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Stockholm 2012: Londoner Benjamin Hubert has designed a fruit bowl for Swedish brand David Design with concentric circles milled out of a slice of oak, cut deeper as they approach the centre to form a stepped dish.

These steps reduce the surface area of the fruit that’s touching the bowl, allowing air to circulate and preventing mould.

Called Halo, the bowl is part of David Design’s Atelier collection, which also includes the Heart Chair by Claesson Koivisto Rune that we published yesterday.

Stockholm Furniture Fair took place 7-11 February. See all our stories about it here.

Here are some more details from Benjamin Hubert:

Halo – Benjamin Hubert x David Design

Halo is a range of geometric CNC cut Solid Oak fruit bowls designed by Benjamin Hubert for Scandinavian brand David Design’s ‘Atelier collection’.

The bowls signature is a series of concentric ribs in the surface, these ribs allow for a minimum surface area contact with the fruit contents. This allows for optimum airflow beneath the fruit decreasing the presence of mould and increasing the shelf life of the produce.

David Design has re-launched under New management and art direction in 2012 working with a number of established and up and coming designers under new management and art Direction.

Materials:

Oak with natural oil
Oak with black stain

Dimensions W320mm x H60mm

Stockholm 2012: Swedish designers Form Us With Love present five new projects at the Swedish Museum of Architecture as part of Stockholm Design Week this week.

The work on show includes their Bento chair for new brand One Nordic Furniture Company (see our story here) pendant lamps for Design House Stockholm, dividers for Swedish brand Abstracta, a lamp for Swedish firm Ateljé Lyktan and vases for Spanish company Cosentino Silestone.

Stockholm Design Week continues until 12 February. See all our coverage here.

Photos are by Jonas Lindström.

Here are some more details from Form Us With Love:

Form Us With Friends 2012

For the third year in a row, Form Us With Love presents the exhibition concept Form Us With Friends during Stockholm Design Week. This year, Form Us With Love has teamed up with the centre for architecture, form and design, The Swedish Museum of Architecture and created a unique exhibition on the scenic island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm.

With the exhibition, Form Us With Love wants to highlight the creative collaborations behind their new work.

A year of intense work has resulted in five projects adding new dimensions to each specific area: lighting, furniture and objects. The exhibition focuses on the story and process behind the projects.

Form Us With Love presents new design for five friends: the Plaid dividers for Abstracta (Sweden), the Plug Lamp for Ateljé Lyktan (Sweden), the Form Pendants for Design House Stockholm (Sweden), the Bento chair & table for One Nordic Furniture Company (Finland) and the Slab Vases for Cosentino Silestone (Spain).

London designer Phil Cuttance has built a machine to cast faceted vases that are unique every time. Watch the movie »

The Faceture series is made of water-based resin, rotated inside a folded mould as it hardens.

The mould can be altered before each casting by pushing and pulling parts of the folded plastic net inwards and outwards.

Royal College of Art graduate Julian Bond developed a similar process in 2010 by pushing plaster rods back and forth to continuously alter the cast form. See his work here.

Other projects by Cuttance on Dezeen include vases made by welding plastic offcuts together and coat hooks made from toy animals.

Images are by Petr Krejčí and Phil Cuttance.

Here’s some more information from Cuttance:

FACETURE vases

The FACETURE series consists of handmade faceted vessels, light-shades and table. Each object is produced individually by casting a water-based resin into a simple handmade mould. The mould is then manually manipulated to create the each object’s form before each casting, making every piece utterly unique.

The FACETURE process

First the mould of the object is hand-made by scoring and cutting a sheet of 0.5mm plastic sheet. This sheet is then folded, cut and taped into the overall shape of the product that is to be cast. The mould’s final shape, and strength, is dictated by which triangular facets I pop in and out. I do this each time I ready the mould for the next object, meaning that no two castings are the same. I then mix a water-based casting resin that is cast in the mould where it sets solid.

The resin is poured into the hollow mould and rolled around to coat and encase the sides, controlled by me on the casting jig on the machine. The material soon sets creating a hollow solid object. Then another, different coloured measure of resin is poured into the same mould, and swirled around inside, over the first. When it has set, the mould is removed to reveal the solid set cast piece. The casting appears with sharp accurate lines and a digital quality to its aesthetic, a visual ‘surprise’ considering the ‘lo-fi’, hand-made process from which it came. The mould is then cleaned and ready for re-use.

Each vase is handmade, unique, and numbered on the base.

Available in two sizes:

Tall – 45 x 12 cm approx
Small – 34 x 8 cm approx

Standard colours – Charcoal, blue, yellow, pink, white. Custom colours available.

The FACETURE project was created with the support of Creative New Zealand.

Watch this movie on Dezeen Screen »

A couple months ago, we had a look at HJC Designs‘ first foray into sleek-yet-playful kitchenware with the “Peel” coffeemaker. The Yorkshire, UK-based company is back with the second item with Tron-like LED details to accent the object’s clean lines and signature ‘peeling’ surface: a “visually striking cordless kettle.”

The eye-catching kettle features a matte black body with a zipper-like band that ‘peels’ at the spout, as well as a stainless steel ripple-effect lid, encircled with the glow of soft blue LED piping.

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Dezeen Watch Store is at trade show Interiors UK this week, along with a selection of the most successful designers and brands from The Temporium.

The show is the largest interiors trade exhibition in the UK and will bring together an array of new interior and lifestyle products.

Dezeen Watch Store and friends are at stand G31 in the Design Village, where you’ll find all our latest watches plus a great range of homeware, lighting and accessories.

All the latest watches from Dezeen Watch Store are on show, including Hong Kong brand VOID (above and below).

Watch an interview we filmed with VOID founder David Ericsson on Dezeen Screen.

Swedish bicycle accessory brand Bookman have the full selection of their ingenious bike lights on show. Watch an interview with Johan Lidehäll of Bookman here.

You can also get your hands on one of Eric Therner’s Diamond Lights for Copenhagen design brand Frama.

Italian brand Palomar present Emanuele Pizzolorusso‘s indestructible maps of major cities, which can be screwed up and stuffed in a pocket or bag.

Sugru demonstrate their remarkable fix-anything modeling clay, used below to make an camera indestructible.

Londoner Shan Valla shows her porcelain vases case from old milk bottles and cut-glass decanters, plus decorative ceramic finches and bunnies.

Watch our interview with Valla on Dezeen Screen here.

British design brand All Lovely Stuff present their latest range of quirky homewares, including Dinosaladservers and Chinese scissors.

Other products include the Animals of Whittling Wood series and Happy Chopper chopping board with a face.

Watch Carl Clerkin of All Lovely Stuff talk about the range in our interview on Dezeen Screen here.

See all the interviews in this series here. 

Photographs are by Luke Hayes.

Interiors UK takes place at the NEC Centre in Birmingham from 22-25 January, featuring furniture, lighting, flooring, soft furnishings and accessories from over 600 exhibitors.

National Exhibition Centre
Birmingham
B40 1NT
UK

22-25 January 2012

9.00am-6.00pm