Those who spent some time at NYC’s recent International Contemporary Furniture Fair may have come across the duo behind Calico Wallpaper, who were at ICFF displaying their striking…
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Milan 2013: leafy forests and palatial interiors become visible under different coloured lights in the latest series of wallpapers and screens by Milan design studio Carnovsky (+ slideshow).
The RGB Fabulous Landscapes installation at the Fondazione Adolfo Pini in Milan this month included a wallpaper that reveals various scenes depending on the colour of the LEDs shining on it.
The combination of red, blue or green light reveals the interior of a grand building, a dense forest or a marching crowd.
On the upper floor of the building, Carnovsky showed lacquered wooden screens and a handmade carpet decorated with animals and anatomical drawings, all limited editions produced by design brand Artep Italia.
In the courtyard outside, the designers installed the Atmospherics series of 20 screens depicting landscapes and meteorological phenomena, such as a sun bursting through the clouds.
Created in collaboration with Italian graphics and printing company Graphic Report, the scenes on each screen take on a different mood depending on the colour of the light.
Carnovsky was founded by designers Silvia Quintanilla and Francesco Rugi in 2007.
We first reported on the RGB series in 2010 when Johannsen Gallery in Berlin presented an exhibition of Carnovsky’s work, while in 2011 the studio used the wallpaper to deck out an east London bar and gallery.
Last year we featured a lamp that uses three different-coloured LEDs to cast cyan, magenta and yellow shadows on the walls.
Photographs are by Alvise Vivenza.
Here’s some more information from the designers:
Carnovsky – RGB Fabulous Landscapes
Fondazione Adolfo Pini, Corso Garibaldi 2, Milan
Milan Design Week 9-14 April 2013
Curator: Dalia Gallico
Printing and Set Construction: GraphicReport
Design Limited Edition: Artep Italia
For Milan Design Week 2013, Carnovsky continues its RGB project experimenting with new designs, new materials and new technologies, continuing the journey begun in 2010 on the interaction between printed and light colours. The main theme is the landscape in its different meanings. Atmospheric landscapes, architectonic and perspective landscapes, emotional landscapes, ephemeral landscapes in continuous movement.
In the colonnaded courtyard the Atmospherics series is presented for the first time, a series of sky landscapes and meteorological phenomena. The whole series comprises more than 20 pieces. One giant sky titled Atmospheric N.1, printed with an innovative technique of digital fresco of the Italian company GraphicReport and illuminated by RGB LED lights, creates a magical show of sunrises, sunsets and storms.
Within the space on the ground floor, another large installation that uses the work titled Landscape N.1, in which the viewer is immersed in an enchanted forest, gradually turns in an architectural interior. The exterior reverses in the interior and the vanishing point of the columns and the perspective planes expands the space multiplying it to the infinite.
Finally, in the rooms on the upper floor of the Foundation, a dialogue between antique and contemporary has been created, placing some Carnovsky’s limited editions produced by the Italian company Artep Italia like the screens in lacquered wood with antique engravings of animals and anatomy and the hand made carpets in a historical Milanese building.
Carnovsky has been working on some new limited editions which include a collection of screens (UV digital printing on lacquered wood), a collection of carpets hand-knotted in India and a collection of tapestries woven in Aubusson. Some of these objects including the three screens and a carpet were presented at the first floor of the Fondazione Pini as part of the RGB Fabulous Landscapes exhibition.
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Gary Baseman fills his world with a recurring cavalcade of characters. His constant companion Toby, the adorable ChouChou and creatures large and small fill forests, gardens and shrines and seemingly float through air. But the whimsy…
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Considered one of the most interesting furniture companies in Italy, LAGO shines for its vision and often surprising and extremely innovative approach to design. Together with Jannelli&Volpi—also a leader in Italian design for wallpaper and furnishing fabrics, and for their JVstore in Milan—they have now developed a line of…
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Danish ceramic artist Malene Hartmann Rasmussen has photographed dozens of glazed ceramic worms to create a wallpaper for the home of 19th century Arts & Crafts designer William Morris.
Called Vermis, the wallpaper was made for an exhibition last autumn with art and design collective Studio Manifold at William Morris’s Red House in Bexleyheath, England.
