The work consists of 522 Italian Travertine Silver blocks and a framed hand-drawn construction drawing.The blocks have been cut and sanded into 10 different basic shapes, based on children’s wooden toy blocks. These are built into a construction, based on the construction drawing on black paper.The blocks are not affixed in any way, but placed … Continue reading “Construction III”
PAD PARIS (5-8 April) Galerie BSLThe ‘Crescent Loveseat’ is a contemporary reinterpretation of several major classics from the 50’s.The comfortable crescent shaped design offers soft, pure yet flexible lines enhanced by the contrast of fabrics.The back that resembles a cape envelops the loveseat enhancing its cozy aspect and completing the attire.The small size of this … Continue reading “‘Crescent Lovseat’”
The work ‘Dancing Stones’ from Gerard Kuijpers is the result of extensive purification. The steel and stone reach their ultimate essences. The steel being as strong as never before; the stone radiates its heaviness. This piece of art shows how the stone, even in complete rest, never loses the potential of movement. ‘Dancing Stones’ consists … Continue reading “Dancing Stones”
Flora lamp is a balanced composition of geometric cantilevered shapes, composed of brass, glass, and our unique Flora Perma material. A glass globe offsets the body, offering a soft dimmable light source. Flora Perma: The body of the lamp is carefully machined to reveal the intricate and complex beauty of the cross sections of flowers, … Continue reading “Flora Lamp”
This beautiful molded glass carafe was particularly noticed at the last fair in Milan.GLASS SERIESmaterial: glasstechnique: glass blowingyear: 2017dimensions: 195x130x310mmVítor Agostinho is a ceramic designer with a relevant experience in cookware products to industry. Recently he starts to reorient his work for a more personalized and artistic development as a result of his investigation in … Continue reading “POLIEDRO #56”
The coffee table Mer Noire takes its inspiration from the sea, both attractive and frightening, its perpetual movement and its ever changing appearance. With this piece I tried to capture the present moment, and to fix forever a fragment of the sea surface. Leather was the obvious material for such an endeavor : leather is … Continue reading “Mer noire”
SPLIT Table legs made from one piece of bended tube that is split up on both sides.The cut reveals the intimate inside showing a colored surface.The object appears vulnerable and elegant at the same time.Inspired by the ancient bamboo cutting technique.Producer : Oppa (Brazil)Louisa Köber studied European Design in Stuttgart at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden … Continue reading “Split”
This range of mirrors offers 2, 3 or 5 facets. Each object can be used horizontally or vertically and is maintained by a metal structure, allowing the mirror to rotate. Stainless steel sheets polished mirror, processed and folded. Gold, bronze and black finishing. Available in 3 versions : small : 30 x 20 cm, medium … Continue reading “Mirrors by Samuel Accoceberry”
This small wall-mounted CD-player exemplifies Naoto Fukasawa’s approach to product design. Fukasawa wanted to design an object that would trigger an instinctive or unconscious response in its user. He described this instinctive response as ‘Without Thought’, arguing that products should not need an instruction manual, that their functionality should be evident instinctively.Fukusawa noted the resemblance … Continue reading “Wall-mounted CD-player”
As guest of honour at imm cologne 2017, Todd Bracher, the New York-based product designer, will produce a distinctively spacious and architectural design for the design event “Das Haus – Interiors on Stage”. Under a floating roof will stand two interwoven, starkly different frames – one a large space surrounded by bookshelves as walls and a semi-transparent shell, … Continue reading “Todd Bracher guest of honour at imm cologne 2017”
The Sundial Chandelier’s anodised aluminum disks float in space like planets in the universe, while the strong glow of the light makes them look almost spherical. A striking sharp shadow of the central rod is cast in different directions, as if it were illuminated by 6 different suns. They spiral down the piece to end … Continue reading “Maarten De Ceulaer”
The porcelain art from Studio Pieter Stockmans results from a combination of traditional craft production and a contemporary, experimental approach. The designer is constantly stretching the limits of porcelain. The studio on the C-Mine mine site in Genk is the specialist in Belgium offering designs in hard porcelain. Studio Pieter Stockmans has focused on limited, … Continue reading “Pieter Stockmans”
With the excuse of a solo exhibition in Paris at Carpenters workshop Gallery,Nacho develop further the series of “Light mesh” collection For this occasion he wanted to recreate a Forest of lamps where to walk and get inspired by colour, shapes, and textures… He create 9 magnificent tree lamps, 3 wall lamps imitating climbing plants, … Continue reading “Nacho Carbonell”
Work & Style: A lot of the mirrors he was doing at the beginning were old, things he found in dumps. Once he ran out of that stuff, he started doing the patina himself. The reason for the patination is more to do with when you’re looking in the mirror, if there is no patination, … Continue reading “Stella Nuova”
Product’s details: – Watercolor carved paper – Size: 49,5 x 36,5 cm. (19.5 x 14.4 in.) – Contemporary art Product’s details: Work & Style: Her cutting work proceeds by notches and gives rise to the thickness of the sheet, scales that capture light on surface. Then, the paper becomes sculpture.
