Le trio Numero 111, constitué de Sophie Françon, Jennifer Julien et Grégory Peyrache, revisite les codes du design intérieur en utilisant des formes à la limite de l’abstraction et pourtant qui forment un espace fonctionnel et cohérent. Tandem est une très belle collection à découvrir en images dans la suite.
The shelves in this furniture by design graduate Emiel Remmelts only stay up thanks to concrete blocks, bricks, a glass vase and magazine file boxes propping up one end.
Utrecht product design graduate Emiel Remmelts prototyped a bookcase and clothes rail in his Stacked Objects graduation project.
An ash wood frame forms one side of each piece, whilst the shelves require objects to be positioned on the other side to hold them in position.
“I wanted to create a product which was inspired by the construction of buildings,” Remmelts told Dezeen. “During the design process, I experimented with many different materials, including bricks, concrete, tiles, steel, glass and wood.”
“The objects in the shelving are used to create a dynamic composition, comparable to the method of creating a collage. Each composition is unique and defines the appearance of the shelves,” Remmelts said.
Remmelts picked up one-off objects from flea markets, charity shops and building sites. “That way I’m forced to make new compositions with each shelf,” he explained. “When I pass a building site, I alway look for new materials and inspiration.”
Remmelts recently graduated from Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht in the Netherlands where he studied product design.
Other shelving systems we’ve published recently include an expanding shelving unit that can bunch up or stretch out and modular shelving built from tessellating blocks that can also be used as stools or tables. We have also featured a number of staircases that incorporate bookshelves.
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Dezeen Watch Store: the newest addition to our collection is the Stop2Go watch by Mondaine, a classic timepiece inspired by Swiss railway clocks.
Stop2Go incorporates a unique time keeping feature that is inspired by the mechanism of Swiss railway clocks. The sweeping red second hand completes a full revolution in 58 seconds, then waits for two seconds at the 12 o’clock position, allowing the minute hand to move on before the next rotation starts.
The timepiece includes a 41mm stainless steel case that fixes to the leather strap with steel braces. The easy-to-read, minimal design places emphasis on the markings and the distinctive red hand, which resembles a railway guard’s signalling disc.
The original Swiss Railway Clock was designed over 70 years ago by Zurich-born engineer Hans Hilfiker and has become a Swiss design classic, included in twentieth century design collections at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Design Museum in London.
Mondaine has been producing watches inspired by the original design since the mid-1980s when the brand was granted an official license from the Federal Swiss Railway.
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News: a map that illustrates global forest densities using wood textures has won a competition to reinvent the tessellated world map designed 70 years ago by American architect and visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller.
First presented in 1943, Fuller’s Dymaxion Map projects the world map onto the surface of a three-dimensional icosahedron that can be unfolded and flattened to two dimensions. It is said to be the first two-dimensional map of the entire surface of Earth that reveals our planet as one, without inaccurately distorting or splitting up the land.
A team comprising designer Nicole Santucci and San Francisco firm Woodcut Maps was selected as the winner of the Dymax Redux competition to redesign the seminal map, which was launched in April by the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) in New York to coincide with the map’s 70th anniversary.
The winning design, called Dymaxion Woodocean World, illustrates forest densities across the world through the use of different coloured wood textures. Darker wood refers to a higher ratio of trees to land space.
“Nicole Santucci and team created a wonderful display of global forest densities, an ever-increasing important issue with the continued abuses of deforestation,” said the BFI. “What’s more an actual woodcut version of the map was made in the process, allowing the 2D version to transform into an icosahedral globe,” the institute added.
Will Elkins, manager at the Buckminster Fuller Institute said: “They went above and beyond our call by creating a powerful display of relevant information using the subject matter itself as a medium. The idea, craftsmanship and end result are stunning.”
A hand-drawn map of clouds swirling over the earth by French designer Anne-Gaelle Amiot has been selected as the runner-up. Other finalists include a map that illustrates 75,000 years of ancestral migration and another that shows the availability of safe drinking water around the world. Three of the 11 finalists also received acknowledgments from graphic designer Nicholas Felton, artist Mary Mattingly and architect and close friend of Fuller, Shoji Sadao.
Fuller’s Dymaxion World Map first appeared in the March 1, 1943 issue of Life Magazine in an article titled ‘Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion World’.
The article illustrated different uses for the map and included a full-colour printable version with instructions for how it can be easily transformed from a 2D map to a 3D globe.
“Fuller’s Dymaxion World embodies his effort to resolve the dilemma of cartography: how to depict as a flat surface this spherical world, with true scale, true direction and correct configuration at one and the same time,” wrote Life Magazine in 1943.
Fuller designed the map as a way to visualise the whole planet with greater accuracy and to in turn better equip humans to address global challenges.
The winners and nine finalists of the Dymax Redux contest will be exhibited at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York later this year. The Dymaxion Woodocean Map will be available to buy from the BFI soon.
