La société Duffy London a imaginé cette étonnante « Flying Carpet » Coffee Table. Utilisant une fausse ombre d’un tapis volant comme base, cette table au design étonnant vaut plus de 2000 $ et est proposée dans différents coloris. A découvrir en détails et en images dans la suite de l’article.
British designer Tom Dixon will show his latest range of brass home accessories based on cogs at the Maison&Objet trade fair later this month.
Tom Dixon has designed two collections of brass items for the home. His Cog collection references industrial machine parts and tools.
“As we scour factories worldwide, we find ourselves constantly referring to great British engineering,” said Dixon. “Creating a sense of the tooled and the machined, these pieces are formed in brass-plated solid aluminium.”
The range features candle holders in two sizes, cone and cylinder-shaped tea light holders, different sized trinket boxes, a candelabra and a desk tidy.
Sections of each item have been turned on a lathe to create a diamond-shaped pattern, a process known as knurling, to create a better surface for gripping.
The Arc collection contains a two-piece trivet, a bottle opener and a corkscrew, all created in solid brass using a sand-casting process. Dixon called them “science fiction-inspired futuristic simplicity combined with practical shapes that are easy to use.”
A four-point star can be removed from the centre of the circular trivet so the elements can be used to protect table surfaces from hot or wet cooking utensils.
The bottle opener and corkscrew both have curved tops and embossed edges.
These new products will be exhibited at the Maison&Objet trade fair outside Paris from 24-28 January.
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Layers Marble Lamp est un système d’éclairage qui vous permet de créer différentes ambiances en fonction de la place et de l’ordre des différents panneaux de marbre pouvant se chevaucher et se glisser derrière l’installation de LEDs. Une création originale et ingénieuse signée Davide Giulio Aquin à découvrir en images.
London architect and designer Daniel Widrig has printed a stool from a mixture of sugar, plaster and Japanese rice wine.
Widrig designed the shape of the Degenerate Chair using techniques typically employed in the creation of complex three dimensional characters for movies and computer games.
The shape of the stool was first modelled using 3D tiling software and optimised by removing material where it wasn’t structurally essential, before the resulting form was broken down into a high-resolution array of three dimensional pixels, or voxels.
When the 3D printing partner Widrig had lined up to produce the stool using an industrial stereolithography printing process pulled out of the project, he turned to an open-source recipe that combines plaster, sugar and sake to create a material that can be used in standard 3D printers.
“The recipe we used is based on existing research but we developed it further, because the original recipes usually result in parts that are too rough and fragile for high resolution prints,” Widrig told Dezeen. “To our knowledge it is the first time a 1:1 working product of that scale has been printed this way.”
Widrig’s studio used its own Z Corp machine to print the stool in sections that were limited to the dimensions of the printer. The parts were then assembled to create a fully functioning piece of furniture.
The designer added that the process results in huge cost savings, but is discouraged by the manufacturers of 3D printers who prefer users to purchase materials direct from them. “To give an idea of comparative cost, one litre of original binder is around £200, while a litre of Japanese rice wine is £8,” he pointed out.
With further research, Widrig believes the organic binding material could offer an affordable alternative to existing expensive systems. “We are currently developing this process further since, in our opinion, it is the only way to 3D print for free,” he claimed.
The furniture is on show at an exhibition about the relationship between digital architecture and the sciences called Naturalising Architecture at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France, until March and has recently been added to the centre’s permanent collection.
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L’artiste australien Vans the Omega nous propose de découvrir sa customisation d’une table basse en collaboration avec East Editions. Limité à 4 exemplaires tous déjà vendus, ce modèle de table propose un design simple, coloré et joue avec talent sur les formes géométriques. Plus dans la suite.
This vase by London designer Lambert Rainville supports flowers in a free-standing arrangement by holding their stems halfway up.
The prototype Crown Vase comprises a clear plastic ring of triangular funnels that sits halfway up the stems of flowers with sturdy stalks.
Each stem sits at an angle, balanced out by those leaning the other way on the opposite side of the circle.
