Le studio japonais Metaphys a imaginé ces buildings miniatures composés de jardins sur le toit, de ces maquettes très réussies. Les quatre designs Alley, Plaza, Tunnel & Zig Zag de 10 cm de hauteur composent cette collection appelée « Ienami ». Plus d’images dans la suite de l’article.
Dutch design studio Tjep. will launch a dining booth inspired by old train compartments at Ventura Lambrate in Milan next week.
Il Treno by Tjep. is a standalone dining booth inspired by the secluded compartments found on luxurious old trains like the Orient Express.
A table hangs down from the overhead rack and small metal steps on the side of the booth help diners into their seats.
The unit is made from ash or oak and comes in two versions, one with cupboards behind the seats and one without. It’s available through the studio’s website and will be presented at Ventura Lambrate in Milan from 9 to 14 April – see more news and products from Milan 2013.
The booths are based on a previous design by Tjep. for the interior of a Dutch pizzeria, while the studio’s other work includes a departure lounge with a slide in Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and a chair with one side hacked down to a skeletal form – see all design by Tjep.
Here’s some more information from the designers:
Amsterdam-based Tjep. seek to infuse Milan with some of their ‘tjepology’ in an exhibition at the Ventura Lambrate area of Salone Internazionale del Mobile. Founded in 2001 by prominent Dutch designer Frank Tjepkema, the studio has garnered a reputation for iconoclastic work across a broad field of expertise that includes award-winning interior, architectural, product, furniture, and jewellery design. Countering globalised uniformity, Tjep. design for those who seek to rediscover individualism.
Il Treno
A standalone piece, this daring item creates an intimate dining experience reminiscent of the old secluded train compartments on the Orient Express. Il Treno is about intimacy and romanticism: for there is nothing better than enjoying fine cuisine while being transported to new landscapes. This modular unit is handcrafted in Ash or Oak wood and comes in two versions, one with storage for your fine china and one without.
Location: Plusdesign gallery, Via Ventura 6, 20134 Milan
Opening times:
Tue–Sat 10:00–20:00
Sun 10:00–18:00
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Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in latest video from Design Indaba in Cape Town, Masashi Kawamura of Japanese creative agency PARTY talks about the pop-up 3D photo booth he ran in Tokyo last year.
The Omote 3D Shashinkan project, which we featured on Dezeen last year, gave customers the opportunity to buy a 3D-printed model of themselves or their family. “We wanted to find a new way to innovate the form of the family portrait and bring it to the next century,” Kawamura explains. “What happens is, when you come, we take a full 3D scan [of your body] using our portable scanners. People could actually bring back home their miniature figurines, instead of a 2D portrait that you normally get.”
PARTY used a colour 3D printer to produce the detailed models, which ranged from 10cm to 20cm high, but Kawamura believes there is still a lot of room for the technology to improve. “3D printing for me is a very exciting medium to play around with, but I think it’s still in a very early phase of development,” he says. “After doing this project we’ve learnt a lot of technical difficulties and a lot of things that could be done better in terms of technologies and also the materials that we use.”
But Kawamura is optimistic about the future possibilities of 3D printing. “Everything, I think, will get better in the next year or two; there’ll be significant improvements,” he says. “Just the idea that anyone could manufacture their own product is very, very interesting.”
This movie features a MINI Cooper S Countryman.
The music featured is by South African artist Floyd Lavine, who performed as part of the Design Indaba Music Circuit. You can listen to Lavine’s music on Dezeen Music Project.
See all our Dezeen and Mini World Tour reports from Cape Town.
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This half-scale model of a spiral staircase by American studio Matter Design is made from concrete treads that slip neatly over each other.
Above and top: photograph by Brandon Clifford
The Helix staircase by Matter Design was built at a reduced size to make it easier for the designers to experiment with heavy concrete modules.
The staircase also “celebrates its impracticality” at a smaller size, said designers Brandon Clifford and Wes McGee: “It is both column and stair, yet hangs from the ceiling. Its uncertainty and changed scale inject playful characteristics into the surrounding space, while maintaining an allegiance to the past and known.”
