No Picnic by Elding Oscarson

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Swedish design duo Elding Oscarson have completed this office for design consultants No Picnic in Stockholm, divided in two by a reflective aluminium wall. 

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Previously a stable and troop hall, the office has meeting areas concealed behing the mirrored divider.

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The large windows to the meeting room are set flush with the metal cladding.

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A spiral staircase at the far end of the office leads to the existing mezzanine.

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The office also includes a workshop, showroom, project rooms and customer area.

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Photographs are by Åke E:son Lindman.

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No Picnic by Elding Oscarson

No Picnic is one of the world’s largest design consultants, covering industrial design, product design, and packaging design; as well as art direction, consumer insight, and architecture. We could hardly imagine a better oriented client, and expected nothing less than an ambitious, demanding, and fun project. They wanted large, open office spaces, a prototype workshop, a prototype showroom, several project rooms, and a striking customer area, distinctly separated from the other spaces in order to maintain secrecy.

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For this, the client had found a group of 19th Century buildings in central Stockholm, mainly consisting of two volumes, one originally an exercise hall for troops, and the other once a stable for police horses. They had been converted into showrooms in the 1980’s, and were in a sad state. These buildings currently enjoy the highest level of historical protection. Conversion had to be sensitive, and we have evaluated every step with an antiquarian, literally down to each new screw hole.

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We wanted to get rid of all added layers down to the origin. In the old stable we were able to peel the room naked, and just add a custom designed acoustical treatment along the walls, but in the exercise hall, economy and function demanded that a mezzanine constructed there in the 1980’s, was kept. The mezzanine cut the hall lengthwise, and crippled the experience of the space in an unfortunate way. Its edge coincided with the center of the hall, so we opted for the industrial designer’s own method – the way arbitrary but symmetric shapes can be sculpted as half models onto a mirror, we could restore the impression of the entire exercise hall by constructing a delicate aluminum wall along its central axis.

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The meeting rooms inside this metal membrane, has large window panes towards the hall. The flat reflection of the glass appearing flush with the distorting metal surface, makes the glass seem like a mirror while the metal appears transparent; the wall is there, yet it disappears. It is bold, kaleidoscopic and delusive with its trompe l’oeil effects. At the same time it takes a step back for the main act: the light and space of the exercise hall, and the old building’s straightforward display of material, construction, imperfections, and time that has passed.

Project Name: No Picnic
Architect: Elding Oscarson
Client: No Picnic AB
Location: Storgatan 23 C, Stockholm
Gross Area: 1100 sqm
Year of Construction: 2010-11


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Open Lounge by NAU + DGJ

Open Lounge by NAU

Design cooperative NAU and DGJ have completed this interior for Swiss bank Raiffeisen in Zurich, featuring curving walls perforated to create pictures of faces. 

Open Lounge by NAU

The bank is designed as a lounge with the banking terminals concealed within pieces of furniture.

Open Lounge by NAU

The perforations extend from reception to the employee workstations and the courtyard beyond, creating abstracted images of historical residents from the local area,

Open Lounge by NAU

The bank also houses meeting rooms, safety deposit boxes and an electronic information table.

Open Lounge by NAU

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Photography is by Jan Bitter.

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Open Lounge by NAU

Raiffeisen’s flagship branch on Zurich’s Kreuzplatz dissolves traditional barriers between customer and employee, creating a new type of “open bank,” a space of encounter.  Advanced technologies make banking infrastructure largely invisible; employees access terminals concealed in furniture elements, while a robotic retrieval system grants 24 hour access to safety deposit boxes.

Open Lounge by NAU

This shifts the bank’s role into becoming a light-filled, inviting environment – an open lounge where customers can learn about new products and services.  This lounge feels more like a high-end retail environment than a traditional bank interior.  Conversations can start spontaneously around a touchscreen equipped info-table and transition to meeting rooms for more private discussions.

Open Lounge by NAU

The info-table not only displays figures from world markets in realtime, but can be used to interactively discover the history of Hottingen, or just check the latest sports scores.

