We’ve been following the all-new Bentley Flying Spur from its sneak peek in London to its debut at Geneva’s International Auto Show and to the factory in Crewe, where we saw the first production car roll down the assembly line (you’ll see…
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Focus sur le travail de Ben Thomas qui est un photographe australien de talent. Avec sa série « Accession », cet artiste nous propose de repenser la ville en manipulant, dupliquant et en multipliant ces clichés pour un résultat impressionnant. Une série à découvrir de manière complète en images dans la suite.
Cologne designer Thomas Schnur has created squishy lamps made out of rubber.
The electrical components of these lamps by Thomas Schnur are encased in a heat-resistent silicone shell, molded into the form of a traditional desk lamp.
An articulated steel rod concealed within the rubber casing allows the lamp to be angled as desired.
The lamps were on show at the Salone Satellite showcase for young designers at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last month.
Schnur presented the lamps alongside a pair of room dividers, which were also on display at the Objects for the Neighbour exhibition as part of design at imm Cologne earlier this year.
This isn’t the first time Schnur has worked with rubber. A couple of years ago the designer made a rubber table with suction cups on the legs.
We recently featured a couple of chairs made entirely out of rubber.
Photography is by Alexander Böhle.
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Here’s a description from the designer:
‘Rubber Lamp’ is created by the interest in rubber and the in and outside of products. The table lamp consists of two parts: The flexible steel rod, the switch, the electricity components inside and the heat resistant silicone outside.
The cover protects the inner components and gives the lamp an organic and warm attitude. The shape of the lamp preserves the original form because there is no reason to change the anonymous designed shape.
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Le studio japonais de design Nendo a conçu l’intérieur du nouveau magasin de chaussures de la marque espagnole « Camper » à New York. Les équipes ont couvert les murs avec plus de 1000 chaussures blanches. Une création étonnante à découvrir en images dans la suite l’article.
Red clay normally used for flower pots and roof tiles has been made into lamps by Slovakian designer Tomas Kral.
“The idea is to turn the exterior use of this material and create objects for domestic use,” explains Kral.
The Terracotta lamps have a matt exterior and are finished with a glossy white glaze inside.
Light shines from an open cone that rests on a base shaped like a milk bottle, with options for one or three shades.
Black cord connects the shade and base tops then runs out the bottom to the power supply.
First released in 2011, the lights are produced for Spanish design brand PCM Design.
Tomas Kral has also designed a set of small silicon pots and a stationary case that clamps pencils between its jaws.
Our most recent stories about domestic lighting includes a series influenced by glass vats found in a milking parlour and pendant lights made from 26 cable ties.
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Dutch design office Rietveld Landscape has built an arched foam screen with hundreds of building-shaped holes inside a disused chapel at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht (+ slideshow).
Rietveld Landscape designed the screen as a reversal of its Vacant NL exhibition from the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, where a suspended model city was used to demonstrate the potential of 10,000 vacant government spaces in the Netherlands.
Here, the installation presents the “negative spaces” of the model city and stretches from the floor of the mezzanine all the way up to the ceiling. It will form a backdrop to a changing selection of objects from the museum’s collection of applied arts and design from the last two centuries.
“The blue window literally and figuratively sheds a new light on the space and complements the architecture of this medieval chapel,” says the studio.
The installation is on show at the Centraal Museum until 31 January 2014.
Rietveld Landscape is a design and research office based in Amsterdam. Its other projects include an installation that looked like a burning building and a criss-crossing bridge. See more architecture by Rietveld Landscape.
Photography is by Rob ‘t Hart.
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Pretty Vacant
The installation Pretty Vacant by design and research studio Rietveld Landscape encourages visitors to take a fresh look at the empty spaces of the Centraal Museum. The blue window literally and figuratively sheds a new light on the space and complements the architecture of this medieval chapel. The window is based on the ‘negative spaces’ of Rietveld Landscape’s earlier installation Vacant NL, which was the Dutch submission for the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010. The installation in the Gerrit Rietveld-designed pavilion in Venice showed the enormous potential of 10,000 disused public buildings in the Netherlands from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.
Rietveld Landscape’s work fits in well with the Centraal Museum aim to acquire work at the intersection of art, design and architecture. Rietveld Landscape is a young studio that represents in an outstanding way the new developments at this intersection. Museum Director Edwin Jacobs described them as “the talents in field of spatial interventions, without equivalent in any existing architectural or theoretical discourse. They are real new-thinkers in images.”
Through the acquisition of this installation by Rietveld Landscape with support from the Mondriaan Fund, the Centraal Museum has realised its ambition of adding Vacant NL to the ‘Collectie Nederland’.
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Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: Zaha Hadid has opened a gallery in Clerkenwell, central London, to display her furniture and design to the public (+ slideshow).
The ground floor and lower floor of the Zaha Hadid Design Gallery contains furniture, lighting, jewellery and paintings by the architect.