“The flowers are treated as part of the vase and not just the content,” said Lambert Rainville. “Making the most of the structural capabilities of the stems reveals the complete beauty of flowers.”
The arrangement can be placed on a dish of water for fresh cut flowers or straight onto a table top for dried flowers.
Rainville was born in Montreal and lives in London, where he is studying for an MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art.
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Visitors to London department store Selfridges can take a virtual reality tour created by technology company Inition inside a helmet by fashion designer Gareth Pugh (+ slideshow).
Gareth Pugh worked with Inition to create a “multi-sensory experience” called Monolith, installed at Selfridges for the Festival of Imagination taking place this month.
“The inspiration for this piece really came from the desire to create a totally immersive experience,” said Pugh. “I’ve always believed in the importance of fashion film and new technology as a means of communication.”
The visitor enters a soundproofed booth and completely covers their head with a pointy black helmet, which Pugh designed specifically for the installation based on costumes he created for the Royal Ballet.
Using an Oculus Rift virtual reality display embedded in the headpiece, the wearer is taken on a journey through monochromatic cityscapes, undulating walls and figures with silhouettes that are also similar to Pugh’s costumes.
“It’s an abstract narrative based on Gareth’s life, his works and his experiences,” senior creative at Inition Alex Lambert told Dezeen.
Once geared up, a 360-degree white environment is visible all around. “When you’re inside [the headpiece] you are transported to another world,” said Lambert. “It’s a totally immersive, full 360-degree virtual world that you can look around.”
The experience begins when staring at a spinning black cube found in the artificial world. “Aesthetically it looks very similar to Gareth’s work, and as soon as you look at that cube and it spins for a certain period of time it starts,” Lambert explained.
Hand rails are installed around the sides of the compact space in case the user loses their balance during the experience. Industrial music by London artist Matthew Stone accompanies the visuals.
The chamber is located in Selfridges’ menswear department on the first level, next to a selection of Pugh’s garments.
The project was developed as one of a series of experimental installations and pop-ups at the Festival of Imagination that runs all this month, as well as to coincide with the London Collections: Men fashion event that took place in the British capital last week.
Inition also collaborated with Dezeen to create an augmented reality shop at Selfridges for the festival, which features Zaha Hadid’s superyacht design and watches from our online store.
Other projects around the store include a temporary auditorium in the basement designed by OMA.
Here’s some more information sent to us by Inition:
Experience fashion designer Gareth Pugh’s virtual reality journey at Selfridges
Creative production company Inition produces a mind-bending virtual reality experience launched by Selfridges to mark fashion designer Gareth Pugh’s first appearance on the London Collection: Men’s Schedule.
The Monolith installation includes a futuristic cutting edge immersive journey into the inspirations and aesthetics of the acclaimed designer’s vision for his new collection.
Gareth Pugh says: “The inspiration for this piece really came from the desire to create a totally immersive experience. I’ve always believed in the importance of fashion film and new technology as a means of communication, but the team at Inition were able to propose a new and exciting way for us to approach this project. It’s an exciting opportunity to re-imagine my aesthetic in a totally new context.”
Pugh worked with Inition 3D artists to ensure the multi-sensory experience truly reflected his inspirations.
“This was a very exciting project to work on, as it was very creatively led but also had a number of new technical aspects that needed to be overcome in order to achieve the desired feeling that Gareth wanted to convey,” says Inition senior 3D artist Lee Spooner.
After entering a soundproofed chamber, users wear a characteristically geometric Gareth Pugh VR headset, which harnesses Oculus Rift technology to bring the 3D visuals to life. Virtual reality has never been used in a retail setting in such a way before.
With hand rails provided in case of momentary loss of balance, the two minute futuristic fashion film and part fairground ride begins, featuring monochromatic cityscapes, undulating walls and signature stark shapes, all underscored by an industrial gritty sound track produced by London based artist Matthew Stone.
Inition has been producing virtual reality experiences since 2001 but with recent advances in technology, imagination can now be less constrained, as perfectly illustrated by the Gareth Pugh’s Selfridges installation.