Open Lounge by NAU

Elegantly flowing walls blend the different areas of the bank into one smooth continuum, spanning from the customer reception at the front, to employee workstations oriented to the courtyard.  The plan carefully controls views to create different grades of privacy and to maximize daylight throughout.  The walls themselves act as a membrane mediating between the open public spaces and intimately scaled conference rooms.

Open Lounge by NAU

Portraits of the quarter’s most prominent past residents like Böklin, Semper or Sypri grace the walls, their abstracted images milled into Hi-macs using advanced digital production techniques.  While intricately decorative, the design ground the bank in the area’s cultural past, while looking clearly towards the future.

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Credits

Open Lounge was designed by the design cooperative NAU (www.nau.coop) with offices in Zurich, Berlin and Los Angeles in association with Drexler Guinand Jauslin Architekten.

Open Lounge by NAU

NAU is an international, multidisciplinary design firm, spanning the spectrum from architecture and interior design to exhibitions and interactive interfaces. As futurists creating both visual design and constructed projects, NAU melds the precision of experienced builders with the imagination and attention to detail required to create innovative exhibits, public events and architecture.

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NAU has quickly garnered recognition as an accomplished creator of fashionable interiors for retail, hotels, restaurants and residences. Its dedicated teams offer a personal touch, working with clients to align design approach with the appropriate market. Distilled in clear, contemporary forms, the designs of NAU promote modern, flexible solutions that engage and welcome.

NAU and DGJ collaborated with ROK (Rippmann Oesterle Knauss) on the design of the wall pattern.

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Client

Raiffeisen Schweiz, Niederlassung Zürich

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Kyoto Silk by Keiichi Hayashi

Kyoto Silk by Keiichi Hayashi

Architect Keiichi Hayashi of Japan has converted this traditional timber townhouse in central Kyoto into a cosmetics store.

Kyoto Silk by Keiichi Hayashi

The renovation retained the original planning of the traditional “machiya” building, with the addition of structural steel frames to the ground floor.

Kyoto Silk by Keiichi Hayashi

The ground floor houses the cosmetics shop and a courtyard, with an office and gallery on the first floor.

Kyoto Silk by Keiichi Hayashi

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Photographs are by Yoshiyuki Hirai.

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Kyoto Silk by Keiichi Hayashi Architect

Kyoto, Japan

Kyoto Silk, a beauty cosmetic shop, is located in the centre of Kyoto, which is a famous cultural city in Japan. The project was to convert a ‘Machiya’, a Japanese traditional wooden townhouse, into a small shop. The building was required to be reinforced because the original building was deteriorating rapidly and it did not have the enough strength to meet the safety standards. Therefore, on the ground floor of the two stories, thin steel frames were fixed on the inside of the original wooden frames. And on the first floor, a plywood structure was used on the floor to keep the horizontal rigidity.

Kyoto Silk by Keiichi Hayashi

A typical ‘Machiya’ consists of ‘Mise’ ‘Niwa’ ‘To-ri Niwa’. ‘Mise’ means the life space in the room, ‘Niwa’ means the small courtyard, and ‘To-ri Niwa’ means the workspace and the passage of the half-outside air-well void. During repeated study and considering the ventilation, lighting, movement, privacy, approach to the street, and taking in the nature, it became clear that the constitution of ‘Machiya’ was most suitable for the new program as a building in a narrow space in the centre of the city.

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As a result, in this project, I focused on the way that function as a beauty cosmetic shop could be complimented by the space limitations of this ‘Machiya’.
What is most important for this plan of a sales place is to make the products clear for the customers. (not simply as beauty display, but making it clear to the customer exactly what the product is.) A homogeneous, hard optical environment and simple shelves were considered so that the products never look exaggerated.

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The courtyard is placed at the back of the sales space and is the space for the guests and the staff to take a rest. At the same time, it is the space to take in the small nature of the store. The space is able to be accessed directly through from the street. These relations are exactly the same as the original ‘Machiya’. The first floor of this building is used as an office and gallery.

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Project Information:
Project name: Kyoto Silk
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Architect: Keiichi Hayashi

Design Period: February, 2009〜 April, 2009
Construction Period: May, 2009〜 June, 2009
Function: shop
Site Area: 52.38㎡
Building Area: 37.33㎡
Total Floor Areas: 67.58㎡
Stories: 2 stories
Structure: wooden frame (original)
Structure Engineer: Satoru Shimoyama / Shimoyama structure Office


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Shadowboxing exhibition by Slowscape Collective

Shadowboxing Exhibition by Slowscape Collective

London designers Slowscape Collective created this temporary cinema at the Royal College of Art in London from faceted planes of oriented strand board.

