Avec cette série « Ricettario : A balanced diet », l’artiste italienne Elena Mora basée à Hambourg nous propose des sculptures très amusantes composées essentiellement de nutriments équilibrés, et en équilibre. Des créations photographiées par Karsten Wegener à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
by LinYee Yuan When The Future Perfect opened its doors on a then-quiet block in Brooklyn’s artist outpost of industrial Williamsburg, they were described as carrying “home décor pieces that poke fun not only at…
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If glamorous camping is “glamping,” does that make designer camping “damping?” Whatever you call the pristine, outdoors-inspired objects in “Off the Grid”—the collaboration between designer François Chambard of UM…
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As the official color of living plants, green is a highly appropriate hue for Ploom to choose as the latest shade for their kazoo-shaped vaporizer, the Pax. The San Francisco-based tobacco start-up launched the convenient, portable smoking device nearly a year ago…
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La marque Lego a installé le 23 mai sur Times Square à New York un chasseur X-Wing issu de l’univers « Star Wars » en grandeur nature. Composé de plus de 5 millions de briques, cet objet de 20 tonnes a demandé près de 17 000 heures de travail par une équipe de 32 personnes. Une installation à découvrir en images.
News: architecture firm dRMM will install 20 interlocking wooden staircases outside St Paul’s Cathedral for the London Design Festival in September.
Unveiled this morning at the London Design Festival 2013 press preview, the design comprises a complex configuration of steps to be made from 44 cubic metres of tulipwood. Visitors will be invited to climb the structure and use it as a viewpoint towards the River Thames, Millennium Bridge and Tate Modern.
“Endless Stair is a three-dimensional exercise in composition, structure and scale,” said dRMM co-founder Alex de Rijke. “The Escher-like game of perception and circulation in timber playfully contrasts with the religious and corporate environment of stone and glass in the city.”
The structure will be made of cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels, which are usually created by layering up softwoods to form cheap and stable panels for fast construction. This installation will instead use a sustainable hardwood – tulipwood – to form lighter and stronger hardwood CLT panels for the first time.
The Endless Stair will be created in association with the American Hardwood Export Council and engineered by Arup. A lighting scheme for the spot will be developed by London studio Seam Design using products from LED company Lumenpulse.
The same team delivered Amanda Levete’s Timber Wave installation outside the V&A museum for the 2011 London Design Festival. The American Hardwood Export Council worked with Royal College of Art students on twelve wooden chairs at last year’s festival.
Alex de Rijke is dean of the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London. Previous architecture projects by dRMM include a golden wedding chapel by the seaside and a house with mobile walls and roof.
The London Design Festival 2013 takes place from 14 to 22 September. See more design events taking place throughout the year on our World Design Guide.
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Product news: a tap presented by French designer Philippe Starck in New York this week uses half as much water as regular taps.
Ninety jets spurt combinations of air and water to give the sensation of more falling water than is actually being used. These nozzles are made of silicon to prevent limescale formation.
“We have created a new type of water, which we call ’empty water’,” Starck told Dezeen. “You have the feeling of having a lot of water, but with less.”
Designed for bathroom brand Axor, the Organic faucet is turned on at the nozzle to either an economy or a boost setting, keeping the hands low in the bowl to avoid splashing the surrounding basin and surfaces.
The temperature is preset at the top of the tap, so water comes out at the desired warmth each time it’s used and none is wasted while fumbling to adjust the heat. “When we change temperature we lose a lot of water,” said Starck. “We don’t need to change temperature – we always use water at more or less the same temperature. That’s why we’ve added a pre-set feature.”
Its shape is derived from natural forms. “It’s something very, very pure,” he said. “The lines come from our body, from vegetation.” This version is a development of the Starck’s original design for Axor (below), first conceived 20 years ago and influenced by a simple outdoor farm tap.
We’ve recently featured a combined tap and hand dryer by Dyson, and other faucets on Dezeen include gently rounded bathroom fittings by Matteo Thun & Partners and a curving sculptural tap by Zaha Hadid.
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Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: this wall mounted shelving unit by London designer Michael Marriott is now being produced by design brand Very Good & Proper (+ slideshow).
Originally designed for SCP in 2000 but discontinued a few years later, Marriott‘s extendable shelves have been reissued by Very Good & Proper.
The folded steel shelves are mounted on stainless steel hoops attached to oak brackets, as either three- or five-hoop configurations.
Colour options include grey white, anthracite grey, sulfur yellow, light green and black red, plus others are available for special orders.
To celebrate the re-issue, the products can be purchased from the brand’s online shop at a 10% discount for 2 weeks, using the code CDW2013 at the checkout.
The shelves were on show at Clerkenwell Design Week, which concluded on Thursday.
Very Good & Proper was formed to produce the furniture for restaurant chain Canteen and also salvaged London Underground tiles for the interior of its Covent Garden branch.
Recently we’ve featured storage systems held together with plastic clips and a shelving unit that concertinas flat.
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Les équipes d’Act Romegialli Architects ont conçu cette «boîte verte», une magnifique rénovation d’un petit garage désaffecté appartenant à une résidence située sur les Alpes Raethian. Une superbe structure mêlant acier et végétation superbement envahissante à découvrir en images dans la suite.
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