Over the years, Brussels Design September has become the annual flagship event for design enthusiasts. For one month, the city hosts an array of over 100 not-to-be-missed cultural and commercial events offering a meeting platform between the public and a great number of Belgian and international designers. Brussels Design September will feature exhibitions, conferences, open … Continue reading “Brussels Design September 2019”
Pottery has been a form of art practiced by humankind for the past 11,000 years. It has a long history and a varied story of aesthetics, technical experiments, discovery, and a variety of clay types, glazes, and firing techniques. It was surely discovered by accident like most genius inventions. Clay was very useful at the … Continue reading “The Varient Embodiments of Ceramics”
1 – SINCE WHEN ARE THERE AUCTION HOUSES? The etymology of the word “auction” is the Latin “auctus” which means “increasing”. The first recorded auction activity was way back in 500 BC in Greece, where women were auctioned off by their families as brides. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the popularity of auctions … Continue reading “Auction : 3 Things You Should Know”
Daniel Rybakken (born 1984) is a Norwegian designer, who lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. He studied design at the Oslo School of Architecture and the School of Arts & Crafts in Gothenburg. Both his parents were designers—his mother in fashion and his father in graphic design. His work is quite graphical. As a child, He always … Continue reading “Daniel Rybakken”
Seletti has written and continues to outline the Italian history of design and furnishings. Born in 1964 in Cicognara, near Mantua, by Romano Seletti, the group was immediately characterized by its 360-degree look. In other words, the desire to network before the Internet arrived. This is witnessed, for example, by commercial trips to the Far … Continue reading “SELETTI: Rebellious and Pop Designing!”
Martino Gamper is an Italian designer who working across design and art venues, engages in a variety of projects from exhibition design, interior design, one-off commissions and the design of mass-produced products for the cutting edge of the international furniture industry. In 2015, Martino Gamper curated the Duo Tone series that came out of the … Continue reading “Duo Tone Planter”
For the Cirva, Martin Szekely has devised a series of dishes whose drawing process is founded on the principle of chance. He knows that glass doesn’t easily let itself be “drawn” and that the final form is determined by stopping the gesture at a specific moment. In the manner of Marcel Duchamp’s Three standard stoppages, … Continue reading “Colored celadon glass by Martin Szeleky”
The Pewter Collection by Christopher Gentner is a family of furniture pieces defined by their materiality and formal qualities. One crucible at a time, pewter is melted into liquid form and hand coated onto the steel structure, creating the other-worldly surface that makes each handcrafted pewter table unique. Through its manifestation of conceptual thought and dream like … Continue reading “PEWTER coffee table”
During the Design Week in Stockholm, Malmö-based Stoft Studio created an exhibition where visitors were able to see forms, materials and objects from different angles. As black as ink or as dim as a solar eclipse the mirror with its diabase stone was designed to warp people’s perception of space. By playing with the perspective of a … Continue reading ““Eclipse” mirror”
A collection of vases and containers that play with scales and invite you to jump into the water.A glass pool ladder poetically dialogues with an uncluttered clear shape.Developed while in residency at Fabrica Design Studio and sold exclusively at Please Do Not Enter, in Los Angeles.-Clear borosilicate glass blown by Massimo Lunardon in Italy.-limited edition of 30 signed pieces After … Continue reading “Nage”
Sibirjak by Anastasia Koshcheeva is a modern lounge chair made of birchbark. The almost forgotten natural material is not only flexible, soft, water-repellent and antibacterial, but also breathable, durable and strong. Despite these unique characteristics, it gets gradually forgotten. Sibirjak deals with the question of how to reinterpret an age-old tradition and also how to make the … Continue reading “Sibirjak Lounge Chair”
Eames.com is a new marketplace dedicated to authentic Eames designs. Created by fans for fans, for collectors, for interior specialists and for lovers of all classic design, Eames.com has the love of design at heart and is the only dedicated secondary marketplace for vintage and used Eames designs. Eames.com is home to the only true online … Continue reading “Welcome to Eames.com!”