The treads were cast in a rubber mould clamped down by a carved wood mother-mould and then steamed for 12 hours to cure.
To build the staircase, each tread was hooked over a vertical rod and slotted against the tread below before being bolted down.
The design is on show until 15 May next to another staircase inside BSA Space, home of the Boston Society of Architects, as part of this year’s Design Biennial Boston.
We’ve featured a couple of concepts for spiral staircases recently, including one based on a whale’s backbone and another with fibreglass steps – see all staircases.
Other indoor uses for concrete include a lamp with a magnetic concrete base and a lamp shaped like a military listening device – see all concrete design.
Photographs are courtesy of Matter Design except where stated.
Here’s some more information from the designers:
Matter Design has announced the release of Helix as part of the Design Biennial Boston 2012 Exhibition at the Boston Society of Architects Space. This project is part of Matter Design’s research trajectory towards a contemporary stone architecture. Brandon Clifford and Wes McGee’s participation in this year’s Design Biennial Boston made this project possible.
As Clifford and McGee explain: “We have a pre-occupation with the translation of ancient and often lost methods into contemporary culture and practice. Helix is a product of an ongoing research agenda that centres on volume as an area of architectural exploration.”
Helix is a half-scale spiral stair. While this reduced size resolves a number of practical concerns —weight, liability, access — the piece celebrates its impracticality. It is both column and stair, yet hangs from the ceiling. Its uncertainty and changed scale inject playful characteristics into the surrounding space, while maintaining an allegiance to the past and known.
A second preoccupation of Clifford and McGee is what they term “plastic rhetoric”. The solid, heavy and volumetric action of casting concrete transforms a liquid matter into a solid mass that wants to crack. The stair’s rounded, plastic and curvaceous treads reflect the material’s earlier liquid state. Its twisting accelerates as it wraps around the support column, appearing to re-plasticise the figure. The entire construct’s organic and malleable appearance is counterintuitive in light of the zero-tolerance system of nesting and keying from unit to unit.

On Material and Fabrication
The stair is produced with precast unreinforced concrete. These treads are unreinforced to test some claims as the team move closer and closer to stone as a testing material. Unreinforced concrete has little to no tensile capacity making this project a structural prototype in collaboration with Matthew Johnson of Simpson Gumpertz & Heger. Each tread is cast in a fully encapsulated custom mould. These moulds are rubber with a solid wood mother-mould to clamp the assembly together. The moulds are vibrated rigorously during the pouring process and then immediately steamed for twelve hours to cure.
On Methods of Making
The entire stair assembly hangs from a beam two storeys tall. This beam then drops down a threaded rod to a base that serves as a pendulum balance. Each tread is designed to hook over this threaded rod and be bolted down to its neighbour below. The geometry of these treads lock into each other with a series of three-dimensional keys that reduce any shear or slipping between units. Typically a stone spiral stair is held from the perimeter. In this case, the stair is compressed in the column to ensure stability.
Credits: Brandon Clifford & Wes McGee — Matter Design
Structural: Matthew Johnson—Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Project Team: Aaron Willette, Austin Smith, Christopher Miller, Daniel Clark, Edrie Ortega, Elizabeth Galvez, Enas AlKuhdairy, Johanna Lobdell, Justin Gallagher, Lina Kara’in, Luisel Zayas, Matthew Sherman, Patrick Little, Rebecca Priebe, Sixto Cordero
Acknowledgements: Fabrication support by the University of Michigan TCAUP FABLab and Simpson Gumpertz & Heger. Material donations by Boston Sand and Gravel (Aggregate and Additives), Lehigh Northeast Cement Company (Type III Cement), and Headwaters Resources, Inc. (Fly Ash)
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Icelandic designers Katrin Olina and Garðar Eyjólfsson have teamed up to design a collection of circular aluminium tables, contrasting raw and uneven sand-cast surfaces with precise laser-cut legs.
Each solid aluminium table-top is unique and shows the traces of its production. “We wanted to show the rawness of the material” Olina told Dezeen.
