Hasta La Ideas

Milan 2014: products by French design brand Moustache will be exhibited as a “breathing” installation at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan to celebrate the brand’s fifth anniversary.

The Half Decade Beast installation of new and existing designs by Moustache, created by French designer Jean-Baptiste Fastrez, will pulsate and appear to breathe.

“Alive and breathing, the Half decade Beast has 10 new projects to show, which open up and prospect new ways for publishing and production,” said a statement from the brand.

The installation will include a chair by Dutch duo Scholten & Baijings with textile ribbons woven around a lacquered metal frame to create the seat and back.

Milan studio Formafantasma has used tanned salmon and perch skins leftover from the fishing industry to cover a stool and create a hot-water bottle, similar to items in their Crafica collection.

Curving overlapping forms created from injection-moulded recycled plastic by Constance Guisset form shades for table and pendant lamps.

An iridescent vase designed to look like a scarab beetle shell and a mirror framed with welded PVC have both been designed by the installation’s creator, Fastrez.

Bertjan Pot, Ferréol Babin, Raw-Edges and ECAL graduate Dimitri Bähler have also contributed designs.

The piece will be installed at Spazio Rossana Orlandi from 8 to 13 April during Milan’s design week. It will then move to the Bon Marché Rive Gauche department store in Paris for a further two months.

Photographs are by Charles Nègre.

Moustache – Half decade Beast

8 – 13 April 2014 Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan

On the occasion of his 5th anniversary, Moustache presents Half decade Beast, a beast at the half-way point of his first decade.

Alive and breathing, the Half decade Beast, his slow and assured breathing, has 10 new projects to show which open up and prospect new ways for publishing and production.

A living incarnation of Moustache’s commitments in favour of projects which are not only dictated by market requirements but also by the cultural quality they convey, taking into account the recent history of manufactured articles, Half decade Beast presents together projects designed by Scholten & Baijings, Formafantasma, Bertjan Pot, Raw-Edges, Constance Guisset, ECAL/Dimitri Bähler Jean-Baptiste Fastrez. In their own way, they all question the way in which, today, we produce and consume the objects we surround ourselves with.

Rather than heading towards a certain technological escalation or trying to satisfy outmoded ideals and standards, these 10 new products shuffle the cards and, each in its own way, argues for a reasoned production consistent with our contemporary ideals.

Alive, Moustache’s Half decade Beast installation also shows a selection of articles that Inga Sempé, François Azambourg, Big-Game, Ionna Vautrin, Benjamin Graindorge, Sébastien Cordoléani and Dylan Martorell designed since 2009 which marked the story of Moustache and which played a part in building his identity.

The Half decade Beast will make his first stop at the Spazio Rossana Orlandi during the Salone del Mobile from 8 to 13 April 2014 before settling in at the Bon Marché Rive Gauche in Paris for two months, in May and June 2014.

For the Half decade Beast exhibition, Moustache asked Jean-Baptiste Fastrez to design the beast and the setting, the Graphiquants to design a breathing font and all the graphic elements for the exhibition.
A series of 12 photos of Charles Negre goes with the exhibition.

Strap chairs by Scholten & Baijings

Lacquered metal structure and textile straps. Stackable, for indoor and outdoor use. Three colours available.

The Scholten & Baijings Strap chair is a reinterpretation of the tradition of cane or woven chair produced in Holland for the first time at the start of the 17th century and which have been in France since the 18th century.

As is their custom, Scholten & Baijings put colour at the heart of the project and give it an unusual material status. Going back to the project’s origins, it is the colour which determines the use of a particular know-how and not the contrary. No longer bound by the status of its customary finishing, colour is determining and it is in this inverse process that the innovative coloured harmonies of the Strap chair work.

The attention paid to the quality of the finishing and the manufacturing details are what make the Strap chair a perfect seat for both for outdoors and indoors. Stackable, at the same time it will be a worthy contemporary heir to the cane bistro chairs to be seen on the terraces of Paris cafés or as a very comfortable seating around a table in a domestic world.

Pad stool by ECAL/ Dimitri Bähler

Black or light grey 3D textile, expanded foam.

Pad is the result of a series of experiments with foam injected into a flexible envelope, without using any structure.

Pad is a stool which takes its inspiration from the triangulated construction of a large number of objects. Its ribs, at first sight, basic and rigid, contrast with the use of a flexible and random fabric.

These ribs are what structure the envelope and form the article’s “exoskeleton” while giving it a padded and comfortable appearance.

