Design Addict Blog with news and interviews related to contemporary or vintage design and architecture.
Made in Paris by a social enterprise providing work opportunities for people with special needs, the Lasso slippers, designed by Gaspard Tiné-Berès and Ruben Valensi, has now launched on Kickstarter. Lasso is made from a single piece of wool-felt, a leather sole and a cotton lace. All materials are 100 % natural. Simple to … Continue reading “Lasso slippers”
At Design Addict we appreciate design (obviously) and also craftmanship. When the best of both worlds meet, it can produce small miracles. This contemporary version of Kokeshi designed by the Bourroulec brothers and produced by craftsmen from eastern Japan is a good example. Simple and pure forms, a smart mechanism that allows dolls to bow … Continue reading “Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec / Kokeshi”
The Museum of Architecture and Design presents the exhibition ‘SilentRevolutions’, a selection of design that marks the first two decades of this young European country. Black Cherry Lampby Nika Zupanc – for La Femme et la Maison by Nika Zupanc, 2010
‘Treille’ is a new system of terracotta plant containers designed by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec for Italian producer Teracrea. The cylindrical vases are connected by nylon belts and adjustable metal tutors.A stair set can be created, made of three containers, to hang from the ceiling. The greenery can develop and grow vertically up to completely … Continue reading “Treille by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec”
Stonenwater is the name of Korean designer Jaebeom Jeong’s studio. Stone and water means origin and fundamental of nature. After graduating Jaebeom Jeong worked as a chair engineer for chair manufacturer SIDIZ in Korea. There he learned the process of chair manufacturing and various industrial materials. Jeong was attracted by chair design because the chair … Continue reading “The ‘Fake Shaker’ chair by Jaebeom Jeong”
The mid-century modern architecture of Palm Springs, California, photographed by Dolly Faibyshev, is presented in 32 postcards. In Palm Springs, the desert environment and the presence of Hollywood stars inspired architects to new creative heights and created, perhaps, the locale with the highest concentration of such structures in the United States. The postcards include views … Continue reading “Palm Springs Mid-Century Modern Postcard Book”
Emmanuelle Einhorn and Istvan Zelnik, the owners of the vintage gallery ’20eme Siècle’, and Christine Hermans, textile designer, have decided to pool their skills in order to propose a new innovative concept : contemporary textile creations on original vintage pieces. The Lord of the rings : Original Zanotta chrome & leather easy chair revisited by … Continue reading “Exhibition ‘Vintage selection of Pastoe à vivre’”
The book ‘Material Matters: New Materials in Design’ discusses the vast range of materials that are available to us today, and highlights the advances predicted to prove seminal in the future. The six chapters are divided by chemical composition—Metals, Glasses, Ceramics, Polymers, Composites and material Futures.Each material featured is presented with relevant manufacturer information, material … Continue reading “Material Matters: New Materials in Design”
The first prototypes, manufactured by Elmar Thorne in 1995Sic97 is releasing again the work of German sculptor Elmar Thome (Mayen 1964 – Barcelona 2005) who designed in the late 80s this simple but clever bathroom accessory series called ET. Thome uses natural and industrial materials that have a timeless quality. Sic97 has adapted them to … Continue reading “Sic97 bathroom accessory designs ET”
Lampshade Bulb for BoooFront was inspired by the long life of a LED lamp. Its burning time of almost ten years makes it possible to create a lamp you never need to change the bulb of. The inner dome softens the light and creates the illusion of a lamp without a bulb, blurring the boundary … Continue reading “Front in Milan”
Booo, a Dutch company based in Eindhoven, has created the concept of bulb and lampshade in one. They challenge design studios by redesigning the regular light bulb while using the latest LED technology. They are working with notable designers such as Nacho Carbonell, Formafantasma, Front… Nacho bulb by Nacho Carbonell Nacho used rubber for this … Continue reading “Booo bulbs”
Tratti is a collection of tiles composed by three base colors (white, beige and grey) and by 8 different patterns that can be randomly matched together. All the tiles can be randomly installed to create endless compositions. The 10×10 cm tiles are made of porcelain stoneware and are suitable for floor and wall, indoor and … Continue reading “Tratti tiles by Inga Sempé”
Gaëlle Gabillet and Stéphane Villard, from the French Studio GGSV based in Paris, are presenting their new lights at the Gallery Cat Berro. Both pieces of furniture and display cases, these lights act as small curiosity cabinets highlighting the beauty and strangeness of their subjects. When turned off, the bulb and socket disappear beneath an … Continue reading “Curiosity object by Gaelle Gabillet & Stephane Villard”
Jan Kochanski is a product designer based in Warsaw, Poland. His new project is a dustpan, a design usually of low esthetic value. His intention was to design a simple, refined in form and functional solution – an object enjoyable to use. The key innovation is the use of the dustpan’s handle as a funnel. … Continue reading “Sweeper & Dustpan”
