A l’occasion de la semaine du design à Paris qui se déroulera du 9 au 15 septembre, l’Oasis d’Aboukir, une création de Patrick Blanc, sera inauguré le mardi 10 Septembre. Un jardin vertical construit en seulement 7 semaines à l’angle de la rue d’Aboukir et de la rue des petits Carreaux à découvrir en images.
L’agence publicitaire CHI & Partners réalise une série de prints pour l’association The Prince’s Trust à l’occasion des résultats du GCSE. La note, le F, la plus basse est transformée en perspective de carrière dans la finance, le design ou l’ingénierie. Une belle campagne pleine d’espoir et graphiquement très réussie.
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Movie: Designer Konstantin Grcic tells Dezeen that American furniture company Emeco had to industrialise its production methods to produce his new Parrish chair in this video interview filmed in Milan.
Grcic originally designed the Parrish chair as part of a range of furniture for Herzog & de Meuron’s barn-like Parrish Art Museum on Long Island, completed in 2012.
The chair was launched by American furniture company Emeco as a commercial product at Milan earlier this year.
In the movie, Grcic explains that he approached Emeco to produce the chair because of its experience of working in aluminium, most famously with the iconic Navy Chair, which Emeco has produced since 1944.
“I felt we needed a company to support the development of the project,” says Grcic.
“Emeco stands for chairs in aluminium and aluminium was the perfect material for the chair that we had in mind because the [Parrish Art Museum] is very open [to the elements].”
Unlike the Navy Chair, in which each piece is welded together by hand, the legs, armrests and backrest of the Parrish chair are all locked together by a single joint under the seat.
“Everything is mechanically joined to a central core, a piece of die-cast aluminium, which is really the heart of the chair,” Grcic explains.
“So we have one moulded piece that solves all of the structure of the chair and the seat is exchangeable. You can have an upholstered seat, a plastic seat or a wooden seat.”
Grcic says that he deliberately wanted to move Emeco away from the time-intensive production methods involved in producing the Navy Chair.
“I felt we should actually change the way [Emeco] makes chairs,” he says. “Industrialise it, simplify it, eliminate all the dirty work, all the hand labour. That’s what really informed the concept of the chair.”
He concludes: “Emeco will always produce the Navy Chair in the way they produce it, but I think now we’ve established another form of production inside their company.”
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Here’s a movie we filmed with designer Daan Roosegaarde about his concepts for glow-in-the-dark roads and responsive street lamps to make highways safer, one of five projects honoured at last week’s INDEX: Award.
Dezeen spoke to Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town, where he presented the Smart Highway project earlier this year.
The concepts proposed by his studio to make road infrastructure safer and more energy efficient include photo-luminescent paint to mark out traffic lanes, temperature-responsive road paint to warn drivers of icy conditions and interactive street lamps that come on as vehicles approach then dim as they pass. Find out more about the project in our previous story.
Announced at a ceremony in Denmark last Thursday, the INDEX: Awards are presented annually to projects that address world challenges.
The Smart Highway project was one of two recipients in the community category, along with a climate adaptation plan for Copenhagen.
Other winners across the four other categories include spice-infused paper to keep fruits and vegetables ripe, a tiny computer to teach young people about computer programming and a birth simulation learning kit in a ruck sack. Read more about this year’s winners here.
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Focus sur Charles Jencks qui conçoit de superbes jardins aux formes et structures étranges. Avec des choix esthétiques forts, ce dernier parvient à donner un univers uniques aux différents lieux qu’il imagine. Des créations qui donnent envie de se promener à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Product news: these lamps by Joost van Bleiswijk with stands that looks to be built from a child’s construction toy will be launched by Dutch design brand Moooi this week.
Construction Lamp was created by Dutch designer Joost van Bleiswijk for Moooi, based on vintage building toys.
The four-sided stand tapers upward towards the light source like a telegraph pylon.
Each round joint is exaggerated, fixed with large prominent screws.
All elements are the same tone on the black version, except the screws and the inside of the cylindrical shade that are both coloured gold.
On the white model, the corner legs match the shade while wood is used for the horizontal and diagonal bracing.
Two sizes are available, the first is a floor lamp while the second is small enough to also be raised on a table.
Prototypes of the lights wer presented as part of Moooi’s Unexpected Welcome collection at the brand’s exhibition in Milan earlier this year.
Dezeen spoke to Moooi art director Marcel Wanders in Milan, where he guessed that their exhibition was the most expensive in the city this time around.
The lamp is now being officially launched ahead of the London Design Festival, where is will be presented in Moooi’s west London showroom.
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Product News: Note Design Studio of Stockholm has created a set of wire candle holders that look different depending on where you stand.
The candleholders by Note Design Studio for Danish brand Menu are called POV in reference to the filming technique of framing a shot as though through the eyes of one of the characters.
“Depending on that point of view, things will change – settings, stories and the way we interpret things,” said the designers, likening the effect to the way their product appears to change when seen from different sides.
“From some angles it seems like a flat graphical drawing – move around it and suddenly the graphic lines floats in mid air,” they said. “Shadows and shapes change, making it a fun object to interact with.”
The pieces are made of powder-coated steel wire and come in a wall-mounted version for tea lights or a table-top version for tall candles. They’re available in white, black, grey, turquoise or terracotta and can be displayed singly or mounted in groups.
Other products by Note Design Studio include porcelain and wood pendant lamps and mobile trolleys to display shoes at a Camper store.
Other candle holders we’ve featured include candelabras made from a compound of stone and resin by KiBiSi, also for Menu, and a lantern with one glass bubble sitting inside another.
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Product news: Australian designers Nicholas Karlovasitis and Sarah Gibson have added dining and coffee tables to their range of timber stools with metal collars at the tops of their legs.
The duo own Sydney design company DesignByThem and created the different sized Partridge tables and stools from solid white ash timber coated with a natural wax finish.
They can be self assembled with aluminium brackets that sit neatly against the legs and underside of the seat or table top.
“Our aim with the Partridge tables is to create simple balanced forms that will endure physically and aesthetically,” said Karlovasitis. “We feel that using a warm and tactile material is comforting and allows us to achieve this.”
The Partridge Collection will be featured at Tent London next month as part of the London Design Festival.
Other furniture by DesignByThem on Dezeen includes bright recycled-plastic chairs.
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Photographs are by Pete Daly.
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