In an instant, when the foam is expanded, the ribs become taut, the envelopes swells up and Pad takes it final form, every time a different one.

Fins, Perch and Salmon stools by Formafantasma

Vegetal tanned salmon and perch skins, solid ash.

The Fins de Formafantasma collection puts to use fish skins rejected by the fishing industry and, in this way, examines the question of resources and materials in the furniture industry. These skins, in vegetal-type tanning, are most frequently obtained from commonplace fish such as salmon or cod and are used here to cover a stool or to shape the cover of a hot-water bottle.

Apart from the aesthetic appearance inherent in the use of tanned fish skins, this material commits its user to an unusually direct relation with the animal world.

Zoomorphe, the Formafantasma Fins collection for Moustache flirts with the world of taxidermy and the symbolism of the wild world.

Accolade trestles by Raw-Edges

Adjustable height. White or light grey laminated black mdf.

Similarly to the building sets of our childhood, the Raw-Edges Accolade trestles provide a set of elements for assembly by the user to build a pair of trestles however as he wishes and whose height he can vary. Once built, the trestles’ black band displays the familiar punctuation marks deriving from typographic typefaces.

Fins, Perch hot-water bottle by Formafantasma.
Vegetal tanned perch skin and glass tube.

The Fins collection by Formafantasma puts to use fish skins rejected by the fishing industry and, in this way, examines the question of resources and materials in the furniture industry.

These skins, in vegetal-type tanning, are most frequently obtained from commonplace fish such as salmon or cod and are used here to cover a stool or to shape the cover of a hot-water bottle. Apart from the aesthetic appearance inherent in the use of tanned fish skins, this material commits its user to an unusually direct relation with the animal world.

Zoomorphe, the Formafantasma Fins collection for Moustache flirts with the world of taxidermy and the symbolism of the natural world.

Aurore lamp by Ferréol Babin

Black or light grey. Lacquered metal base, multi-coloured glass.

The Aurore lamp by Ferréol Babin is more for projecting than diffusing light.
Turned towards the wall the lamp lights, this wall is transformed into a reflector. Thanks to a filtration system, the Aurore lamp produces coloured luminous effects which change depending on how far away from the wall it is. This mechanical light filtration system produces colour effects similar to those seen at dawn or during rainbow.
When switched off, its disk becomes opaque and transforms its surface into a mirror creating reflections in changing colours.

Cape by Constance Guisset

Cape table lamp by Constance Guisset. Two models: small or large. Injected recycled polycarbonate. In seven colours.

Cape pendant by Constance Guisset

Injected recycled polycarbonate. In seven colours

Like a half animal, half plant silhouette, with its fluid curves between softness and tension, Cape reveals its pale and opalescent colours. Fragile on its metal base or pendant, soft and ethereal, it seems to incarnate a breath. Its two interlinked shapes gracefully reveal a mysterious presence.

Scarabée vase by Jean-Baptiste Fastrez

Enamelled ceramic, pmma and rubber band. Two colours available.

Comprising two shells fitting into each other, held together by an elastic connection, the Scarabée vase takes inspiration, even imitates, the constructive and aesthetic principles of the insect which it is called after.

While evoking the scarab’s iridescent aspect, its front, which also borrows certain codes from the world of sport and the motorcycle, contract with each other and with the body of the vase, craft-produced in enamelled ceramic.

The Scarabée vase by Jean-Baptiste Fastrez also somewhat draws from certain contemporary or older fantastic mythologies.

Boat mirror by Jean-Baptiste Fastrez

Lined PVC coated fabric and mirror.

The frame of the Boat mirror is made of welded PVC fabric diverting the use of materials for manufacturing nautical equipment to a domestic purpose.

By its softness, the mirror’s oversized frame acts like a garment. Like a coat or a hat, by means of a strap, it can be held on in a large number of ways.

An open and polymorphous object, the Boat mirror may have both a character and new expressivity that can be freely determined by its use.

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Product news: French design company Moustache will present new products including lights shaped like swirls of cream and visor-inspired wall lamps at Maison & Object in Paris this weekend (+ slideshow).

Moustache‘s latest collection features lighting, seating and homeware products by the brand’s regular designers including Big-Game and François Azambourg, plus new collaborators Bertjan Pot, Constance Guisset and Jean-Baptiste Fastrez.

The Moto walls lamps by Jean-Baptiste Fastrez reference motorcycle helmets, with rounded iridescent shades based on visors.

