Shower Head by Fornara Maulini
It is truly akin to having your own personal cloud for a super drenching downpour at the touch of a button! These shower heads by Fornara Maulini are liberally sized quite similar to having a cloud right on the top of your head pouring down water for you. They come in various shapes and sizes like triangular, square, rectangular and round.
Tokujin Yoshioka Installation at Design Miami
The Design Miami recognizes Tokujin Yoshioka has the best designer of the Year this year.
The Design Miami/ Designer of the Year Award recognizes a prominent, established designer whose advanced body of work demonstrates quality, innovation and influence - a visionary who changes the way we understand design.
December 10, 2007 - Category: Art, Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Ron Mueck: Hyper-Realist Sculptor at Brooklyn Museum
The exhibition Ron Mueck includes about 15 mixed media works on loan from the artist’s collection, major museums, and private collections. Mueck employs imitation and illusion to explore the ambiguous relationship between reality and artifice, creating figures that express the contradictions between the real world and the imaginary. The figures seem to be alive: every detail - veins, wrinkles, moles, body hair, rashes - is crafted to such perfection that the result is remarkably convincing and deeply troubling. The size of the works - always smaller or larger than human scale - is equally disconcerting.
October 31, 2007 - Category: Art, Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 50
CAL LANE
Knockout steel sculptures with a lacy touch. Lane, a certified welder and graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, wields an industrial blowtorch as if it were a crochet hook, burning dainty, intricate designs into heavy metal. The artist’s signature Steel Doilies and monumental, “crocheted” I-beams elegantly perforate traditionally masculine realms of art and architecture with feminine craft.
September 28, 2007 - Category: Art, Life Story - Posted by: Hans - Comments: 0
Jan Kallwejt’s illustrations
Jan Kallwejt’s Lung music shirt features a musical take on the human internal organ system.
Born in Warsaw, Poland Jan Kallwejt started his career as a graphic designer around 2000 creating web graphics and animations. Since then he has freelanced for many agencies in Poland. Lately he is connected with 4RK Unstable Media, sharing his time between Hamburg, Germany and Warsaw. Lately his interests have switched from interactive media to illustration. In his works he likes to use simple shapes, symbolic forms and clean, plain colors.
May 23, 2007 - Category: Art, Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Neverending by Luca Nichetto
The Neverending shelf is designed by Luca Nichetto and has been exhibited at Milan Design Week 2007. It features rounded storage spaces made from Corian.
Luca Nichetto was born in Venice in 1976 where studies first in Institute of Art and then to the IUAV, University Institute of Architecture of Venice where graduates in Industrial Design.
May 10, 2007 - Category: Furniture, Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 2
Furniture by Amanda Levete for Established & Sons
Established & Sons began with the ambition of reviving interest in the skills and capabilities of British furniture manufacturing. This was coupled with an understanding of and respect for the design talents currently working in or hailing from Britain. Chester, the edition piece designed by Amanda Levete for Established & Sons, is a somewhat lateral interpretation of the classic Chesterfield sofa, using traditional upholstering techniques with springs, horsehair and a buttoned leather skin to create a soft, feminine form.
April 25, 2007 - Category: Furniture, Life Story - Posted by: Hans - Comments: 0
Edouard Francois
The Parisian architect mixes architecture with ecology: a fashionable fifty-year-old with a diverse background and designer of the offbeat Tower Flower in Paris.
Tower Flower
Edouard François emphasises the meaning of architecture by analysing it in a way that is both elementary and profound. ‘Man can live solely within architecture. He needs a complex building which must be decorated. Only in this way can he be happy.’ Indeed, in François’ view, working with nature offers a welcome complexity: ‘Watch a tree. It has a thousand branches, it moves, grows, changes colour!’ François uses nature to make his designs more complex.
April 18, 2007 - Category: Architecture, Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
TWIN bookshelf by Zeynep Cinisli
The bookshelf is a cabinet when closed, when it is pulled to sides, the shelves representing the bridges become apparent. Via the selves with rails the TWIN becomes dynamic.
TWIN bookshelf represent the two sides of Istanbul, Asian and European, and the bridges connecting them. It compares this connection with the relation of twins.
April 17, 2007 - Category: Furniture, Life Story - Posted by: Hans - Comments: 0
Mika Ninagawa
The artist director and photographer Mika Ninagawa was born in 1972. She belongs to the new breed of Japanese women artists, like Hiromix or Rinko Kawauchi. Represented by the famous galleries Yoshitomo Nara and Tomio Koyama , she is one of the contemporary artists that you can’t afford to miss in Japan.