Product’s details: – Multi-ply Birch Office, Stainless Steel, Lead Ballast – L.222 x H.75 x P.100 cm – Limited edition (maximum 10 pieces) Work & Style: A construction methodically designed in which the structure becomes the surface, the office Contour Crater seems to float in weightlessness with its 50 slices of multi-fold birch that stretch … Continue reading “bureau Contoured Crater”
Product’s informations: – Dimensions: L650 x W650 x H600mm – Marble with brass Work & Style: Lunar collection of table furniture takes the sheer glamour of stone into yet another galaxy. Following the design language of Solaris, they take inspiration from the planets and their orbital movements, featuring highly-figured, richly-coloured marbles set, like precious jewels, … Continue reading “Full Moon Side Table”
Product’s informations: – Materials: Metal, polyester rope, fishing line, steel thread – diameter: 35 1/2 – diameter: 90.2 cm Work & Style: Tomás Saraceno deploys insights from engineering, physics, chemistry, aeronautics and materials science in his work. He creates inflatable and airborne biospheres with the morphology of soap bubbles, spider webs, neural networks or cloud … Continue reading “Orb Cloud 5/19b”
Product’s details: N° 24 “Pastizal”, 2015 100% wool 133 7/8 – 90 9/16 in 340 – 230 cm Unique Work & Style: Kehayoglou’s crafts wool rugs are whether room-sized, wall-hung, or used to cover furniture. These rugs take their natural subjects from the landscape of her native Argentina�forests, desert islands, Patagonian glaciers, and the pastizales … Continue reading “Alexandra Kehayoglou’s wool rug:”
Paola loves to unite the opposites, to challenge everything, to combine craftsmanship and industry. In all of her projects, she works with the same spirit: chic and offbeat. Product’s details:- Family: NEPAL – Country: Italy – Launched: 2014 – Size: 92X78 H61 Paola Navone is the exception on the Italian design scene. For the past … Continue reading “Nepal Mama Sofa”
Product’s informations: – Collection: Primary Collection – Date: 2006 – width: 42cm – depth: 38cm – height: 40cm – Material: Pewter (92% tin, 6% antimony, 2% copper) – Object number: M88 Work & Style: The technique he uses is ‘Sand casting’. Max uses the natural sand found on Porthluny Beach in Cornwall. The molten pewter’s … Continue reading “Pewter Stool (M88)”
Product’s informations: – Year: 2013 – Size: 200 cm x 200 – Kongo’s world studio – street art Work & Style: It’s obvious that the episode of his departure from Saigon counted in Cyril’s life. Here he painted a man who’s wearing a hat and who’s holding a child in his arms. In front of … Continue reading “Painting:Saigon, avril 1975”
Alvarez takes pieces of material — wood, steel or plastic — and coats them in glue, then spins them in thousands of meters of thread. He’s the inventor of the “thread wrapping machine”, which mechanism joins different types of material with glue-coated thread, binding the objects together without any nails or screws. As alvarez controls … Continue reading “The Chair”
Product’s details: – H/230 x L/450 x W/50 cm – Unique piece Work & Style: Taher’s a free artist, interested in everything, curious, inspired, who loves different shapes and materials. His only instincs guide him and he’s constantly observing his entourage,he’s always drawing, assembling, transforming, all types of shapes.
Product details: – Sorsoaa structure cover in 3D khayameya pattern – 100% Egyptian cotton filled with 100% Egyptian cotton fiber – size: H 42 cm-W 30×30 cm Work & Style: His technical approach was to teach a new process: adding, in the sewing fabric pieces edge to edge process, a step in which the craftsman … Continue reading “Stool in Egyptian wood “NAGUIB””
Product details: – Height: 17 centimetres – Diameter: 14 centimetres – Composition: ceramic 100% & Wax 100% Work & Style: Fornasetti’s both modern and contemporary, but also traditional. Barnaba works mostly with human bodys on plates, tables, cups.. It goes back to the Greek period, which used the shapes of the body in architecture. The … Continue reading “Black ceramic and wax face and skull print candle”
Product’s informations: – Year : 2013 – ceramic – Contemporary Craft – Annual Art Work & Style: The Japanese gastronomy really should be understood as a complete experience involving all the senses, not just taste. The aesthetic component is essential in it and the presentation of the dishes is as important as the quality of the … Continue reading “Sushi Plate”
Product’s informations: -year : 2015 A suspension lamp with an evocative character, which thanks to the dematerialization of the support elements and the volumetric breakdown takes on a theatrical, poetic character: not just functional quality, but also aesthetic and decorative refinement. Composed of glass spheres at different heights, the lamp permits infinite combinations, in a sort of … Continue reading “Stochastic”
work & style He has a sense of balance between severity and softness. While he tends to work mainly in domestic design, industrial design and object design (kitchen items, tableware, objects and furniture for the home), it is important to be able to employ different scales. Being able to meet the requirements of mass distribution … Continue reading “Stool”