Also by Fastrez, the Parade vase comprises blown-glass balls with holes in the tops that hang from a wooden stick.

Constance Guisset’s Chantilly lights look similar to a swirl of cream and can either be stood on spindly legs or suspended from the ceiling.

Wooden coat hooks that have pegs positioned like facial features on tribal masks are designed by Bertjan Pot.

François Azambourg employed techniques used to build sailing dinghies when creating his wooden Quadrille and Gavotte chairs.

He has also extended his collection of squidgy looking Mousse shelves, which are actually made from enamelled ceramic and designed Très Jolie, a translucent red seat with a truss-like structure.

Big-Game has added six new colours to its range of Bold chairs, each formed from two curved tubes, and made the new two-seater Bold bench in the same style.

Moustache is exhibiting in Hall 8, Stand B33 at Maison & Objet, from 6 to 10 September.

The company launched during Milan design week in 2009, and since then we’ve featured Moustache’s little round wall-mounted shelves and dishes, plus a series of vases with tops that loop over to frame the flowers.

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At the occasion of Maison & Objet in Paris next week French company Moustache will launch a new collection of furnitures and objects designed by regular designers François Azambourg, Inga Sempé, Big-Game, Ionna Vautrin, Benjamin Graindorge, Sébastien Cordoléani and will reveal the firsts products issued from their new collaborations with Bertjan Pot, Constance Guisset and Jean-Baptiste Fastrez.

Since its launch in April 2009, Moustache, a French publishing house in the field of contemporary articles and home furnishings, under the impetus of Stéphane Arriubergé and Massimiliano Iorio, is forging close links in a network of complicity and expert knowledge in design fields.

An active participant in the present-day writing of the history of manufactured articles, Moustache proposes a collection which explores new approaches to production and consumption. Its articles and pieces of furniture involve their users in their own contemporary history. To the market constraints linked to the ever-increasingly insistent demand for novelties and experiences on the market, Moustache prefers to build a long-term domestic world with a high cultural value.

Rooted in the history of arts and techniques,the Moustache philosophy combines design and pattern in the present: attentive and responsible production responds to his searches for new, aesthetic, function and relevant shapes. Committed, Moustache is surrounded with designers for whom it is essential that convictions and points of view be shared. François Azambourg, Big-Game, Sébastien Cordoléani, Jean-Baptiste Fastez, Benjamin Graindorge, Constance Guisset, Bertjan Pot, Ionna Vautrin and Inga Sempé make up the uniqueness of this joyful community.

The result of a well thought-out dialogue between technique, strong identity and contemporary use, each article with its disparities forms the contours of the same family.

Moustache is attached to the heritage value of the articles, evidence of a society, its developments and its uses. It offers to share its soul, its ideas and its values. The environment it reveals according to an enlightened editorial line, a catalogue of objects linking some with others according to the principles of simplicity and accessibility.

A distinctive and remarkable symbol, Moustache publishes a collection with a character which, today, is imposing its presence in the design environment.

Objects produced by Moustache have joined museum collections such as the MoMa design and architecture collection, Museum of Modern Art in New-York, the F.N.A.C, Fond National d’Art contemporain, centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, the MAKK, musée des arts décoratifs of Cologne…

New products September 2013

Moto, design Jean-Baptiste Fastrez

The Moto wall light designed by Jean-Baptiste Fastrez revisits the aesthetic codes of motorcycle equipment vendors. Hieratic, ultra-reflective, producing numerous optical effects, when lit it diffuses slightly coloured light through its translucent visor.

The Moto wall light is available in 4 colours. It can be connected to a wall power outlet or plugged directly into a socket.

Parade vase, design Jean-Baptiste Fastrez

The Parade vase by Jean-Baptiste Fastrez organises and articulates blown glass parts and a wooden spindle. They are fastened together by nylon industrial wing nuts.

To be suspended or placed on a piece of furniture, the Parade vase forms a bunch of spherical or oblong containers and expresses in its own right the bases of a work statement: combine industrial and craft techniques and update the outdated industrial ideal, “an object for all”, for a more adapted contemporary ideal, “an object for everyone”.

The research studies for this project were conducted at the CIRVA during the seventh edition of the Design Parade festival at Villa Noailles, Hyères (France), in 2012.

The Parade vase is available in three colours.

Ooga Booga, Frik Frak and Pierre, design Bertjan Pot

Ooga Booga, Frik Frak and Pierre could have been the artistic creations of an archaic nonliterate society if they had not come across Bertjan Pot, who gave them a function!