There’s also a floor of architectural models upstairs, available to view by appointment.
The space was previously home to a pop-up hair salon designed by Hadid during last year’s London Design Festival.
Following the launch during Clerkenwell Design Week, the gallery and showroom is now open to the public from Tuesday to Saturday between midday and 6pm at 101 Goswell Road, London, EC1V 7EZ.
We reported on the highlights from the design fair last week, including lamps that look like vats from a milking parlour and a target made of reflective pixels that change with the light – see all products and events from Clerkenwell Design Week.
Last week two temporary wing-like seating stands were removed from Hadid’s Aquatics Centre at the London 2012 Olympic Park, allowing the building to be seen for the first time as it was originally designed.
Developers recently unveiled images of Hadid’s proposed 60-storey residential skyscraper in Miami, USA – see all architecture by Zaha Hadid.
Photographs are by Luke Hayes.
Here’s some more information about the gallery:
Zaha Hadid Design Gallery
Zaha Hadid Design opens a new Gallery and Showroom featuring innovative product and furniture designs over 2 floors. Also featuring paintings and other artwork by Zaha Hadid.
Zaha Hadid Design creates a wide variety of pieces for living and for the home, from sculptural jewellery to limited edition furniture, experimenting with architectural projects at a small scale, exploring the latest technological and material innovations, as well as responding directly to commercial briefs.
Her portfolio spans a concept for an entire room to bespoke jewellery commissions. The gallery, arranged over two floors, is the first opportunity to view exclusive new designs recently shown in Milan, alongside a showcase of iconic products and original artwork.
Many of the products are available to buy so if you are interested please ask. The space hosts an ever-changing programme of exhibitions and collaborations. We have recently hosted a pop-up hair salon and we regularly showcase emerging fashion and jewellery designers.
As an architect and designer, Zaha Hadid’s designs explore spatial concepts at all scales, from the city to individual product, interior and furniture commissions.
Her projects are internationally renowned and have won the Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize in two consecutive years.
She was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2004, becoming the first woman to receive architecture’s highest honour, and her Aquatics Centre was the centrepiece of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. She is also engaged in experimental research, leading an architectural practice and teaching.
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Product news: the seat of this chair by Venetian designer Luca Nichetto is made of folded felt.
Called Motek, the design by Stockholm-based Luca Nichetto for Italian brand Cassina is pressure-moulded to make it rigid enough to support a person’s weight without losing the lightweight qualities of the fabric.
Origami-inspired folds give extra support to the structure.
The design comes with wooden or steel legs and there’s also a version upholstered in leather.
Nichetto presented the chair at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last month, where he also showed cabinets carved with geometric patterns for Casamania and a TV-like lamp for Foscarini – see all design by Luca Nichetto.
Read our interview with the new Salone del Mobile president on how he plans to tackle issues that “damage Milan” and see all our stories about Milan 2013.
Other felt products we’ve featured recently include a chair with a pressure-moulded seat by Patricia Urquiola for Moroso and a seed-shaped pod for working or napping in peace – see more stories about designs in felt.
Here’s some more information from Luca Nichetto:
The inspiration behind Motek chair is a sheet of paper, which is flexible and lightweight by its very nature. Originally, a sheet of paper cannot bear weights, but the Japanese art of origami – which, with a series of folds, creates forms and structures that can support weights – the same sheet takes on a new lease of life.
Thanks to a new technology for Cassina, such as pressure molding, a sheet of felt is folded, which will bring the necessary rigidity to the body of the chair for it to support weights without losing the lightness of the original material.
In this project, the search for details and the experimentation with materials typical of the collaboration between Nichetto and Cassina led to a felt version of the chair, which comes in three different shades, as well as to a leather version, where the seams highlight the folds characterizing the aesthetics of the seat.
The adaptability to the different consumers’ tastes is yet another feature sought by Nichetto for Motek, which was obtained through a series of combinations of structure, legs and body.
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James Turrell a créé pour le musée Guggenheim de New York une installation spécifique appelée sobrement « Aten Reign ». C’est la première installation du célèbre artiste américain à New York depuis 1980. De merveilleux espaces colorés sont donc à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Light from small ceramic pendants is bounced off large steel bowls to form these lamps by London designers Studio Vit.
The Globe lights comprise matte ceramic spheres on long flexes, which can be used on their own, grouped together or directed onto the bowls.
Each steel bowl is painted gloss white and they can either be placed on a surface or wall-mounted.
“The collection explores how geometric volumes relate to each other and the juxtaposition of materials and light,” say Studio Vit designers Helena and Veronica.
The pair presented their work at the Salone Satellite showcase for young designers at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last month.
Past projects by the Swedish duo include glass lamps with marble collars and a modular storage system comprising eleven different boxes.
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Photographs are by Annabel Elston.
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