“Our history of creating bespoke experiences using emerging technology platforms was a natural fit with the pioneering work of Pugh and the innovative approach to retail taken by Selfridges. This is a market with huge potential for digital technologies and Inition is delighted to be pushing boundaries within this space,” says Ainsley Henn, Producer at Inition.
“It was nice to be able to let our creativity and imaginations run free, and early on we had a good understanding with Gareth about the direction he wanted this immersive experience to take,” says Lee Spooner.
Gareth Pugh continued, “The title, Monolith, is the perfect description for this piece: something singular and imposing, and in some way otherworldly. I imagine that each person will view it differently, but I would hope that it’s something memorable and engaging. Ultimately the installation requires a little commitment, you need to step into that world – from the padded sound proofed booth to the angular head piece required to view the installation… they’re all considered parts of this unique experience.”
The Monolith installation is now open to the public and is located in the Menswear department of Selfridges (London) on Level 1.
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Russian product designer Ilya Tkach has created a simple desk lamp featuring a light source that snaps onto its stem with a magnet.
Ilya Tkach‘s Magnon light comprises just two pieces. LEDs are contained within a long wooden oak block, along with a magnet that runs down one edge.
The magnet allows this element to stick to the flat sides of a white metal stem, which sits at an angle to the circular base.
“The lamp is fixed on the base just by magnetic forces, and can be easily moved and rotated,” said the designer.
The wooden baton can be used separately as a handheld torch or attached to other metal surfaces.
Small metal objects such as stationary can also be stored along the magnet to keep the desk clear.
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Située dans les Alpes autrichiennes, cette jolie maison a été construite par le designer Peter Jungmann pour un particulier. Appelée UFOgel, fusion des mots UFO et Vogel, signifiant oiseau en allemand, cette structure sur pilotis proposée à la location dispose de grandes fenêtres et d’un aménagement chaleureux.
Over 170,000 visitors to this year’s Sochi Winter Olympics will be able to have their faces scanned and recreated on the facade of a building as part of an installation by London designer Asif Khan.
Named MegaFaces and dubbed the “Mount Rushmore of the digital age”, Asif Khan‘s facade is designed to function like a huge pin screen where narrow tubes move in and out, transforming a flat facade into an interactive three-dimensional surface capable of morphing into the shape of any face.
The facade will display up to three eight-metre-high faces at a time for a period of 20 seconds each, and anyone visiting the games will be able to participate by visiting a 3D photo booth and having their face digitally scanned. Five photographs will be taken of each participant’s face from different angles, before being assembled into a single 3D image.
After a scan has been made, the 3D image will be fed through to a engine and cable system attached to over 10,000 narrow cylinders, called actuators, that can extended out to lengths of up to two metres to recreate the shape of the face.
Each actuator will have an RGB-LED light at its tip, making it possible to precisely calculate the position of every pixel.
A fabric membrane is to be stretched over the facade to give a smooth surface to the changing forms, and the actuators beneath will be laid out on a triagonal grid to disguise junctions between pixels.
“In the area of a three-dimensional modelling of organic forms a trigonal structure is more suitable, because it makes three-dimensional forms appear natural and flowing even with only a small amount of pixels,” said Valentin Spiess, the chief engineer on the project.
The system will take approximately one minute to calculate a three-dimensional model from the five individual pictures taken.
“The difficulty in our case was the development of a system that would meet all the requirements of the project in relation to speed, usability and image quality,” said Spiess.
“We couldn’t ask people to sit still for a whole minute and have themselves 3D laser scanned. The process needed to be as fast and simple as using a commercial photo booth,” he explained.
Images will be queued up on a digital scheduler and users will be informed what time to expect their face on the wall. Each participant will also be emailed a personal 20-second video so they can relive the moment.
MegaFaces will be installed on the facade of a temporary pavilion belonging to Russian telecom operator MegaFon and will remain in place for the duration of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi, Russia.
Here’s a video showing part of the facade being tested:
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