Hartmann Rasmussen hand-modelled the ceramic worms and glazed and fired them before taking photographs to be worked into a repeated digital pattern.
“At first glance the wallpaper seem harmless and decorative, but after staring at it too long, uncanny malicious faces appear,” explained the designer.
“The motifs have the ambiguity of a Rorschach test,” she added, “mimicking different things such as the floral patterns of the Arts & Crafts wallpapers Morris designed, depictions of fantastical creatures such as the Green Man, and visual interpretations of the human reproductive anatomy.”
The wallpaper will be on display again at the Crafts and Design Biennale in Denmark between 29 June and 18 August.
Hartmann Rasmussen studied for her BA at the School of Design in Bornholm, Denmark, before completing an MA in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art in London. For her RCA graduation show, she created a ceramic installation evoking a surreal forest hut from a Brothers Grimm fairytale.
To mark the launch of Fornasetti’s whimsical wallpaper collection for Cole & Son, we recently spoke to Barnaba Fornasetti, son of the eccentric Italian designer Piero Fornasetti, who told us the story behind the design house he now heads.
Other wallpaper we’ve featured previously includes a stripy patterned wallpaper that invites passers-by to add their own scribbles and a colourful design that changes under different lighting conditions – see all wallpaper.
Here’s some more information from the designer:
Vermis is a site-responsive piece made for a show together with Studio Manifold called This Is How To Live at the founder of The Arts & Crafts Movement William Morris’ Red House in Bexleyheath. The house is national heritage and run by The National Trust.
The origin of the digital printed wallpaper is hand modelled ceramic worms, photographed and reworked in Photoshop as a repeat pattern. At first glance the wallpaper seem harmless and decorative, but staring at it too long uncanny malicious faces appear. The pattern tells the story of a nature that perhaps does not mean to harm, but have the intention of manifesting itself, to take over and take control.
It is a tale of life and death. The motifs have the ambiguity of a Rorschach test, mimicking different things such as flora and the floral patterns of The Arts & Crafts wallpapers Morris designed, depictions of fantastical creatures such as the Green Man but also visual interpretations of the human reproductive anatomy.
Materials: digital printed wallpaper, ceramics
Size: height, varies; width, 74 cm
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'Onszelf' = 'Ourself' from the Netherlands just launched a new collection. Designers Astrid Nieuwenburg and Claudia Drübe again knew how to create four fun, bright and interesting wallpapers that will cheer up every home. The 'brocante't doors above are my favorite … which one would you choose? [MORE IMAGES]
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You may never tire of turning on your iOS device to find a picture of your adorable puppy staring back at you, but if you’re interested in creating a less loquacious background try the new app, Deko. Programmed by designers Jaakko Tuomivaara and Johan Halin, whose experimental music app,…
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Fornasetti founder Piero Fornasetti (above). With a new wallpaper collection for Cole & Son coming out this month, we met up with Piero’s son, Barnaba Fornasetti (below), who told us the story behind the eccentric Italian design house that he now heads (+ interview + slideshow).
Marcus Fairs: Tell us about the collaboration with Cole & Son [see our previous story]. What is the thinking behind it?
Barnaba Fornasetti (pictured above): We decided to make a second collection for Cole & Son wallpaper. I was thinking of doing something a little more than a normal wallpaper, to give the opportunity to have something to stick on the wall with some more fantasy, to be more creative: applying the wallpaper in a different way so that is not only a wallpaper but is something more.
So I decided to do vertical rolls and horizontal rolls, and rolls that can be combined together. For example, we have the clouds that can be combined with balustrades and flying machines. You can choose to make only clouds with the balustrade or only a piece of the flying machine with clouds, or as this example of trompe-l’œil can put together a bookcase, an armoire, some objects and a trompe-l’œil wallpaper, and open windows and you can decorate a room without furniture. And you can also put a sky, if you want to put the wallpaper on the ceiling, you can make it. So, it’s a different way to use wallpaper.
Marcus Fairs: And these are all drawings that you’ve discovered in the archive of your father?
Barnaba Fornasetti: Yes, there are many themes that are taken from the archive. The archive is full of ideas that were used in different ways, mostly as decorations for objects like screens, umbrella stands and different accessories. So I chose things and I mixed them together, and I changed the colour, I changed the dimensions. There result I think is quite good.