Marcin Rusak (born in 1987, Warsaw, Poland) is an artist and multidisciplinary designer interested in ideas of value, ephemerality and aesthetics. Specializing in storytelling, process and material investigation his work often incorporates research, object and installation as well as visual creations to explore overlooked details of our lives which recreated and reimagined are shown again … Continue reading “Marcin Rusak”
A classic of its kind, the wooden chair with cane seat serves as a point of reference for the Lui5 chairs: the traditional techniques used to make them are undertaken faithfully and with mastery, but the curved, soft forms of the original model leave space for simplified lines and crystallised forms that multiply in space … Continue reading “Lui5 Armchair”
design classic duesseldorf is THE annual German Fair for Modern Design Classics – with its 20th return beginning of December 2018 presenting more than 150 dealers over 5000 square metres.Visitors from USA, South Korea, Brazil, Japan and nearly all European countries meet in Duesseldorf every time, the design event takes place. Indian summer on the Rhine … Continue reading “design classic duesseldorf *”
Floral and resin vase This cylindrical vessel, reminiscent of a krater vase, is a spectacular marriage of ancient motif and use of contemporary material. With a strong form, the vase is constructed of molded and cast resin encasing dried floral remnants. Creating a stark pattern on the surface of the vessel, the floral elements seem to freeze … Continue reading “Perishable vase by Marcin RUSAK”
“Wooden Textiles” convey a new tactile experience.We are used to experience wood as a hard material; we know the feeling of walking across wooden floors, to touch a wooden tabletop or to feel the bark of a tree. But we usually don’t experience a wooden surface which can be manipulated by touch.”Wooden Textiles” is a … Continue reading “Wooden Plaids”
This award-winning Wooden Hammock by Australian designer Adam Cornish is an alternative to the common cloth hammock. Although made from wood, the design is flexible and comfortable due to the rubber vertebra which allows the wooden segments to move, mimicking the human spine. Manufactured from a standard sheet of plantation grown plywood, the design maximizes the economy of materials … Continue reading “Wooden Hammock”
The Isla is all curves. Sculptural and futuristic, its asymmetrical top perches above two large voluminous legs.Wood Tabletop: Walnut, Blackened Walnut, Bleached Maple, Blackened Maple, Natural White Oak, or Blackened White OakStone Tabletop: Travertine, Pietra Cardosa Marble, Petite Granite Limestone, or Rojo Alicante MarbleTable Base: Lacquered Wood in colors including Clay, Dove, Flint, Charcoal, Caviar, … Continue reading “Isla Coffee Table”
By Adam Nathaniel Furman To be seen at the Biennale INTERIEUR 2018 18-22 October Kortrijk, Belgium The Nakano Twins are a pair of furniture units designed to be as full of personality as cartoon characters, voluble, talkative little members of the household that bring as much animation to the spaces they are in as a happy pet, … Continue reading “Nakano Twins”
The young and talented designer Elise Fouin presents her Papillon’s collection, edited by French Lighting House, Forestier.This pendant light, made of metal wire, which represents the flapping wings of a butterfly. Its consists of 3 lamp shades, the first, has a an elongated shape, the second is gently put above with a form more cylindric … Continue reading “Papillon Pendant light by Elise Fouin for Forestier”
The garden Pavillon Toku is a shading structure made of cedar heartwood treated with a transparent impregnating product, which makes it suited to an outdoor use also in harsh weather conditions.The structure features four panels, two are fixed and two have adjustable backrests. They can be moved and arranged according to one’s needs. The panels … Continue reading “TOKU by Vincent Van Duysen for Paola Lenti”
O P P I ®, a new toy brand that combines design and education, launches PIKS, a balance toy that stimulates attention and concentra- tion! The very rst toys are nally available on kickstarter.com!Do you think as of today children spend too much time on screens, have dif culties to stay focused and don’t use … Continue reading “O P P I ®, a new toy brand that combines design and education”
An example of minimalist designJapanese studio YOY proposes simple and very innovative design creations.POSTER is a series of a wall lamp like a A2-sized poster.Two cuts are made in the paper to form the curved lamp shape, and a small LED light is fitted inside.The light illuminates the paper from behind, while the cuts allow light to … Continue reading “Poster Lamp by YOY”
His sculptural objects seem sober spatial constructions: boxlike, slab built architectural structures of austere colours dominated by right angles. But appearances are deceptive: these objects have a poetic charm which saves them from only being rational and cold. The eye of the beholder detects small projections, subtle displacements and slants which, together with the immediate … Continue reading “Stoneware & engobes”
For the past 20 years, Jos Devriendt has been working with the mushroom as an archetypal form translated into functional sculpture. Part of an ongoing series known as Night and Day, Jos Devriendt’s lamps express his interest in the ways in which time and atmosphere can transform our perception of objects and contexts. Deftly rendered … Continue reading “Space Horizon 24 B”
Back from New-York Design WeekThe Coexist Coffee Table is made of a slab of white venato Italian marble with two pure brass cubes holding up the surface.One of the cubes rests on its edge, playing with balance, perspective and geometry to achieve the effect.The pieces fit seamlessly together in harmonious balance capturing the weight of … Continue reading “COEXIST Marble & Brass Coffee Table”
Unveiled in 1999 at the Paris Furniture Show, this chair was immediately noticed by Giulio Cappellini. That was the beginning of my collaboration with this major house. Using an innovative technique, it is entirely built with multi-colored sheets of resin bonded by ultrasound. The contrast between its sober lines and psychedelic colors softened by the … Continue reading “Rainbow Chair”
Fantastic, daring, and acutely colorful are words that describe the innovative work of Italian artist Jacopo Foggini. Working with a machine of his own invention, Foggini heats metacrylate, a polymer derivative, to volcanic temperatures in order to create thick, colorful threads he molds by hand into lit art. Foggini sites the magic of childhood and … Continue reading “Brilli – Model E”
This week in MilanDesigner / Christopher Coombes & Cristiana Giopato Manufacturer / Giopato & Coombes This sculptural piece uses metal and artisan Murano glass to create a multifaceted wall light.Numerous components work in harmony, projecting direct or indirect light about the Gioielli, with each element bearing its own special characteristics.The emerald green light has a battuto … Continue reading “Gioielli Wall Light”
