Hasta La Ideas

Dezeen Space: Spanish designer Roger Arquer is next up on Dezeen Platform, our micro-exhibition at Dezeen Space, with his Alba chair and stool.

Alba comprises a child’s chair and stool made from wooden kitchen implements including rolling pins and wooden spoons.

Back in 2009 Arquer’s non-lethal mousetraps were one of the most popular projects ever published on Dezeen and they’re featured in the Dezeen Book of Ideas, which you can order online or buy in person at Dezeen Space.

See all our stories about Roger Arquer here.

Each day, for 30 days, a different designer will use a one metre by one metre space to exhibit their work at Dezeen Space. See the full lineup for Dezeen Platform here.

More about Dezeen Space here and more about the London Design festival here.

Dezeen Space
17 September – 16 October
Monday-Saturday 11am-7pm
Sunday 11am-5pm

54 Rivington Street,
London EC2A 3QN

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Funnel Friends by Roger Arquer	Skeleton by Roger Arquer	Dramprom by Roger Arquer

London Design Festival 2011: here are some photos of the third collection of furniture by London designer Faye Toogood, this time exploring iridescent materials, on show at Phillips de Pury & Company in London this week. 

Working in bronze, aluminium, steel, glass and resin, Toogood has designed a dressing table lighting, jewellery stand and armoured bench that refract and reflect light to create shifting optical effects.

The collection also includes new versions of her Elements Table and Spade Chair, which both featured in her country-inspired Super Natural presentation in London last September and the more sinister Natura Morta show in Milan.

Delicate Interference: Assemblage 3 is on show at Phillips de Pury & Company at Claridge’s, 45-47 Brook Street, London W1 until 4 October.

See all our stories about Toogood here and all our stories about the London Design Festival 2011 here.

Here’s some more information from Phillips de Pury & Company:

British Designer, Faye Toogood, will launch her third furniture collection, Delicate Interference: Assemblage 3, exclusively with Phillips de Pury & Company during the 2011 London Design Festival.

The series examines iridescence as a natural optical force through new and re-contextualised works in bronze, aluminium, steel, glass and resin. By a touch of alchemy she uses man-made materials to create a natural phenomenon, mimicking nature’s ability to attract and protect through the refraction of light.

The entire series will be on show at Phillips de Pury’s Brook Street space with Studio Toogood directing the exhibition design. All works in the collection will be available exclusively through Phillips de Pury.

“Faye Toogood has developed one of the most compelling catalogues of design work in recent years. Her latest, Assemblage 3: Delicate Interference, offers an intelligent, timely study of material, form and finish. We are thrilled to be a part of this watershed exhibition for Faye.“ Brent Dzekciorius, Director of Retail Operations, Phillips de Pury & Company.

Faye Toogood graduated from Bristol University with a degree in Fine Art and Art History. Upon graduation she worked closely with Min Hogg, the founding editor of The World of Interiors magazine, and eventually held the prestigious post of Decoration Editor.

Eight years later, Toogood established the eponymous Studio, set on the bank of Regents canal, and is now recognised for initiating some of the most innovative and outstanding design projects today. Clients include Comme des Garcons, Alexander McQueen, and Tom Dixon.

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Natura Morta by Studio Toogood	Sneaker department by Studio Toogood	Utility exhibition stand by Studio Toogood

London Design Festival 2011: Austrian designer Robert Stadler presents new work at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London.

Called Shading, the collection includes Lightspot (above), with plates of aluminium in graduated colours framing the light thrown on a wall.

The slabs of Possible Low Table #2 are stacked in a staggered formation and Stadler also presents new pieces in his Royèroid series that we featured last summer.

Shading is on show at 3 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4HE until 12 November.

See all our stories about Robert Stadler here and all our stories about Carpenters Workshop Gallery here.

The gallery will present new work by Nendo next month  – see our story about it here.

The information below is from Carpenters Workshop Gallery:

Robert Stadler returns for his second solo show at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, exploring the notion of ‘Shading’ throughout the featured artworks created for this occasion. Stadler continues to challenge the viewer to question the established ideals of traditional design, by paying homage to Jean Royere, and by examining the possibility that lies between the perception of the artifact and its conceptual interpretation through his innovative collections.

