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London Design Festival 2013: fluorescent lights are controlled by analogue toggle switches in this interactive installation by Faye Toogood for design brand Established & Sons (+ slideshow).
London designer Faye Toogood responded to Established & Sons‘ invitation to produce an installation for the London Design Festival by replicating the appearance of a giant equaliser inside the brand’s 550 square-metre showroom.
A hundred and sixty fluorescent tube lights flicker in alternating sequence and can be controlled by toggling switches mounted on a central switchboard.
The switches are embedded in blocks of coloured resin, through which the cables can be seen.
Beneath the switches the cables drop down through a metal mesh table and spill onto the floor, creating a tangled pile that carries current to the lights.
Iridescent panels fixed to the wall behind the lights are made from zinc passivated steel, a material commonly used to provide insulation from electronic interference.
Toogood developed the installation in response to a new series of colourful resin furniture by Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka, which Established & Sons is also launching during LDF.
Faye Toogood recently designed the interior for a London boutique with a bright white basement and a moody blue ground floor, and used raw concrete and colourful fabrics for the interior of a fashion store in Dubai. See more Faye Toogood »
Established & Sons launched a table supported by four chairs in Milan earlier this year and commissioned designers including Jasper Morrison and Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby to design benches for an exhibition at the V&A museum during last year’s London Design Festival. See more Established & Sons »
Here’s some more info from Established & Sons:
Established & Sons at The London Design Festival
14th–22nd September 2013
Established & Sons – A Vivid Interval
The Conductor
Established & Sons is delighted to announce an artistic collaboration with London designer Faye Toogood during the London Design Festival.
Faye has been invited to create an interactive installation at Established & Sons’ 6,000 square foot studio showroom. Titled, ‘The Conductor’ the creation will allow guests to watch and control a rhythmic symphony of light played out on a giant circuit board of iridescent zinc passivated steel – an industrial material used to provide insulation from electrical interference.
Echoing the graphic of an equaliser, 160 fluorescent bulbs fed by intertwined wires and cables, light up in alternating sequences. The circuit is completed by the audience themselves, who can ‘conduct’ this electrical spectacle from the centrepiece switchboard; itself an array of intricately pigmented resin blocks and archaic-looking analogue toggles, which operate the light orchestra. The result is a macro-electronic display that redefines the notion of son et lumière.
Maurizio Mussati, CEO of Established & Sons says, “We are delighted to welcome Faye Toogood to transform our showroom this year. Established & Sons provides a creative platform for innovative concept ideas inviting the use of visual imagination in design. Faye’s interactive creation will be an immersive and inspiring visual experience, with light and colour dancing across the eyes. It provides the perfect platform for the launch of our stunning new resin series, designed by Jo Nagasaka and should make a memorable impression. I recommend bringing a pair of sunglasses!”
Japanese architect, Jo Nagasaka’s new resin series, was the inspiration behind ‘The Conductor’; the idea of a symphony of colour and industrial materials. These stunning pieces; a coffee table, side table, credenza with sliding doors and a new chair, remain true to Japanese minimalist style whilst being elevated to avant-garde status through the use of brightly coloured resin. The elegant and smooth finishing highlights the beautiful properties of the natural grain of the wood.
Opening Times/ 16-21 September:
10am – 6pm, 22 September: 12pm – 4pm
Established & Sons Showroom, 5-7 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7SL
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At the Global Design Forum on Monday night, graphic designer Peter Saville revealed that he’s working on a logo for musician Kanye West. In this transcript of the conversation Saville had with journalist Paul Morley, he discusses the project and what it’s like to work with the rap star.
Saville spoke at the V&A Museum on Monday for the forum, which is part of the London Design Festival. Saville was yesterday officially awarded the London Design Medal.
Earlier last year Kanye West announced via his Twitter feed that he is to launch a design company named DONDA and claimed to be assembling a team that will include architects, designers and directors. We’ve previously published Kanye West’s Claudio Silvestrin-designed apartment and a seven-screen pyramidal cinema designed by OMA to show his first short film at Cannes Film Festival last year.
