Hasta La Ideas

Famous film set designs are translated into detailed cross sections that resemble the insides of dolls’ houses in this series of illustrations by architect and illustrator Federico Babina.

The collection of 17 posters is entitled Archiset and accurately replicates interiors from iconic films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and The Shining by Stanley Kubrick.

Federico Babina wanted to create an architectural representation of the set designs and chose to present them as two-dimensional elevations, like a cross section of a dolls’ house with characters appearing in familiar poses.

“The idea was to find a different form of expression to be able to enter and walk inside a movie,” Babina told Dezeen.

The artist said the selection of movies was based on his favourite set designs: “The film, its atmosphere and script are a fundamental guide for the ideation and design of the posters.”

Each of the illustrations depicts key details and props from the original sets, which were integral to the plot of the films.

Among the recognisable images is the apartment from 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s, where Audrey Hepburn’s character lounges in a bath in her living room.

The set designed by Ken Adams for the ranch occupied by the famous villain Auric Goldfinger in the 1964 James Bond film is also featured.

The illustration of the Overlook Hotel from The Shining includes details such as an axe lodged in a door and the entrance to the haunted Room 237.

Darth Vader appears in front of the bridge on the Death Star.

Babina has previously created an alphabet of illustrated letters that depict buildings by 26 famous architects and a set of graphics representing architects in the form of vintage video game characters.

Here’s a short text from the artist:

The project is called Archiset. The idea is to represent a film set as if it were a doll’s house where we can start to play with the imagination together with the movie’s characters.

I am representing some of my favourite and inspiring movie set interiors. Seventeen images where cinema and architecture merge into a single frame to speak the same language.

In a movie we discover the spaces through the camera movement that reveals the spaces where the main characters live.

I enter on tiptoe through the drawing in the rooms and environments where there’s the film’s life: I touch objects, I look through the windows, I open doors.

I like to think that in a set design each object is carefully chosen. Nothing is left to chance.

Each item participates in the script and helps the development of the plot. A half-full glass on a table reveals clues and becomes part of the puzzle that makes up the story.

In these films every room has a style and a defined personality and contains surprises and unexpected details. They are like big magic boxes full of stories and characters, able to make us dream.

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Les étudiants de la British Higher School of Arts and Design de Moscou ont imaginé une marque de parfum se démarquant de celles sur le marché. Ce projet « Barb » propose un produit pour homme s’inspirant de la pierre, et a été décliné sous divers formats, avec à chaque fois des choix visuels judicieux et réussis.

Voici une création murale réalisée par le duo français A&M, produite par Les Habilleurs, pour le Printemps Homme. Une création hors normes, réalisée en 2D, aux effets 3D avec l’intégration de touche dorée pour un effet captivant. Un travail minutieux et spectaculaire à découvrir en détail et en photos.

A retrospective of work by Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has opened at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (+ movie).

Marcel Wanders: Pinned Up at the Stedelijk features work from Wanders‘ entire career, charting developments from the late 1980s up to the present day.

Iconic pieces on show include the Knotted Chair that marked his international breakthrough in 1996 and the Lace Table created when Wanders was part of the avant-garde conceptual Dutch design movement led by Droog Design in the late 1990s.

This is the first large-scale presentation of the designer’s work and the first major design exhibition at the museum since its reopening in 2012.

“It’s not so much that it’s almost 25 years and it’s not so much that I’m 50, but it’s just the right moment for me,” Wanders says in this movie filmed behind the scenes at the exhibition installation.

“When you look at the work you do every day, you do see things,” he continues. “But if you look at the work you did for 25 years, suddenly you start to get a more complete picture.”

Over 400 objects are on view in the lower-level gallery space, located in the new wing of the Stedelijk Museum.

The show is divided into three sections. A white zone groups his work according to themes including craftsmanship, narratives and dialogues, surface, innovation, archetypes, variation, and playing with scale.

A black zone then presents work of a more experimental nature in a theatrical setting.

This area features seven virtual interiors created by Wanders as a series of movies. Some are fantasy interiors incorporating his furniture, while others depict more mysterious, dreamlike worlds.

A third zone functions as a lounge where Wanders’ role as art director for design companies is explored, including the Moooi brand that he co-founded in 2001 and the publicity photos that he creates for clients including Dutch airline KLM.

High-profile interior design projects are represented too, including the Villa Moda boutique in Bahrain and the Andaz Amsterdam Prinsengracht Hotel.

“Marcel is not only one of the most important Dutch designers of the past decade, but in fact he is one of the most creative, versatile and successful designers internationally of the past decade,” says exhibition curator Ingeborg de Roode.

Dutch pop composer Jacob Ter Veldhuis has created a soundscape especially for the exhibition and Wanders has also partnered created a cocktail that will be served in the museum’s restaurant for the duration of the show. The exhibition continues until 15 June 2014.

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Stockholm 2014: as Guest of Honour at Stockholm Furniture Fair, design duo GamFratesi has installed petal-shaped mobiles above the lounge area at this year’s exhibition.

Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi decided on a theme of balance for their installation at the annual showcase of Nordic design.

“We’ve been working on this idea of balance,” Fratesi told Dezeen. “We’ve been researching it for a while and it is something that is really difficult to achieve.”

They designed a collection of mobiles to hang above and among the lounge area in the entrance hall of the Stockholmsmässan exhibition centre.

“These hanging elements were really interesting to us, something that was moving slowly,” said Fratesi.

The pair referenced the work of twentieth-century American sculptor Alexander Calder for this project.

“We wanted to bring the feeling behind the artist to furniture in a very industrial way,” Fratesi explained. “We were analysing these mobiles and could see that they were very crafted, very thin and hand bent.”

They spent a long time experimenting with the size and shape of the panels to get them to hang in equilibrium.

“We found that they were so sensitive to any kind of changes,” said Gam. “As soon as you change a milligram or a centimetre on one piece, the whole thing becomes completely unbalanced.”

The petals were upholstered in a palette of red and blue shades, all with greyish tones. Fabric produced by Danish company Kvadrat was heat-pressed over recycled felt, which acts as a sound absorber.

Combinations of three, four and five of petal-shaped elements are hung from black metal rods, attached together with small flexible joints.

The mobiles are suspended on thin wires above an open lounge area, arranged around a central white block. GamFratesi wanted to create an open space rather than a closed environment.

“In the beginning, we thought we’d close everything to make an intimate space where people could relax,” said Fratesi. “But then we thought this was dishonest. People are moving around, so why don’t we emphasise this feeling in the space.”

The lounge area is furnished with sofas, dinning tables and chairs plus other designs the duo have created during their career, including the Rewrite desk with a cave-like shield on top.

A series of embossed paper displaying the same shapes as the petals are mounted on the central walls.

Originally from Denmark and Italy respectively, Gam and Fratesi set up their studio in Copenhagen in 2006. They presented some of their first work in the Greenhouse section of the fair for young designers in 2007.

Stockholm Furniture Fair is open until Saturday and the installation will remain in place for the duration of the exhibition.

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