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Découvrez la dernière collaboration avec le New York City Ballet par JR qui a investi le David H. Koch Theater dans le cadre de la 2ème édition des Art Series. Au cœur du hall du théâtre, un oeil immense composé des 80 danseurs du ballet. Pour Fubiz, voici en exclusivité l’ensemble des œuvres présentées au NYC Ballet.
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French auto brand Renault has designed a concept car that launches its own drone from a hatch in the roof (+ slideshow).
The Renault Kwid Concept, unveiled at the Delhi Auto Show, is the first car to come with its very own unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which could help the driver scout ahead for traffic, take aerial photos of the surrounding landscape and detect obstacles in the road.
The device, referred to as a Flying Companion, is stored in a rotating rear portion of the Kwid’s roof when not in use. When activated, the panel slides open and the quadrocopter – named after the device’s four motors – can be operated in one of two modes.
In automatic mode, the drone flies along a pre-programmed flying sequence using in-built GPS. In manual mode, the UAV is controlled via a tablet built into the dashboard of the car.
“Customers in new markets are much younger,” explained Serge Mouangue, brand manager and innovative cooperative laboratory manager for Renault. “Their expectations are different and customers are basically gamers. They tend to take a closer interest in technology and want to enjoy themselves.”
The Kwid resembles an off-road buggy thanks to the oversized wings, mud guards and wheel arches. However, designers at Renault have suggested the car will come in two-wheel drive instead of four – meaning it’s more likely to be for city dwellers than rural ones.
The Kwid will come with a 1.2-litre turbocharged engine with a dual-clutch transmission, allowing the owner to drive in automatic or manual mode. Renault has suggested that it could also come with an electric motor. The interior features two-tone white seats with a yellow-trimmed dash. The chairs are wrapped in a web of white elastic polymer to give the impression the passengers are sat in a bird’s nest, according to designers on the project.
The driver is sat in the centre of a row of three, allowing the same model to be used in both left-hand, and right-hand drive markets.
In the rear, passengers can adjust the air-conditioning via a panel on the back of the driver’s seat, which also features ventilation ducts built in.
While just a concept for now, Renault has said the Kwid will go on sale within two years, with particular focus on the Indian market. “Young customers in India are often trend setters, looking forward to pushing the envelope when it comes to technology and enjoyable drives,” explained Gilles Normand, chairman of Renault’s Asia-Pacific Region.
“The Kwid Concept, with its Flying Companion, meets this forward-looking spirit with both its dynamic styling and hyper connectivity,” he added.
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A stuffed lamb with a table on its back and a drawer in its side is the latest addition to a collection of furniture based on the paintings of Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.
The Xai side tables have been created from taxidermy lambs by attaching a circular wooden surface onto their backs and inserting a drawer that opens from one side of their abdomens. Hooves have been replaced with decorative rococo bronze feet.
Their designer Oscar Tusquets Blanca referenced an image of a lamb with a telephone balanced on its spine and sliding storage in its stomach from Dalí’s 1942 painting Interpretation Project for a Stable-Library.
“We broke up the Interpretation Project for a Stable-Library painting where there appears a characteristic Dalí drawer, made up of a little lamb-table,” said Tusquets Blanca.
Twenty-one lambs were chosen from a Parisian slaughterhouse and sent to taxidermist Maison Deyrolle, where Dalí was a frequent customer during his lifetime.
The limited-edition set includes 20 white lambs priced at €36,500 (£30,350) each and a unique black piece costs €72,000 (£59,900).
The tables were commissioned by Spanish company BD Barcelona Design.
Tusquets Blanca, a close friend of the artist, started the Dalí Furniture Collection in 1972. Other items in the range include the Mae West Lips sofa designed by the artist himself in 1937.
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Stockholm 2014: Danish design brand Menu has started producing this two-legged side table that rests against the wall by Taiwan designer Kenyon Yeh (+ slideshow).
Part of the table’s circular top is folded upward so it rests flush against a vertical surface. This means that the Yeh Wall Table only requires two legs to stand up.
