brass champagne buckets and faceted furniture inspired by gemstones (+ slideshow).

Above: Gem lights

Tom Dixon’s Rough & Smooth collection includes Gem, a family of angular lights, tables and mirrors inspired by gemstones and sand-cast from nickel-plated aluminium.

Above: Gem tables and mirrors

The Spun champagne bucket and tables are made from sheets of hand-spun solid brass polished to a mirror finish.

Above: Gem lights

The Flask light combines a ridged sphere of hand-blown glass with a smoked glass hood, while the Cell light is inspired by the growth of cells and made from layers of etched and polished brass.

Above: Spun champagne bucket and tables

The Bell floor lamp and table lamp have chrome-plated dome for a shade and another dome as a chunky base.

Above: Flask pendant lamps

An extension of the earlier Fan chair, the Fan dining chair, stool and table are formed from machined wood spindles.

Above: Cell wall lamp

The Mass coat stand, book stand, dining table and console table are chunky pieces of furniture clad in brass, which will develop a natural patina over time.

Above: Cell pendant lamps

The collection will be shown from 8 to 14 April at MOST in Milan’s National Museum of Science and Technology, an exhibition set up by Dixon last year as he explained in a filmed interview with Dezeen.

Above: Bell floor and table lamps

Other products by Dixon we’ve featured include a set of iridescent stoneware pendant lamps and a light that casts geometric shadows on surrounding surfaces – see all design by Tom Dixon.

Above: Fan dining chair, stool and table

Here’s some more information from the designer:

This year we take visitors through two contrasting environments – Rough and Smooth. Celebrating the joy of contrast, this year we are highlighting the opposite qualities of our new products. Rough because this season we have worked on even more textural honesty and material weight in our production. And smooth because we are still fascinated by extreme polished surfaces, sharp lines and modern manufacturing.

Above: Mass dining table

Follow a rollercoaster journey through the rough and tumble of our warehouse where fresh stock is unloaded and unpacked fresh from the manufacturing process and on through tearooms and shop windows into our spanking new show space which we furnish with our latest lighting and furniture, ranging from the textured sand-cast nickel- plated aluminium to the ultra-polished chromed pressed steel.

Above: Mass coat stand, book stand and console table

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Reporting by Eliza Axelson-Chidsey

The dark, fantastical room inside the Saatchi Gallery was a far cry from the cold, wet streets of London. A large golden tree held flutes of champagne, while projections of flowers and bubbles effervesced up the walls. In celebration of spring, Tord Boontje and Perrier-Jouët launched their recent collaboration, The Enchanting Tree. Building on the brand’s Art Nouveau heritage, Dutch designer Boontje has designed a champagne service inspired by the changing of the seasons and the champagne moment.

Photo by Angela Moore

At the appointed hour, handsome waiters carried out tabletop versions of the room’s centerpiece and placed them on white plinths. Adorned with the brand’s signature anemones, each of the twisting golden trees holds six champagne flutes above bottles nestled in ice buckets. An elegant turn of the glass—familiar to all wine drinkers—releases it from the hand-worked metal branch. Boontje’s contemporary aesthetic in collaboration with the craftsmen responsible for the individually soldered leaves and white lacquered anemones continues Perrier- Jouët’s aesthetic tradition. Although the large tree is headed to the brand’s house of all things Art Nouveau, Maison Belle Epoque, the champagne service will be available at Selfridge’s and premium hotels.

Photo by Angela Moore

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Huge vertical louvres give a pleated appearance to this family house in Kyoto by FujiwaraMuro Architects (+ slideshow).

The louvred facade curves around the south-east edge of the house to follow the shape of a road running alongside. Two-storey-high windows are slotted between each of the louvres to allowing natural to filter evenly through the wall, casting a variety of shadows across the interiors at different times of the day.

“The movements of the sun can be felt inside the house all throughout the year,” explain architects Shintaro Fujiwara and Yoshio Muro.

The entrance to the house is positioned beyond the louvres and leads into an open-plan living and dining room that occupies most of the ground floor.

A bedroom sits at the rear of this space and is entirely filled by a double bed, but residents can open this room out to the living room with a set of sliding partitions.

A staircase is tucked into the rear corner of the living room and leads up towards a children’s bedroom on the first floor. This floor is set back from the wall at the rear, creating a balcony overlooking the level below.

From this room, another staircase ascends towards the bathroom and washroom, then heads up again to reach a small rooftop terrace.

Shintaro Fujiwara and Yoshio Muro founded FujiwaraMuro Architects in 2002. Past projects include House of Slope, with a corridor coiling around its floors.

See more Japanese houses on Dezeen, including a converted warehouse with rooms contained inside a white box.

Photography is by Toshiyuki Yano.

Here are a few words from Fujiwara Muro:

House in Muko

A mezzanine-floored residence consisting of a single-roomed space, located on a fan-shaped site.

Above: ground floor plan – click for larger image

The movements of the sun can be felt inside the house all throughout the year. Light coming from the east strikes the louvered boards before entering the house and reaching deep into its interior. Direct sunlight from the south traces a shower-like path of lines as it penetrates into the building. Light coming from the west reflects off the walls of this house with an open stairwell before entering it.

Above: first and second floor plans – click for larger image

Location: Muko, Kyoto, Japan
Principle use: single family house
Site area: 295.67 sqm
Building area: 56.36 sqm
Total floor area: 100.19 sqm
Project architect: Shintaro Fujiwara, Yoshio Muro
Project team: Fujiwarramuro Architects
Structure: timber

Above: long section – click for larger image

Above: cross section – click for larger image

Above: east elevation

Above: south elevation

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