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London Design Festival 2010: London interior designers and stylists Studio Toogood launch their inaugural furniture and lighting lighting collection made from a mixture of stone, wood and brass inside a west London garage this week.

Top: the Spade range consists of a chair, stool, side table and dining table all made using sycamore and traditional joinery techniques. Above: Element lighting, made from three shapes in wood, stone or brass

Called Assemblage 1 and produced under the label Toogood, the range is on show as part of an exhibition curated by Faye Toogood called Super Natural, which is all about foraging and features a display of wild mushrooms collected from the New Forest by mushroom expert Mrs Tee.

Above: the Element Table is supported on a spherical piece of sycamore, cube-shaped block of stone and cylindrical piece of brass

A collection of handles, knobs and hooks for hardware brand Izé cast from sticks twigs and bones found along the River Thames is also on show (see our earlier story), alongside a series of handbags made of old binocular cases.

Above: Mobile comprises found granite stones balanced against tinted glass cut to standard paper sizes

Super Natural forms part of the London Design Festival and runs until 28 September.

Above: Silo is a cabinet inspired by agricultural storage containers with retractable sycamore doors that roll back

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Above: Bin Bag is a traditional leather binocular case customised to carry items such as iPods and Oyster cards.

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Assemblage

Toogood is pleased to announce its first collection of objects. Assemblage, a collection of furniture, lighting and textiles, it uses three recurring elements – wood, brass and stone – with an emphasis on English materials and craftsmanship.

Assemblages of simple geometric forms and raw materials are combined to create a comprehensive collection that is both modern and relevant.

Spade Chair

The spade is an icon of rural life in the English countryside. The Spade chair is a modern tool for sitting. Made by hand using English sycamore, the Spade chair has an elegant and minimal silhouette inspired by the juxtaposition of a three-legged milking stool and the handle of a gardening implement.

With structural honesty at the heart of the design, all of the metal work used to support the thin seat is on full view and detailed in brass. The chair is available in its naked form or with a roll for further support and comfort.

Spade Stool

Made by hand using English sycamore, the Spade stool has an elegant and minimal silhouette. It is a modern reinvention of a traditional three-legged English stool constructed using traditional joinery techniques.

Spade Side Table

Hand-turned from a mono block of English sycamore, the base of the Spade side table has simple cylindrical brass peg system that allows the glass tabletop to float.

Spade Dining Table

Designed to work alongside Spade chair, the Spade dining table features a floating glass top on folding sycamore wood trestle legs constructed using the same dowel technique with brass detail found throughout the collection.

Element Table

Three shapes: Sphere, Cube, Cylinder
Three materials: Brass, Wood, Stone

Unquestionably abstract but nevertheless full of warmth and texture, the Element light uses the same simple shapes as the Element table. The assembled forms create differing tensions depending on which of the three materials the components are translated in.

Element Light 1: Hand-sculpted Perryfield Whitbed Portland stone.
Element Light 2: Sycamore hand-turned on a lathe with a matt varnish.
Element Light 3: Brass turned on a lathe and circular-brushed.

Silo

In agriculture, a silo is a structure for storing grain. This Silo – a modern cabinet – is designed to store personal collections and curiosities.

Hand-made from solid English sycamore, this circular cabinet mimics the silhouette of the original corrugated-metal construction and has slatted tambour doors. The solid-sycamore doors roll back to reveal thin shelves secured in place using cylindrical brass pegs.

Mobile

The Mobile is contradiction that combines regularity with randomness.

Straight lines of solid brass hold in place delicate sheets of tinted glass counter-balanced against weights of granite.

The irregular-shaped rocks find their equilibrium against sheets of glass cut to correspond with ISO paper sizes (A4 and all its siblings), a formula based on a single-aspect ratio of the square root of two.

Bin Bag

A rural object for modern city life. A bag made from an old binocular case, customised by hand using traditional leather-making techniques and given a new purpose. Available in a limited edition of 30.

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London Design Festival 2010: this electric scooter (above) is one of three concept scooters unveiled by car brand MINI in London yesterday.

The Scooter E Concept includes three designs for electric scooters: a double seat in racing green and leather (top), a more sporty version with a single-seat (below) and a third with styling inspired by popular culture in the 1960s.

