Aug 29
STYLO makeup table
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A feminine, multifunctional table for the modern woman. With its mirror, the external tray and two delicious drawers Stylo is the ideal make-up table…
Aug 29
This Stool Rocks
Posted in: UncategorizedI’m loving the latest design from Snapp: the Orbit stool. The captivating design taps into our natural tendency to move and shift. Taking inspiration from the spinning top, it features a slightly pointed cork base so you can rotate on its spinning axis and wiggle all you want. For light reading, the tapered drum cushion also has a slim cavity on the side for storing magazines or books. Do want!
Designer: Snapp
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Aug 28
Reykjavik designer Katrin Olina has created a range of furniture made of bent steel tubes and a rug depicting a fictional magician.
Called Friends of Steal, the furniture comprises a stool, table, mirror, book stand and cabinet, all bent from steel in Iceland.
The rug is manufactured by Danish brand Ege and combines layers of flora and fauna with symbols and creatures derived from Icelandic culture and Olina’s own previous work.
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Photos are by Glamour Et Cetera.
Here are some more details from Katrin Olina:
Icelandic graphic artist and designer Katrin Olina has recently released a series of furniture in bent steel as well as a printed rug based on the magician, Miklimeir, a fictional character who has emerged out of her multidisciplinary work.
Olina’s latest projects consist of a large 18m2 printed carpet produced by Danish manufacturer Ege and a series of bent steel furniture. The carpet depicts the creative performance of the magician Miklimeir that visually flows around the figure of 8. The piece is abundant in symbols and references both from cultural history and Olina’s other works.
“It all starts with the dangerous black square and the void inside it. It just wants to expand and the imaginary blast gives birth to a creature called Miklimeir. He is seen suspended in mid-air, big eyes and a toothy grin with his hands up in the air in an act of joy. He’s about to break into a song and take up magic gardening to produce creatures from the strangest corners of existence. He then crowns his magnificent structure by the most wonderful puffy flower,” explains Olina.
The furniture pieces, which Olina calls Friends of Steel, tie into the rug as they derive from the world of Miklimeir. The series consists of the Bookdog book case, the Puffa stool, the Black Lady table, Mirror and the Black Box cabinet. According to Olina, the furniture pieces are basic bent steel structures but each have a particular character, like letters of an alphabet or characters from the visual worlds she’s created. They were produced by a local steel workshop in Iceland and are based on the strict processes of steel bending.
Olina feels a special affinity for the Bookdog. “As we all know, books, papers and magazines pile up around the home. That is where the faithful Bookdog bares its teeth. He carries your reading material on his back and will follow you wherever you go – the bedroom, bathroom or sofa – never happier than when he’s at your feet,” she explains.
Olina is currently working on a book series that will take readers on a journey into another dimension.
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Aug 27
Cages by Jorge Diego Etienne
Posted in: Jorge Diego EtienneMexican industrial designer Jorge Diego Etienne has created a series of small tables that look like cages.
The powder-coated steel containers have wide gaps and thick bars so books and small belongings can be slotted inside.
They come flat-packed in two sizes, in black and yellow.
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Here’s some more information from Jorge Diego Etienne:
Cages are a set of tables that keep safe behind bars your precious books and items.
These conceptual furniture objects have an intimidating aesthetic with a ludicrous function allowing easily placing and withdrawing books through its bars, or removing its top to locate bigger objects inside.
Cages provoke a dialogue about which is safer, being in or outside lockup, breaking expectations for what an occasional table’s function is.
Constructed in steel with powder coated paint finish, Cages resemble a side table and a center table to place objects in or on top of them.
Whatever you pick to rattle your Cage, it will sure be kept safe and close to you.
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Aug 27
Blastfurnace at Carpenters Workshop Gallery by Atelier Van Lieshout
Posted in: UncategorizedRotterdam-based design studio Atelier Van Lieshout will present new sculptures in bronze at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London this autumn.
Above: Blastfurnace, 2012
Three pieces from the New Tribal Labyrinth body of work, entitled Blastfurnace, Gastronomy and Friends, will be shown alongside Atelier Van Lieshout’s first work in bronze from back in 2007, the Technocrat table.
Above: Blastfurnace, 2012
The Blastfurnace exhibition will be open from 11 October to 21 December.
Above: Gastronomy, 2012
We’ve featured a number of pieces by Atelier Van Lieshout on Dezeen, including an indestructible mobile dwelling and an oil drum sculpture in Rotterdam.
Above: Gastronomy, 2012
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Above: Gastronomy, 2012
Here’s some more information from the gallery:
Atelier Van Lieshout
Blastfurnace
11 October – 21 December 2012
Opening Thursday 11 October 6-9pm
Blastfurnace celebrates Atelier Van Lieshout’s relationship with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, inaugurated six years ago with an exhibition of AVL’s first works in bronze, the Technocrat bronze Table (2007-2011). Blastfurnace unites this piece with major recent works in bronze from AVL’s latest series, the New Tribal Labyrinth. The three sculptures: Blastfurnace (2012), Gastronomy (2012) and Friends (2011) explore different aspects of life as proposed in the New Tribal Labyrinth, itself a celebration of equilibrium.
Above: Friends, 2011
Atelier Van Lieshout was found in 1995 as a multidisciplinary platform by artist Joep Van Lieshout. Atelier Van Lieshout investigates material, process and form through alternative methods. Unconventionally established as a self-sufficient, living artwork, AVL has declared its independence from the port of Rotterdam, within which it is located. The artworks created here breed new forms and pose questions on the world we live in and we do so; human nature, ethics, industry and art.
