The project Lanterne Marine, designed by Barber & Osgerby. The idea was to create a series of forms that in some way involved the layering and stacking of the famous Venini colours to create new, almost modular compositions.
The Vienna-based designer, Thomas Feichtner, has already created numerous products for Austrian manufactories. His approach to design consists in uniting traditional craftsmanship and contemporary design independent of globalization or mass production.
‘Patterned Pallet Chair’ has not only functional role but also decorative one either. Craft Combine designed both of two types by using the basic structure of pallet, stacking woods and also considered enhancing its solidity with interlocked structure.
How can the act of using water be turned into a highly sensuous act? And, can a bestseller still be improved? For Hansgrohe, that is the invention of the “Select” principle for showerheads. At the touch of a button, you can choose between three jet types, a massage jet, a soft jet or a combination of both.
It has quality, personality, elegance, the right point of romanticism and lots of versatility, just right for the home as well as contract. The structure is made of cast aluminium and laminates are of extruded aluminium. Painted in Axalta Anodic colour. Seat and back-rest are upholstered in BD’s different materials and leathers.
A new type of chair, inspired by the tradition of iron wire chairs, coming up with an elegant and light-weight structure: highly contemporary suspended architecture.
Coltesse Leather goods are handmade in Paris from french leather and designed by Jules Cairon.
John Pomp studios work exemplifies the purity of natural materials while embracing their inherent historical and elemental qualities, yielding a simple, classic modern aesthetic.
Alonso approached it with the “functionality of the pattern” in mind: a plain tea service with fluted pattern on the underside of the set and the upper side of the tray, both interlocked with each other.
Landfill Harmonic is an upcoming feature-length documentary about a remarkable orchestra from a remote village in Paraguay, where its young musicians play with instruments. About people, transforming trash into music, about love, courage and creativity.
Designer Ariane Prin graduated in 2011 at the Royal College of Art of London has built a manually operated device to create unique cups. As the user rotates the artifact, the liquid clay drips drips into the molds and creates the porcelain cups with a different pattern showing each splash.
The Sea Chair is made entirely from plastic waste collected from the ocean. The plastic used to create the first Sea Chair originates from the shores of Porthtowan, a beach located on the Southwest Coast that is known to be the most polluted beach in the UK for micro plastic.
Atelier Peekaboo had the chance to follow the Glasslab program for a workshop at the “domaine de Boisbuchet”.
Within experiments results, here is a products’ selection that tested severely the glassblowers’ skills. Each object has been thought either to push the limits of this fascinating material, or to highlight the handcrafted aspect by their process.
Inrou is a traditional Japanese pocket box used in the ancient times to carry medicines and small objects. Inspired by this tradition of carrying valuable items in a pocket box we developed this backpack which protects nowadays most precious object, the laptop.
Porcelain Vase is a formally convincing and almost technical-seeming cone. Divided by three legs, its conical body provides an ideal base and remains stable even when used with long-stemmed plants.
The Revitalizer is a wax-lamp that re-creates itself over time, allowing its owner to re-use it and observe the growing-old, dying and rebirth cycle of the lamp. The high voltage bulb inside the lamp melts the wax slowly and after all the wax melts down into the cup, the heat resistance inside the core helps the wax to create a new mould.
Takka was designed by Agnieszka Mazur and is a furniture series designed for confined living spaces.The table’s height can be adjusted he extreme heights serving as a dining table at 75 cm (29.5″) and as a coffee table at 48 cm (18.9″).
‘White Stick’ is a culmination of both natural and artificial materials, creating a unique contrast between high tech and low tech materials in each work. Each piece is inimitable and organic in shape due to the inconsistent shape of the wood, and then partially covered in an artificial biodegradable material to allow the creation of structures.
Gionata Gatto of Studio Atuppertu and Mike Thompson combined photoluminescent pigments with polyurethane to make “Trace”. The outdoor lamp series convert waste energy into visible light.
Pewter transmutation is the result of an approach towards experimental artisanry to be performed in a public place. It combines sophisticated handcraft (oak wood) with an low-cost technique of casting pewter into backing paper.
With Big Dipper, an audience can witness the complete life of a product, from the moment the chandeliers are conceived until the moment they burn and perish.
