C’est l’agence australienne Techne Architect qui a conduit le projet de rénovation du pub « Prahan Hotel » à Melbourne en créant un espace atypique. Mêlant éléments naturels et matériaux récupérés, comme les conduites d’eau qui constituent sa façade, le résultat est magnifique. A découvrir en images.
San Diego-based surfboard shaper Jeff McCallum creates functional works of art. With humble beginnings sweeping and boxing boards for other shapers, he has worked his way up to top of his craft. Blending retro-inspired shapes with…
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Lunaire est la dernière création du Ferréol Babin pour la marque italienne « FontanaArte ». Basée sur un mécanisme qui rappelle le principe des éclipses, la lampe murale du jeune designer français crée des effets lumineux étonnants, variant simplement à l’aide de la tige en métal au centre de celle-ci.
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our fourth movie recorded at the MINI Paceman Garage in Milan, MINI head of design Anders Warming introduces the workshops that took place in the space and journalist Justin McGuirk explains why he sees OMA’s Tools for Life collection as a nostalgic reaction to the decline of industry in the city.
The MINI Paceman Garage hosted a week-long series of workshops in which students were tasked with coming up with a new product or identity for MINI and pitching it to the car brand.
“The MINI community spreads into the design community, and that’s why we do these workshops with young students,” Warming says. “Sometimes one very straight thought, especially from a younger generation, actually helps nail things and makes them very simple and honest.”
Warming led the first workshop himself. “It’s not just a one-way street, where I might be teaching about how to do design,” he says. “It’s my view on design and what [the students] spontaneously think of that.”
The guest in our Dezeen and MINI World Tour Studio is Justin McGuirk, architecture and design journalist and director of Strelka Press. “The most interesting thing I’ve seen is the OMA furniture for Knoll,” he says of this year’s fair.
But McGuirk doesn’t believe the Tools for Life collection, which includes a motorised table and chair that rise and fall at the press of large red buttons, are meant to be practical pieces of furniture.
“If you look at the way that Knoll is presenting this furniture it’s the standard spiel about adaptable, ergonomic furniture,” he says. “But it’s got nothing to do with that. The whole thing is just a performance and I think it is deeply nostalgic for industry.”
“It’s an interesting time to launch a product like that,” he continues. “Here we are in Milan where the city’s industry and the country’s industry is visibly in decline – it’s almost this message that industry is dead, so now we can turn it into luxury. But also, it turns industry into a fetish.”
Another piece in the Tools for Life collection is a counter made of three swivelling stacked blocks. McGuirk says: “It’s one of those classic designs that purports to solve all of these different problems, but actually solves none of them. So it’s actually completely useless.”
“It comes clearly from an architecture studio, and one that’s not overly concerned with form as well.”
See all our stories about Milan 2013.
The music featured in this movie is a track called Konika by Italian disco DJ Daniele Baldelli, who played a set at the MINI Paceman Garage. You can listen to more music by Baldelli on Dezeen Music Project.
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Dezeen Watch Store: this chronograph version of Record by Achille Castiglioni features a stopwatch and a date function and comes with two removable leather straps: one in yellow and one in purple.
The watch has a striking black face with large playful numbers designed by Max Hubert, a Swiss designer and friend of Castiglioni’s.
The three chronograph dials count the seconds, minutes and hours when the stopwatch function is activated using the buttons on the side of the watch case. This men’s watch has a 243mm long strap and a 40mm diameter case.
Castiglioni designed the Record watch in 2000 for Italian design brand Alessi, making it one of the last products he worked on. Record was originally designed with a white face, black markings and a red or black strap. See the full collection here.
You can buy all of our watches online and you can also visit our watch shop in Stoke Newington, north London – contact us to book an appointment.
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Winners of this year’s W Hotels Designers of the Future Award have revealed their projects at Design Miami/Basel (+ movie).
Jon Stam from Canada, Bethan Laura Wood from the UK and Seung-Yong Song from South Korea were each sent to a new W Hotels branch and asked to create work for the hotel influenced by their destination.
After visiting Verbier, Stam collaborated with local photographer Guido Perrini to show digital images of the resort in all seasons in the centre of a black mirror. Turning the object changes the speed at which the images are shown.
Wood designed a series of colourful glass lamps that combine Aztec patterns and Art Deco shapes following her trip to Mexico City. She worked with Italian and Mexican glass specialists to create her table lamps, wall lights and chandeliers.
Song travelled to Bangkok, where street food carts became his reference for a range of portable furniture, which includes a mirror, storage compartments and a table.
The work is on display at the Design Miami/Basel event, which continues until Saturday. This year’s laureates were announced during Milan design week in April.