Above: The “Palladiana” chest of drawers.
Marcus Fairs: Tell us a little bit about how your father started and how the Fornasetti brand grew.
Barnaba Fornasetti: He had a volcanic imagination. He woke up every morning with a different idea, and he would start to work on this idea with artisans and his employers, and he would forget what he was doing the day before. So it was very difficult to administer this imagination in an economical and sustainable way. When I received this heritage it was very difficult to continue, trying to channel it, trying to stop too much imagination and finding a way to be concrete in some way.
Marcus Fairs: How many drawings did he produce during his lifetime?
Barnaba Fornasetti: When I did the book [Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, published by Rizzoli in 2010, below] it was said that he had created about 11,000 different objects but we realised that it was more, probably about 13,000 different objects.
Marcus Fairs: And he drew all of these in his house, in your house, in Milan?
Barnaba Fornasetti: Yes in the house. There are many that are archived in the house, in storage; the attic is full of things. It is reduced now, but there is a lot of material there still.
Marcus Fairs: How would you describe your father’s style? He mostly worked in pen and ink, is that right?
Barnaba Fornasetti: Yeah the graphic drawing is the base of his ideas, his style, his culture. He was a photographic printer, printing for many other artists. He started as an artist and he became an expert in printing with different techniques. He used lithography for example to print on silk, so the first example of applied art by my father was the silk scarf, a headscarf in silk, printed with lithography and other techniques together. Fashion in some ways was one of the first experiences. He received the Neiman Marcus award [for Distinguished Service in the Field of Fashion] in 1959 in the field of fashion, not because he was a fashion designer but because a big inspiration in the field of fashion.
Above: Piero Fornasetti with the “Architettura” trumeau-bar
Marcus Fairs: Gio Ponti helped him establish Fornasetti as a brand. How did that come about?
Barnaba Fornasetti: They had this idea to combine industry with craft and art, to put decoration and art into everyday objects; to give the possibility for the wider public to have objects decorated especially with Italian art, with Surrealism. But industry doesn’t understand this kind of eccentricity, these kind of strange themes. So they didn’t get it and didn’t want to mass produce them. So he decided to start his own atelier and make a production that was selective, that was limited, not by choice but because it was difficult to produce industrially.
Marcus Fairs: And what was the role of Gio Ponti in that?
Barnaba Fornasetti: Gio Ponti was like a guru for my father. He was the guy who discovered the fantasy but not only the imagination of my father, but also the skill, the knowledge of techniques. He was able to invent technical ways to apply decoration to objects. The secret of Fornasetti is many artisans’ skills, many artisans’ secrets, put together, made by their ability to use their hands.
Above: The “Architettura” trumeau-bar by Piero Fornasetti. First exhibited in 1951.
Marcus Fairs: What was your father like to work with?
Barnaba Fornasetti: He was very egocentric, he was a very strong character and was difficult to collaborate with, especially at the beginning. I was a very hippy thinker and lazy, like all my generation at the time in the 60s. So I was frequently fighting with him. But a few years after moving away from home and finding my own job I saw he needed help and I came back. It was very interesting and a pleasure for both to be together.
Marcus Fairs: And he passed away in the late 80s?
Barnaba Fornasetti: 1988.
Above: “Zebra” Small curved cabinet by Barnaba Fornasetti. Wood. Printed, lacquered and painted by hand.
Marcus Fairs: How do you now balance the need to make a business with being true to your father’s ideas? What is the strategy of Fornasetti now?
Barnaba Fornasetti: The strategy is to continue in a way of making things not related to products, because I think we have too many products around us, there is too much production of things that we don’t need. I think we need food for the soul, imagination, decoration – because decoration is something that gives flavour to life, for the eyes and to stimulate vitality. It’s like music. Can you imagine a world without music? It would be sad, you know. Decoration is the same thing. We need decoration, I think. It’s something that we need for living better.
Marcus Fairs: And Fornasetti now licenses Piero’s designs to selected companies?
