The dream of many a design enterprise—the best designers, meaningful materials, Italian production, a community of fans, reinterpretations made by artists—TOG is all of this, and more. “All creators together” is the idea behind this new design…
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Après les prints de la publicité Sony Bravia, le photographe Nick Meek possède également des séries personnelles d’une aussi belle qualité. Il partage ses voyages aux quatre coins du monde avec une luminosité saturée et un trait de lumière chaude qui vient très souvent adoucir les contours de ses photos.
Milan 2014: designers including Maarten Baas, Arik Levy and Maxim Velčovský introduce their new pieces for Lasvit in this movie filmed at the Czech lighting company’s Emotions show in Milan earlier this week.
Lasvit launched nine new collections at its Emotions show in Milan, including designs by a host of international designers as well as a series of kinetic sculptures by the company’s in-house team.
Czech designer Maxim Velčovský, who is also the company’s art director, created a series of hanging glass lamps called Frozen, which are created by pouring molten glass over a dome-shaped mould and left to cool.
“I was very much inspired by nature, when water becomes ice,” he says of the lamps, which are displayed in a cluster with drops of water running down them. “People are not sure whether they are looking at ice or glass, so they they knock on the lamp trying to figure it out.”
Dutch designer Maarten Baas created a modular chandelier called Das Pop using his signature Clay method in which a synthetic clay is moulded around a metal frame.
“It’s made all by hand and with Lasvit’s craftsman we also made hand-blown lightbulbs,” he explains. “Das Pop is one of my favourite Belgian bands, which is where the name comes from.”
Arik Levy designed a series of simple crystal-shaped pendants, which are available in a variety of different colours and opacities.
“We get reflections off the facets, even when the light is off,” he says. “When it’s on and when it’s off it always stays beautiful.”
The show also features the first glass chandelier by Daniel Libeskind. Called Ice, the piece is made up of clear glass cells blown into angular moulds, creating sharp, icicle-like forms.
“When you blow crystal, it’s typically bubbly and round,” says the American architect’s son, Lev Libeskind. “Our language has always been more angular and sharp. So we said, “What would happen if we took our sharpness and impose it on the glass?” The result provides a really interesting counterpoint between material and form.”
Lasvit’s Emotions show also features two moving glass sculptures, including a hanging lotus flower designed by Petra Krausová, which opens and closes in time to music and is controlled by an iPhone app.
Visual artist Jakub Nepraš also created a sculpture made from shards of glass shaped like a tree, onto which a series of digital images are projected.
“There is craftsmanship, there is poetry behind each collection and this year there is also a lot of technology on show,” explains Lasvit founder and president Leon Jakimič. “I believe we are the first company to combine glass art with really advanced technology.”
Lasvit’s Emotions show, which also features designs by Michael Young and Czech designers Jan Plechac and Henry Wielgus, is at Office Stendhal on Via Stendhal in Milan and is open from 10am to 8pm until 13 April.
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Milan 2014: Dutch studio Bernotat & Co created 3D-printed woven fabric lamps that emulate microscopic organisms to show in the Ventura Lambrate district in Milan this week (+ slideshow).
Anke Bernotat and Jan Jacob Borstlap of Bernotat & Co have created Radiolaria, a collection of 11 lamps made from a 3D-printed polyester textile normally used in technical applications where the material is hidden.
Thanks to the 3D-printed structure, the soft lamps do not require additional reinforcement. “When sewn together, the fabric creates its own character and shape,” Borstlap told Dezeen. “We let the fabric do the design work in a way.”
Influenced by the drawings of German biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel, the project is named Radiolaria after a type of microscopic biological organism that produces intricate mineral skeletons.
The designers created the patterns for the textile based on these organisms, whose skeletons are known for their natural geometric form and symmetry.
In a completely dark room, the lamps glow as the textile has been sown together with a glow in the dark material. “It creates a dreamy kind of atmosphere in your bedroom,” said the studio. “It also acts as a point of reference so you don’t bump into your bed.”
All lamps come with porcelain fittings and a silver-coloured cable and will be show from 8-13 April on via Ventura 6 in the Ventura Lambrate district in Milan.
Product photography is by Rogier Chang. All other photography is by Marleen Sleeuwits.
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Scandinavia-inspired watch brand VOID has introduced two new watches featuring automatic movements that never need winding (+ buy now from Dezeen Watch Store).
Founded in 2008 by Hong Kong-based Swedish designer David Ericsson, VOID produces watches with a Scandianvian design aesthetic and aims to create “an almost architectural expression” with its timepieces.
These two automatic watches created by Ericsson pay homage to the simple designs of the 1950s and 60s.