Tribal arts, witchcraft and drolleries underlie this series of three masks to which Bertjan Pot simply seems to have added the traditional function of coat hanger.

Generously sized, Ooga Booga, Frik Frak and Pierre are available in solid ash, ash dyed white, yellow or black and are made in France using highly sophisticated industrial tools!

Chantilly, design Constance Guisset

The Chantilly lamps by Constance Guisset create complex volumes based on a highly simple yet ingenious system of folds.

Delivered flat, the lampshade takes shape in the single closure movement required to assemble it.

Small, large or to be suspended, the Chantilly lamps follow the delicious movement of the icemaker’s siphon and enhance it through the use of subtle colours, fold by fold.

Each Chantilly lamp is available in three sizes and four colours, at a very attractive price.

Quadrille and Gavotte, design François Azambourg

The Quadrille chair and the Gavotte armchair by François Azambourg are updated versions of his now classical tripod chair, the Petite Gigue. Like their predecessor, the Quadrille chair and the Gavotte armchair are based on the construction principle known as hard chine used for small sailing dinghies such as the Fireball. The manufacture of these amazing chairs requires both cabinet-making and shipbuilding skills.

This range composed of the Petite Gigue and Quadrille chairs and the Gavotte armchair, takes the names of three popular dances in Europe.

Each chair is available in natural or lacquered ash.

Très Jolie, design François Azambourg

The Très Jolie chair, known as Very Nice in its initial experimental version, has now been structurally transformed to become completely functional. The Très Jolie chair immediately evokes the childhood balsawood and paper scale models, even using its construction and assembly principles. Fascinating, like a complex construction whose logic escapes you, the Très Jolie chair almost resembles a folly in the architectural sense of the term. Red, pretty, light and comfortable, the Très Jolie chair by François Azambourg is also a concentration of qualities difficult to combine in a single chair.

Mousse, design François Azambourg

The Mousse family of shelves, launched in July 2011 during the Moustache exhibition and a performance/production given by François Azambourg for the Hyères Design Parade at Villa Noailles, is growing. The collection now includes a corner model and a very deep shelf.

The Mousse collection is currently available in turquoise, pale yellow and pale pink enamelled ceramic.

Bold bench, design Big-Game

The Bold bench by Big-Game could be seen as an extension or a deformation of the chair. The first sketches drawn by Big-Game for the chair represented a tube full of paste which formed in a single stroke the tube of this chair with expanded lines. Four years later, the Bold bench integrates all the structural and graphical qualities of the chair to produce a very comfortable two-seater. The removable coating is available in four colours.

Bold chair/New colours, design Big-Game

The Bold chair, added to the collections of the New York MoMA Design and Architecture department last spring, is now available in six new colours that complement the six existing colours.

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L’agence 180 Amsterdam a imaginé cette série de prints très réussis pour le salon « Barber Shaves & Trims ». Avec un slogan proposant d’apprivoiser la bête, ces visuels nous montrent des animaux sauvages avec des moustaches bien taillées. Un rendu simple et original à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.

Product news: French designer Sébastien Cordoléoni has created a range of wall-mounted containers and hooks for Parisian brand Moustache.

Called Angolo, the set comprises three metal pockets for stashing small items, like keys and sunglasses in the hallway, while larger things like coats or umbrellas can be hooked over their tops.

Moustache launched the designs at Maison&Objet in Paris last month alongside a series of vases with tops that loop over the flowers and new pieces in the Balcon range by Inga Sempé. Sébastien Cordoléoni has a studio in Aix en Provence.

See all our stories about design at Maison&Objet here, including cutlery based on chopsticks by Toyo Ito and a chair draped in a wooden mat by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance.

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Maison&Objet 2013: French designer Benjamin Graindorge has created a series of vases with tops that loop over the flowers to frame them.

The Heirloom vases are made of ceramic in three designs: a small version with one half enclosed like a hood and two larger ones with four or eight ribs. They come in dark blue, light blue and yellow.

The vessels were on show at Maison&Objet in Paris last week. See all our stories about design at Maison&Objet here, including cutlery based on chopsticks by Toyo Ito and a chair draped in a wooden mat by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance.

Benjamin Graindorge has a studio in Paris and we’ve previously featured his garden that floats on the surface of a fish tank and uses fish waste as fertiliser.

Moustache is also based in Paris and produces work with designers including Inga Sempé and Big-Game. See all our stories about French design brand Moustache here.

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