April 13, 2007 - Category: Art, Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Indigo Hotel by Sebastián Irarrazaval
Indigo Hotel situted in Puerto Natales, Chile is The last work designed by architect Sebastián Irarrazaval.
Hotel Indigo offers 23 rooms and 6 decoreted suites with the luxury of all details and comfort. The onalities of Patagonia are evoked in the fine fabrics in the whole building and natural wood.
April 4, 2007 - Category: Architecture, Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Louise Campbell’ Seatings
Louise Campbell was born in Copenhagen in 1970. Being the daughter of a Danish father and an English mother, she grew up and was educated in both countries. After graduating from the London College of Furniture in 1992, she returned to Denmark and continued her studies in Industrial Design at Denmarks Design School, graduating from here in 1995. She set up her own studio in 1996, from where she has worked independently since. Focus is on furniture and lighting design, but the studio is increasingly involved in product design and interior design projects as well. The client list is long and varied, including companies such as Louis Poulsen, Zanotta, HAY, Holmegaard, Stelton, Muuto, Interstop and The Danish Ministry of Culture.
February 26, 2007 - Category: Life Story - Posted by: Hans - Comments: 0
Z House by Eva Harlou
The design magazine Wallpaper has chosen Danish architect Eva Harlou as the “Best Breakthrough Designer 2007″.
It was soon after graduating from the Aarhus School of Architecture in 2003 that Eva Harlou found herself playing a key role at Copenhagen architects 3XN, where she managed competition entries and gained a vital understanding of how the architecture world functions.
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January 30, 2007 - Category: Architecture, Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
The Glass House by Philip Johnson
The basic concept for Philip Johnson’s glass house was borrowed from Mies Van Der Rohe, who designed the glass and steel Farnsworth House. Unlike the Farnsworth House, however, Johnson’s home is symmetrical and sits solidly on the ground. The interior space is divided by low walnut cabinets and a brick cylinder with the bathroom inside. The cylinder and the brick floors are polished in purple hue and the steel comes in dark gray.
December 7, 2006 - Category: Architecture, Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 5
Leocadia Jurado
Leocadia Jurado’s nickname could be “fairy fingers”. Educated in Plastic arts, former teacher of drawing and ceramic for children in Sevilla, this Spanish artist lives in Brussels since 17 years, where the passion for fashion led her to work as manager and visual merchandiser in various boutiques, notably Chine Collection. Given her eagerness for creation, she decides at the same time to go in for painting using a mixed technique based on the art of collage. Her talent will not remain unnoticed and she is asked to decorate with collage and graffiti works a clothing boutique in Sitges, Spain. After having designed several hats for a theater show “The wizard of Oz”, played in her native city, Leocadia starts to create a very unique and stylish collection of handbags made with crochet-work. Totally handmade, combination of pure geometric shapes and flaming colours, these handbags have a great success in Sitges.
November 17, 2006 - Category: Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Smock Sofa by Patricia Urquiola
The Smock Sofa designed by Patricia Urquiola is completely removable and has a steel frame. The upholstered chair is detailed with smocked stitch embroidered at the sides which give it a more edgy look and the armrest of the sofa comes in stainless chromed steel with a finishing in satin, lacquered colors or even in leather.
August 24, 2006 - Category: Furniture, Life Story - Posted by: Hans - Comments: 1
Hugh Holland’s Exhibition
Adolescent males dominate “Angels: Street, Skate, Seventies,” a show of Hugh Holland’s photographs that are the product of his encounter with the emerging counterculture of skateboarders in the seventies. It was in 1975, while driving along Laurel Canyon Boulevard, that Holland became aware of the young boys swooping and swirling along the drained pools and began taking shot of them.
Hugh Holland exhibits his work at “Colette” shop in Paris until the 1st of July.
June 29, 2006 - Category: Art, Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 1
Feel Seating System by Animi Causa
Animi Causa is one of Israel’s young and innovative manufacturer of modern furniture. Their created the Feel Seating System which can change its shape according to the position of the body. The shape is inspired by a molecular structure and it’s made of 120 soft balls which are cover with an elastic fabric. The number of positions is as wide as your imagination.
June 28, 2006 - Category: Furniture, Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 7