Apr 22

Perch Collection by Pierre Favresse at Nouvelle Vague

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Perch Collection by Pierre Favresse

Milan 2011: French designer Pierre Favresse presented this collection of furniture with looping sections and bent ply at the Nouvelle Vague exhibition of new French design in Milan last week.

Perch Collection by Pierre Favresse

Called Perch, the series comprises a dining chair, rocking chair, coat rack, desk with a light in the hood and a reading chair with a shield on one side.

Perch Collection by Pierre Favresse

See also: Souviens toi que tu vas mourir by Pool at Nouvelle Vague

Perch Collection by Pierre Favresse

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Perch Collection by Pierre Favresse

Photographs are by Benjamin Le Du.

Here are sonme more details from the designer:

The Perch Collection consists of several pieces based on the same construction: a reading chair, coat rack, rocking chair, chair and desk with integrated light. With this collection I wanted to show a large family of functionalities working off the same principle.

Perch Collection by Pierre Favresse

Colour scheme harmony is also an important part of the project with each colour “coded” for a different function, or specific place.

Perch Collection by Pierre Favresse

Everything is made in birch wood with a basic cnc machine. Thanks to the School Boulle, Fabrice Chouard, Alain Mangaud Léo Perreand et Damien Herouard.

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Apr 17

Souviens toi que tu vas mourir by Pool at Nouvelle Vague

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Souviens toi que tu vas mourir by Pool

Milan 2011: this white plastic chair shaped like a scull and designed by French studio Pool is on show as part of the Nouvelle Vague exhibition of French design in Milan this week.

Souviens toi que tu vas mourir by Pool

Called Souviens toi que tu vas mourir (Remember that you will die), the design is a reinterpretation of the ubiquitous monoblock chair.

Souviens toi que tu vas mourir by Pool

Today is the last chance to see Nouvelle Vague at the Centre Culturel Français, Palazzo delle Stelline , corso Magenta 63, 20123 Milano. See all our stories about Milan 2011 »

Souviens toi que tu vas mourir by Pool

Photographs are by Benjamin Le Du.

The information that follows is from the oganisers:

Souviens toi que tu vas mourir chair

The emblematic monobloc chair reinterpreted as an expression of vanity.

This memento mori represented by a skull acts as a leitmotiv for those who seek the comfort of a chair and the ceremonial act of being seated.

Material: fiberglass
Dimensions: L55cm W50cm H88cm
Prototype

Nouvelle Vague, the new French domestic landscape

Entitled Petite Friture, Moustache, Superette, Specimen and Goodbye Edison. Punchy and easy to remember names chosen to stand out by the plethora of new French furniture and objects editors. Difficult to believe in such a sluggish, but this is reality: France has never known such an entrepreneurial frenzy in the design world. In barely 3 years, the French design market has seen more editors emerge, but also design galleries (YMER & MALTA, Next Level Galerie, Fat Galerie, Galerie BSL, Galerie Gosserez, etc…) than over the last ten years.

In very little time, their pioneering work, production, and commercialisation of new object and furniture collections has permitted a new generation of designers to stand out and become visible. Their work has also given this new wave confidence. Now uninhibited, polyglot and entrepreneurial, they take risks, auto-produce and are opening out to the world. From amongst these numerous new faces, five obviously outstanding will be presented at this exhibition: A+A Cooren, Ionna Vautrin, Pierre Favresse, Studio Nocc and Pool.

Curator: Cédric Morisset

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