Aug 19
Dezeen Screen: this movie by Brussels gallerist Victor Hunt reveals the story and process behind Belgian designer Maarten De Ceulaer’s bowls shaped by balloons. Watch the movie »
Aug 10
Adjust-a-Bowl
Posted in: bowlsCatch-all bowls crafted from flexible cork fabric
Not just for wine stoppers and bulletin boards anymore, cork’s applications are practically limitless. Case in point, the Adjust-a-Bowl has a leather-like texture that’s perfect for organizing everything from veggies (it’s naturally anti-microbial and stain resistant) to magazines or keys. The material lends tactile appeal too; it’s warm, smooth to the touch and extremely pliable.
Though hard to believe, the handmade containers get this ideal balance of form and function from 100% all-natural cork fabric. The double-layer construction ensures that they’ll keep their shape—so though it has the flexibility of a paper bag at first glance, it’s nowhere near as flimsy, standing up to folding and washing machines.
The round version of the Adjust-a-Bowl is available online in two sizes, medium for $34 or large for $48 and comes in rectangle form for $38.
Aug 08
Catchbowl by Torafu Architects
Posted in: bowls, Torafu
Japanese studio Torafu Architects have designed a lidded bowl that can be split into two parts and mounted on the wall as shelves.
A quarter segment of the Catchbowl provides a shelf for the inside corner of a room, while the remaining part can be hung around a column edge.
The bowl has a sycamore veneer with a pattern of radiating triangles on the lid.
Torafu Architects also designed a set of paper hooks that look like curled pieces of adhesive tape – see all our stories about Torafu Architects here.
Photography is by Kenpo.
The following information is from Torafu Architects:
Catch-bowl
We proposed a shelf, focusing on corners, which inevitably exist in every room. When a hemisphere is divided into a quarter and three quarters, the quarter snugly fits into a concave corner and the three quarters onto a convex corner.
Based on this idea, we created a joyful and lightsome shelf that allows the user to adjust its height and also use it as a bowl to enjoy putting things in it just like playing a ball toss game in an athletics festival.
On the lid and at the bottom of the bowl, the radial patterns made by the alternately inverted wood grain of the shiny sycamore sliced veneer seem like twinkling stars.
By splitting into two parts, this bowl catches edges and catches things to become little shelves in the corners of a familiar room. When one part catches its counterpart, they become one whole bowl again.
Principle use: shelf
Production: Tanseisha Co., Ltd.
Material: Bent plywood, Sycamore, Stainless steel, magnet
Size: 400 mm
Design Period: 2010.04 – 2011.06
Production period: 2011.06 – 2011.07
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| Tapehook by Torafu Architects | Shelframe by Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad | AC02 Jewel by Saskia Diez for e15 |
Feb 03
Timeline by Luca Nichetto for Skultuna
Posted in: bowls, brass, Stockholm 2011
Venetian designer Luca Nichetto will present this series of brass bowls for Swedish brand Skultuna at Stockholm Furniture Fair next week.
Called Timeline, the dishes are scored with grooves that will darken over time as the brass oxidises but isn’t cleaned away from the depressions.
Stockholm Furniture Fair takes place 8-12 February.
More about Luca Nichetto on Dezeen »
The information below is from Nichetto:
Timeline embodies the articulation of time. In the Timeline collection of brass bowls, the very passage of time itself becomes a decorative element: a pattern of circles incised in the surface of the objects undergoes an increasing process of oxidation with each passing day, thereby generating a contrast of light and dark.
The idea behind these small multi-use bowls came from Luca Nichetto’s childhood in Venice. When he has little, he would watch his grandmother polish the traditional brass door knockers on her front door. After being cleaned, these objects, which took a variety of forms and were typical of Venetian homes, always remained darker in the grooves and incised areas where the cleaner’s hand or brush could not remove the oxidation.
Design: Luca Nichetto
Client: Skultuna
Exhibition: Stockholm Furniture Fair (Stand AG:34B);
Designgalleriet (Odengatan 21), Stockholm
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| Paper dishes by Philippe Malouin | Plastic dishes by Studio Sjoerd Jonkers | Bread dishes by Studio Formafantasma |
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