Hasta La Ideas

This third movie in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents features Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talking to the second-prize winner of this year’s [D3] Contest young designers competition, Frankfurt designer Hanna Emelie Ernsting.

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Above: Moody Couch by Hanna Emelie Ernsting (see our earlier story).

In the video Ernsting describes how her couch design can be manipulated and formed as the user wishes and the creative environment she now seeks since graduating.

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Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: AKKA
Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: Harry Thaler

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More on Hanna Emelie Ernsting’s design	Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: Harry Thaler	Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: AKKA

In this first movie in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Italian designer Harry Thaler, one of two joint winners of the [D3] Contest young designers competition at imm cologne earlier this year. 

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In the movie Thaler talks about his upbringing in Italy, prototyping his chairs bent from a single piece of metal while studying at the Royal College of Art in London and trying to find a manufacturer for the resulting design.

Above: Pressed Chair by Harry Thaler (see our earlier story).

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More about Thaler’s design	OLA Table by AKKA	Moody Couch by Hanna Emelie Ernsting

Cologne 2011: designer Philippe Nigro presented this set of bright yellow divans, two tables and a foot stool for Ligne Roset at imm cologne last month.

Called Entailles, the sofas can be arranged in different configurations to make a one, two or three-seater platform.

Tables slot into gaps between the seats.

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Here’s a bit of text from Ligne Roset:

ENTAILLES
“Viewing everyday life through the prism of objects which are surprising, yet sensible.”

Since 1999, Philippe Nigro has worked as a freelance designer; he is also an associate of the De Lucchi studio in Milan, where he works on numerous projects in the fields of product design, furniture and lighting design, interior architecture, promotional events and scenography.

To use the exact words of Philippe Nigro, these divans are ‘quasi-articulated’ by means of ‘functional notches’ which can accommodate small pedestal tables (for reading, writing, working, drinking, eating…).

These simple details confer on the divans a whole new aesthetic totally at odds with conventional images, whilst making it possible to obtain different seat depths and back heights. In order to fully respond to the original idea, it is possible to have the notches in a different colour and/or fabric. The end result is a ‘living’ divan, which seems to be in constant movement.

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Confluences by Philippe Nigro	Slow Sofa by Frederik Roijé	Stripes and Peignes by Philippe Nigro

Cologne 2011: these lamps with a mechanism derived from marking tools were among a collection of furniture presented by German designer Bao-Nghi Droste at imm cologne.

Exhibiting as part of [D3] Design Talents, Droste also showed a set of stacking chairs (above) and a side table with spun metal top (below), which can be mounted to form either a flat top or dish.

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Here are a few details from Bao-Nghi Droste:

Tech Chair, an archetypical Side Chair the wooden frame of which features cuts and milled out portions for positioned stacking.

Axis Lamp, a floor lamp adapting the principle of a sliding level for being adjustable in height and depth.

And Buddy, an occasional table in different heights and a table top that can be mounted in two different ways, either offering a bowl for storing or a flat surface for placing objects.

Enjoy the latest products designed by Bao-Nghi Droste!

Bao-Nghi Droste was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1977.

After an apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker, he studied Industrial Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Germany.

Gathering further work experience at the offices of Werner Aisslingler in Berlin, Germany, and Hannes Wettstein in Zurich, Switzerland, he finally set up his own studio in Heidelberg, Germany, in 2007, focussing on furniture-, product- and interior design.

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Forbidden Fruit by Glimpt at Cologne 2011	Forest Light by Ontwerpduo at Cologne 2011	Beaugars by Meike Langer at Cologne 2011

Cologne 2011: industrial designer Linn Kandel exhibited these occasional tables inspired by electricity pylons at imm cologne earlier this month.

Called Pylone, the pieces each have a wire frame and glass top.

Kandel designed the collection while studying at Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL).

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The information below is from Kandel:

Pylône is a project inspired by the aesthetic of electric towers, the many ways their lines and structures interact with each other.

The interpretation of these constructions became a series of side tables on which tinted glass trays rest to let assembled structures appear.

They are made out of square, powder coated metal profiles.

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Forbidden Fruit by Glimpt	Rewrite by GamFratesi	Forest Light by Ontwerpduo