Retour sur le travail de cette photographe Susanna Majuri basée en Finlande et plus précisement à Helsinky. De belles scènes en immersion, souvent aquatiques et prises à travers une vitre ou à la surface. Des compositions étonnantes à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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Tobias Rehberger’s mind-bending optical illusions take up residence at a Finnish cafe
German artist Tobias Rehberger likes to shake things up. Since stepping on the scene 15 years ago, he’s turned to a variety of mediums to toy with perception, consistently challenging his audience to see the “things which cannot be seen.” His latest work transforms the interior of a cafe in Finland’s cultural capital Turku into a mind-boggling display of criss-crossing lines, an installation he conceived in collaboration with Artek.
Logomo Cafe, as it’s called, is the second collaboration between Rehberger and Artek, and a more subdued extension of the first. In 2009 the creative Finnish design studio tapped Rehberger to draw on the decorative WWI “razzle dazzle” style of painting to create a “visually disorienting environment” for the cafeteria at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni. Debuting at the Venice Biennale, the dizzying array of harsh black and white stripes and contrasting geometric furniture made for a Beetlejuice-like effect, winning him a Golden Lion award.
While the Logomo installation draws on a similar palette and stripe-obsessed sensibility as the cafeteria, this time Rehberger came up with a more airy design, using longer lines throughout the space, extending them onto the windows and accenting only with neon orange.
The Rehberger installation will be on view through 18 December 2011 at the Logomo Cafe in Turku, Finland.
Eero Aarnio launches an update to his renowned 1968 Pastil Chair on a new private-sale site
Getting a “do-over” usually only happens in video games, and it’s even rarer still in the world of design. With Eero Aarnio‘s molded fiberglass Soap Chair, he’s improved on his own classic design, creating a version of his revered 1968 Pastil Chair for today’s lifestyle.
The designer says, “I like to keep my design range as wide as possible. For example, the smallest object I designed is a tooth pick for Finnair and the largest one is my studio home.” For the chair he added an integrated handle for easy transport and a built-in cup that holds mobile phones or remote controls—updates that allow for spontaneous furniture rearranging for those always-on-the-go. Also in keeping with current sustainable thinking, Aarnio explains that to “confirm the quality and trust that my new chair lasts for generations to come and thus be part of sustainable development,” the seating is produced in Finland at the same factory where his arguably more famous Ball Chair was made.
Like Ball and his other furniture, the living legend (he’s worked for five decades as a photographer and furniture and interior designer) derived the Soap Chair’s name from its shape. Drawing by hand in full 1:1 scale before forming a model in wood, Aarnio then studied the shape from every angle and test sat to ensure it’s balanced and ergonomically correct. The new design features soft corners and only comes in two colors—white because “it always looks good in fiberglass” and light blue because that is one of the colors typically occurring in Savon de Marseille (although he may add more soap colors to the collection later).
The Soap Chair (photographed at Aarnio’s home in Finland) launches today exclusively on the new members-only site DesignStory (joining is a snap). Available for one week only alongside other notable works, each of the ten on offer is signed by Eero Aarnio and sells for $1,850.
Un rangement et une bibliothèque en forme d’alphabet et de lettres typographiques. Elle peut servir à la fois pour des livres, des CD et des magazines. Cet objet intitulé “Aakkoset” a été produit par Kayiwa à Helsinki en Finlande. Il est disponible en noir, bleu, rouge, blanc etc.
Il finlandese Antti Tuomi ha presentato questo prototipo di sedia durante la helsinki design week. Il design asimmetrico dello schienale, favorisce la seduta su un lato. Non c’è molto altro da aggiungere se non che il design scandinavo resta uno dei miei preferiti di sempre!
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Finnish designer Harri Koskinen will present a selection of new and recent work at the Habitare 09 fair in Helsinki next month. (more…)
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