Inspired by the evolution we’re currently witnessing within home and office environments, Herman Miller once again teamed up with Berlin-based design firm Studio…
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Milan 2013: leafy forests and palatial interiors become visible under different coloured lights in the latest series of wallpapers and screens by Milan design studio Carnovsky (+ slideshow).
The RGB Fabulous Landscapes installation at the Fondazione Adolfo Pini in Milan this month included a wallpaper that reveals various scenes depending on the colour of the LEDs shining on it.
The combination of red, blue or green light reveals the interior of a grand building, a dense forest or a marching crowd.
On the upper floor of the building, Carnovsky showed lacquered wooden screens and a handmade carpet decorated with animals and anatomical drawings, all limited editions produced by design brand Artep Italia.
In the courtyard outside, the designers installed the Atmospherics series of 20 screens depicting landscapes and meteorological phenomena, such as a sun bursting through the clouds.
Created in collaboration with Italian graphics and printing company Graphic Report, the scenes on each screen take on a different mood depending on the colour of the light.
Carnovsky was founded by designers Silvia Quintanilla and Francesco Rugi in 2007.
We first reported on the RGB series in 2010 when Johannsen Gallery in Berlin presented an exhibition of Carnovsky’s work, while in 2011 the studio used the wallpaper to deck out an east London bar and gallery.
Last year we featured a lamp that uses three different-coloured LEDs to cast cyan, magenta and yellow shadows on the walls.
Photographs are by Alvise Vivenza.
Here’s some more information from the designers:
Carnovsky – RGB Fabulous Landscapes
Fondazione Adolfo Pini, Corso Garibaldi 2, Milan
Milan Design Week 9-14 April 2013
Curator: Dalia Gallico
Printing and Set Construction: GraphicReport
Design Limited Edition: Artep Italia
For Milan Design Week 2013, Carnovsky continues its RGB project experimenting with new designs, new materials and new technologies, continuing the journey begun in 2010 on the interaction between printed and light colours. The main theme is the landscape in its different meanings. Atmospheric landscapes, architectonic and perspective landscapes, emotional landscapes, ephemeral landscapes in continuous movement.
In the colonnaded courtyard the Atmospherics series is presented for the first time, a series of sky landscapes and meteorological phenomena. The whole series comprises more than 20 pieces. One giant sky titled Atmospheric N.1, printed with an innovative technique of digital fresco of the Italian company GraphicReport and illuminated by RGB LED lights, creates a magical show of sunrises, sunsets and storms.
Within the space on the ground floor, another large installation that uses the work titled Landscape N.1, in which the viewer is immersed in an enchanted forest, gradually turns in an architectural interior. The exterior reverses in the interior and the vanishing point of the columns and the perspective planes expands the space multiplying it to the infinite.
Finally, in the rooms on the upper floor of the Foundation, a dialogue between antique and contemporary has been created, placing some Carnovsky’s limited editions produced by the Italian company Artep Italia like the screens in lacquered wood with antique engravings of animals and anatomy and the hand made carpets in a historical Milanese building.
Carnovsky has been working on some new limited editions which include a collection of screens (UV digital printing on lacquered wood), a collection of carpets hand-knotted in India and a collection of tapestries woven in Aubusson. Some of these objects including the three screens and a carpet were presented at the first floor of the Fondazione Pini as part of the RGB Fabulous Landscapes exhibition.
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Milan 2013: wingback armchairs by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón for Danish brand Republic of Fritz Hansen were unveiled in Milan earlier this month (+ slideshow).
Ro, meaning “tranquility” in Danish, features a curved seat shell that swoops out on both sides to form armrests and dips inward at the neck to follow the shape of the user’s body.
Separate rounded cushions for the headrest, back and seat are covered in a slightly different texture to the shell they sit in.
Two small buttons at chest height provide small details on the otherwise uninterrupted surfaces.
The chair is supported on four smooth, rounded legs that can be chosen in different coloured woods or metals.
Nine different fabric colour options and a variety of materials including leather and velvet are available.
Jaime Hayón debuted the chairs at the Republic of Fritz Hansen showroom in Milan and also presented a series of outdoor furniture for BD Barcelona during the city’s design week.