Shadowboxing Exhibition by Slowscape Collective

Called Shadowboxing, the space was designed to host an exhibition of video work plus performances, lectures and discussions.

Shadowboxing Exhibition by Slowscape Collective

Visitors lounged on the sloping surfaces or sat on stools folded from corrugated plastic.

Shadowboxing Exhibition by Slowscape Collective

Slowscape Collective is a team of students at the college.

Shadowboxing Exhibition by Slowscape Collective

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A team of postgraduate students from the Royal College of Art has designed an event installation for an exhibition at the college in London.

Shadowboxing Exhibition by Slowscape Collective

A team of postgraduate architecture and design students from the Royal College of Art has conceived of and built an adaptable 90 sqm event space for an exhibition featuring the work of well-known artists including Mariana Castillo Deball and Sean Dockray.

Shadowboxing Exhibition by Slowscape Collective

The installation, entitled Slowscape, considers the speed of visitors’ movement through the gallery and how the subtlety of built form can encourage us to pause and engage with sound and the moving image.

Shadowboxing Exhibition by Slowscape Collective

The paneled timber structure gently rises across the rectilinear gallery at a canted angle, folding up to form angled balustrades and a projection tower at the rear.

Shadowboxing Exhibition by Slowscape Collective

From this point a platform wraps around the existing columns and walls to form benches that engage otherwise overlooked areas in the open gallery space.

Shadowboxing Exhibition by Slowscape Collective

While the slight incline of the ramps encourages visitors to sit or lounge on the surface, 60 lightweight recyclable stools – each folded from a single cut sheet of fluted plastic – were also designed as a comfortable alternative for more formal events and longer film screenings.

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The exhibition Shadowboxing finished on April 4 after a two-week period during which Slowscape played host to screenings, performances, lectures and discussions.

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Designer: Slowscape Collective

Shadowboxing Exhibition by Slowscape Collective
Team: Stuart Franks, Christopher Kennedy, Simon Moxey, Ceri Williams, Thomas Woods

Shadowboxing Exhibition by Slowscape Collective
Location:London, England

Shadowboxing Exhibition by Slowscape Collective
Project Area: 90 sq m

Shadowboxing Exhibition by Slowscape Collective

Shadowboxing Exhibition by Slowscape Collective

Shadowboxing Exhibition by Slowscape Collective

Shadowboxing Exhibition by Slowscape Collective


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Tang Palace by FCJZ

Tang Palace by FCJZ

A woven net of bamboo creates a curved suspended ceiling inside this restaurant in Hangzhou, China by architects FCJZ.

Tang Palace by FCJZ

The internal spaces of Tang Palace are defined by linear bamboo screens and the central concrete core is wrapped in back-lit bamboo sheets, creating a light-box effect.

Tang Palace by FCJZ

Private rooms are located on the upper levels, suspended above and visible through the restaurant ceiling.

Tang Palace by FCJZ

Photographs are by Shu He.

Tang Palace by FCJZ

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Tang Palace, Hangzhou

The restaurant is located on the top floor of a superstore in the new town area of Hangzhou, with 9-meter high story height and a broad view to the south. Composite bamboo boards are selected as the main material, conveying the design theme of combining tradition and modernity.

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In the hall, to take advantage of the story height, some of the private rooms are suspended from the roof and creating an interactive atmosphere between the upper and lower levels, thus enriching the visual enjoyments.

Tang Palace by FCJZ

The original building condition has a core column and several semi-oval blocks which essentially disorganised the space. Hence, our design wants to reshape the space with a large hollowed-out ceiling which is made from interweaved thin bamboo boards; and extending from the wall to the ceiling.

Tang Palace by FCJZ

The waved ceiling creates a dramatic visual expression within the hall. The hollowed-out bamboo net maintains the original story height and thereby creates an interactive relation between the levels. We also wrapped the core column with light-transmitting bamboo boards to form a light-box, which transforms the previously heavy concrete block into a light and lively focus object.

