Hasta La Ideas

Non, le crochet n’est pas destiné qu’à la création d’écharpes ou de bonnets. Une chose que prouve Normalynn Ablao (alias Copacetic Crocheter), qui crée de la nourriture en fibres de tissus et notamment des gâteaux. « ‘Un moment sur les lèvres, une vie sur les hanches’, Décision risquée ?  Désormais, vous pouvez savourer une telle chose avec un plaisir visuel et sans calories », explique l’artiste sur son site internet. S’ils ne sentent pas le chocolat, ses gâteaux en crochet ont tout de même une odeur agréable de lavande (biologique), connue pour favoriser la détente. Le sachet utilisé pour cela peut être facilement retiré et remplacé si besoin.

Pour découvrir toutes ses gourmandises et créations en tissus, rendez-vous sur son site internet.

In this age of CAD overcompensation in car design, Range Rover’s design team still understands that less is more. In this case, way more. Their 5th-generation model, unveiled this week, is a minimalist work of art.

I’m unimpressed and wearied at the pile-up of fender bulges, obscene grilles, vents-to-nowhere and unnecessary surface changes that most car manufactures saddle new models with; it’s always add, add, add. In contrast, I’m blown away by how much Range Rover’s design team has removed.

With each succeeding generation, it’s less like the Range Rover is being redesigned and more like it’s being allowed to evolve into a more perfect object. There’s a visible lineage, and the new designs contain no betrayal of the previous generation, no carbon-dateable design feature that speaks of this year’s fashion trends.

It seems like—and this is a good thing–the design team paid no attention to what their competitors were doing, but instead followed the cliched but powerful maxim of the athletic world, where you are really only competing against yourself.

The modernist aesthetic also permeates the interior, where the goal was apparently to rationalize and declutter. It’s futuristic, clean and modern. There are no elements competing with each other for your visual attention; instead there are just a handful of components that each reside in a carefully-considered order.

Here’s some shots of the sketches/renders and clay work:

The real bummer here? This is not a vehicle for mere mortals; the base model comes in at an eye-watering $104,000, whereas the higher trim levels will reach up to $163,500. Restrained automotive design, these days, is as expensive as it is rare.

A talented modelmaker known as Ray Studio took a Braun electric razor apart, laying all the pieces out as if reverse-engineering the BOM.

Then he starts fiddling around with the pieces…

…and putting them back together in a way they’re not meant to be assembled.

Before you know it, he’s created a rather unexpected object:

You can watch or scan through the full build below:

It seemed only natural that Karim “Prince of Plastic” Rashid and Gantri would eventually team up to create a signature collection of 3D printed lighting solutions. The collaborative effort, dubbed Kobble, is a collection of lamps printed in Gantri‘s Plant Polymer (GPP) with Karim Rashid‘s signature ‘blobject’ design style.

Inspired by the soft form of cobblestones, the Kobble collection features a Floor, Table, Task, and Wall Light. Each lamp in the collection explores a different silhouette, drawing from the fact that various pebbles and cobblestones look like a part of the same family, but are visually unique in their own way.

The task light from the Kobble collection is easily the most memorable and distinctly Karim-esque of the lot, with an alien-blob aesthetic that gives it an immensely strong character when placed on a desk or table. Its purity of form comes from how seamless the design is (something that Gantri’s made massive leaps and bounds with) and the fact that the switch exists on the cord and not on the lamp itself.

The bubble appearance of the Wall and Table lamps are much more subtle yet still expressive with their voluminous forms. Designed to cast light further and wider than the task lamp, they also come with larger diffusers/shades, allowing that color split between the base and the translucent diffuser to be much more balanced.

Finally, the floor lamp exists as the largest in the collection, allowing your lamp to easily become a statement-piece in any living room or bedroom’s decor. It sports a neo-contemporary design that’s less blob-like compared to the rest of the collection, yet still captures the essence of Karim’s design style and brings it to Gantri’s vast collection of design-driven lighting pieces.

While each piece within the collection can stand on its own, the Kobble lights work seamlessly as a group to create balanced lighting throughout the home. Complete with a museum-grade LED bulb, custom dimmer switch, and made with innovative plant-based materials, every light from the Kobble Collection was built in Gantri’s factory, redefining American-made design.

Kobble Collection is available in Carbon Black as well as 3 new colorways – Blossom Pink, Sprout Green, and Glossy Snow. Karim’s designs will be available to purchase starting October 28th, 2021 with pricing starting at $148.

Designer: Karim Rashid for Gantri

Dezeen has partnered with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) to present a new series of Architecture Project Talks, which will see Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Chris Precht deliver presentations about key projects that are built using FSC-certified wood.

The two webinars, which count towards continuing professional development (CPD) points for UK architects, feature Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios‘ Senate House building for the University of Bristol and Precht‘s modular Bert treehouse.

Read on for more information and to register for free to attend the talks.

Senate House by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
11:00am London time on Wednesday 3 November 2021

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios completed a refurbishment of the University of Bristol’s Senate House building earlier this year. The building acts as a hub for students, offering both social spaces and support services, and prominently makes use of timber slats throughout its interior.

Project architects Rose Hart and Nick Hodges will discuss the design and delivery process, the use of wood throughout the project, and how the studio approached designing a contemporary mixed-use education space.

Register for the Senate House webinar ›

Bert by Precht
1:00pm London time on Tuesday 2 December 2021

Austrian architecture studio Precht recently completed Bert, a modular treehouse shaped like a tree trunk with large round windows.

Chris Precht, who runs the practice alongside his partner Fei Tang Precht, will deliver a lecture on how a modular structure with a cylindrical form can be built from wood, and how the project’s form subverts the self-seriousness of the architectural profession by drawing on characters from the animated film Minions.

Register for the Bert webinar ›

Dezeen x FSC Architecture Project Talks

This series of Architecture Project Talks is produced by Dezeen in collaboration with FSC, a non-profit membership organisation created to maintain sustainable and resilient forests.

FSC certification verifies that the wood used in a project has been sourced sustainably. The organisation currently manages over 22,500 million hectares of certified forests.

Sign up to FSC’s mailing list via the webinar registration pages to hear more.

Read more about Dezeen partnership content here.

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