Tour Eiffel and Taj Mahal by Studio Job

Tour Eiffel and Taj Mahal by Studio Job

Design Miami: the Eiffel Tower is reimagined as a bronze table lamp by Belgian artists Studio Job, who also present an upside-down Taj Mahal table at Design Miami this week.

Tour Eiffel and Taj Mahal by Studio Job

The Tour Eiffel lamp is made from patinated bronze and features a polished bronze lampshade fixed to the bent peak of the tower.

Tour Eiffel and Taj Mahal by Studio Job

Studio Job‘s Job Smeets explained his inspiration for the piece: “While having a summer lunch with Loic and Julien of Carpenters [Workshop Gallery] on the top of Centre Pompidou I had this amazing view of the Tour Eiffel and dreamt about my bohemian life in Paris back in the Nineties. You know, when the world was young and Tour Eiffel was my best friend and close neighbour. Anyway, somewhere between entrée and main the guys commissioned a lamp. One thing led to another!”

Tour Eiffel and Taj Mahal by Studio Job

The Taj Mahal table, also made from patinated and polished bronze, flips the Indian landmark on its head so that it rests on its four corner turrets.

Tour Eiffel and Taj Mahal by Studio Job

Carpenters Workshop Gallery is showing both pieces at Design Miami this week, where Dezeen will be reporting on all the best designs and installations – see all our stories from Design Miami.

We’ve already published a collection of photosensitive vases by design duo Glithero launching in Miami this week.

Other projects by Studio Job on Dezeen include a studded plastic chair for design brand Moooi and the studio’s solo show at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands last year.

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Photographs of the lamp are by P. Laarhoven and photographs of the table are by Carpenters Workshop Gallery.

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Silverware by Glithero

Strips of seaweed have left their mark on the photosensitive surfaces of these vases by Anglo-Dutch design duo Glithero, who will present the collection at Design Miami this week.

Silverware by Glithero

The Silverware collection was created by Glithero as a development of the studio’s Blueware vases and tiles, which were decorated with silhouettes of plants captured by photosensitive chemicals.

Silverware by Glithero

The designers applied silver salt particles to the hand-thrown porcelain vases to make their surfaces photosensitive.

Silverware by Glithero

They then attached seaweed from the English Channel to the vases before exposing them to light, so that the area under the seaweed was protected from exposure.

Silverware by Glithero

A rotating machine exposed the pieces evenly in the darkroom before they were dunked in developer fluid to complete the process.

Silverware by Glithero

The vases will be presented by Galerie VIVID at Design Miami this week, where Dezeen will be reporting on all the best installations and exhibitions – see all our stories about Design Miami.

Silverware by Glithero

British designer Tim Simpson and Dutch designer Sarah van Gameren founded Glithero after meeting at the Royal College of Art in London.

Silverware by Glithero

We previously featured Glithero’s Blueware collection of vases and tiles as well as an installation of 1000 of the tiles in Rotterdam.

Silverware by Glithero

More recently we featured a movie by Glithero showing the creation of a temporary bar by pouring buckets of quick-hardening material over a smooth surface. We’ve also featured a table made by pouring liquid down a chute and a pair of twisted self-supporting candles by the studio.

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Here’s some more information from Glithero:


Glithero Silverware 2012

Silverware is a series of hand thrown porcelain vases each devoted to a single specimen of seaweed. Glithero harvested seaweeds from the English Channel and configured the specimen graphically upon the surface of the photosensitive porcelain. The designers developed a rotating light-printing machine to exposes the pieces one by one in a darkroom, before they are immersed in the various developing baths to reveal a highly detailed and translucent print. The moment in the life of the saltwater species is captured as a lasting tonal photogram on the deep black of the silver salt particles on the surface of the vase.

Silverware is a project that follows the conceptual thread of Blueware Collection launched by Glithero in 2009 – to capture direct impressions of botanical specimens that reveal their delicate fabric and beauty.

Silverware will be exhibited in Miami with Galerie Vivid as part of Design Miami 2012 alongside several iconic pieces by Gerrit Rietveld, the great Dutch furniture designer and architect. The other designers in this show are Richard Woods / Sebastian Wrong, Bertjan Pot and Frank Tjepkema.