Above: Friends, 2011
Through experimentation, AVL creates sculpture that varies from the organic to the industrial, as diverse and extreme as a Mobile and exhibitions educating children about recycling. Ranging from large-scale dwelling structures to human organ sculptures, both are combined in the 2004 piece Wombhouse, AVL blurs the boundaries between fantasy and function, fertility and destruction. This provocative approach dissects both the human body and systems of society.
Above: Friends, 2011
Each project can be interpreted in myriad ways; when a body of work ends, another one begins. Slave-City (2005-2009) is a monumental project, creating and exploring an alternative, ecological financial structure and social system that aims to reduce our carbon footprint. The project was followed by the New Tribal Labyrinth series, another proposal for the survival of the planet. Here, Joep Van Lisehout creates a new hybrid culture, a society inhabited by tribes based on the industrial and agricultural structures that are diminishing within today’s society. He advocates a reintroduction of balance between labour and materials, reasserting, within our collective consciousness, that the value of goods and products is inextricably linked to human labour.
Above: Technocrat, 2007
Inspired by the Arts & Crafts movement, AVL refutes the society of the disposable; an object connects its end use to the sculptor who made with his own hands. Ritual will be re-valued in the New Tribal Labyrinth, playing a crucial role in this new proposed society. In the near future, these elements will participate in the emergence of various new cultures. Groups of people will begin to organize themselves by tribe rather than nationality. AVL creates objects, installations and equipment through which they can connect with one another: monuments to be worshipped, cannibalistic sacrificial equipment, daily objects and designs. He reintroduces a sense of respect to the things we use and live with.
Above: Technocrat, 2007
The sculptures exhibited in Blastfurnace project the New Tribal Labyrinth scenarios from the mind of Josep Van Lieshout. Where Slave-City focused on the recycling of bodies, New Tribal Labyrinth hones in on making sustainable, “keepable”, lifelong objects that offer knowledge to human beings and to human living. New models of behaviour, and new systems for an alternative world are proposed, advocating simplicity, grace and tolerance to share health and prosperity, with respect to the ecosystem. Farming, industry and ritual form the three main facets of this huge work in progress – a “Gesamtkunstwerk” (total work of art).
Above: Technocrat, 2007
New Tribal Labyrinth reinterprets the logic of an economy and ecology based on industrial efficiency in an attempt to bring back materiality as a principle of civilization. Critically analysing today’s world, Atelier Van Lieshout’s work proposes a revolution on the contemporary and provides practical proposals for living, taken from ancient of living.
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Aug 26
Invader Storage System by Maria Bruun
Posted in: cabinets, Maria Bruun
Danish designer Maria Bruun has created a trio of modular cabinets on spindly legs that nestle together to resemble an alien from Space Invaders.
Each piece in the Invader Storage System is on wheels, making it easy to move them around.
Drawers and cupboards can be stacked in different arrangements and slotted together.
The body of each cabinet is rectilinear, but the feet are shaped like pyramids.
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Here’s the description from the designer:
Invader Storage System
Globalization is upon us, more and more people pilgrimage to the various metropolises of the world. As a result we are forced to live closer and closer to each other in smaller spaces. This also creates a new demand to our furniture where designers are forced to create products that allow the compressed lifestyle of modern consumers.
They say: ‘home is where the heart is’ but in my research I discovered that ‘home is where your stuff is’.
When I created Invader I visited 30 private homes for conversations and registrations on ‘how do people really live, and what constitutes ‘home’ for them’. During this process it became clear to me that people, however small they live, always have a collection of objects from around the world, favourite books, loving memories, and practicalities following them on their journey in life.
Through all their collected items people stage and identify ‘who they are’ or ‘who they want to be’ to the world.
Invader is a series of storage furniture with a focus on maximum flexibility for its user. Its modular flexibility, and construction on wheels creates a multiple of spatial solutions, and fills the need for both hidden and open storage.
The light long-legged aesthetic makes us question gravity and strength of the wooden legs, but a metal core in the construction provides maximal strength and allows the clean and simple, almost rigorous character of the furniture to stand out.
The stackable storage modules have a variation of three sizes and three basic functions; the drawer, the cabinet, and the surface. These three functions are the basic storage needs. A cabinet or drawer where we can hide the things that we do not want the world to see and a surface where we can stage the objects and stories we want the world to see.
The piece is inspired by its users needs and ways of living. How do we tell stories and stage our life and identity though our storage and collected objects? The project revolves around individual ways of living, collecting and creating what constitutes “home”.
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Aug 25
Hide & Seek by THINKK Studio
Posted in: UncategorizedPloypan Theerachai of THINKK Studio has designed a series of three upholstered space dividers weighted down with marble slabs.
The Hide & Seek collection comprises a long low screen, one with three fins and a hanging ‘nest’ to duck underneath while making a phone call.
Each has a wire frame under the fabric, with the screens supported on wooden bases.
Theerachai designed them while studying at the Konstfack University College of Arts, Craft and Design in Stockholm. Other work by THINKK Studio includes a marble lamp that slots together like a child’s toy, shown in Milan earlier this year.
Photos are by Decha Archjananun.
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Aug 22
Curve
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The goal was to create an uncompromising sofa that combines aesthetics and function in a brilliant way. Curve is a three-seat sofa made out of molded ..
Aug 22
From Log To Chaise Lounge!
Posted in: 8, long, lounge chair, Natanel Gluska, theThe Long 8 stems from the multi-disciplinary Swiss artist Natanel Gluska’s log creation. He saws off a huge chunk of log and transforms it into a beautifully refined lounge in a very short timeframe. This current iteration is in fiberglass and can be crafted in many colors. Have a look at the awesome video to see the sawing in action. Totally awesome!
Designer: Natanel Gluska
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