The design and quality that went into creating the Copenhagen-and-Stockholm-based Skandinavisk’s inaugural set of blue and white candles caught our eye last December, and their more colorful second batch signals the arrival of spring. The…
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L’artiste sud-africaine Barbara Wildernboer fait de jolies sculptures en papier à partir de livres ou d’objets divers et variés tels que des cloches en verre, des mailles de laine et des cartographies. Des oeuvres créatives originales et tout en relief sont à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Découverte de ce petit automate en bois qui est destiné à imiter l’effet d’une goutte d’eau tombant sur une masse d’eau. La pièce a été créée par le designer britannique Dean O’Callaghan. Un objet « Water Imitated by a Wood Automaton » à la fois esthétique, et ludique à découvrir en détails en photos et vidéo.
Le photographe Egor N a fait une série de photos amusante « Anti Gravity Coffee Time » qui joue avec des tasses de café, du lait et des soucoupes en apesanteur, où tous les liquides sont figés dans les airs formant de très jolis mouvements. Sa série est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Milan 2014: Designer Tom Dixon will present a range of furniture and metallic lighting that references British members’ clubs in Milan next month.
Tom Dixon describes his Club series as a modern take on old gentlemen’s clubs found in the UK. “A misspent youth spent in the London warehouse club scene and a series of experimental private club interiors are the reasons why we have chosen to reinvigorate the fabled British members’ club into a futuristic social environment,” said the designer.
The series features a wide pendant light called Flood, which has been created using injection-moulded polymers commonly used in the automotive industry. The designer’s well-known metallic Beat pendant lights have been recoloured in a matte grey with an internal silver plate.
Other additions to the Beat collection include table and floor lights with shades based on water vessels used in India.
The new Pivot collection consists of three rotating pieces of furniture, including a high-backed chair, a curved low-backed chair and a bar stool. These are constructed using an internal metal frame and covered with foam upholstery. Each piece sits on a die-cast aluminium base.
The Y table has a plain black plastic top and comes in two sizes. A coloured enamel insert can be added.
Tom Dixon’s Club series will be on show at this year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile trade fair in Milan from 8 to 13 April.
Photography is by Peer Lindgreen.
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Designer Tom Evans has developed a range of parenting gadgets that look like collectable toys.
Calling the collection Bleep Bleeps, Evans took normally sterile objects such as a baby monitor, thermometer and fertility tester, and styled them with details resembling faces, bright colours and fun names in a bid to make them more family-friendly.
“There’s a bunch of gadgets and devices out there to help parents, but most of them are dull and uninspiring,” Evans told Dezeen. “I want to make parenting easier for myself but I also care what things look like too.”
The parenting devices all sync with a smartphone app that provides alerts, tracks data to help identify patterns and offers advice.
“More and more things in life have the potential to be controlled by our smartphones,” said Evans. “The whole Internet Of Things scene was exploding and I saw an opportunity in uniting three very disparate worlds: parenting, connected devices and great design.”
The first prototyped device was a thermometer called Tony Tempa (after rapper Tinie Tempah). It comes with a bow tie and takes an in-ear reading that is immediately displayed via an LED display on the back, and relayed to the app to track changing temperature during an illness.
The first product to be available though will be Sammy Screamer, a motion device that sends a push notification to the parent’s phone if it is moved.
With a Bluetooth range of 30 metres, Sammy is designed to be attached on any item the user wants to monitor – a door, buggy or the lid of a biscuit tin. The device also has an audible alarm with volume and sensitivity controlled via the app, and attaches using a magnet or loop.
Other products in the pipeline include a male fertility tester called Master Bates, an ovulation tester called Olivia P Sticks and a baby monitor called David Camera.
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La firme islandaise Arkibullan a construit les bureaux d’un cimetière d’église et une résidence pour les employés au coeur du cimetière de Gufunes en Islande. Incluant une chapelle, un cimetière et une église, ce bâtiment de 2 étages est moderne et minimaliste. A découvrir dans la suite.
Après la résidence Malbaie V, les architectes de chez MU Architecture ont pensé la résidence Malbaie VIII « La Grange » à Charlevoix au Québec. Faite tout en bois, elle offre une vue imprenable sur la forêt, une rivière et une chaine de montagnes avec ses deux étages et ses deux terrasses. Une belle bâtisse à découvrir.
A lamp by Finnish designer Tuomas Auvinen that fits neatly into the edges of a room has won this year’s Muuto Talent Award for students.
Tuomas Auvinen‘s 45° lamp is designed to utilise the often wasted space where a wall and ceiling meet.
“One day when entering an empty apartment, I wondered why the corners and angles were not better exploited, and then I came up with the idea for 45°,” said Auvinen.
The back of the lamp is shaped into a 90-degree angle so it can nestle between two perpendicular surfaces. The circular diffuser on the front is always at a 45 degree angle to the flat planes.
“Through its shape and versatility the lamp can be placed everywhere in the room and no matter how it is installed, it will cast the light in an angle of 45 degrees,” said Auvinen.
The lamp could be fixed into the upper corners of a space, suspended from a cord or left to rest on the floor.
The Muuto Talent Award competition is organised annually by Danish brand Muuto and is open to all design students studying at Nordic institutions.
This year’s first place winner Auvinen is currently enrolled at the Lahti University of Applied Sciences in Finland.
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Garments by Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent and Thierry Mugler feature in an exhibition of feathered fashion at Antwerp’s Mode Museum.
Birds of Paradise. Plumes and Feathers in Fashion at MoMu explores the application of the material through fashion history.
The exhibition is split into themed sections showcasing different textures, colours and uses of the material, with a focus on the designers who have adopted it for their apparel.
Visitors are greeted by a haute couture gown from Thierry Mugler‘s Spring Summer 1997 collection, which has bright feathers arranged in patterns like butterfly wings around an open back.
Fashion by late British designer Alexander McQueen, whose work heavily featured avian influences, is displayed and provides the poster image for the exhibition.
Feathers also feature prominently throughout the work of Belgian designer Ann Demeulemeester, who selected silhouettes that highlight her use of the material for the exhibition.
“Ever since I was a child I have had an enormous respect for feathers, and especially for pigeon feathers,” she said. “To me a pigeon feather is poetry of the mundane, a form of perfection that is to be found on the streets by everyone.”
Garments are on show by twentieth-century designers Cristóbal Balenciaga and Yves Saint Laurent, who both covered dresses in feathers during the 1960s.
Angelic white dresses covered in fluffy down are contrasted with sinister dark garments in shiny crow feathers by a variety of designers.
Sculptures by British artist Kate McGwire are dotted around the space. One large piece titled Gyre is made of crow feathers, often associated with bad luck.
A section is dedicated to fans, which were often made from elaborate arrangements of dyed ostrich plumes for use in the courts of Europe.
The garments and accessories are accompanied by paintings and taxidermy showing the species that different feathers come from.
The history of the plumassier – or feather worker – dating back to seventeenth-century France is also explained.
The exhibition continues until 24 August 2014.
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