Hasta La Ideas

Il y a quelques semaines nous vous présentions tout le savoir-faire de la marque danoise Bang & Olufsen. Cette dernière conçoit du matériel audio dont le design constitue l’une des pièces maîtresses.

La dernière création présentée à l’IFA (salon international de la radiodiffusion) de Berlin en ce 29 août 2018 en est bien l’illustration. Il s’agit du Beosound Edge élaboré en collaboration avec le célèbre designer Michael Anastassiades. Fubiz s’est rendu au Danemark, dans l’antre de la marque, accompagné du photographe Ludwig Favre, qui nous fait découvrir en images ce petit bijou de design.

Cette enceinte sans fil est dotée d’une forme circulaire ultra sobre, qui ajoute une touche d’esthétisme à votre intérieur. Imaginé en aluminium poli, matériau de prédilection de la marque, le Beosound Edge est pensé pour être soit fixé au mur, défiant ainsi la loi de la gravité, soit posé sur le sol et se fondant parmi les meubles et la décoration de la pièce. Il dispose de capteurs intelligents, qui détectent la présence à proximité de l’utilisateur et illuminent subtilement l’interface tactile. Il est alors possible de régler le volume en un geste.

Pour contraster avec la structure en aluminum, Bang & Olufsen et le designer Michael Anastassiades ont pourvu l’enceinte d’un tissu noir, sur les côtés, qui permet de conserver toute la sobriété et le minimalisme de la création.

Le Beosound Edge est pourvu d’une qualité sonore de pointe qui caractérise Bang & Olufsen depuis plus de 90 ans. Nous consacrerons prochainement un article dédié au son délivré par cette magnifique dernière création de la marque danoise. Comme nous vous le révélions précédemment, la qualité sonore de Bang & Olufsen est notamment permise grâce au design toujours plus intelligent et pensé pour le confort de l’utilisateur.

Cette dernière création de Bang & Olufsen démontre une nouvelle fois le savoir-faire de la marque qui continue d’allier à la perfection le design et la qualité sonore. Le Beosound Edge sera présenté en 6 septembre prochain lors de la Paris Design Week.

Danish textile designer Margrethe Odgaard has created a collection of rugs that are designed to feel like pebbles underfoot for design brand Muuto.

Woven with jute yarn –a vegetable fibre – and wool, the rugs feature a centralised grid of soft, fluffy wool loops that evoke the feeling of walking across a pebbled beach.

“Pebble Rug is inspired by the sensuous feeling of a pebbled beach with its diverse and tactile surface, inviting you to take off your shoes and walk across it barefooted. ,” said Copenhagen-based Odgaard, who established her studio in 2013.

“With a handwoven structure that references fashion textiles, the Pebble Rug plays with the contrasting materials of its soft, woolen loops, sitting atop a sturdy canvas base in cooling jute yarn,” she continued.

“Pebble Rug brings a new perspective to any space through its woolen loops, popping up from the ground like sprouts in a bed of moss, joined by the distinct woven texture of its surface.”

Available in two sizes and four colours  – burnt orange, pale rose, light grey and dark grey – the rug’s inner loop area has softly rounded edges framed by an outer jute area.

The Pebble Rug is hand-woven on a loom in India from 100 per cent New Zealand wool, while the jute is made from 100 per cent vegetable fibres.

Founded in 2006 by Peter Bonnén and Kristian Byrge, Muuto was set up to manufacture contemporary furniture rooted in the Scandinavian design tradition. The Scandinavian brand has previously worked with a broad range of designers, including Thomas Bentzen, who designed a sideboard for the company, and French duo Normal Studio, which created a range of table mirrors.

At the end of last year, Muuto was bought by US company Knoll in a deal that set out to double the company’s business within the next five years.

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Architecture studio Make has completed a pair of office buildings in the City of London, alongside a series of pocket gardens traversed by sinuous pre-weathered steel bridges.

The studio, founded by architect Ken Shuttleworth, oversaw the design of the two office towers and the surrounded public realm for developers Brookfield Properties and Oxford Properties.

London Wall Place neighbours the postwar Barbican development and incorporates the largest set of public gardens created in the City of London since the completion of the Brutalist housing in 1976.

The site’s long and varied history informed the design of the project, which involved restoring a section of the original Roman city wall and the remains of the medieval St Alphage Church tower.

