L’agence TBWA\Hakuhodo a lancé la campagne 3D on the Rocks pour la marque japonaise de whisky Suntory : ils ont conçu des glaçons sculptés et modelés en fusée, Statue de la Liberté, ou en guitare. Une manière artisanale et technologique de déguster son whisky. A voir en images et en vidéo dans la suite.
Ce globe de lumière conçu par MC Escher et Oscar Reuterswärd est en verre, monté sur un cadre en bois tel un berceau stable. La lumière de la lampe peut être dirigée pour créer un effet de lumière plus ou moins doux. Une magnifique création à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Le Kicking Horse résidence réalisé par Bohlin Cywinski Jackson est une structure de verre complétée par un bois brut clair et foncé. Cette architecture crée une ligne dynamique dans la nature et s’imprègne dans le paysage en tout légèreté. Une architecture spectaculaire à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Milan 2014: Japanese designer Jun Murakoshi’s tableware features patterned thread tops that create a geometric lattice for supporting flowers.
Tokyo-based Jun Murakoshi has created a collection of vases and fruit bowls called Bloom. The blown-glass tableware pieces feature small grooves on their edges, which allow thread to be criss-crossed over the tops in a geometric pattern.
“Blown glass has a feeling of both warmth and tension that looks like conflicting image,” said the designer. The glass was hand-blown by three young glass artists: Shunji Sasaki, Takeyoshi Mitsui and Emi Hirose in Toyama, Japan.
“The narrow lines create unlimited patterns, the transparency and exquisiteness that each materials possess make foil each other,” said the designer.
Flower stems can be threaded through the small gaps between the strings or rested in the larger hole in the centre of each piece.
Different coloured threads are used in combination to creating variations in the rings across the tops of the pieces, which are available in a range of sizes.
The tableware was exhibited in the Ventura Lambrate district of Milan last week. Photography is by Kota Sugawara.
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Milan 2014: designer Tom Dixon presented a collection of pendant and table lights that combine geometric brass-plated planes with spherical glass shades in Milan last week.
Dixon‘s Plane collection features two-dimensional surfaces surrounding spherical diffusers, creating lamps with geometric outlines that change depending on the aspect they’re viewed from.
“Geometry is a constant in my work,” Dixon told Dezeen, explaining the form of the lamps. “Actually I think in the main I have been minimal and geometric for many years now, starting with the Jack Lamp in 1997, or maximal and geometric, such as with the Pylon Chair in 1990.”
The flat planes are made from steel covered in reflective brass plating, while the spherical diffusers are produced from white glass.
“The flat and the round, the shiny and the matt, the reflective and the translucent is just part of the exploration of opposites that we started a couple of years ago with a collection called Rough & Smooth,” Dixon added.
Pendant versions are available with either round or triangular planes, while the table lamp balances on a separate surface fixed perpendicular to the rear of the metal section surrounding the light.
Electrical cords that carry current to the bulbs disappear into raised channels that lead from one edge of the flat surfaces to the central glass sphere.
Grouping the lights close to one another results in dynamic reflections across the warm brass surfaces.
The lights were displayed at Tom Dixon’s stand at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile last week, alongside a range of new furniture and lighting products referencing the comfortable and cultured environment of a traditional British members’ club.
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Milan 2014: London studio Poetic Lab has revealed a new iteration of Ripple – a lighting collection that imitates movement on water – at Milan design week (+ movie).
The concept design for Ripple was originally shown by Poetic Lab last year in Milan, but has since been developed further into two different sizes and put into production with Austrian crystal brand J. & L. Lobmeyr.
Each style consists of two unevenly hand-blown glass domes sitting on brass bases. A G4 halogen light shines from within the smaller dome through the larger dome as it slowly rotates. This creates a constantly changing mix of light and shadow to create a ripple effect on the surfaces around the lights.
“When I first saw Ripple I was totally struck by this effect and I had to sit down for about 30 minutes and watch it,” said Lobmeyr’s co-owner Leonid Rath. “It was really an emotional decision to take it into a range.”
“It’s not about designing a lamp, it’s about the experience and the emotion that is created by this moving light,” Poetic Lab co-founder and designer Hanhsi Chen told Dezeen.
“The inspiration of the collection comes from the nature beauty of light and fluid matters. We try to capture the essence of light through its gentle movements, just as all the nature light do,” said Chen.
“The process starts with the hot molten glass and as it interacts with the air, gravity and the breeze of the blower it gradually takes shape into a mysterious bubble,” added Chen.
Ripple is on show at the Spazio Rosanna Orlandi, Via Matteo Bandello 14-16, Milan.
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Milan 2014: design duo Formafantasma is presenting a collection of engraved drinking glasses that form new patterns when stacked together, at an exhibition curated by Rossana Orlandi in Milan
Commissioned by the MAK Museum in Vienna and produced by Austrian brand J.& L. Lobmeyr, the Alphabet collection of glasses and a carafe by Formafantasma are engraved with twelve different patterns.
The etchings reference motifs found in both J.& L. Lobmeyr’s archive and at the Geymüllerschlössel castle, in which the museum is housed.
Placed upside-down on the table one inside another, any two engraved patterns will combine to form a new pattern.
Delicate gold lines on each glass suggest the correct alignment. The bigger glass protects the smaller one like a crystal dome used to cover a still life composition.
“The design highlights the pleasure of diversity within a set of objects while revisiting the rules of table setting,” said Formafantasma.
The pieces were originally created for a site-specific installation called The Stranger Within for the Dining Room of Geymüllerschlössel.
They will be shown at the Rossana Orlandi-curated Bagatti Valsecchi exhibition, Via Gesù 5, in Milan from 8 to 13 April.
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En collaboration avec Sofie Platou, la designer graphique Julie Elise Hauge a fabriqué 8 raquettes de ping-pong à partir de matières différentes telles que le béton, le plexiglas, l’éponge, le marbre, le bois et le miroir. Les créations ont aussi été imprimées en posters avec un beau set design.
Making-of :
« Apollo Light » est une lampe qui a été conçue par Lucie Koldova et Dan Yeffet en 2013. La lampe réunit deux matières différentes dans une forme convexe : le verre et le marbre. Les faisceaux de lumières sortent de la tête en marbre. Une belle combinaison à découvrir dans la suite.
Ever wonder why there are different glasses for different wines? The idea is that each wine deserves its own type of glass to enhance its unique flavor, aroma and color. It’s an often overlooked part of the experience that every vino-enthusiast has come to appreciate. Inspired by this concept, the Doublet incorporates not one, but two of the more common types into one beautiful, seamless, stemless piece. Even if you’re not a wine snob, you can clear out some cabinet space with this artistic two-in-one alternative!
Designer: Stefan Burlacu
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