The VOID V03M, available in silver and black or black and black, features an automatic movement that will run perpetually – as long as the user moves. Built by Japanese watch manufacturer Miyota, the movement uses kinetic energy to wind the main spring that keeps the watch ticking.
Aesthetically, the timepiece draws on the Ericsson’s Scandinavian roots by using simple geometries to reinterpret features common to diving watches, creating a streamlined dress watch.
Waterproof to a depth of 50 metres, it features oversized luminescent hour indexes and bright white hands that sit on top of a matte black face to help the wearer read the time even in murky conditions.
The face also features a calendar in place of the three ‘o’ clock mark and subtle branding below the six o clock index.
Measuring 36 millimetres across and 12 millimetres thick, the case is made from solid stainless steel. On the rear, a circular window reveals the automatic watch movement inside.
The case comes in two colours, matte black and matter silver, and both styles have a simple black leather strap.
VOID watches are an independent boutique watch brand, launched in 2008 by Swedish designer David Ericsson.
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Data is a powerful tool. Whether it’s used for education, research, policies or everyday decision-making, numbers hold power—and often a simple value doesn’t best convey their meaning. Portuguese-born and NYC-based designer, researcher and author Manuel…
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L’artiste chinois Ai Weiwei a récemment exposé son projet impressionnant « Evidence » au musée Martin-Gropius-Bau à Berlin. L’exposition s’étend sur 3000 mètres carré et 18 pièces. L’installation centrale appelée « Stools » contient 6000 tabourets en bois trouvés un peu partout dans zones rurales chinoises.
« Evidence » sera exposée jusqu’au 7 Juillet.
Milan 2014: Swedish design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has launched a range of chairs with winged backrests designed to create a “room within a room” in Milan this week.
The Radar Easy chair collection was created for the Italian furniture company Casamania and consists of four pieces, the largest being a chair with a winged back rest designed to create a “radar” effect between two people facing each other.
“The backs create different levels of privacy like a room-within-a-room,” Mårten Claesson from Claesson Koivisto Rune told Dezeen. “The largest and widest back also creates a personal space and silence for the sitter. In a facing pair, your conversation is contained between the two “radars”.”
Each chair has been cast into an upholstered foam-frame with an optional swivel base. They come in various colours and fabrics – including leather – depending on the client’s preferences.
Mårten Claesson said the chairs were “not limited for contract use” and could be used in either a home or an office, in breakout rooms or lobbies.
They are on show in Hall 16 Stand D 39 in Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan this week.
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« Europe In 8 Bits » est une vidéo réalisée par Device qui explore le monde du chiptune (ou 8 bits-music) en Europe. Le concept de cette musique est de reprendre les sons de jeux vidéos de Game Boy, NES, Atari ST et Amiga pour en faire de la musique et un mouvement musical innovant.
Milan 2014: Konstantin Grcic, Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morrison are among the six designers who have created objects from Carrara marble for design brand Marsotto Edizioni, showing in Milan this week (+ slideshow).
Italian brand Marsotto Edizioni have invited five of the same designers from previous commissions dating back to 2009 to create furniture pieces in the Italian white stone, with an addition of a sixth designer, Phillippe Nigro.
The Working on Marble collection comprises modular, flexible pieces including meeting tables, work surfaces and writing desks.
London-based Studio Irvine is responsible for the art direction of this year’s project. “Work, as a necessary part of our lives, covers a vast range of activities relating to the intellect, manual skills, the individual and the group. Hence this collection, with its diverse interpretations of surfaces as action tops,” said the studio.
British designer Jasper Morrison‘s Arena is a set of large round meeting tables with tapered, broad support columns.
Keyboard by Konstantin Grcic is a desk with a curved rotating top extension that allows for different working configurations.
Naoto Fukasawa has introduced a rectangular and modular meeting table with curved marble panels as legs. The table comes in three parts and fits together as a system, with 45 degree angle corner connections to create a curved opening in the centre.
Studio Irvine’s Toio writing desk and Isa dressing table both feature the same tapered legs, pairs of which sit at a 45 degree angle to the top.
The writing desk incorporates a groove, which supports a reading stand while the dressing table uses a groove to store cosmetics. The dressing table also features a circular detachable mirror.
Ross Lovegrove‘s Two Mates chess table comes with curved seats. He has also created two other freestanding chess tables, which stand at different heights.
French designer Philippe Nigro’s Rendez Vous reception desk is made to house electrical cables and available in three types, at different heights.
The exhibition will be on show from the Academia di Belle Arti di Brera in the Brera district in Milan from 8-13 April.
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