by Stephen Pulvirent Back in 2011, after serving as global creative director of Donghia—a brand best known for textiles—designer Thomas Fuchs met Michou Mahtani, then global brand director for Remy Martin Louis XIII. The encounter marked the perfect opportunity to bring to life Fuchs’ love of Murano glass, which was…
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Après l’annonce de l’impressionnante Lamborghini Veneno, voici une nouvelle annonce dans le cadre du salon de l’automobile de Genève avec la « supercar » de Ferrari. Intitulée LaFerrari, elle sera vendue un million d’euros et sera produite à seulement 499 exemplaires. Plus d’images dans la suite.
News: a library dedicated to design has opened in South Korea’s capital city, offering access to over 11,000 books chosen by an international team of curators and critics.
The Hyundai Card Design Library is backed by the country’s largest credit card issuer, which claims “there are few design museums and libraries in Korea, whereas Korean colleges every year churn out more than 30,000 novice designers.”
A team including British critic and Golden Lion-winner Justin McGuirk, MoMA curator Paola Antonelli and New York architecture and design journalist Alexandra Lange was brought in to select the books, which cover topics including architecture, industrial design, graphics, photography and branding.
Of the 11,678 books selected for the library’s shelves, more than 7000 aren’t available anywhere else in South Korea and over 2600 are either out of print or very rare.
The firm also hopes the initiative will appeal to a cultured group of potential customers: “It makes people feel that if you have a Hyundai Card, you get access to an enriched lifestyle,” says a spokeswoman.
While most libraries are open to the general public or to academic communities, this library can only be accessed by the company’s credit cardholders and their guests, and then a maximum of eight times each month.
Alongside the book collection, the library contains a cafe and an exhibition space, while on the second floor is an area for reading and discussing ideas around a large steel table. The top floor contains a small attic-like space inspired by a reading room in an old Korean palace where princes could concentrate quietly on their studies.
The curatorial team also wrote commentaries on nearly 1000 of the selected books, which can be read through an iPad app available to library users.
Located in Gahoe-dong, an area once home to Seoul’s scholars and noble classes, the library was designed by architect Choi Wook of Seoul studio One o One.
Earlier this year we reported that a fully digital public library without a single book is set to open this autumn in San Antonio, Texas, while in New York, architectural firm Foster + Partners is planning to completely overhaul the city’s public library – see all libraries on Dezeen.
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Product news: the lids of these pans by New York designer Karim Rashid have large, brightly coloured hooks for handles.
The lid handles fold over so they can be grasped easily and latch onto a rail system mounted on the kitchen wall.
The handles of the black aluminium pans have holes in and sit under the lids when stored away, allowing them to hang together from the same rail.
Unveiled by Italian cookware brand TVS at Ambiente 2013 in Frankfurt last month, the cooking set includes a frying pan, sauté pan and sauce pan, all with a choice of handle colours.
New York designer Karim Rashid has also designed a sofa with modular arms and headrest and renovated the metro station for the University of Naples.
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Here’s some more information from TVS:
Hook by Karim Rashid
“The kitchen is the busiest room in any house and contemporary architecture is increasingly making it a feature point, a reception area in the home. This is why the cookware range needs to and can be integrated as a part of the design progress, going on to become the true focus of the room as well as representing the heart and soul of the person who uses it every day.”
He has travelled the highly imaginative universe of “the pan that isn’t there” on a mission for TVS. Karim Rashid, legendary design star with ambitions to change the world (one of the most prolific minds of our time, with over 2000 industrialised designs for interiors, fashions, furnishings, lighting, art and music) that go straight to the heart of our emotions.
And moving on from the simple axiom above, in which today’s new humanism sets the home at the centre of our personal universe – and makes the kitchen the pulsing heart of the home – the result is a curious, irresistible Captain Hook.
Yes, Hook. That is the name of the brilliant new invention by TVS, which has transformed high-gauge aluminium into a complete range of exclusive cookware, with a rich communication potential.
A jaw-dropping effect, created by hanging the pans from the wall using the patented hanging rail and hooks plus eccentric handles in a mix of colours to contrast with the body of the pans. A range that is young at heart, built to be at the centre of any dj – sorry, cooking – set.