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The entrance hall also follows the theme of bamboo. The wall is covered with bamboo material which follows the original outline of the wall, turning it into a wavy surface. In this way, the surface echoes the hall ceiling as well as performs a guiding function for customers.

Tang Palace by FCJZ

The design of private rooms embraces different characteristics. The rooms on the first level are relatively bigger and share the features of expanded bamboo net from the wall to ceiling and ornamentally engraved wall surfaces. Meanwhile, the different folding angles and engraved patterns make each room different from one another. The rooms above on the south are smaller and feature a special waved ceiling pattern and simple bamboo wall surface, which creates interesting and spacious room features.

Tang Palace by FCJZ

The key design concept of the space is that the suspended rooms are connected with suspended bridges and sideway aisles. The semi-transparent wall provides a subtle relationship between the inner and outer spaces, bestowing people with a special spatial experience.

Tang Palace by FCJZ

In this design, we hope to create diversified and yet an interrelated interior spaces through the different usages of the new bamboo material, responding to the local culture while seeking intriguing spatial effects.

Tang Palace by FCJZ

Project: Tang Palace, Hangzhou, China
Location: 6th Floor of MixC, No. 701, Fuchun Road, Jianggan District, Hangzhou, China
Client: HongKong Tang Palace Food&Beverage Group Co., LTD.
Area: 2460 ㎡
Materials: Bamboo, Composite Panel, Rubbed Concrete

Tang Palace by FCJZ

Designer: Atelier Feichang Jianzhu
Principal Designer: Chang Yung Ho
Project Architect: Lin Yihsuan
Design Team: Yu Yue, Wu Xia, Suiming Wang
Construction Period: February 2010 – July 2010
General Contractor: Shenzhen C.S.C. Decoration Design Engineering CO., LTD Beijing Branch
Finish material: Wall – bamboo(1f), marble(2f)/ Flooring – terrazzo(1f), carpet(2f) / Ceiling – bamboo net(1f), painting(2f)


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OneSize by Origins Architects

OneSize by Origins Architects

Dutch practice Origins Architects have designed this office in Amsterdam for motion graphic designers Onesize, incorporating a row of free-standing timber arches over a meeting table.

OneSize by Origins Architects

The polygon starts as a solid form and then breaks down into a series of ribs, creating both fully and partially enclosed spaces.

OneSize by Origins Architects

This timber shape subdivides the office, encasing two meeting areas and a darkened space for projection and studio work.

OneSize by Origins Architects

The photography is by Stijn Poelstra

OneSize by Origins Architects

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The client, a motion graphics designer firm Onesize needed certain dark spaces for projection and studio work.

OneSize by Origins Architects

The visual modelling work that is done in the studio inspired me to make an object with a minimal of polygons, transforming the program into an interesting shape and in the meantime subdividing the space for a clear routing.

OneSize by Origins Architects

We used low grade spruce multiplex better known as underlayment which is usually used under carpeting.

OneSize by Origins Architects

Besides the cost issue we strongly believed that the juxtaposition of high definition detailing and a low grade material would make both stand out better. This contrast is also echoed in the relation between the existing building and the central sculptural shape. Wood & concrete, detail and material, dark & light.

OneSize by Origins Architects

I hoped to create an interesting and intriguing space with minimal means. We started out with more complex shapes, but the simpler they became the better the result. Besides, our office specialises in sustainable building, so we were also keeping an eye on the environmental impact. By doing so we actually came up with a sculptural volume that hardly has any saw losses in the making. The most important result is that the interior really fits the client, both in terms of program and in appearance.

OneSize by Origins Architects

We needed to make a few key decisions on the materialisation of the interior spaces so that acoustics, lighting, fireproofing etc. were all handled properly. By choosing a builder in a preliminary phase we managed to control the whole process quite well, which also shows in the result.