The first two are also to be shown in Paris next week.

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Photographs are by Ansgar Werrelmann.

Here are some more details from MINI:

Iconic British brand MINI unveiled its exciting MINI Scooter E Concept today in London at an exclusive event at the The Vinyl Factory in London. The MINI Scooter E Concept comes almost ten years to the day since the new MINI was first shown at the Paris Motor Show.

The scooter designs were dramatically revealed by Adrian van Hooydonk, Senior Vice President BMW Group Design who said:

“The MINI Scooter E Concept represents an electric vision of the future as urban mobility takes a new direction by MINI. We are delighted to debut during the London Design Festival and pay homage to our British heritage while also marking a new era for MINI. The MINI Scooter E Concept is true to our brand values of distinctive design, intelligent functionality and customisation and builds further on these characteristics by combining driving pleasure with sustainable technology into the first two-wheel concept of its kind for MINI.”

There are a total of three interpretations of the MINI Scooter E Concept conceived by Adrian van Hooydonk, Senior Vice President BMW Group Design: two of which will be shown at the Paris Motor Show next week, while the third concept is being shown exclusively in London. The first MINI Scooter E Concept is a two-seater variant developed for ‘the fun of driving for two’. The second concept is a single-seater and the sportiest of the new concepts. The third and more design-progressive model – being shown exclusively in London – takes inspiration from the popular culture of the 1960s, a decade synonymous with the classic Mini, drawing on the distinctive graphics of the Mod era in particular.

It’s not just a two-wheeler in MINI Design – this scooter meets the needs of the young urban generation: Spontaneous, flexible, CO2-free mobility. Using a smart phone as the ignition key, the concept integrates infotainment, communication and navigation systems. The MINI Scooter E Concept is powered by an electric motor which can be recharged at any conventional power socket using an on-board charging cable.

The new scooter design concept is based on current production vehicles but pushes the creative boundaries. Just as the compact design of the classic MINI, born out of the 1950s oil crisis, symbolised a new reality for modern city driving, the MINI Scooter E Concept is designed for the changing landscape in environmental and urban road traffic conditions, to offer a stylish and emission-free alternative for urban mobility. Set to appeal to a young, ecologically-conscious driver, the MINI E Scooter Concept offers a completely new perspective on the distinctive MINI driving experience while being immediately recognisable as a MINI.

This new design study represents the MINI design team’s unparalleled expertise in recognising the challenges for mobility in major urban areas, and meeting these challenges with the development of stylish, innovative and sustainable future-focused vehicle concepts.

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Emerging London talent Richie Culver’s poignant collage work

Master of manipulation Richie Culver, with his arsenal of old photos and sharp-witted text, creates artwork with the one-two punch of a compelling soundbite that probes into both famous and more intimate historical moments. While the works function as pop homages too, his piece “Have You Ever Really Loved Anyone?”—an iconic image of Jesse Owens with those words plastered across—was the highlight of the May 2010 group show at the Tate Modern and suggests the dual forces at play.

Culver, who had rockstar dreams of his own, turns his song titles and lyrics into paintings and collage, a selection of which is currently on view in his debut solo show “Borstal Spots & Polka Dots.”

Also included in the exhibit are a smattering of Culver’s own photographs he’s taken over the years. The black-and-white collection is not too different from his textual works though, with each perfectly composed image functioning as one sentence from a much larger conversation.

A majority of his work seemingly revolves around love and relationships—a concept clearly demonstrated in the painting “I Loved You, You Just Couldn’t See It” but also in collage form. An image of a nun states “One fuck and she was anybody’s,” while the picture of a bride reads “aware of the ways of men.” Culver titles an alarming photo of a pouty-lipped woman with scars up her arm simply, “A love story.”

With a show dedicated solely to his personal photos planned for late 2010 and a cover shot for the forthcoming I Blame Coco album Constant hitting shelves soon, Culver continues to explore concepts that speak to his roots.

Reviewed on Le Cool as “A small, but moving show,” Culver’s “Borstal Spots & Polka Dots” runs through 26 September at London’s West 11 Gallery.

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