Barnaba Fornasetti: We have some licensing agreements in specific fields that are not the speciality of our company. We do furniture and china internally and also we do collaborations for wallpaper, scented candles, fabrics and other different things. I like collaborating with other designers that work in a particular field.
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Product News: clouds, umbrellas, flying machines and suits of armour are among the motifs in this collection by Italian design house Fornasetti for English wallpaper brand Cole & Son (+ slideshow).
The collection also includes architectural friezes and borders and is designed so that different papers and motifs can be combined.
“I was thinking of doing something a little more than a normal wallpaper, to give the opportunity to have something to stick on the wall with some more fantasy,” Barnaba Fornasetti told Dezeen.
“So I decided to do vertical rolls and horizontal rolls, and rolls that can be combined together. For example, we have the clouds that can be combined with balustrades and flying machines. You can choose to make only clouds with the balustrade or only a piece of the flying machine with clouds.”
The motifs are taken from the Fornasetti archive of drawings created by Barnaba’s father, Piero Fornasetti: “I chose things and I mixed them together, and I changed the colour, I changed the dimensions.”
This year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Piero Fornasetti.
English hand-made wallpaper brand Cole & Son will launch the collection at Maison et Object in Paris later this month. It follows an earlier collection created by Fornasetti for the brand in 2008.
Here’s some info from Cole & Son:
Cole & Son presents the Fornasetti II Collection at Maison et Objet in Paris 18th– 22nd January 2013.
Comprising fifteen designs, Cole & Son’s new collection follows the success of the first Fornasetti range, launched in 2008, delivering a repertoire of magical themes within a collection of designs that are at once iconic and covetable.
Fornasetti II takes a bold step in wallpaper design, transcending the obvious and transforming eclectic and whimsical drawings into a truly stunning array of co-ordinating wallpapers in an exciting range of colours and styles. Eccentric motifs of fantastical flying machines, architectural details, playful monkeys, keys and owls all evoke a theatrical and magical space, while the use of wide width friezes, borders, digital panels and double width papers gives this collection an unparalleled diversity in the way in which it can be used.
Commenting on the new collection, Barnaba Fornasetti stated: “Pablo Neruda once described my father as the magician of precious and precise magic and I think that this decorative collection beautifully captures the magic essence of the Fornasetti world”.
Macchine Volanti
Floating on a new version of Nuvole, these wondrous flying machines hang amongst the clouds evoking the romantic New World of scientific exploration.
The three colourways are drawn in two shimmering versions of silver and bronze on pale blue and midnight skies and a third more playful colouring of red and yellow on a neutral sky.
This design has been devised so that it directly co-ordinates with both Nuvolette and Balaustra and is a total of 137cm wide, thereby being sold as a set comprising two wide width rolls of 68.5cm each.
Nuvolette
Nuvolette, a beautifully rendered cloudy sky effect has been designed as a smaller more manageable version of Cole & Son’s existing Nuvole design.
Presented in three tranquil colourways of neutral, pale blue and midnight to coordinate with Macchine Volanti and Balaustra, a fourth colouring of black and white creates a more striking and stormy effect.
This design has a total width of 137cm and as such is being sold as a set comprising two wide width rolls of 68.5cm each.
Balaustra
Balaustra creates a striking trompe-l’oeil effect of a marble or stone balustrade sitting against a backdrop of Nuvolette.
Designed to be hung horizontally along the bottom of a wall, this is the first of Cole & Son’s friezes and is an exciting and novel approach to using wallpaper.
Conceived as a direct coordinate with both Nuvolette and Macchine Volanti, in neutral, pale blue and midnight, this border offers intriguing opportunities for interior decoration. Balaustra is 68.5cm high and sold on a 10 metre roll.
Chiavi Segrete
Introducing two popular Fornasetti motifs, Chiavi Segrete combines mysterious gold and silver keys hanging within a dense privet hedge. At once lyrical and surreal Chiavi Segrete has been produced as a pattern easily useable on four walls. Three softer, more neutral colourways with gold, silver and ghostly white keys suspended within frosty white, grey-blue and pale neutral leaves create a cooler more elegant feel, whilst the more dramatic dark grey and forest green leaves with their gilver keys add a touch of theatre.
This design repeats on a single roll at 68.5cm wide.