The gardens are connected by a network of paths and bridges, which reimagine and reinstate the elevated walkways that formed part of the site in the 1960s, and draw a line between ancient, postwar, and contemporary interventions.

“The beauty of this project lies in recognising it is simply the latest layer in the history of this site, the next trace to be remembered,” explained the project’s lead architect, Sam Potter.

“We’ve designed state-of-the-art offices, but it’s the combination with the public realm that has attracted the occupiers, not just the commercial spaces themselves.”

A total of 1.5 acres of public space will ultimately be created as part of the scheme, once the various pocket gardens are completed. This accounts for half of the total site area.

The gardens and a series of green walls are arranged over several terraced levels, conceived as “a continuous three-dimensional landscape” that ensures a seamless flow across the site.

The network of walkways crosses four different streets and provides improved pedestrian connections between the various buildings on the site, as well as the surrounding neighbourhood.

The material palette of weathering steel and iroko wood applied to the walkways provides a warm and textural complement to the varied planting, which is tailored to the different growing conditions across the site.

An elevated garden also forms part of the new public realm, which is intended to provide a respite from the city for office workers, retail customers, Barbican residents and commuters.

The London Wall Place gardens are enclosed by a 13-storey tower accommodating offices interspersed with nine roof terraces, as well as a 17-storey structure providing further offices, with a ground-floor cafe, shops and a restaurant unit on the first floor.

The buildings’ facades feature contrasting vertical sections defined by the application of pale glass-reinforced concrete or dark-blue ceramic ribs that surround the glazing.

“The materials were inspired by the Kentish ragstone found in the Roman wall,” Make explained, “with the glass-reinforced concrete (GRC) echoing the smooth, matt appearance of the stone’s chalky exterior, and the iridescent blue ceramic reminiscent of its glossy interior.”

The studio added that the vertical composition of the facades offers an intentional contrast to the horizontality of the neighbouring Barbican estate, with the ceramic bands also functioning as shading louvres to prevent unwanted solar gain.

The crisply detailed concrete sections conceal the services and elevators, with the more fluid ceramic surfaces cladding the office floor plates.

At 1 London Wall Place, these glossy ribs wrap underneath to form the soffit of large cantilevers, while at the second building they extend across the ceiling of the reception area.

Make’s previous office projects include a workplace for insurance company Hiscox featuring a staircase built around a decommissioned Soviet rocket.

The firm also added bronze escalators as part of a refresh of the entrance hall at London department store Harrods, and designed a prefabricated kiosk with a folded shell that resembles a paper fan.

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Thanks to the rapid advancements in technology, a lot of the mobile devices that surround us are now harnessing the ability to wirelessly charge. But naturally, each device requires a charger, and having multiple of these surely isn’t the ideal solution?

This is where Wyrex comes into play… and it may just be the most functional wireless charger to date! With a design that has been inspired by Urban Growth, the use of uniform lines and geometric shapes creates a striking and professional product that looks right at home within the workspace! Its carefully configured design allows for two mobile phones, a set of Apple AirPods and a smartwatch to simultaneously charge!

Wonderfully integrated into the design is a collapsible stand; this gives the user the option to have it propped-up for video calls, of rest parallel against the desk to remove possible distractions.

Designer: Evgenija Medvedeva

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Using a magnetic-induction technology, Wyrex matches all Qi-compatible devices. The Wyrex pad consists of numerous coils – four fast charging for phones (10W), one coil for smartwatches, and one coil for earphones.

Wyrex pad incorporates complicated multi-coil charging system and simplicity of size and form. It takes minimum space in any position. Additionally, Wyrex pad is foldable. You can easily transform it into the kickstand mode to make the working process more convenient.

The kickstand mode turns into a form of the pre-opened page of the book, which creates the most convenient angle for usage. See all your notifications, have video calls, or watch a video hands-free, while Wyrex is charging your devices. We turn the anxiety routine of charging into a comfortable, fast and productive process.

You can put four devices on the pad at one time including an Apple Watch, AirPods, and two phones (iOS or Android).

Yes, you read it right: with Wyrex there is no distinction between Operating Systems, so you can use it for various models.

By offering 4 fast charging 10W coils Wyrex saves your time. Charge devices faster by one-third compared to standard wireless chargers. A multi-coil pad provides more space for charging, so you can always be sure your device is connected properly and ready to use.

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