No one captured the midcentury modernism of the Mad Men era better thanBalthazar Korab. As one of the period’s most prolific and celebrated architecture photographers, Korab captured images as graceful and elegant as his subjects. His iconic photographs for master architects immortalized their finest works, while leaving his own indelible impact on twentieth century visual … Continue reading “Balthazar Korab: Architect of Photography”
The Velvet Gallery is organizing on the occasion of the 26° Puces du Design, from May 10 to 13, an exhibition dedicated to Quasar Khanh, pioneer of inflatable furniture. The Khanh family, 1968 – Archives famille KhanhOn this occasion will be presented the collection ‘Aerospace’, the first line of inflatable furniture ever designed with rare … Continue reading “Quasar Khanh, pioneer of inflatable furniture”
Designer Box has launched a new way to promote international design talents.The concept is simple : Each month an international star designer imagines a new product made only for 1 month delivered at home in a nice numbered wooden box.People know the list of the designers involved before subscribing but they don’t know what they … Continue reading “Designer Box”
On the occasion of Design September in Brussels, our Premium Partner 20ème Siècle invites us to discover their newexhibition that highlights the co-operation they had with the textile designer Christine Hermans. A wider reflection opens thus, a reflection on the connections between contemporary design and vintage design, between past and present and between art and … Continue reading “Art Meets Furniture”
The latest lighting collaboration between Design House Stockholm and Form Us With Love is based on a simple idea. Three glass pendants are blown in Bauhaus shapes – a circle, a rectangle and a triangle. At the heart of Form Pendants is the idea of consumers becoming involved in the design process. Form Us With … Continue reading “Form Pendants by Form Us With Love”
Swedish design Studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has designed the Baker Cookstove – an energy efficient cookstove for the developing world – for Top Third Ventures Ltd, a social impact company operating in Nairobi, Kenya. The majority of women in the developing world prepare food on a technology called a three-stone fire. It is basically three … Continue reading “Baker Cookstove”
Koichi Suzuno and Shinya Kamuro from Torafu Architects designed the ‘Clopen’ shelf, manufactured by Tanseisha. When pulled, a secret drawer appears, to store your valuables such as jewelry, stamps and passbooks. The shelf panel is constructed from elaborate aluminum parts, and at 34mm thick, it looks as if it’s made of natural wood. Attaching sliced … Continue reading “‘Clopen’ Shelf”
There is no need to present Belgian designer Alain Berteau anymore. His works for Bulo, Montis, Sphaus, Aluci, Dark, Vange etc … are well known on the market. Associated with a team of web-entrepreneurs, he has now launched a line of furniture and accessories ‘Objekten’ that he presented at Maison & Objet in Paris.Objekten works … Continue reading “Alain Berteau presents Objekten”
For all those who don’t know the origins of Design Addict, here is a short summary.1998: The first version of Design Addict goes online with a nice content, but a pretty rough homemade website design. 2001: A professional version is born. At that time “Newsweek” wrote this about Design Addict: “Perhaps the best-designed site design.” … Continue reading “New Design Addict!”
Oksa means branch in Finnish. These fireplace tools designed by Felicie Eymard bring the magic of a campfire into the home.With this project, Felicie won the Furniture design Award of Mad Surprize -Young Belgian Design Award- 2014.
Hello Wood is an international art program and community for architects, designers and artists.Their mostly known event is the one week art camp held every summer in the plains of Csórompuszta, Hungary, where all the participants gain their unique professional experience and access real intellectual contents, by working and creating together. A large part of … Continue reading “Hello Wood 2014”
It is a tradition, for about fifteen years, the “Centre International d’Art Verrier de Meisenthal” (France) entrusts the design of a christmas ball to different contemporary creators. In the past, it took some fairly standard shapes: cloud, pine cone, drop, grapes, ice, …The 2014 glass ball is more original. It is called “MIX” and was … Continue reading “MIX the snow sound Xmas ball”
If you are lucky to be in South of France this Summer, be sure to visit the exhibition held at the Cité Radieuse in Marseille, one of Le Corbusiers’s most famous works. Twelve Product Design students of ECAL/University Lausanne were invited to reflect on a collection of objects to meet everyday needs in the Cité Radieuse. The project began in … Continue reading “ECAL Appartement 50, Le Corbusier”
Russian designer Vladislav Zhukovets created ‘Stool’ for the Perm Furniture Competition and became the winner in one of the categories. The stool is made from natural wood with the upper part unpainted. The idea is very simple: to create beautiful, warm and ecological objects which are good-looking, nice to touch and comfortable to sit on. … Continue reading “Stools from Vladislav Zhukovets”
The Bouroullec brothers have presented some great new products in Milan this year.
Swiss designer Yanes Wühl wins the Grand Prize from the Interieur Foundation. With the two functions, open fire and closed fire, this concret and cast-iron stove gives anyone the opportunity to enjoy a fire at home, even without a fireplace. This allows a come back of a retro object in a modern flat. Interieur 201022nd … Continue reading “Wood Stove at Interieur biennale in Kortrijk”
