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Specular asymmetry

Paula — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:47:34 +0000

Pond by Nendo, (yes Nendo is always here). This time with a table set for Moroso, at a glance you see only the mirrored surface, but looking carefully all the graphics appear underneath the tops, reflected on the lower part. The black and white decorations contribute to the light and shadow, full and empty contrast, that this table set is all about.

Roots

Paula — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:38:24 +0000

Mut design “emotional design studio” presented its new work during the design week in Milan. Between their projects, I’d like to mention Roots, a modular structure, produced in wood and porcelain, that allows the composition of a biombo like screen or just a mini vertical garden.

Magika by kirsti Taiviola

Paula — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:14:39 +0000

Kirsti Taiviola’s wall lamps, are made of simple, almost transparent structures, that disappear when the lamp is turned on, letting the texture of the surface decorate the walls around.

Wooden-plastic joints.

Paula — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:27:26 +0000

During the Furniture Fair in Milan 2010, in 3 different locations, 3 different designers, 2 materials getting together, plastic and wood. Not with glue neither with nails, they are joined through a molding process that makes the components interlace each other, creating a unique body.

Elastic wood by Gil Sheffi (another Bezalel’s Academy of art and design student) from bakery-design is the first one of the 3 examples.

Jonas Trampedach showed in Hotel RCA his Folding chair.

Closing the examples with these crates exhibited at the Ecal Design, they have the same concept, but in a subtle way (in means of size), the joints are little coloured plastic details, that hold the wooden pieces together.

Green pockets

Paula — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:43:08 +0000

This project is obviously one of the winners in our Bucolic Empowerment category, these simple and beautiful plant pot/tiles by Maruja Fuentes not only allow you to bring nature into your home, they are also made of recycled materials, and can be placed in different configurations according to your vertical garden design.

Wood is everywhere

Paula — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:31:09 +0000

Wood, laminated wood, is always a great option to express your creativity, especially when a reduced budget doesn’t allow the use of particular machinery. The results, depending on the designer can be exhilarating, or just boring. But from a wide range of products, starting with the stand’s decoration, passing through lamps and furniture (these last ones being a more elaborated version, than simply dye cutting and joining) here below are some examples of the diffused use of laminated wood during this past year.
Hoping to see the developments in the case of the school projects, and fresh and new products in the shops.

Stands

Lamps

Extras
The pieces seen here come mostly from design schools: the french V.I.A., the Dutch Design Academy Eindhoven with the artEZ; and in the “Salone Satelite” Milan 2009.

Bucolic Empowerment

Paula — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:49:39 +0000

“the agricultural community will become the planet’s new elite, dominating our essential needs and inspiring years of farmer styles. After all, the farmers of the future will clothe us, house us, feed us, fuel us and hopefully even heal us. Ultimately they will be able to engineer design and grow furniture in a symbiosis of technology and biology, and therefore rural and urban lifestyles will merge and become one; resulting in an inversed social landscape with a greener city and a more contemporary countryside”

This statement by Li Edelkoort, makes us aware that more than a trend, returning to nature, is a life choice to which we will have to get accustomed if we really want a healthy future.
But, not every one interprets trends, some designers and producers, just follow them, as mere aesthetical rules, giving birth to a very wide range of products, you can choose between honest and responsibly made products and those that just apparently (thanks to there natural aesthetic) satisfy the need to return to the essentials, to respect life and nature.
The next posts will be therefore, be dedicated to this present cycle, with its pure aesthetical trends, and to the different objects that really go beyond the “throw away culture” to become true life companions.

Moooi’s windows

Paula — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:32:53 +0000

A see trough maze, full of windows and corners was laid out for the exhibition. From the wallpapers to the carpets, the whole space was wrapped with the Moooi style. Full saturated colours, as the pink used for the ambience where Nika Zupanc’s Lolitas where starring.

Delft blue collection 2008

Paula — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:39:23 +0000

This is the result of the collaboration between Marcel Wanders and Royal Delft, for Moooi.