The Minikitchen is a re-issue of Joe Colombo’s celebrated 1963 design, realised now in Corian® by Boffie
Form of a large trolley with kitchen functions: hob unit, mini-refrigerator, drawer, storage compartments, small cutlery drawers, sockets for small electrical appliances, big chopping board and pull-out worktop.
Vote for the British Design Awards by Elle Decoration
Here are my favorites:
« Hyde » chair design by Fredrikson Stallard for Bernhardt Design
« Anything » stationery range by Michael Sodeau for Suikoska
« Dandelion Clocks » wallpaper from Sanderson
Tea infuser and tea strainer by Bodo Sperlein
Check Yauatcha website to see the whole range: cups, mug, teapot…
Four exemples of the great work of Sou Fujimoto
House O
« House O is a weekend house located on a rocky coast. The characteristic of its plan, imagined like the branches of a tree, is a continuous on room. »
Photos Daichi Ano
House N
« A home for two plus a dog. The house itself is comprised of three shells of progressive size nested inside one another. The outermost shell covers the entire premises, creating a covered, semi-indoor garden. Second shell encloses a limited space inside the covered outdoor space. Third shell creates a smaller interior space. Residents build their life inside this gradation of domain. »
Photos Iwan Baan
Via ArchDaily
Final wooden house
« I thought of making an ultimate wooden architecture. It was conceived by just mindlessly stacking 350mm square… There are no separations of floor, wall, and ceiling here. A place that one thought was a floor becomes a chair, a ceiling, a wall from various positions. The floor levels are relative and spatiality is perceived differently according to one’s position… This bungalow no longer fits the category of wooden architecture. If wooden architecture is merely something made from wood, then wood itself surpasses the architectural procedures to directly become a “place where people live” in this bungalow. It is of an existence akin to primitive conditions before architecture. Rather than just a new architecture, this is a new origin, a new existence. »
Via ArchDaily
Tokyo Apartment
« Collective housing built in the residential section of the center of Tokyo. It consists of five dwelling units including owner’s dwelling unit. Each dwelling unit is made with two or three independent rooms of prototypical « house » shapes. And the two rooms exist, separated like combination of the room of the first floor, and the room of the third floor and they are connected by outside stairs. »
Will be completed in 2009
« Sixteen well-known artists as well as a few ones from the new generation have been invited so far to cooperate with D&ALab in order to create objects which bring art and design together: Pierre Bismuth, James Carrigan, Edith Dekyndt, Lionel Estève, Jan Fabre, Michel François, Ann Veronica Janssens, Perry Roberts, Simon Siegmann, Frédéric Tolmatcheff, Koen van den Broek, Dimitri Vangrunderbeek, Jan Vercruysse, Gert Verhoeven, Freek Wambacq and Cindy Wright. »
Guided tour September 19-20
Dimitri Vangrunderbeek / Cupboard
« Dimitri Vangrunderbeek conceived a cupboard in collaboration with D&ALab. The starting idea comes from his moving figurines, cut out of paper, which are folded on the top to the piece of furniture’s feet (1991).
The nice pattern, based on twelve figurines taken from a Muybridge’s photographs sequence, gives us an animated image thanks to the figurines which are set out in various directions and which create a moving effect using their shaping and the variation of their shadow.
To produce this work, D&ALab provided the thin steel sheets and brought a special technique in order to cut down these little shapes from the thin steel sleeves. »
Perry Roberts / Day bed
« D&ALab produces Daybed and Stool from Perry Roberts which are both finished with long bands of wool of different colours. These bands of felt, fixed on one side, can be put into different orders the one over the other, so that you can arrange the view of the bench by yourself.
These benches were already part of Robert’s works. He does make no difference between art and design. His themes of choice and decision really fit in with the design of those benches. »
Designer Toshiyuki Tani has developed a very contemporary line of lights using traditional Japanese woodcraft techniques.
His Wappa series (Kazaguruma, Shuriken and Hanabi) of pendant and floor lamps employ bent cedar from Akita in northern Japan. And his newest light, the delicate Sen, is hand-built from hundreds of tiny strips of bamboo by traditional bamboo craftsmen in Shizuoka prefecture.
Describing his approach to lighting design, Tani talks as much about the shadow patterns cast by his fixtures as about the light itself. This shadow effect is particularly dramatic in the intricate pattern of very fine lines cast by the Sen.
Likewise, in low ambient light conditions the Wappa series presents an almost surreal contrast between the dark surfaces in front of the light source and the bright surfaces which catch the interior light.
Distributor Kozai
Kazaguruma (Pinwheel)
Shuriken (Ninja Star)
Hanabi (Fireworks)
Sen
Andrea is the first award-winning air filter capable of absorbing toxic gases, such as formaldehyde, from home and office environments through the natural absorptive and metabolic properties of living plants.
Invented by designer Mathieu Lehanneur with Harvard professor David Edwards for Le Laboratoire
Visit Le Laboshop
Mathieu Lehanneur will give a conference at Flagey on Septembre 18th
Exhibition « Le plus bel air de Brussels » from September 18th till October 2nd at Designed in Brussels
« British design firm Channels is set to launch its latest collection of furniture and lighting – Motley III – at 100% Design in London, September 24th-27th.
As a follow-on to the award-winning Motley II collection launched last September, Motley III is a series of ten new furniture and lighting designs by Samuel Chan for Channels. »
Via Contemporist
Floor/pendant light – Egg seat -Voyage chair
From 12th to 20th of September at Wiels, you can see the six winners of the Finnish Designer Awards 08.
This exhibition will be held also in October at the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven and in November at Mes del Diseño Finlandés in Madrid.
Graphic Designer of the Year Klaus Haapaniemi
Industrial Designer of the Year Tuuli Mattelmäki
Fashion Designer of the Year Anssi Tuupainen
Artist of the Year Virpi Vesanen-Laukkanen
Interior Architect of the Year Esa Vesmanen
Textile Designer of the Year Kristiina Wiherheimo
Fire table by Esa Vesmanen
Wall sticker by Klaus Haapaniemi for Domestic
« This is QLOCKTWO, the fourth dimension squared. A clock that tells time in words. It has a quadratic matrix of letters, where some of the letters are illuminated. The time is displayed as text in five minute intervals. If you need to have a more exact time, look in the corner at the illuminated dots. QLOCKTWOhas a brightness sensor; with its help the illuminating power of the letters is automatically adjusted. »
Designed by Biegert & Funk
Replaceable front available in 5 colours.
Light sensor for automatic adjustment to ambient light.
In english, german or french.
A much more affordable version is now available for IPhone
Via Swissmiss