Other chair launches from the event we’ve featured include Konstantin Grcic’s Parrish collection for Emeco and Stefan Diaz’s trio of chairs for e15.
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Ro – the new comfort zone
The world-renowned Spanish designer Jaime Hayon has worked together with Republic of Fritz Hansen to create today’s answer to tomorrow’s easy chair. A chair where you can find room for your inner space and take a break from the hectic bustle of everyday life. The chair is called Ro and will be launched at Salone del Mobile 2013 in Milan.
Time for reflection is a luxury in today’s world. We are all busy and always short of time to create a moment for quiet contemplation. The new easy chair springs from a desire to create a piece of furniture that offers an opportunity for reflection in our busy lives.
However, Ro is much more than an easy chair. It’s a 11⁄2-seater where you can relax, change positions and have your newspaper, computer or child next to you and create a new comfort zone.
The design of the shell is elegant and simple, pleasing to both the eye and the body and offers the promise of tranquility in both its visual expression and its comfortable functionality. Furthermore, the form of the shell gives you the choice of being part of what goes on in the room or relaxing in your own private space.
Fritz Hansen’s design brief to Jaime Hayon was “… to create a comfortable seat for one person”. “We put a great deal of effort into the form of the chair, which is inspired by the human body. We wanted a chair that was comfortable as well as beautiful. My goal was to create a slim and elegant chair that encourages reflection and comfort,” says Jaime Hayon.
“Ro” means tranquility in Danish. The name was chosen because it captures the point of the chair in just two letters, thus reflecting the Nordic approach and concept of beauty.
Ro is made with great craftsmanship and in the highest sustainable quality. Combined with the sculptural and elegant design, the result is a functional and aesthetic chair that fascinates its surroundings. One seems to fall in love with it. Ro does not compromise on either comfort or aesthetics.
The easy chair is available in nine colours: three traditional options (black, grey and taupe), three bright colours (violet, blue and yellow) and three soft colours (light pink, sage-green and sand). For a more vibrant look, the chair features two different textures: one for the seat shell and one for the cushions, which supports the contrasted expression of the hard shell and the warm and soft interior.
Ro is launched in the Republic of Fritz Hansen’s showroom in Milan during Salone Internazionale del Mobile in April 2013. The easy chair will be available from Republic of Fritz Hansen and authorized retailers from September 2013.
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This outdoor urinal by French design studio Faltazi slots into a straw bale to recycle pee from festivalgoers into compost.
L’Uritonnoir is a cross between a urinal (“urinoir” in French) and a funnel (“entonnoir”) and was designed by Faltazi as a tidy and eco-friendly method of outdoor sanitation.
To set up a urinal, L’Uritonnoir is pushed into the side of a straw bale and fixed in a place by looping a strap through its top holes.
As the bale collects liquid, nitrogen from urine combines with carbon in the straw and starts a process of decomposition.
After use, the bale can either be taken to a local composting facility or left on the spot for six to 12 months to become compost, before being scattered on the soil or used as a planter.
The urinal comes in two versions – the flat-pack polypropylene DIY model and the stainless steel Deluxe model.
Production starts in June and the Uritonnoir will debut at French heavy metal festival Hellfest that month.
A couple of festival toilets have appeared on Dezeen before – a urinal designed for women and another urinal that straps around tree trunks.
We’ve also published a single-use, disposable toilet made for developing countries – see all toilets on Dezeen.
Here’s some more information from the designers:
L’Uritonnoir by Les Ekovores, part of Faltazi
Uritonnoir, french noun. This term refers to a sanitation facility intended to urinate in standing position. An uritonnoir is a hybridisation of two everyday products, an urinal and a funnel (literally in french, “urinnoir” et “entonnoir”). This system is used either used in public spaces during festive events (slotted into round bales) or in private gardens (slotted into small straw bundles). L’Uritonnoir is an utensil filling a volume of straw (carbon) with urine (nitrogen) in order to compost it during a 6-12 month period and convert it into humus.
Two models:
DIY model. Polypropylene version. Cut from a polypropylene sheet, this model is delivered flat. Then it is folded and put together thanks to closing tongues. You can customize this model with silkscreen printing.
Deluxe model. Stainless steel version. Designed in stainless steel, this model will resist climatic challenges.