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Here’s the transcript of the interview:
Paul Morley: I must just ask a question I think puts us in two degree of separation with Kanye West because Peter’s last engagement [before coming here tonight] was with Kanye West. I love that idea that you’ve gone on to do the Manchester thing [Saville has been working as creative director for his home city], gone off to do grown up things but that there are still loads quite high up in the pop culture world that are still chasing you for your imprint. What exactly are they chasing you for?
Peter Saville: He’s charming, he nearly came [here tonight]. I said I’ve got to go, I’ve got a gig at 5. He said where and I said somewhere called the Victoria and Albert museum. He said he’s doing [TV show] Jools [Holland] tonight. He would have come.
Paul Morley: So he’s your new mate.
Peter Saville: He’s not my mate. One thing that you learn, in music I learnt this, just because you’ve been to see somebody, doesn’t mean that they’re your mate. So when you get called to meet Paul McCartney or I got to do Roxy [Music] covers, I got to meet Brian [Ferry] who I’d spent my teens trying to be like or look like, but you’re not friends and don’t call us, we’ll call you. Some of the younger ones, the dynamic changes when you’re older than them, Kanye is kind of weird, he…
Paul Morley: I guess he’s interested in you doing design for him, he wants you to be a graphic designer.
Peter Saville: He wants me to be Cassandre. Today I told him all about Cassandre and Cassandre did the Yves Saint Laurent logo. Cassandre, France’s greatest graphic artist in a way of the early 20th century. Cassandre was friends with Christian Dior, I guess they were contemporaries and pals and young Yves worked for Dior as an assistant and when Yves was leaving to set up his own label, it’s quite sweet isn’t it? He asked Cassandre to do the logo for him and Cassandre just rattled off YSL, which was pretty good.
And Kanye said to me, you’re Cassandre, thats what I want. Kanye wants me to do a YSL. And he’s collecting people. He said today he likes great people and wants to put them together and get them to do some great things and get some great people to check the things by these great people and really end up with some great things.
Paul Morley: The other side of the membrane, does this still have value in the world that we’re going into? That is now being shattered into so many surfaces, does a logo or image like that have a value? Does it join the glut? Join the status quo itself no matter how stylish it might be?
Peter Saville: I think I can sometimes say I don’t know. I get asked things and I feel obliged to know something or have an opinion and actually some things I don’t know. It’s sort of significant. Depends how you work. Some people just do stuff and it’s cool. A lot of people just do cool stuff. Then there’s other people that are doing something but that’s how they do it. That’s how they work. They’re trying to achieve something. That’s the pathway by which they make something happen.
I tend to – this old-fashioned slightly analogue idea, there is a way a problem to solve and the problem to solve is as much the context of the now as the thing itself. What is a logo now, what might a logo be for Kanye in a particular context?
I mean I like him, I didn’t expect to like him. I didn’t meet him to do work. Someone said to me that he would like to meet you so I thought it would be rude to say I’m not available. So we met six months ago and had a cup of coffee and that was it. I didn’t know his music and I still don’t know his music. I met him as a person, who wanted to meet me and he was nice and intelligent and an astonishing energy and astonishing intelligence.
I mean he is alive, he’s super live and he has talents. Sometimes you meet people who are talented and they don’t have energy and you meet people with energy but no talent. Every so often you meet a talent who has energy. And Kanye without a doubt is a talent with energy. At the moment he said can I help him with something, and I said ‘I don’t know, I’ll try’.
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London Design Festival 2013: Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune launches a collection of wicker lighting at designjunction this week.
Claesson Koivisto Rune designed the wicker lamp shades for Chilean brand Made in Mimbre by The Andes House.
Named Medusa, Chinita and Bellota, the three designs are meant to resemble jellyfish, ladybirds and acorns.
The small and large jellyfish lamps feature woven shades with long wicker tentacles left dangling below to disguise three thin metal legs.
The designers also created small, medium and large rounded floor lamps with four legs teased out from the corners of each one, which they liken to ladybirds.
