Elroy Klee, studio de design, nous fait découvrir une série photo en utilisant des blocs de construction « Lego » en guise de perruques. Les différentes coiffures traduisent des types et des couleurs de cheveux différents, en utilisant des pièces noires, rouges et jaunes. Une nouvelle façon de voir la construction d’une coiffure.
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Platonov Pavel a un talent indéniable : celui de nous plonger dans son univers étrange, mélangeant sculptures géométriques, installations surréalistes et portraits. Des créations d’une grande et belle variété, partageant une attention particulière au détail. Une sélection de ses créations est à découvrir dans la suite.
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Avec son projet « Apparatus », l’artiste américain Roxy Paine a créé une cuisine de fast-food appelée « Carcass », qui a la particularité d’être exclusivement faite de bois, de la machine à boissons à la friteuse. Une cuisine originale à découvrir à travers les photos de Joseph Rynkiewicz.
Nous connaissons tous le portrait de La Joconde, de la reine d’Angleterre, des tournesols de Van Gogh ou encore « Le baiser » de Gustav Klimt. Nous les redécouvrons sous une autre forme artistique grâce à l’artiste Jane Perkins, qui reproduit ces œuvres d’art classiques et ces portraits en utilisant des milliers d’objets.
Stockholm 2014: the founders of Swedish design studio Form Us With Love have launched BAUX, a new brand taking construction materials such as insulation and turning them into architectural features (+ slideshow).
Jonas Pettersson, John Löfgren and Petrus Palmér of Form Us With Love have teamed up with entrepreneurs Johan Ronnestam and Fredrik Franzon to take conventional architectural products and make them more visually appealing.
“To talk about beauty and construction materials is almost unheard of,” Palmer told Dezeen. “We think that building materials pose one of the best opportunities for design and design thinking.”
Their idea was to use materials that would normally be hidden, such as sound and heat insulation, and rework them as elements that can contribute to a design feature.
“Design hasn’t been an important factor [in this industry], but what we’re seeing now is that buyers such as architects or interior designers are actually asking for design values in materials that are normally purely functional,” Palmér explained. “Currently no one is really meeting those demands.”
The brand’s inaugural product is a type of acoustic panel called wood wool. Made of spruce wood, cement and water, the sound-absorbent material also regulates heat and moisture.
Panels of wood wool are usually covered up beneath other surface finishes, but BAUX hopes architects and designers will create decorative feature walls using the colourful modular elements the company has formed from the raw material.
“At Form Us With Love we did a project with the company that makes the material a couple of years back and it was very well received,” said Palmér. “The problem was that the company had trouble coping with the demand, they were used to local demand and serving local clients, and they couldn’t manage.”
BAUX now handles the distribution. The brand takes the material from the manufacturer, cuts it into six new shapes in two sizes and sprays them in six different colour palettes.
The panels can be backed with magnetic pads to attach them to a metal base surface, so they can be rearranged and replaced.
Pettersson, Löfgren and Palmér set up their Stockholm studio Form Us With Love in 2005. BAUX was launched during this year’s Stockholm Design Week, which continues until Sunday.
Here’s some more information sent us by the BAUX team:
Let us present BAUX!
BAUX is founded on the belief that building materials should be surprisingly functional and remarkably beautiful. BAUX designs, produces and markets construction materials that meet the contemporary expectations of architects, engineers and builders – without compromising safety and environmental standards.
BAUX is a joint venture between entrepreneurs Johan Ronnestam and Fredrik Franzon and the founding members of design studio Form Us With Love: Jonas Pettersson, John Löfgren and Petrus Palmér.
“We think building materials is one of the most exciting design opportuniites out there right now, we’re here to explore an area where design values hasn’t been present before” – says the founding partners of BAUX.
The BAUX Träullit collection of wood wool acoustic panels is a canny combination of form and function. Available in a range of vibrant colours, the BAUX Träullit collection combines excellent sound absorption with a natural capacity for heat and moisture regulation.