Designers including Max Lamb, Philippe Malouin and Asif Khan are all previous winners of the annual prize. See more past winners and projects from Designers of the Future »
Read the full press release below:
Following Design Trips to W Hotels around the World, Designers Have Created Pieces Inspired by Local Communities to Later be Installed at W Hotels in Verbier, Bangkok and Mexico City
Continuing its commitment to innovation in design, W Hotels Worldwide today unveiled the works of the 2013 W Hotels Designers of the Future Award winners during Design Miami/ Basel (June 11-16, 2013). Now in its fourth year, the collaboration between W Hotels and Design Miami/ seeks to give emerging designers a global platform from which to showcase their work.
This year for the first time the three winning designers were sent to specific new or renovating W Hotels to solve a particular design challenge or need. In addition to being showcased at Design Miami/ Basel, the newly commissioned, site-specific works will later be installed at W Hotels in Verbier, where the W brand’s first ski retreat will debut later this year; Bangkok, which opened in December 2012; and Mexico City, which will soon undergo renovation.
“Design has been core to the DNA of the W Hotels brand since our inception in New York City nearly 15 years ago,” said Paul James, Global Brand Leader, W Hotels, St. Regis and The Luxury Collection. “The W Hotels Designers of the Future Award allows us to work with the best emerging design talent from around the world, while providing a global platform of exposure for these young talents during Design Miami/ Basel and beyond.”
For this year’s commission, the winners, including Seung-Yong Song (Korea), Jon Stam (Canada) and Bethan Laura Wood (UK), have unveiled their interpretation of the brief, entitled “Making Connections.” Each designer’s project facilitates exchange between local communities and the international visitors who pass through them, whether for business or leisure. The goal of these projects is to deepen the appreciation for the distinct regional characteristics found in each destination.
“The W Hotels Designers of the Future Award has become an important incubator for emerging talents, allowing the winners to develop a project and directly interact with the receptive audience at Design Miami/ Basel,” said Marianne Goebl, Director of Design Miami/. “This year, the award is brought to yet another level by incorporating a research trip. We are thrilled to see the designers’ experiences reflected in their projects in a meaningful and engaging way.”
Designers ‘Making Connections’ Around the World
Seung-Yong Song’s Wheeljek Collection was created for W Bangkok and takes its inspiration from the fluidity and flexibility of the city’s ubiquitous street food carts. Observing the ingenuity of the design of this everyday object, Song was struck by the many uses of the carts in the bustling capital; it is at once a means of transporting goods, a kitchen, a restaurant and a bar. His collection takes the street cart concept and transforms it into an object which can be adapted to suit the user’s needs and modified into various forms and sizes, from cart to table to storage.
Designed for W Verbier, Jon Stam’s Claude Glass is an abstract timepiece that captures the landscape of the small Swiss village throughout the seasons. Stam has collaborated with local photographer Guido Perrini to capture Verbier within a digitized black mirror where one can speed up or reverse time by turning the object. As most tourists experience the destination during its world renowned ski season, Claude Glass provides a medium for a different kind of travel, showcasing the picturesque locale all year long.
Bethan Laura Wood’s Crisscross is a glass fixture created for W Mexico City and designed to evoke a cascade of floating flowers. The work combines a range of influences taken from the city, from its colorful markets and graphic displays of flowers to the Aztec-meets-Deco architecture and triple-relief Baroque detailing. Wood has enlisted the specialist skills of two different worlds of glass – artisan Pedro Myver, a Pyrex master in Italy, and Nouvel Studio, the Mexican colored glass specialists – to make work that crosses the boundaries of local and global, acting as a conduit for creative communication.
Started in 2006 at Design Miami/ Basel, the Designers of the Future Award recognizes up-and-coming designers and studios that are expanding the field of design. Each year, three designers or studios are selected as a way to honor a variety of approaches in the constantly evolving landscape of contemporary design. The Award moves beyond pure product and furniture design to acknowledge technologically and conceptually vanguard pieces that work across multiple disciplines, offering the next generation of design creatives the opportunity to present newly commissioned works to an influential audience of collectors, dealers, and journalists at Design Miami/ Basel.
The W Hotels Designers of the Future Award also draws attention to design practices that exemplify new directions for the design field, and as W Hotels continues to grow globally, the Award provides the W design and innovation teams with access to the world’s brightest talent in contemporary design. The objective for W Hotels is to create a vision of how guests may conceptually interact with cutting-edge and technologically advanced design solutions throughout hotel Living Rooms (the W brand’s re-interpretation of the hotel lobby) and guestrooms globally.
The winners were selected by an international jury that included Jan Boelen of the Design Academy Eindhoven and Z33; Tony Chambers of Wallpaper* magazine; Aric Chen of M+ Museum Hong Kong; Alexis Georgacopoulos of Ecole Cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL); Marianne Goebl of Design Miami/; Benjamin Loyauté, author, curator and journalist; and Mike Tiedy of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, parent company of W Hotels Worldwide.
