Thursday 28 April 2011
Tuesday 26 April 2011
Clip Chair
Presented by De Vorm at this years Salone de Mobile in Milan, these designs incorporate the best in environmental friendliness & functional simplicity. The Clip Chair is a solid & refined design that incorporates it’s attachment components as a distinct feature that contrast directly with it’s wooden elements. The flat-pack Clamp Table features legs threaded into a simple metal clamp that can be mixed-&-matched with a favorite table top transforming any flat surface into a functional workspace.
Designers: Sebastian Herkner & Jorre van Ast
Tuesday 19 April 2011
Child’s Play Bed
L’artiste Yusuke Suzuki a eu l’ingénieuse idée de créer et de photographier un lit sous la forme d’un livre ouvert. Un espace pour dormir la nuit, qui est aussi un lieu de jeu pour les enfants grâce à la possibilité de “tourner” une page et permettre de créer un espace dédié aux loisirs.
Monday 18 April 2011
Kami pots by Ett La Benn
Milan 2011: German designers Ett La Benn show these vases made of biodegradable cellulose as part of Poetry Happens atVentura Lambrate in Milan this week.
Called Kami, the pots are moulded by hand and left to air-dry.
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Here are some more details from Poetry Happens:
kami
The ‘kami’ collection of pots/vases/home lighting encourage a new way of thinking in eco-friendly lifestyle products.
Made from 100% biodegradable cellulose, an enormously solid and light material, ‘kami’ transforms this most abundant natural raw material into objects for daily use by simple air drying.
Charles Bukowski: ‘Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.’
Design as a creative discipline always floats between pure culture and an applied profession that fulfills industrial needs.
Our exhibition project emphasizes the experimental ‘making’-oriented cultural path of design. As every year, Milan is the best place to showcase these new concepts and researches. Our exhibition POETRY HAPPENS displays authentic, archetypal projects, prototypes and installations with a narrative design quality. Poetry as a headline gives every invited designer, architect and artist the freedom of his / her personal approach and interpretation of his / her work related to poetry.
Poetry transferred into the world of design can be: The poetry of making by emphasizing the personality of the maker or the unique and individual strategy of the creator behind an object.
The poetry of collages combines readymades or parts, principles and mechanics of existing ‘everyday’-products into hybrid objects with a new life-cycle that, unlike standard industrial production, also shows signs of usage. The poetry of prototyping: process models, mock-ups and regular prototypes generate the story and evolution of creating – a narrative quality with often a bigger impact than the final product.
The poetry of materials and technology experiments is the engine of the continuous evolution of design. The history of design would be blank and just a formal discipline without the quantum leaps in materials and technologies.
The poetry of spaces and installations expands the pure object’s existence into space and environments which finally every object has to deal with.
The poetry of sustainability begins when design objects tend to achieve an archetypal long lasting quality with a maximal visual continuity: classic pieces and long runners in the market won’t absorb new resources.
Monday 11 April 2011
Break Soap Concept
Break Soap Concept: "
I used to drive an ambulance, and even though we wore latex gloves, after particularly gory calls we'd scrub our hands pretty good in the hospital sink. In order to completely disinfect your mitts you were supposed to wash for a predetermined amount of time: Believe it or not, the rule was to play 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' in your head and you stopped lathering only when the tune ended. (Now every time I hear that song I picture blood, vomit and less pleasant bodily fluids.)
Dave Hakkens' Break Soap concept made me think of this. Hakkens' idea is that you only break off a small piece at a time, to avoid 'contaminating' the rest of the soap. But I think this could also be applied in a healthcare setting where caregivers could be required to use precise dosages of soap, ending the washing only when the entire piece had dissolved
Then again, no hospital I've ever been in had bar soap, as there's a danger of contaminating the rest of the bar while initiating your wash. Oh well. Maybe a Pez-type dispenser is required, but Hakkens, I think you're onto something here.
I used to drive an ambulance, and even though we wore latex gloves, after particularly gory calls we'd scrub our hands pretty good in the hospital sink. In order to completely disinfect your mitts you were supposed to wash for a predetermined amount of time: Believe it or not, the rule was to play 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' in your head and you stopped lathering only when the tune ended. (Now every time I hear that song I picture blood, vomit and less pleasant bodily fluids.)
Dave Hakkens' Break Soap concept made me think of this. Hakkens' idea is that you only break off a small piece at a time, to avoid 'contaminating' the rest of the soap. But I think this could also be applied in a healthcare setting where caregivers could be required to use precise dosages of soap, ending the washing only when the entire piece had dissolved
Then again, no hospital I've ever been in had bar soap, as there's a danger of contaminating the rest of the bar while initiating your wash. Oh well. Maybe a Pez-type dispenser is required, but Hakkens, I think you're onto something here.
Bote by Big-Game for Materia
Milan 2011: here’s another project from Lausanne studio Big-Game (see their furniture in our earlier story) this time a series of cork toy boats for Portugese company Materia.
The toys, titled Bote, have a cork base with an interchangeable plastic mast or cabin.
The series will be on show at Via San Marco 38, Milan, April 12–17.
Photographs are by Julien Chavaillaz.
Here’s a tiny bit of text from the designer:
BIG-GAME exhibit the BOTE for Materia.
BIG-GAME has made a series of floating boats in cork and plastic for the new Portuguese company Materia.
It will be launched in Milan during the design week April 12–17 at Via San Marco 38.
Milano Salone del Mobile 2011 | Tomoko Azumi
UK-based Japanese designer Tomoko Azumi of TNA Design Studio will unveil a couple of pieces this year at the 50th anniversary of Milano’s Salone del Mobile.
First is Patan, a set of compact dining room chairs that were designed for Italian furniture company Zilio A&C. Contrary to their graceful form, the chairs fold up and stack together, allowing them to be easily stored away.
First is Patan, a set of compact dining room chairs that were designed for Italian furniture company Zilio A&C. Contrary to their graceful form, the chairs fold up and stack together, allowing them to be easily stored away.
New Amsterdam Chair by UNStudio for Wilde + Spieth
Milan 2011: Dutch architects UNStudio will present this angular white plastic chair at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan this week.
Called New Amsterdam Chair, the design was originally created for the New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion in New York by UNStudio (see our earlier story) and has now been developed for production with American firm Wilde + Spieth.
Photographs are by Inga Powilleit.
The information that follows is from UNStudio:
New Amsterdam Chair – for Wilde+Spieth
Originally conceived in connection to the New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion in New York, the New Amsterdam Chair has since been further developed into a multi-purpose chair for use in a wide variety of different settings, both indoors and out.
It can be placed at the dining table, in offices or in conference rooms, in the garden or on cafe terraces. The design of the stackable New Amsterdam Chair is based on a continuous, single line which expands into an uninterrupted surface, forming a shell-like cast for the human body.
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“The human touch is expressed in the organisation of the chair. The New Amsterdam Chair plays with the relationship between the stationary object and the more animate human form.” Ben van Berkel
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Client: Wilde & Spieth
UNStudio: Ben van Berkel,Caroline Bos with Hannes Pfau, Kirsten Hollmann and Hans-Peter Nuenning, Filippo Lodi, Martijn Prins, William de Boer
Wilde & Spieth: Thomas Gerber
Advisors: MCI, Bollinger +Grohmann
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