BAUX Träullit panels can be combined to create remarkable structural patterns for residential, industrial or public spaces. Benefits include lower energy costs, a reduced environmental impact and a stable indoor climate.
Designed by Swedish design studio, Form Us With Love, the BAUX Träullit collection features six different geometrical shapes, available in two sizes and five colour sets, offering over 240 creative variations! Let’s build!
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News: US office furniture giant Haworth has acquired a majority stake in iconic Italian design brands including Cappellini, Cassina and Alias as part of its $270 million deal with Italian furniture group Poltrona Frau.
The move creates a major global design brand headed by Haworth, a privately owned company based in Michigan which generated $1.4 billion in sales of its office interior systems and furniture in 2013.
The deal means that Haworth now owns design classics such as Tom Dixon’s 1989 S Chair (above) as well as a huge back-catalogue of iconic products by leading designers.
The Gebrüder Thonet Vienna and Nemo brands now also come under the control of Haworth, as well as Poltrona Frau’s own luxury furniture business.
“Our family is very excited about this opportunity,” said Haworth chairman Matthew Haworth. “This transaction is not only inspired by the strong performance of the Poltrona Frau Group and what we believe to be highly complementary strategies, but even more importantly, by the great alignment of the values shared by both our families.”
Haworth Inc yesterday announced that it had bought 58.6% of the group from Charme Investments – a investment vehicle set up by Ferrari chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo – and the Moschini family, the previous owners of Poltrona Frau who retained an interest in the company after it was taken over by Charme.
Poltrona Frau president Franco Moschini said: “This is for me the realization of a big dream, the creation of the most important global operator in the industry of luxury furnishing that will bring great benefits to the international development of the Group and the consequent growth of our factories and manufacturing sites.”
Charme acquired Poltrona Frau in 2003 and spent the next three years buying small, independent luxury brands such as Cappellini and Cassina before listing the group on the Italian stock exchange in 2006.
Charme managing director Matteo Cordero di Montezemolo said: “After an investment cycle that lasted more than 10 years, this transaction represents the best conclusion of Charme’s adventure in Poltrona Frau Group and is above all an extraordinary opportunity for the strengthening of the group.”
He added: “Today Charme has decided to set up a new ambitious phase for Poltrona Frau Group, by creating, together with the Haworth family, the worldwide leader in the industry.”
Poltona Frau today has 70 own-brand stores around the world and operates in 65 countries. But it is dwarfed in scale Haworth, which employs 6,000 employees and has over 600 dealers worldwide.
The deal also involves the $1.9 million purchase of the factories in Meda, Italy, that supply Poltrona Frau.
“This transaction with a great industrial group such as Haworth will allow us benefit not only from an extraordinary international development but also from a strong complementarity of products and markets which will be of great advantage for all our Italian factories,” said Poltrona Frau managing director Dario Rinero.
“The dimension reached through the combination within the group of two companies respectively of Italian and American culture, will eventually ensure the establishment of a global unique team within the industry,” Rinero added.
Poltrona Frau was founded in 1912, specialising in high-quality leather seating for both interiors and automobiles.
Claudio Luti, president of both Milan’s Salone del Mobile fair and Italian furniture brand Kartell, welcomed the deal.”I think this is good news for the sector and for the country’s economy, because it shows that solid, well-managed leading companies are capable of developing synergies at global level and attracting useful foreign capital for further growth strategies,” he said.
“It sends an important signal of confidence in the development of our specialist manufacturing skills,” Luti added. “It is crucial both that production should remain in Italy and that the consistently high quality of our products be maintained.”
The Haworth deal, which is expected to be concluded by the end of April this year, is the latest in a series of consolidations in the design-led furniture industry, which has until recently been made up of small, low-margin businesses.
Vitra’s recent acquisition of Artek and Herman Miller’s purchase of Maharam, as well as this latest deal, are all intended to create economies of scale and provide access to international markets.
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