Collective use for festival configuration:
Are you an open-air festival organiser? Are you wishing to adopt environment-friendly solutions? Do you consign glasses but would like to do more?
L’Uritonnoir is a simple and efficient solution providing a sanitation facility to festival fans and converting urine into compost. Once it is transformed into humus, it will naturally enrich surrounding soil and plants. After the round bale is positioned, simply slot into your Uritonnoirs and set them together with a strap! Your mission is to raise festival-goers’ awareness to dry urination, rinse water saving and urine upcycling. Setting Uritonnoirs up will relieve sitting toilets from men’s number ones, therefore your facility will be kept optimally clean. You may customise your Uritonnoirs by silkscreen-printing the vertical zone with pedagogical messages (the interest of straw and urine equation) or with your event’s graphic identity.
Once your festival is over, different solutions are available to manage with your round-bale soaked with urine:
» Municipal Garden Services transports it towards the closest composting facility and keeps it for horticultural use.
» The round bale stays and composts on-the-spot. Six months later the manure can be used by local farmers. The following year, it can be used as a giant planter to be enjoyed by new festival-goers !
Personal use for garden configuration
Do you use to go for a number 1 in the back of your garden? Do not waste this valuable golden fluid by sprinkling inappropriate surfaces! Convert your urine into humus instead by “uritonning” in a small straw bundle. About six to 10 months only are required before spreading this amazing composted manure around the base of your trees and plants.
Raise your friends’ awareness to this simple and essential gesture that respect nature, saves water and upcycles urine!
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Hackney artist Alex Chinneck has created a wall that melts in the sun as part of his research for a project to build a melting house.
Chinneck has been working on a melting house to be built in Kent, England, in the summer of 2014, but recently demonstrated the concept by constructing a two-metre-high wax wall that gradually became a pile of drips and rubble over the course of a day.
“Architecture and light have such an inseparable relationship and a building is rarely designed or built without consideration to the sun’s movement around it,” the artist told Dezeen. “The melting house is being designed to describe this relationship in a literal and theatrical way because the sun physically shapes the form.”
He continued: “I felt that my work was becoming so computer designed and engineered that I wanted to create a situation that sacrificed this kind of control. I like the idea of these wax structures being taken as far as a computer will allow before releasing the fate of the form to chance.”
Each block used to build the wall was made from dyed paraffin wax, cast to the same dimensions of a standard brick used in the British construction industry. The artist added sand to the steel casting trays, giving each brick a subtly different texture with its own unique imperfections.
He documented the melting of the wall for Art Licks Magazine. Although it was designed to diminish in just one day, it took longer than expected and Chinneck had to use a blowtorch to accelerate the process, highlighting the unpredictability of the design.
The house will be installed in Margate, Kent, next summer. Unlike the wall, it is expected to melt slowly over a period of eight weeks. “I like the idea of spectacle having a subtlety, so this steady transformation feels pleasingly calm in contrast to the bold concept,” added the artist.
Chinneck’s past artworks include a series of identically smashed windows at a derelict factory.
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New York fashion designer Aina Beck experimented with foil printing to create the dappled metallic patterns in her latest capsule collection.
“It’s been a long journey experimenting with textile foiling and screen printing to get it to this stage of accuracy and being able to develop the sharp, sleek, minimalistic look I was aiming for,” Beck told Dezeen.
The foil-printing process leaves a disintegrating effect on translucent fabrics such as silk, while screen printing onto denser materials like denim creates blotchy, faded patterns.
The collection includes a metallic body suit made from foil wrapped around the torso and each limb, finished in a flourish over one shoulder.
A train of crumpled blue foil cascades out from the back of a half white, half silver skirt, and a foil-printed dress in the same colour is structured to create a triangular silhouette.
Sheer button-down shirts are detailed with opaque seams and hems formed by layering the fabric.
“I wanted to make a small capsule collection that focussed on the details and processes behind the textiles, as well as wearability,” she said.
A graduate from Parsons The New School for Design in New York, Norwegian-born Beck chose to use blue, silver, grey and white as they are colours she usually wears, and handmade each garment herself.
Designs from other Autumn Winter 2013 collections we’ve featured include pleated blue garments by Jaimee McKenna and outfits tied up with knotted lengths of rope by Eilish Macintosh.
Photography by Dominik Tarabanski.
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