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Here’s the press release from BFI, including full details of the winning designs:
DYMAX REDUX Winner Selected
The Buckminster Fuller Institute is happy to announce the winner of DYMAX REDUX, an open call to create a new and inspiring interpretation of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map. Dymaxion Wood Ocean World by Nicole Santucci of Woodcut Maps (San Francisco, CA) has been selected as the winner out of a pool of over 300 entrants from 42 countries. Clouds Dymaxion Map by Anne-Gaelle Amiot of France was selected as the runner up.
“This was the first contest of its kind organised by BFI, and the response and interest has been amazing. We are thrilled to have such a high level of submissions and look forward to doing more similar initiatives in the future” says BFI Executive Director Elizabeth Thompson, noting the great press coverage to-date.
The Buckminster Fuller Institute will produce the winning entry as a poster and include it in with the BFI online educational resource store. In addition, we have highlighted three entries that were chosen by our guest critics – Nicholas Felton, Mary Mattingly and Shoji Sadao – as their favourite individual picks. The winner and runner-up along with the other nine finalists will be featured at an in-person exhibition at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, scheduled for later this fall.
The Winner: Dymaxion Woodocean World by Nicole Santucci + Woodcut Maps, United States
Nicole Santucci and team created a wonderful display of global forest densities, an ever-increasing important issue with the continued abuses of deforestation. What’s more an actual woodcut version of the map was made in the process, allowing the 2-D version to transform into an icosahedral globe. As BFI Store Coordinator Will Elkins put it “They went above and beyond our call by creating a powerful display of relevant information using the subject matter itself as a medium. The idea, craftsmanship and end result are stunning.”
The Runner-Up: Clouds Dymaxion Map by Anne-Gaelle Amiot, France
Anne-Gaelle Amiot used NASA satellite imagery to create this absolutely beautiful hand-drawn depiction of a reality that is almost always edited from our maps: cloud patterns circling above Earth. Anne-Gaelle describes the idea and process “One of the particularism of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion projection is to give the vision of an unified world. From the space, the Earth appears to us covered, englobed by the cloud masses which circulate around it. By drawing a static image, capture of clouds position in one particular moment, the sensation of a whole is created. The result have the aspect of an abstract pattern, a huge melt where it is impossible to dissociate lands, seas, oceans.”
Nicholas Felton Pick: Map of My Family by Geoff Christou, Canada
“This map makes the best use of the Dymaxion projection, by highlighting information that is primarily land-based and allowing for the paths to extend in an unbroken fashion throughout the world.” – Nicholas Felton
Mary Mattingly Pick: Spaceship Earth: Climatic Regions by Ray Simpson, United States
“Eliminates human-made borders and focuses on mapping the shifting yet distinct climactic planes. This utopian projection relies only on geographic and geologic borders, truly a project Buckminster Fuller would appreciate.” – Mary Mattingly
Shoji Sadao Pick: In Deep Water by Amanda R. Johnson, United States
“A dramatic graphic take off on the map and gives important information about one of the basic problems that needs to be solved.” – Shoji Sadao
About DYMAX REDUX:
70 years ago Life magazine published Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map. With an undistorted projection of the Earth’s surface, ability to be easily reconfigured and transform from a 2-D map to a 3-D globe, the Dymaxion Map (patented in 1946) was a cartographic breakthrough and its iconic design has inspired generations since.
In celebration of the map’s publication anniversary, the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) is calling on today’s graphic designers, visual artists, and citizen cartographers to create a new and inspiring interpretation of the Dymaxion Map. BFI will publish notable entries within an online gallery, feature the selected finalists in a gallery exhibition in New York City and select one winning entry to be produced as a 36″ x 24″ poster and offered for sale within our online store.
BFI is seeking submissions across the creative spectrum and will be selecting the winner based on originality, aesthetic beauty and informative qualities. The contest is open to all and will provide entrants with a high-res image to use as ‘canvas’. Submissions must employ or contain obvious reference to the map’s foundational grid and adhere to specific size and resolution requirements.
About the Buckminster Fuller Institute
The Buckminster Fuller Institute is dedicated to accelerating the development and deployment of solutions which radically advance human well being and the health of our planet’s ecosystems. We aim to deeply influence the ascendance of a new generation of design-science pioneers who are leading the creation of an abundant and restorative world economy that benefits all humanity.
Our programs combine unique insight into global trends and local needs with a comprehensive approach to design. We encourage participants to conceive and apply transformative strategies based on a crucial synthesis of whole systems thinking, Nature’s fundamental principles, and an ethically driven worldview.
By facilitating convergence across the disciplines of art, science, design and technology, our work extends the profoundly relevant legacy of R. Buckminster Fuller. In this way, we strive to catalyse the collective intelligence required to fully address the unprecedented challenges before us.
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In this movie we filmed at Domaine de Boisbuchet in southwestern France last month, design curator and collector Alexander von Vegesack gives us a tour round the estate, which features pavilions including Shigeru Ban’s first building in Europe, pioneering bamboo structures by Simón Vélez and experimental domes by German structural engineer Jörg Schlaich.