The Royèroid series reflects reverence to Jean Royère’s classic furniture design “Ours Polaire”. In his “Ours Polaire” series Royère sought to unify the various elements of a seat in order to form an abstract whole. This method has produced furniture with a sculptural quality. In creating the Royèroid series, Stadler continues on Royere’s ‘quest for abstraction’ up to a point in which the object turns monolithical, appearing as if it was a three-dimensional computer mesh, whilst maintaining an entirely handmade creation.

The technically complex work utilizes a combination of traditional artisanal furniture craftsmanship with cutting edge technology. The result is a striking reinterpretation on Royere’s classic design. When comparing both series we find a shared taste for the use of materials, as well as a strong emphasis on traditional craftsmanship. Yet in Royèroid unattended colour associations produce a new perception of the re-interpreted shape. In this case the shading process is metaphorical.

In the artists’ words: “The details of the whole are flattened as if a skin had been stretched around the previously separate elements. Diamond-shaped areas in different colours correspond to the front armrests and the seat cushion of the original. They appear as ghostly reflections of areas which, in Royère, required seams or the creation of separate elements. The fabric used for the ‘Royèroids’ has also been selected with reference to the ‘Ours Polaire’ series for which Royère used a hairy and very soft textile. It is much more flush than the original, with a suede-like touch which has the same magnetic attraction on its user.”

When looking at Lightspot, the varying shades of light projected outwards seem to materialize, shaping into superimposed layers of aluminium plates attached to the wall. The colour gradation of the plates diffuses in the same way as the light does when hitting the wall, thus granting the piece with a three dimensional effect.


Stadler pushes the boundaries of design further in Possible Low Table #2 by exploring the perception of balanced versus unbalanced in both nature and objects. In this way new forms are created. The table achieves balance through the strategic placement of staggered pieces, thereby questions the designer’s role of producing the perfect object. At first glance the piece of furniture appears to be an unlikely pile of random pieces, but on closer examination it is precisely designed considering correct stability and ergonomic use. It seems as if the table has been solidified while going through its shaping process in order to form a possible whole. Each piece is perfectly placed and carefully considered. Every layer can be seen as the shadow of the one above, and when looking at it from different perspectives the object takes on a new shape.

“I enjoy revealing the strange sides to an object and making people love them. We easily reject the bizarre as it seems established that functional objects should be simple, self-explanatory, attractive etc. So I try to add a different dimension to my works, but without neglecting these rational parameters.” – Robert Stadler

Shading
12 September – 12 November
3 Albemarle Street,
London W1S 4HE

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Royèroid by Robert Stadler	Corso Place Franz Liszt by Robert Stadler	Robert Stadler at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin

Dezeen Space: Mat Barnes and Eddie Blake of C.A.N take to Dezeen Platform for the second day of Dezeen Space with their 1:87 scale-model island.

Styled like a Hornby model railway, the island can be read by a smartphone as a QR code when viewed from above.

Each day, for 30 days, a different designer will use a one metre by one metre space to exhibit their work at Dezeen Space. See the full lineup for Dezeen Platform here.

More about Dezeen Space here and more about the London Design festival here.

Dezeen Space
17 September – 16 October
Monday-Saturday 11am-7pm
Sunday 11am-5pm

54 Rivington Street,
London EC2A 3QN

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Julian Hakes at Dezeen Platform	Museum in a Shoebox by Aleksandr Kuznetsov	Ground Zero by Slinkachu

Dezeen Space is now open at 54 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3QN, Monday-Saturday 11am-7pm and Sunday 11am-5pm until 16 October.

Come round and check out the new Dezeen Book of Ideas, our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up, our live video and blogging studio, specially commissioned sculptures by Dominic Wilcox, an exclusive new product by Paul Cocksedge and a chandelier installation by Plumen, plus a fresh exhibit every day on Dezeen Platform.

See you there!