“The inspiration came from a cheerleader practice I passed by one day on my way to work,” said Yeh. “Two students were rehearsing strength and balance.”
“The male student was in sitting position up against a wall – but without a chair – and the female student was standing on his thighs,” he explained. “The table mimics the position of the male student, back resting on the wall and two legs angled away from the wall for stability.”
Powder-coated steel is used for the surface and thin tubular steel forms the legs.
Kenyon Yeh released the prototype for the side table in 2013, when it was called Kaki.
Menu recently began producing the table and exhibited the design at last week’s Stockholm Furniture Fair.
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Stockholm 2014: Berlin design studio Osko+Deichmann has extended its range of kinked tubular steel chairs for Swedish brand Blå Station.
The Superkink armchairs and sofas feature tubular steel frames that have been folded to produce sharp angles.
Osko+Deichmann’s kinking technique came about as an alternative to using soft curves when bending steel.
The designers’ method means that the metal does not lose its strength.
The Superkink chairs have upholstered seats and backrests, plus fabric loops that wrap around the armrests.
They were first shown Blå Station at Stockholm Furniture Fair last year but now come in a range of bright colours.
The pieces were created by Osko+Deichmann with the same techniques used for the studio’s previous Kink chairs and the colourful Straw chairs, which now come in a smaller size plus a bar stool and lounge chair.
They are made of lacquered, galvanised steel so are suitable for indoor and outdoor use. The designers have also added a three-legged table to the collection.
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The surrounding trees and sky will be reflected in a wide, shallow pool of water in this installation by Spanish architecture group Citylaboratory for a garden festival in Quebec, Canada.
The Rotunda installation by Citylaboratory will be created as part of the International Garden Festival at Les Jardins de Métis in Quebec this summer.
A large black basin will be filled with water to reflect the surrounding forest then left to be used by local wildlife.
“Conceived as a device capturing the beauty of nature, the intention is to transform the surrounding landscape into the garden itself by capturing what is outside its boundaries,” said the designers, who are based in Santiago de Compostela in north-western Spain.
“Water is used as a raw material to create a reflecting surface,” they continued. “The container is simply a frame that suspends water above the ground; a homogenous black object, assembled in a direct way, minimising the expression of assembly joints and the contact with the ground.”
Once the dish is filled with water, the idea is to leave it to evolve over time as a source of water for birds and other garden life. Like a regular pond, it will be subject to falling leaves and fluctuations in heat, light and weather.
The project is one of six winners in a competition to design an installation for the festival, which will take place from 28 June to 28 September 2014. The design was selected from nearly 300 proposals for contemporary gardens submitted by over 700 architects, landscape architects, designers and artists.
Previous installations at the festival include a garden full of mushrooms grown on walls of decaying books, which Dezeen featured at its inauguration 2010 and revisited again in 2012 once the fungi had time to develop on the books.
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Stockholm 2014: architecture studio TAF has designed a light that resembles a poster tube for Swedish brand Zero.
Revealed at this year’s Stockholm Furniture and Northern Light Fair, TAF‘s Poster light is designed to look like the kind of ordinary cardboard tube used to protect posters and other documents. The LED strip light even includes the ridges and cap found on a poster tube.
“For a long time we have been interested in transforming universal and general products into something new and unique,” said TAF designer and co-founder Mattias Ståhlbom.
“For us, keeping the aesthetic reference to something that we all can relate to is a way of making the objects more easily adopted,” he added. “We also found it interesting to work with the pipes concept because these kind of lamps are often hung from ceilings which have lots of existing pipes, like drainage and ventilation and so on.”
The Poster light is made from extruded aluminium and comes in black, white and the colour of cardboard.
This is not the first time TAF, founded by Gabriella Gustafson and Mattias Ståhlbom in 2002 and based in Stockholm, has taken inspiration from cardboard. Last year they created offices for a Stockholm branding and design agency with walls that look like cardboard boxes.
Neither are unusual strip lights a first for Zero: in 2012 Swedish firm Note Design Studio were inspired by a circus trapeze to create pendent lamps for the brand and in 2011 TAF themselves designed strip lights based on the shape of a stretched rubber band for the company.
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