Né à Tokyo et vivant à Dusseldorf, Ramon Todo imagine de magnifiques créations en insérant des blocs de verre dans divers objets. Des oeuvres splendides et surréalistes, utilisant des roches volcaniques, des livres ou encore des fragments du mur de Berlin que l’on peut retrouver au Art Front Gallery.
BAM’s Harvey Theater now has a shiny new neighbor. Founded in 1977 by Richard Yelle and Joe Upham, the New York Experimental Glass Workshop—the country’s first open-access glass studio—has bounced around from its original Great Jones Street location in Manhattan to several other…
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Moments before the opening of his first solo exhibition, London-based designer Paul Cocksedge spoke with CH. With a background primarily in creating large-scale, temporary light installations with his design firm, Cocksedge’s premiere of smaller pieces…
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Photography by Mark LeBeau for Core77
The largest outdoor sports show of its kind, Outdoor Retailer takes place twice a year in Salt Lake City, and this year veteran trade show attendee and Core77 reader Mark LeBeau was on the ground to capture all the highlights. In recent years, there’s been an explosion of charging solutions for powering electronic off-the-grid, an increase in the use of design as the marketing differentiator (especially in climbing equipment) and a rise in popularity of paddle boards over kayaks, not to mention the rapid emergence of GoPro as a major player in the industry!
See the latest gear for every conceivable outdoor and adventure activity from the top brands in the world in our photo gallery:
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Brooklyn-based artist and designer Ed Roth, the creative mind behind Stencil1, is showcasing his free-hand talents with a gallery exhibition at Seattle’s Twilight Gallery and Boutique. Opening 8…
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Located just four doors down from Paul Kasmin’s white cube space on 27th street in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood sits a quiet jewel-box shop that serves as the ever-evolving home of the gallery’s newest venture, the …
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Photography by Sam Dunne for Core77
Serving as a platform for design graduates in the United Kingdom to launch their career, the New Designers 2013 Show took place at the spectacular Business Design Centre in London with over 3,500 emerging designers exhibiting their wares and ideas in disciplines ranging from industrial design and furniture design to textiles, ceramics, jewelry and applied arts.
As usual, the work ranged from good to great, and we’ve duly taken stock of our favorites from the show. Head over to the New Designers website for more about the show, or check out the ArtsThread blog for more info on the young designers in this year’s show.
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Advertorial content: We recently spent some time at the freshly launched (HIS)Story installation at NYC’s STORY concept shop in Chelsea to check out the well-edited selection of men’s style and grooming goods. From Malin + Goetz to Diptyque to…
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Photography by Glen Jackson Taylor for Core77
The Campana Brothers’ exhibition at New York City’s Friedman Benda gallery marks not only the duo’s first solo show in the U.S. but also the 30th anniversary of the studio. Simply titled Concepts, the exhibition delivers exactly that with a collection of superbly well-executed one-off pieces made from exotic materials and their signature labor-intensive handcraft techniques. At first glance, it’s a natural materials-fest: showstoppers include the “Pirarucu Cabinet,” a free standing dresser upholstered in pirarucu fish scales; the Boca (Portuguese for “mouth”) collection covered in patches of cowhide; and an incredible “Alligator Sofa,” ‘upholstered’ with tiny stuffed leather alligator toys by Orientavida, an NGO that teaches underprivileged women embroidery skills.
The heavy emphasis on material experimentation and any notions of sustainability are reinforced with the galleries walls and floor covered entirely in a coconut fiber matting, imparting a womb-like warmth and suggesting a humble setting for what can only be described as design collectibles. Freed from the constraints of designing for production, the brothers have taken the opportunity to explore ideas, processes and forms without concern for outcome, in fact it feels very much like the objects themselves (be it a table or chair) are just a means of demonstrating proof-of-concept for new techniques.
One of the most iconic pieces in show—a tough call, given how much everything begs for attention—is the “Racket Chair (Tennis),” featuring a hand-stitched motif made from remnant backings of Thonet chairs. Another striking piece, made from leftovers, is the “Detonado Chair,” which is crafted out of the scraps of caning that are discarded after a chair is repaired (At the press preview, Humberto joked that it took a lot of persuasion to convince the artisan to seriously consider producing a chair for them with these worthless scraps).
The exhibition runs till July 3rd and all the highlights can be seen in our latest gallery here.
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by Stefano Caggiano Everyday objects shape our lives into cognitive patterns. Often, however, these objects are ill-designed. Design thinking is then called in to untangle the not-always-coherent running of our object-related routines. However important, this design thinking—or making user-experience more seamless—cannot solve all…
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