The tables were on show during DesignMarch earlier this month as part of the exhibition 13Al+, which asked five different designers to explore the possibilities of using Icelandic aluminium in design and production. Katrin Olina and Garðar Eyjólfsson also showed designs for a collection of figurines, while other products presented included benches, tables, dumbbells and a rolling pin.
Dezeen spoke to Olina during Dezeen Live at 100% Design last summer, when she told an audience how she translates characters from her imagination into drawings, animations, products and interiors. Other projects by Olina on Dezeen include a rug depicting a fictional magician and a mural dedicated to “journeys without destination”. See more design by Katrin Olina.
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Product news: Swiss designers Big-Game will present new products including a coat hanger, a tray and a hammer in Milan next month.
Called Everyday Objects, Big-Game‘s show at Galleria 70 will feature Cargo, a collection of items for Italian brand Alessi that were inspired by the aesthetic of Swiss toolboxes from the 1930s. There’s a pair of small trays for storing anything from tools to stationary, plus a hammer with an ash handle.
For Japanese brand Karimoku New Standard, the designers have produced the Castor table to match their earlier Castor chair and stool.
The Castor tables come flat-packed and once assembled can be easily stacked. The round legs sit level with the tabletops at each rounded corner, so the tables can still be placed side-by-side.
Also on show at the exhibition will be Beam, an aluminium and ash coat hook that borrows its form from the peg rails in American Shaker houses. Beam is designed for Danish brand Hay.
Previous Big-Game projects featured on Dezeen include a series of cork toy boats launched in 2011 and the Bold chair from 2007 (below), which will also be shown as part of the Everyday Objects exhibition. See more design by Big-Game on Dezeen.
Everyday Objects will take place at Galleria 70, Corso di Porta Nuova 36/38, from 9 to 14 April.
Photography is by Michel Bonvin.
Here’s some more information about each product from Big-Game:
BIG-GAME presents new everyday objects for Alessi, Hay, and Karimoku New Standard.
BEAM coat hanger, prototype for Hay
We were always fascinated by the peg rails found in American Shaker houses. Instead of hiding the mess, they somehow make it manageable. So when we were asked to think about something that could be in entrances, we readapted this idea with a metal profile. You can slide in the amount of hooks you want. It can be short or long depending on where you want to put it. You can also leave a note on it.
CARGO box, prototype for Alessi
A while ago, we were asked by Alberto Alessi to design “anonymous Swiss objects”. As a reference, he gave us the classic 30’s Swiss metal toolboxes.
Our idea was to make some universal plastic containers with a wooden handle, bringing the functionality of toolboxes to the home. The CARGO boxes can be used to store all kinds of things, from stationery to sewing gear, tools to kitchen stuff.
CARGO hammer, prototype for Alessi
As a part of the series, we also made a simple hammer (everybody needs one at home).
CARGO catch all, prototype for Alessi
Along with two boxes and the hammer, the CARGO series also includes a circular catchall tray inspired by the traditional Japanese wooden carrying boxes called okamochi.
CASTOR chair, product for Karimoku New Standard
To design the CASTOR chair, we were inspired by the ergonomics of the wooden chairs that you find in old Swiss cafés that are famously very comfortable. It’s made in Japan from solid oak by a company called Karimoku New Standard. The wood comes from trees that have irregular shapes and generally end up as paper pulp. The company’s motto is: An object made of wood has to live at least as long as the tree it was made from.
CASTOR tables, prototype for Karimoku New Standard
Part from the chair, the CASTOR family also includes a stool, a bench, a shelf, and two tables. The tables are designed to be flat packed. Even though the feet are on the outside, the round edge has just the right dimension so you can put two tables together. We made them compact, as we wanted them to fit into various sized interiors, as well as cafés and restaurants. The tables stack, and the rectangle is twice the size of the square, so it’s easy to assemble them in various configurations.
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Recently launched with the mission to produce beautiful, simple objects for everyday use, General Manufacturing Concern is the latest project by former Best Made Co. designer Hunter Criaghill. The…
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