The third product in the range is an acorn-shaped pendant, which is available in three sizes.
The wicker lamps will be presented at design show designjunction at The Sorting Office, 21-31 New Oxford Street, WC1A 1BA until 22 September as part of London Design Festival.
Other projects by Claesson Koivisto Rune featured on Dezeen include a stove for the developing world that uses two-thirds less wood than a traditional cooking fire.
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Photographs are courtesy of the designers.
Here’s some more information from Claesson Koivisto Rune:
We are impressed by the achievements of the young team at Made in Mimbre. They have succeeded in creating and manufacturing their beautiful lighting collection locally. Not only that, their whole ethos of employing local artisans to create contemporary objects in a professional context and in so doing preserve their wicker weaving techniques makes us profoundly happy to be a part of.
Not only do we see great potential and intrinsic value in the handicraft of their products, the quality of the light from within their lamps is fantastically warm and atmospheric. Collaborating with Made in Mimbre on our first collection has been a pleasure and a joy!
In honour of the origins of the manufacturer we have chosen to give the lamp designs Spanish names: Medusa, Chinita and Bellota.
The Medusa lamps, with their oval-shaped lampshades, appear to balance on numerous thin, spindly supports. Rather than trimming the excess lengths of wicker, as is usually done, we have kept them and hidden three, thin metal legs amongst them. The resulting designs reminded us of jellyfish, floating, with their many trailing tendrils.
Almost as if they have been nipped and then pulled, four ‘feet’ appear to have been stretched from the bottom edge of the Chinita lamps. We think that the gesture results in a series of lamps with a cute, creature-like character. Like small, friendly bugs. Like ladybird bugs, for example.
The Bellota suspension lamps are two, similar forms combined to make a whole. Yet there is a clear division between the two. In keeping with the nature theme, the inspiration for the BELLOTA design is derived from the distinctive form of the acorn, where one form can be seen to partially ‘cover’ the other.
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London Design Festival 2013: a range of cast iron cookware by British designer Jasper Morrison for Japanese brand Oigen has gone into production (+ slideshow).
Morrison worked in collaboration with 160 year-old Japanese cast iron manufacturer Oigen to create the Palma cookware range.
Palma includes cooking pots and pans with lids, a frying griddle, a kettle and a condiment server. The products are all made from cast iron and intend to follow the tradition of Oigen’s production techniques.
The cookware is on display this week at Morrison’s Library of Design pop-up at his east London shop.
The shop is open for visitors to browse 100 of the designer’s books and four products, including his Fionda chair for Mattiazzi, until 22 September.
Other products by Jasper Morrison featured on Dezeen recently included an outdoor chair for Spanish brand Kettal and the Please watch for fashion brand Issey Miyake.
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Photography is by Nacása&Partners.
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Moments before the opening of his first solo exhibition, London-based designer Paul Cocksedge spoke with CH. With a background primarily in creating large-scale, temporary light installations with his design firm, Cocksedge’s premiere of smaller pieces…
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London Design Festival 2013: British design brand Another Country has created a collection of bedroom furniture for London retailer Heal’s, based on the simplicity of Shaker-style interiors.
Another Country applied its signature pared-back styling to the range developed exclusively for Heal’s, which comprises a bed, bedside table, blanket chest and two chests of drawers.
The collection references Another Country’s earlier Series Two collection through its use of materials such as ash and brass, but the company’s owner Paul de Zwart said he added “playful details like ever-so-slightly oversized key escutcheons, as well as new materials like the linen headboard.”
Made from solid ash with a white oil finish, the furniture features simple, boxy forms and traditional joinery that enhance the sense of solidity and craftsmanship.
“We’ve also given a nod to Arts and Crafts style in the shape of little upright backs on the chests – a reminder of the rich furniture-making traditions of Heal’s,” de Zwart added.
A bed frame available in single, double and king sizes is the centrepiece of the collection, and features brushed brass feet and a headrest covered in natural linen.