Qualifying candidates for the W Hotels Designers of the Future Award must have created original works in the fields of furniture, lighting, craft, architecture and/or digital/electronic media. Candidates must have been practicing for less than 15 years and have produced a body of work that demonstrates originality in the creative process, while also exhibiting an interest in working in experimental, non-industrial or limited-edition design.
Previous winners of the W Hotels Designer of the Future Award, including Philippe Malouin, Markus Kayser, Tom Foulsham, Asif Khan, Beta Tank, Graham Hudson, Mischer’Traxler, Random International, Studio Juju and Zigelbaum & Coelho, continue to celebrate their successes. W Hotels guides each award winner from the conceptual stage to a level, which ultimately provides a global platform whereby they can expose their work to guests and design enthusiasts alike.
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News: Ikea has announced that it is to produce miniature versions of some of its most popular products for children to play with.
The set of doll’s house furniture is called Huset and features the Klippan sofa, Lack table, Expedit shelving unit and Vago chair.
It will be available from the beginning of August, when Ikea launches its 2014 catalogue, and will be priced at £12.
Packaging for the petite products features illustrations of interior items such as clocks and picture frames that can be cut out and used as a backdrop.
Ikea’s children’s business leader Carol McSeveney told the Evening Telegraph that research shows “lots of kids want to create doll’s houses for their toys that reflect their own homes – furnished in a more modern style, with plenty of space to store all the accessories, of course.”
Last week, Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad resigned from the company’s board, saying that Ikea was undergoing a “generational shift” – see all stories about Ikea.
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German designer Philipp Weber’s glassblowing pipe with valves like a trumpet won the New Talents Award at DMY Berlin last week (+ movie).
Philipp Weber studied at Design Academy Eindhoven, where he became intrigued by the glassblowing process and the possibility of altering the outcome by adapting the blowing pipe.
He added a system of valves to the pipe so that Belgian glassblower Christophe Genard could influence the inner shape of the glass by opening and closing different air streams.
A video documenting the use of the new instrument focuses on the sounds and rhythms created as the glass is formed by blowing and manipulating it using a series of tools.
“The relation between the glassblower and his tool is very important, since it bridges his connection to the material,” says Weber. “What if I change the tool? Does it change the material? And what if design doesn’t start at the product but at the tool?”
The DMY International Design Festival Berlin is one of the stops on our Dezeen and MINI World Tour, and we’ll be publishing more stories and videos from the event in the next few days.
Last week a glass pendant with a tiny brass chandelier inside it was presented at ICFF in New York, while Norwegian designers StokkeAustad and Andreas Engesvik created a series of blown-glass trees for Stockholm Design Week earlier this year – see all stories about glass.
Here are some more details about the project:
In ‘Creation of a strange Symphony’ Philipp Weber portrays the performance of a glassblower using a new and unusual tool.
Pivotal to this work was Weber’s desire to discover the world of a glassblower. In Belgium he was able to watch glassblower Christophe Genard working with the hot material. The designer questioned himself, ‘How can I inspire his interest to work with me?’.
Genard’s most important tool, the blowing pipe, caught Weber’s attention. In the past 2000 years only minor alterations have been made to the 1.5m long steel pipe, with no effect to the material. ‘What would happen to the glass if the function of this tool radically changed? How would Christophe adapt to a new pipe?’.
And so, by manipulating the pipe, he took influence on the inner shaping of the glass.
Simultaneously to this process, Weber also sensed a strong rhythm and musicality in the way Genard was working on the glass. The pipe as a tool for glass production, appeared to be like a musical instrument to him.
He could not resist the idea to translate the mechanism of a trumpet into an application for blowing glass.
Together with an engineer and the knowledge from preceding experiments for a new tool, he worked on an ‘instrument’ – an allegoric bond of craft and music – inspiring Genard to ‘improvise’ the glass, to start a dialogue with the material.
Playing the valves, Genard would shape the glass from inside, activating different air streams. The transformation of the pipe into an instrument provoked a performance of glass making. A short-movie, several glass objects and the instrument itself communicate this dance with the fire.
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The head of this lamp by London designer Klemens Schillinger can rotate freely without the interruption of wires.
Schillinger‘s Lamp 11811 is lit by LEDs inside a disc, which can spin on an axis in a full circle thanks to a series of elements that pass electricity through the metal structure.
A conventional power cable runs up the long thin stem from the base, branching into positive and negative through bows on either side of the disc.
The electricity is then transmitted to the LEDs via slip rings made from small copper tubes, which have permanent contact with aluminium holes in the bows.
Bespoke 3D-printed nylon parts sit between the metal parts to secure them in place. Other components are laser-cut from standard tubes.
The anodised aluminium light is designed as table and floor versions. Photos are by Leonhard Hilzensauer.
Recent lamps on Dezeen include a swivelling wall-mounted bedside light and a glass lightbulb with a tiny chandelier inside.
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