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Extra information

Project Name: Onesize interior
Design: interior
Design Office (Official Studio name, www):  www.origins-architecten.nl

OneSize by Origins Architects

Project Design Team: Jamie van Lede
Client: Onesize
Constructor: Kne+ of www.kneplus.nl

OneSize BY Origins Architects

Location: Amsterdam – The Netherlands
Use: Motion Graphics studio
Area: 300 meters
Design Period: mid 2010
Completion Period: start 2011

OneSize by Origins Architects

Floor: concrete/carpeting
Wall: concrete, wood (under layment)
Ceiling: glass, wood


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Natura Morta by Studio Toogood at Erastudio Apartment Gallery

Natura Morta by Studio Toogood

Milan 2011: London interior designers and stylists Studio Toogood invited food and design collective Arabeschi di Latte to serve black food to guests at midnight dinners in a darkened apartment in Milan last week.

Natura Morta by Studio Toogood

Waitresses at the Underkitchen dinners wore perspex headpieces designed by Faye Toogood with milliner Zara Gorman and food included cheese served on coal, burned artichokes, bread dyed with squid ink and eggs cooked in black tea.

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Erotic drawings by Italian artist Piero Fornasetti (1913 – 1988) were displayed alongside still life images of the food by photographer Marius W Hansen.

Natura Morta by Studio Toogood

Called Natura Morta (dead nature), the installation at Erastudio Apartment Gallery presented Toogood’s second furniture collection, Assemblage 2 (more details to follow).

Natura Morta by Studio Toogood

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Natura Morta

A project by Studio Toogood featuring Underkitchen by Arabeschi di Latte

Erastudio Apartment Gallery,Via Palermo 5, Milano Tuesday 12th – Saturday 16th April 2011 3pm – 7pm

Natura Morta by Studio Toogood

Natura Morta, the Italian term for“still life”, literally translates as “dead nature”. The outsized still lifes showcased in this provocative exhibition, which are composed from an abstract collection of hand-made and found objects, celebrate the darker side of the natural world.

Natura Morta by Studio Toogood

Adding to the air of the subversive, Natura Morta is being held in a private apartment, where Toogood will be launching its second collection of objects: Assemblage 2. These striking pieces will be displayed alongside erotic drawings from the archive of Piero Fornasetti.

Natura Morta by Studio Toogood

During this exhibition, Arabeschi di Latte presents a series of private midnight dinners as part of the Underkitchen project. Guests will be invited to taste simple but intriguing combinations of black food served by waitresses dressed by StudioToogood.

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Toogood launches Assemblage 2.

By replacing the delicate sycamore, brass and Portland stone found in Toogood’s first collection with more elemental materials, Assemblage 2 seeks to reinterpret its clean geometric forms.

Made using leather, sand-cast aluminium, melted pewter, bronze, wax and resin, Assemblage 2 promises to be altogether more unyielding, elemental and visceral.

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Zara Gorman for Toogood

In the dark shadows of the private midnight dinners, guests will encounter waitresses wearing a collection of headpieces designed specifically for the Natura Morta event. Working collaboratively, Zara Gorman and Faye Toogood have created a collection of six sculptural pieces that reflect the fierce and powerful nature of the exhibition.

Zara Gorman says,“My work is inspired by the lines and contours found within architecture and product design. I am also interested in exploring how texture and tone can be achieved by using a single colour, most recently black. I enjoy working with materials not commonly associated with traditional millinery, ranging from Perspex to wood and leather, and love the creative challenge that these represent. My influences vary, and range from the work of Serge Lutens through to the mechanisms of Venetian blinds, the layout of contour maps, and Japanese architecture and design.”

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Piero Fornasetti

There will be an exclusive display of some of Piero Fornasetti’s Erotica series (69 drawings, India ink on paper, 1945) at Natura Morta.
These drawings, like many others, were produced during the period Fornasetti spent in Deitingen, Switzerland, fleeing the war. Many years later, in 1973, he had the idea for a book, Elogium Mentulae (In Praise of the Penis), which led him to complete the series with more drawings.This book was never completed as he failed to find a publisher courageous enough to take it on.

Filled with a sense of humour, cleverness and a taste for the surreal, Fornasetti took pleasure in investigating, laying bare and transfiguring sexual organs, imagining them as fantastic beings, creatures from some dreamy bestiary – a catalogue of creations that fascinate, awaken curiosity and inspire fear.