Dimensions of the vases:
Round : H36 x W43 cm
Tall : H58 x W30 cm
Big : H51 x W44

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Vito Acconci named Design Miami Designer of the Year

Acconci Studio named as Design Miami Designer of the Year

News: artist and architect Vito Acconci is to receive the Designer of the Year award at Design Miami in December and has designed a playground (above) to be installed in the Miami Design District. See our recent interview with Acconci.The Klein Bottle Playground takes a mathematical model in which there is no inside or outside, but only one continuous surface, and uses it to produce a perforated climbing frame. It will be installed in the neighborhood by 2014.

Acconci Studio named as Design Miami Designer of the Year

Acconci began his career as a poet in the 1960s, later worked as a performance artist and now runs the Brooklyn-based Acconci Studio, which focuses on landscape design and architecture. Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs interviewed Acconci earlier this month, when he told us that “architecture is not about space but about time” and that he now regrets his notorious 1971 “Seedbed” performance, in which he hid beneath a ramp in the Sonnabend Gallery in New York, verbally fantasising about and masturbating over gallery visitors passing over him. Read the full interview transcript here.

Past winners of the Designer of the Year award include David Adjaye (2011), Konstantin Grcic (2010), Maarten Baas (2009), the Campana Brothers (2008), Tokujin Yoshioka (2007) and Marc Newson (2006).

Design Miami takes place from 5 to 9 December.

Here’s some more information from the organisers:


A playground structure by Acconci to be permanently installed in the Miami Design District in 2014

October 24, 2012 – Design Miami/, the global forum for design, is proud to announce that Brooklyn-based Acconci Studio has been selected as this year’s Designer of the Year. The Designer of the Year Award recognizes an internationally renowned designer or studio that has made a mark on design history, pushing the boundaries of the discipline through a singularly innovative and influential vision. An exhibition of Acconci Studio’s work will be open to the public in the Miami Design District in conjunction with Design Miami/ 2012, in which the plans for the future playground installation will be unveiled.

Vito Acconci founded the architecture and design collaborative Acconci Studio in 1988 as the next evolution of his rich and varied creative practice, which began in the 1960s with a focus on concrete poetry and continued through the ’70s and ’80s with a genre-defining body of work in performance and conceptual art. The trajectory of his career demonstrates an acute and steadfast interest in generating unexpected and intense interactions, in actively engaging both people and public places to explore the spectrum of human response. The architectural projects produced by Acconci Studio carry forward this commitment, comprising fluid and shifting spaces and objects aimed at encouraging out-of the-ordinary communal experiences.

Acconci Studio’s boundary-defying approach draws on and intermingles the conceptual basis of Vito’s earlier work, employing art-grounded ideas to “thicken the plot,” in the artist’s words. Yet, Acconci Studio is dedicated to production in the realms of architecture and design because this where there is the greatest possibility to impact everyday living, to surprise, challenge, and enchant people as they go about their lives. The comingling of material and ideas to expand the definition of function and to uncover higher purposes for our built environment positions Acconci Studio at the vanguard of design discourse today.

The Design Miami/ Designer of the Year Award grants each winner a commission to create a large-scale work. Over the years, Design Miami/ has seized opportunities to activate the award as a means to “give back” to the Miami community. Previous examples include the fence that Marc Newson designed for the Design and Architecture Senior High in the Miami Design District, and Konstantin Grcic’s Netscape seating structure donated to Miami Art Museum to be used in the public space of the new Herzog & de Meuron building. Moving forward, a permanent and public installation of the Designer of the Year commission will be an integral and unconditional goal of the program. Acconci Studio’s collaborative and interactive mission is ideally suited to this kind of community-enhancing brief.

For this year’s commission, Acconci Studio will produce a climbing/playing structure to be permanently installed in the Miami Design District by 2014. Klein-Bottle Playground, as the structure is called, was originally developed for the humanitarian “Art for the World” program, as part of a touring exhibition of experimental recreational equipment and toys for refugee children. Acconci Studio’s contribution was inspired by the German mathematician Felix Klein, who expanded the concept of a Moebius strip into a structure – a “Klein Bottle” – in which there is no identifiable “inside” or “outside,” as one surface flows continuously into the other. Acconci Studio has transformed this mathematical construct into a playground, in which a series of tubes extend out from and into a central sphere, such that children can climb in, through and on top. The installation of Acconci Studio’s Klein-Bottle Playground in the Miami Design District will provide the first public area in the neighbourhood dedicated to children.

The Designer of the Year Award is supported by the Miami Design District.

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