Von Vegesack also explains how he turned the run-down 15th-century country estate into a magnet for leading architects and designers, who come to teach workshops each summer and build pavilions and installations in the grounds.
“It was always my dream to work with young people and [create] a surrounding that is very inspiring for new ideas,” he says.
Von Vegesack, who was also the founding director of the Vitra Design Museum, bought Domaine de Boisbuchet in the eighties and set about restoring the 50-hectare estate’s agricultural buildings and commissioning a series of new structures.
“I collected for quite a long time,” says von Vegesack, who assembled an important collection that included a wide range of Thonet bentwood furniture – a subject in which he became an expert. “I was very much interested in industrial design and I sold a part of my collection to the Austrian government and acquired this property.”
The first workshops were held in 1989 and since then leading international figures including Tom Dixon, Maarten Baas, Oliviero Toscani and Patricia Urquiola have led workshops for young people in the summer months.
Dezeen was at Boisbuchet in June for the Blickfang design workshop, which was led by designer Sebastian Wrong.
In the movie above you can see von Vegesack giving the Blickfang workshop attendees a tour of the estate. “We did quite a lot of pavilions with [people including Japanese architect] Shigeru Ban and [bamboo architect] Simón Vélez, who built his first bamboo houses here in Boisbuchet. One of them blew away in the storm of 1999-2000 but the other ones became quite well known.”
While building his pavilions and guest houses at Boisbuchet, Vélez pioneered new ways of using giant bamboo from his native Columbia on an architectural scale.
Boisbuchet is dominated by the imposing nineteenth-century chateau, which is still not fully restored but which is used for exhibitions. There is also a traditional Japanese village house dating from 1863, which was dismantled, shipped from Japan and reassembled, and a contemporary bamboo building, donated by the People’s Republic of China.
“In the garden of the chateau there is Shigeru Ban’s pavilion,” von Vegesack continues. “It was his first [permanent] building here in Europe. And there are two buildings by Jörg Schlaich, the engineer who worked with Frei Otto, building the Munich Olympic stadium.”
Ban’s building uses wooden connections and recycled paper tubes to create a semi-cylindrical structure. Schlaich built two domes, one using split bamboo rods to create a structural lattice and the other employing fibreglass rods.
Each summer Boisbuchet invites architects, designers, artists and other creative professionals from around the world to lead workshops attended by young people and students. “It’s not important to be an expert, but just to have an idea and try to make it happen,” says von Vegesack.
“It’s more about developing ideas with a goal you want to demonstrate in three dimensions. And above all to build up a network of good friends, sharing an interest in creating something that might be important for your professional life.”
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Product news: these angular lounge chairs and ottomans by Brisbane designer Alexander Lotersztain can be tessellated in an endless array of shapes and patterns.
Created for Lotersztain‘s contemporary furniture and lighting brand Derlot Editions, each Prisma seat has an angular asymmetric form so they can be clustered together.
Stacked together they can form long sofas, small armchairs or banks of seating. Their shapes allow them to be positioned in the centre of the room, against the walls or in corners.
The chairs are MDF-based, covered in enviro foam and upholstered in fabric or leather. Colours are acidic hues of turquoise, green and yellow.
Small wooden triangular tables fit onto the ends of each chair formation. Custom modules of each chair are also available.
Born in Argentina, Alexander Lotersztain studied design at university in Queensland before setting up Derlot in Brisbane.
Other projects featured by Alexander Lotersztain include plywood furniture from plantation forests, a modular shelving system featuring X-shaped pillars and a hotel with a roof-top bar and cinema.
Other chairs featured on Dezeen are triangular seating stones inspired by geological formations, modular squashed sofas that look hand-sculpted and sofas based on natural rock formations.
Photography is by Florian Groehn.
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Product news: Berlin studio Halb/Halb has created a creased circular mirror that allows two people to see their reflection at the same time.
The Mirror #180 by Halb/Halb has a fold down the centre that splits it into two halves and it can be hung in three different rotations.
One option allows two people to use the mirror at the same time, a second can show people at different heights and a third position reflects the ceiling and another area of the surrounding room.
The mirror is made from glass and a wooden fixing is attached to the back to hang it to a wall. It measures 50 centimetres in diameter and is available to buy from Berlin Design Store.
Halb/Halb is a new design studio based in Berlin, founded by Nikolaus Kayser and Nicole Losos. Kayser also works at design studio Böttcher+Henssler, whilst Losos works for Werner Aisslinger.
We’ve also featured Losos’ design for a triangulated wall-mounted structure that you can sit, sleep, read, eat and keep things on.
We’ve published a number of mirrors recently including one with angled tessellated steel panels and another that only works when it’s placed in front of a dark wall. Leandro Erlich also used a large mirror to create an illusion of people scaling the walls of a London townhouse.
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