Essential, young looking and handy. With its magnetic feel, Hook connects to our lifestyle, bringing with it a large dose of good humour. Space problems are solved and really, all it is missing is a “share” button. TVS fans, modern Peter Pans flying over their lives with the gift of ubiquity, mp3 player in their ears and a wooden spoon in place of a sword, will be thanking Karim as they go.
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British fashion designer Gareth Pugh sent models down the runway in dresses made from strips of bin liners during his Paris Fashion Week show.
Pugh shredded the rubbish bags into strips then layered them up to create outfits and accessories that look like pom-poms.
The material is also tightly woven into dresses, a coat and a scarf, with the edges left frayed to create volume.
The bags were purchased from a pound shop in Stoke Newington, close to where Dezeen’s offices are based.
The collection also featured floor-length robes in heavy fabrics that are bunched and creased asymmetrically around the top, sometimes only covering one arm.
Sleeves are continued upward, skimming past the shoulders to form stiff collars in rings much wider than the neck, which sit just below chin level.
Some garments splay out at the waist, while others flare from the bust to form triangular silhouettes.
Leather wrap coats are folded over at the top to create giant collars that reach down to the waist.
Embroidered gold branches creep up from the hems of white dresses and coats.
Injections of blue are the only colours seen intermittently between the largely monochrome garments.
The collection was inspired by the Asgarda tribe of women, who live in the Ukraine’s Carpathian mountains.
Pugh’s show took place at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild in Paris on 27 February 2013.
Elsewhere during Paris Fashion Week, Sylvio Giardina showed outfits constricted by fabric sausages.
Gareth Pugh’s ballet costumes featured in our Designed in Hackney showcase of work by creatives in the east London borough – click here for more Designed in Hackney content.
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Fubiz a le plaisir de vous présenter, en partenariat avec Samsung, l’Issue 18 de son programme hebdomadaire Fubiz TV. Au sommaire cette semaine, nous avons sélectionné le meilleur de l’actualité et nous avons rencontré le duo de réalisateurs We Are From L.A. L’interview est à découvrir en vidéo dans la suite.
Product news: these matchboxes from Danish design brand Hay are decorated only with the red phosphorus ink that’s used for striking matches.
Designed by American product designer Shane Schneck and Swedish graphic designer Clara von Zweigbergk, the Strike Matchbox gives prime position to the striking surface, which is normally squeezed onto one side. “We simply flipped the space devoted to the activity of creating a flame,” says Schneck. “99% of matchboxes are used only for advertising.”
There are seven different sizes in a variety of bright colours, with patterns in varying scales. Hay presented the product in Paris and Stockholm.
Husband and wife Schneck and von Zweigbergk also worked together on the art direction for Hay’s catalogue featuring blocks of bold, bright colour, and Schneck was the designer behind the wooden chair with a cantilevered seat that Hay presented in 2010.
See more products by Hay here, including glassware by Scholten & Baijings that was also shown in Paris and Stockholm.
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Product news: items in this furniture range by Paris-based designer Arik Levy have wooden bases inspired by traditional Japanese footwear.
Arik Levy modelled the elevated solid oak bases of the sideboards and sofas on geta sandals, which are made of flat planks raised on wooden teeth.
Modular sideboards come in different configurations of cupboards, shelves and drawers and can be customised with a range of timbers, veneers and painted lacquers.
Geta seating systems are also modular, available as an armchair or sofa with foam and fibre cushions plus optional storage arms or tables.
The furniture range is currently in production with British brand Modus and will be shown at Edit by designjunction in Milan next month.
Other designs to be released in Milan include twisting auditorium seats by Zaha Hadid and PearsonLloyd’s stacking chairs with colourful legs.
Arik Levy has also designed an installation that uses body movements to mutate computer-generated crystals and a pebble-shaped device for opening water bottles.
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Le FabCafé, situé dans le quartier de Shibuya à Tokyo, propose pour le White Day (journée située un mois après la Saint Valentin) d’imprimer « une réplique 3D en guimauve » d’une personne à partir de photographies. Une initiative technologie insolite et drôle, à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
When ascending the stairs leading up to Fredericks and Mae’s third floor studio in Bushwick, you can smell the alluring scent of a wood shop from the first step. And once you enter inside the quiet but bright space, the fragrance becomes intoxicating, adding olfactory depth to the ongoing…
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