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Marius W Hansen for Toogood and Underkitchen

Working under the creative direction of Faye Toogood and incorporating beautifully abstract food styling by Francesca Sarti, photographer Marius W Hansen has composed a series of powerful and provocative still lifes that react to the dark alchemy behind Natura Morta and Underkitchen.The images will be printed in Issue 1 of the Underkitchen publication.

Norwegian-born Marius W Hansen lives and works in London. After completing his BA in Photography atThe Surrey Institute ofArt and Design in 2002,he quickly established himself as a leading London photographer. He has worked with magazines such as Arena Homme Plus, Fantastic Man,The Gentlewoman, GQ Style, i-D, POP, Vogue and Wallpaper. His work is in private collections, and featured in the shows Fashion Photography Now (2008), Küba: Journey Against the Current commissioned by T-B A21, and the Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London. His clients include Bally, Coca-Cola, EMI, Eurostar, Harrods, Hermès, Levi’s, Nike, Nokia, Sky,Vodafone,Time Out and Amnesty International. He has photographed numerous personalities, such as Antony Hegarty, Cerith Wyn Evans, Paul Smith, Sebastien Tellier,Tori Amos and Vivienne Westwood. He is represented by Zphotographic Ltd.

Natura Morta by Studio Toogood

Underkitchen by Arabeschi di Latte

Underkitchen, the brainchild of Francesca Sarti – founder of the food design collective Arabeschi di Latte – is a new project set up to reveal the hidden, subtle and abstract nature behind food and hospitality.Telling unexpected stories using powerful combinations of ingredients and compositions, the project not only wishes to blur the boundaries between food and design, but to create an open platform for food-related collaborations.

At Natura Morta, Underkitchen’s darker side can be experienced via a series of midnight dinners prepared by Annette Weber under the motto:“At midnight the core comes alive”. Simple but intriguing ingredients include eggs dyed in tea, spices that appear as giant marbles, black rocks formed out of cheese rolled in coal, a rustic dessert made from black bread soaked in water and dark sugar, and artichoke flowers carbonised to black on the balcony of the gallery.

For this occasion Arabeschi di Latte has also printed the first issue of Underkitchen, an experimental publication dedicated to food. Designed by graphic designer Alessandro Gori of Laboratorium, it features images, texts, recipes, and photography realised for the Natura Morta exhibition by photographer Marius W Hansen, alongside contributions by Pier Luigi,Tazzi, Sissi, Jirayu Rengjaras, Jennifer Boles and Milovan Farronato for Fiorucci Art Trust.

For the midnight dinners, the champagne is kindly provided by Perrier-Jouët, beer by 32 Via dei Birrai, cheese by Luigi Guffanti, eggs by La Vigna Azienda Agricola, Artichokes by Agricola Regiroli and tea by Dammann Frères.

Natura Morta by Studio Toogood

Arabeschi di Latte is an Italian food design collective which has created and exhibited a variety of food-related projects such us pop-up cafés, eating events and workshops. In 2011 Arabeschi di Latte celebrates its tenth anniversary.

Erastudio Apartment Gallery

Erastudio Apartment Gallery derives from architect Patrizia Tenti’s personal passion for the research of fashion, art and design.This passion has developed and matured through her work as an architect for international fashion brands.

The Apartment Gallery is a house, studio and gallery integrated into one fluid space in an early 18th-century building.The classic layout of a Milanese apartment – a succession of rooms off a corridor – has been kept to provide the ideal deconstructed layout for a gallery.The organic pureness of the space – a non-place – is open to change and different activities, and therefore remains alive and pulsating.

Natura Morta by Studio Toogood

Era: as past, as epoch, as intelligence.

The gallery opened during Milan Design Week in April 2010, creating an environment where three different areas – art, design and fashion – can live together and reflect the same idea: unique pieces produced in limited edition.

At Erastudio you can find unique pieces of historical design by the likes of Albini, Sarfatti and Borsani, set alongside re-edited unknown brands and contemporary limited-edition pieces by designers such as Ernst Gamperl. Special and limited-edition items have been created by new, cutting-edge fashion designers and sold exclusively at the gallery.