Nottambule
Featuring a family of wide-eyed owls, (a favourite theme of Piero Fornasetti,) Nottambule is a charming and humorous frieze, which can be hung either at the top of a room, or above a dado rail. Offered in 5 colourings of ink engraved owls with backdrops of lively red and yellow, as well as two sophisticated neutrals and a more secretive midnight.
The border measures 40cm high and is sold on a standard 10m roll.
Promenade
Featuring a variety of umbrellas, riding whips and walking sticks collected by Piero Fornasetti over the years and depicted on umbrella stands and various other decorative products, Promenade is the second of Cole & Son’s wide width friezes, designed to be hung around the bottom of a room, or beneath the dado rail.
Sold as a single 10 metre roll at 68.5cm wide.
Uccelli
Originally created as a decorative folding screen, Uccelli was first devised as a wallpaper for a luxury hotel on the on the Argentario Peninsula in Tuscany. Due to popular demand we have reproduced it here in two seasonal colourways of bright summer colour and cooler wintery tones.
Designed as a repeating panel at 1.04 metres wide by 2.8 metres high, the wallpaper is sold as a 52 cm wide paper that joins to create the full width and height.
Procuratie
The first of two architectural designs, Procuratie, which takes its name from the well known building facades of St Marks Square in Venice, is composed of two rows of classical arches drawn in a simple intaglio style. Produced in four neutral shades Procuratie repeats at 68.5cm wide and is sold on 10 metre roll.
Procuratie e Scimmie
The amusing companion to Procuratie features two monkeys wandering amongst pillars and arches.
Offered in the four directly co-ordinating colours of Procuratie, the monkeys are picked out in shades of pale blue, soft gold, regal purple and black and white.
This design also repeats at 68.5cm wide and is sold on a 10 metre roll.
Acquario
The fish theme appears in some of the earliest Fornasetti work, and this design adopts some of the motifs used on decorative trays. Picked for their whimsical and naive appearance, Acquario’s clownish fish set on soft washed backgrounds of pale cobalt, neutral, charcoal and deep-sea blue, repeat at 68.5cm wide and are sold on a 10 metre roll.
Teatro
Comprising three colourways – black, white and neutral, turquoise and neutral and the original colouring of red and yellow, Teatro originally designed for umbrella stands in the mid 1950s, features boxes occupied by elegant theatre-goers in evening dress. This wonderfully conversational wallpaper creates a witty and flamboyant faux interior, perfectly in keeping with the Fornasetti spirit and ethos. It repeats at 68.5cm wide and is sold on a 10 metre roll.
Pennini
Featuring an assortment of old fashioned pen nibs in an array of burnished metallics, Pennini has been designed as a frieze, to be hung horizontally around a room. At 52cm high Pennini is offered in a sophisticated palette of parchment with iridescent aquas and blues, charcoal with bronze and pewter, linen with golds and coppers and powder blue with silvers, golds and gilvers.
Nicchie
Comprising a number of well proportioned trompe l’oeil niches, Nicchie was originally conceived as a decorative screen in the 1950’s. Re-structured to work as a wallpaper, this unmistakeably Fornasetti crosshatched design features a surreal assortment of mandolins, fruit, keys and hourglasses in graphic tones of black on white, charcoal and parchment with highlights of red, gold and bronze.
This design repeats at 68.5cm wide on a 10 metre roll.
Magia Domestica
The most whimsical and magical design within this collection, Magia Domestica, with its suit of armour, invitingly open door, bookcases and drawn curtains creates a world within a world. Produced as ten panels all at 52cm wide, the entire design is modular, repeatable and can be put together in any configuration.
Sold as either a complete set of 10 panels, or as a choice of two 5 panel sets.
Multiplette
Both Piero (a member of Ciclisti Milanesi) and Barnaba a promoter of cycling, have been bicycle enthusiasts from an early age, the humble bicycle has re-appeared here as a witty 52cm high frieze. Multiplette features nine cyclists pedalling along on a single multi-saddled bicycle in ‘comic-strip’ striped jerseys and caps. Produced in nostalgic colourways of red and navy, and a more colourful primary red, blue and yellow, this border is sold on a 7.5metre roll, comprising 5 complete ‘bicycles’.
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