The chests of drawers all employ traditional wooden runners and dovetail joints that attach the drawer fronts.
Brass handles are used on the chests of drawers and the bedside table, while the blanket chest and chests of drawers feature an oversized brass escutcheon and key.
Another Country’s other products include a range of candleholders with handy storage compartments by French designer Marie Dessuant, and Ian McIntyre’s handmade pottery collection.
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Here’s some more information about the collection:
Another Country for Heal’s – bedroom range
Incorporating elements of their critically acclaimed Series Two collection, Another Country has designed an exquisite five-piece bedroom range for Heal’s comprising a bed, bedside table, blanket chest and two chests of drawers; one tall, one wide. The range, which is made from solid ash with a white oil finish, is on sale exclusively at Heal’s.
The Another Country for Heal’s range has clean-cut, angular lines that draw inspiration from the no-nonsense style of Shaker and Scandinavian furniture and the pale woods favoured in contemporary Belgian craft production. It also uses brass as an additional accent, providing decoration as well as structural support.
“The manufacturing techniques employed in the construction of these pieces are a celebration of the values of contemporary craft,” says Paul de Zwart, Another Country’s owner (and, in a previous incarnation, the founding publisher of Wallpaper* magazine). “We’ve included some references from our Series Two collection, such as the use of solid ash and brass, but for this range we’ve added playful details like ever-so-slightly oversized key escutcheons, as well as new materials like the linen headboard. We’ve also given a nod to Arts and Crafts style in the shape of little upright backs on the chests – a reminder of the rich furniture-making traditions of Heals.”
Founded in 2010, Another Country is a British-based company that makes contemporary craft furniture and accessories. The brand’s simple, functional, pared-back designs are manufactured in the UK and Portugal using FSC certified solid woods.
Bedside Table
This neat side table combines function with aesthetic appeal. Dovetail joints provide attractive craft detail whilst brushed brass hardware and feet give subtle material interest. All the drawers in the Sleep Series use traditional wooden runners for an authentic construction and the Bedside Table is no different. The single drawer unit sits on top of slender legs and a small upright on the table top is an attractive reworking of a practical traditional furniture detail.
Blanket Chest
This handsome piece of furniture is a fine storage solution with plenty of space for linens, clothes or toys. Traditionally placed at the bottom of a bed but, we think, useful employed anywhere in your bedroom. Like all pieces in our Sleep Series, the chest combined pale ash with brushed brass details to beautiful effect. We’ve made a feature of one further function – the chest is lockable with a charming brass lock and key.
Bed
At the heart of our Sleep Series is this generous, sturdy bed frame. The frame is constructed from pale ash with brushed brass feet and the generous headrest is covered in a soft natural linen, providing comfort and creating a clean silhouette. The bed frame is available in single, double and king sizes.
Tallboy
The first of our Sleep Series drawers is a slim, elegant Tallboy. This endlessly useful piece of furniture provides maximum storage with minimum fuss. The Tallboy uses traditional wooden runners for it’s five drawers and further authentic craft detailing comes in the way of beautiful dovetail joints on each drawer. A small upright on the top of the Tallboy is a pleasing take on a traditional detail and charming brass escutcheon and key is the only decorative embellishment in this paired back design – and a functional one at that.
Chest Of Drawers
The second of our Sleep Series drawers is a hearty chest of three drawers. The bottom drawer is extra large and the perfect storage solution for blankets and bigger items, the top drawer is lockable with a charming brass escutcheon and key. Pale ash and brushed bronze detailing are the signature of this paired back collection and have been employed here to full effect. Similarly, authentic craft detailing comes in the way of beautiful dovetail joints and an Arts and Crafts inspired upright on the drawers’ top.
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A l’occasion du London Design Festival, la designer Najila El Zein a imaginé cette structure « Wind Portal » en collaboration avec Maurice Asso à l’interieur du Victoria and Albert Museum. Faite de 5 000 moulins de papier, cette création d’une hauteur de 8 mètres est à découvrir en images dans la suite.
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