Natura Morta by Studio Toogood

During Fuori Salone, Erastudio Apartment Gallery will collaborate with Studio Toogood for the Natura Morta exhibition and will put on sale until the end of May a selection of erotic prints from the Barnaba Fornasetti collection by Piero Fornasetti.

SPONSORED by:

Perrier-Jouët
United Perfumes
Metro Imaging
32 Via dei Birrai
Agricola Regiroli
Dammann Freres
Guffanti Formaggi
La Vigna Azienda Agricola

SPECIAL THANKS to DJ Barnaba Fornasetti, DJ Lele Saveri, DJ Natalia Resmini and DJ David Casini


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Artek 2011

Fixtures that put light first and other revelations from Finland’s design pioneers
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In 2010 Artek celebrated its 75th anniversary. This past week as part of Milan’s design festivities, the Finnish company made a strong statement positioning themselves with a confident eye toward the future, grounded by their design heritage as they head into their 76th year. Along with a new forward-thinking line of lighting fixtures called White (pictured above), Artek announced Open Archives, an online repository of images of Artek interiors, as well as the acquisition of the rights to produce Ilmari Tapiovaara’s furniture collection, a true icon of Northern European design. (See more images of the White collection in the gallery below.

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In a private showcase at Galleria Giò Marconi, we asked Ville Kokkonen, Design Director of Artek, who also heads up White about the new series of lighting solutions. Consisting of four models, the line is the upshot of in-depth research on the use of light fixtures in domestic, office and public settings. “We have studied the effects of lack of lighting in the Northern Countries,” Kokkonen shared, “and this was the starting point for the achievement of the right intensity and quality of light that we wanted. We have also interviewed creative people in order to understand how light should correctly fill working environments.”

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As a result, the White light collection is utterly essential; the strict standards and quality requirements of the light determine the design of each object. Composed solely of wood and matte plexiglas, each box-like lamp has a pure, simplistic character. “We chose not to use LEDs, because they don’t produce the diffused and uniform light we were thinking about,” Kokkonen explained. “At the end, each one of our new lamps obtained a medical certification, since they meet all the necessary characteristics required by the Finnish health associations.”

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Another clever new project, Open Archives showcases past and present Artek interiors from around the world, from 1935 to modern-day. The site also functions as a community for Artek’s fans; images can be shared, tagged and freely used in blogs.


Inside Awards: call for entries

Inside interiors festival Dezeen

Dezeen is proud to be online media partner for Inside: World Festival of Interiors taking place in Barcelona on 2-3 November and our readers can save 25% of the price of entering the festival’s awards programme and visiting the festival.

The festival’s website has just gone live at www.insidefestival.com and is now accepting entries. Dezeen will be working with the festival over the coming months, publishing a series of video interviews with awards jurors on our new video website www.dezeenscreen.com, as well as filming a series of interviews with winners at the festival in November.

Dezeen readers can save 25% on the price of both entering and attending the festiva by quoting VIP code DEZEEN when entering online at: www.insidefestival.com

Read on for more details…


Inside: World Festival of Interiors
2-3 November 2011
CCIB, Barcelona
www.insidefestival.com

Inside Awards are now open! Entries open 12 April – 30 June 2011.

Inside is an exhilarating festival and awards programme and an important new fixture in the global design calendar.

The core of Inside is an innovative awards scheme judged by some of the best names in the business, including Ilse Crawford, Andre Fu, Ross Lovegrove, Marcus Fairs and Paul Priestman. Rather than schemes being judged behind closed doors, leading design names will pitch against each other in live presentations to win the accolade World Interior of the Year.

Inside will also feature an inspiring talks programme curated by programme director Claire Barrett including topics such as: Can interior design make food taste better? Heal you? Make you work better? Spend better? Help you escape? Other unmissable highlights include product showcases and installations exploring the culture of interior design across the world, as well as parties and fringe events throughout the city.

All Dezeen contacts save 25% on the price of both entering and visiting the festival. To claim this discount quote VIP code DEZEEN when entering online at: www.insidefestival.com

Further details can be found in the entry brochure available to download here: http://www.emapconferences.co.uk/insidedownloads

Inside will be a buzzing hub for exchanging ideas and seeing the very latest in design from around the world – giving visitors an instant snapshot of the international interiors scene. Entries are now open at www.insidefestival.com.