Dama is a table lamp designed by Tom Allen for Spanish eco-design company Lucirmás. Made from upcycled, recyclable and sustainably certified materials, the lamp was first previewed at the Salon Internazionale del Mobile in Milan 2012 at Superstudio Piú but has now been officially launched.
Collection of table perfumes “Atomizer”, inspired to the period bottles of fragrances. These forms, unexpected on the table, outline a new gestural expressiveness towards food.
Trap light is the result of an exciting collaboration between Gionata Gatto and Mike Thompson, proposing a new approach to lighting design. By utilising photoluminescent pigments to capture escaping light, trap light converts waste energy back into visible light.
He has designed a modular shelf system fixed with simple round pegs. The name “Basso” is an allusion to the beginning of the joint cooperation, the legendary “Bar Basso” in Milan.
Reversed volumes are bowls that are shaped by capturing the imprint of a fruit/vegetable. The space between a vessel and a fruit/vegetable is filled with ceramics.
Collection of vases “Veneer” created with the wrapping technique: the vases are composed of layers of essences of ALPI wood, carbon, glass fibre and adhesive films directly wrapped on steel spindles and then polymerized in an autoclave.
Work made by with Marjan van Aubel and James Shaw. They have been developing an exciting new material from waste wood. The project has been a collaboration between the RCA and the American Hardwood Export Council.
Line01 by Itay Ohaly is a set of light, low tech machinery. By free carving, roto-molding and cutting, various objects are produced.
Line02 by Thomas Vailly is a versatile and low tech way to produce fluid and organic plastic shapes. Latex sheets are like numeric surfaces, and can be stretched, scaled and blown to create an infinity of fluid volumes. Line 02 is a dialog between 3D-modeling, rapid prototyping, craftsmanship and design.
Royal Mahuida (which means ‘Native Forest’ in Mapuche Chilean natives’ language) is a tribute to the Inca Empire, devastated by Spanish conquerors. Incas, according to local traditional stories, had to bury and hide their gold in the Chilean native forest.
Blueware is a collection of ceramics with cyanotypes, a process of capturing direct impressions of botanical specimens on earthenware, using photosensitive chemicals.
The intention behind this chair, was more an inspirational, for now. It plays with the decorative aspect of a chesterfield upholstery and computer typical polygon surfaces. To have this physical real size paper representation of this mix, is a step in between the virtual model and an actual functional chesterfield armchair.
How many times have we had to break the biscuits to dip it in a bowl full of milk?
Many people choose to crush and eat with a spoon. These inadequacy behaviors arise from the cookie to the glasses / cups, or vice versa. Studio Entresuelo 1a came up with a good inspiration in order to solve the problem.
This video shows in a very inspiring way all the different activities of the Swiss premium furniture company Vitra.
Milk stool is inspired by traditional craftsmanship but is made by a high tech CNC router. The industrialization of furniture manufacture has given us cheaper more uniform furniture. In the process many interesting aspects of craftsmanship were neglected in order to keep profit as high as possible.
The ‘Tube Toys’ are a series of vehicles to assemble were the packaging is also part of the product, reducing considerably the amount of material discarded after purchase, and the added cost that traditional packaging involves. All the parts needed to built each vehicle are contained on a standard cardboard tube which doubles as the packaging and becomes the body of the car, fire engine, train or tractor.
Round and round table by Max Lamp is a small table of four parts, each screwing into the next, from a solid oak disc a table grows upwards. This small table functions from a threaded central leg that allows the table adjust from any height up to 600mm. The table comes as individual parts and is easily twisted together. The design was inspired by a recent discovery of a simply thread-cutting tool that allows Max cut perfect threads in wooden dowels by hand, without the need for a lathe.
‘Ett la benn’ discovered and presented the characteristics of natural cellulose within the ‘kami’ project. This years project ‘kami spin’ indeed uses the same biodegradable material but transmits the process into an industrialised rotation moulding and new applications of the objects.
Inspired by the four classical elements, earth, air, fire and water, Nacho Carbonell has incorporated subtle references to these through the design of his hand made lightbulb
We really value Stephen’s intention in revealing the process. He actually wants people to know where and by whom things are made, and put a face to the actual product. Thus, Inheritance is a sofa collection sourced and made locally in Los Angeles using (washed and softened) US-WWII military fabric.
