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Emmanuelle Moureaux: 100 colors, Shinjuku Creators Festa
Yet another colorful project from the French architect and designer Emmanuelle Moureaux who settled down in Tokyo in 1996. For the Shinjuku Creators Festa 2013, the architect selected 100 colors from the Japanese paper manufacturer Takeo. 840 pieces of paper were hung from the ceiling creating a floating volume of color.
"When I first arrived in Tokyo, I was fully fascinated by the...(...)
Charles & Ray Eames in Singapore: Essential Eames
Charles & Ray Eames: Of course you know their designs by heart - they're absolute design royalty, so to speak. And you wonder if this exhibition - held at the ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands until January - is worth visiting? "Essential Eames" ("A Herman Miller exhibition", says the baseline, leaving but few doubts about the promotional aspect of the event) was set up with the help of...(...)
Singapore Art Biennale 2013: Take a bath with Sharon Chin
Want to flatter your ego and become a living masterpiece? Malaysian artist Sharon Chin is looking for volunteers for her installation during the upcoming Singapore Art Biennale 2013: all you need to do is customarize a yellow sarong (under the artist's supervision), and take a bath in a basin full of flowers on Saturday 26 Oct. - along with 99 strangers in 99 other basins.
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Timber turned light: Benjamin Hubert
Benjamin Hubert has a lightweight timber table, exhibited at the Aram Store in London: Ripple is 2.5m long, 1m wide, and weighs just 9kg, and required 70-80% less material than a standard timber table, thanks to a specific production process of corrugating plywood for furniture through pressure lamination (developed by Benjamin Hubert and Canadian manufacturer Corelam).
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Converse x Maison Martin Margiela
My first thought was "Yet another example of cross-marketing": Converse partnering with Maison Martin Margiela. Then I read the press release: two iconic models, the Chuck Taylor All Star and the Jack Purcell, are covered in white paint, Margiela's signature color. But here comes the tricky, clever added value: the shoes need to be worn until the paint flakes off, randomly revealing the...(...)
Hinika by Jarrod Lim @ 100% Design Singapore
Spotted with interest at 100% Design Singapore (held within the Marina Bay Sands Convention & Exhibition center, home to Maison&Objet Asia early 2014), the newly launched (and pretty sleek) Hinika products, designed by Jarrod Lim. He grew up in Australia (where his mother was born), where he studied Industrial Design. He then relocated to Europe, to work with no less than...(...)
Vitra Marries Artek
On September 6th, Vitra announced the acquisition of the iconic scandinavian brand Artek, founded in 1935 in Finland by architect Alvar Aalto and his wife Aino, art promoter Maire Gullichsen and art historian Nils-Gustav Hahl. A match made in heaven, some will say. According to Rolf Fehlbaum, the son of Vitra's founders Willi and Erika Fehlbaum, “the Finnish design company is more than a...(...)
Sit, admire and hallucinate
London-based architect Andy Martin exhibits at the Northington Street Gallery his Block A/B/C collection - the firts three pieces in a series of 26 - during the 2013 London Design Week. Rather than pure furniture, the designer conceived the pieces as functional works of art (is Martin paying homage to the Light & Space artists?) that capture & play with light, to create a...(...)
Lievore Altherr Molina x Arper, Aya Chair
Barcelona-based design studio Lievore Altherr Molina have designed the Saya chair for Italian furniture brand Arper. The mirrored V-shape of both backrest and seat part, the structure dramatically narrowing at the small of the back convey a vague familiar feeling (think Arne Jacobsen, Norman Cherner, or event the Eames Bikini chair…).
Le studio de design Lievore Altherr Molina (Barcelone) signe la chaise Saya chair pour l’éditeur de mobilier italien Arper. Les lignes en « V » du dossier et de l’assise, l’étrécissement marqué de la jonction des deux parties confèrent un air vaguement familier à la chaise (on pense à Arne Jacobsen, Norman Cherner, ou même à la chaise Bikini des Eames…).
The Spanish design studio made the chair in oak and applied a natural stain finish. The (stackable) Aya chair for Arper will be launched in April at the Milan Salone.
Le studio de design espagnol a choisi de réaliser la chaise en bois de chêne, sur lequel est appliqué une teinture naturelle en finition. La chaise (empilable) Aya sera officiellement lancée en avril à l’occasion du Salon du Milan.
(via Arper & Lievore Altherr Molina)