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E8
Mathias Hahn
A table named after the London postcode of his former home. It was there that the model stood for years: a makeshift table dating from the post-war era: narrow, long, and with overhangs. The format appealed to the designer so much that he used it as the basis for his own design.
E8
19 May 2013 / DAMn°38
Brick
Pio & Tito Toso
An umbrella stand, featured as a pure volume, for tidy storage in the smallest possible space. A practical object for rainy days as well as a modular piece of furniture for all other days of the year.
Brick
19 May 2013 / DAMn°38
Marset
Xavier Mañosa
“Being in the right city doesn’t mean designing better products. Experience and a good relationship with the company you work with is what perfects the products. I have been working together with Marset for two years now. Getting to know each other changes the results dramatically and brings new values to the artisanal work, which I like.” Xavier Mañosa designed the hanging lamp Scotch Club together with Mashallah. It has 72 faces that reflect light from the interior in all directions, recalling an elegant disco ball. The name comes from the very first discothe..
Marset, Xavier Mañosa
marset.com / italler.com / mashallah.nu
19 May 2013 / DAMn°38
Supernova F
A white upright on a white, circular base. The top, set at an angle of 90°, is connected by a quick release attachment to a white, semi-transparent disc, the signature of the Supernova range.
Supernova F
19 May 2013 / DAMn°38
Bocci
Omer Abel
“We are interested in discovering form, not dictating it. Rather than imposing ideas from our imagination onto the material, we try to curate material qualities and production methodology to yield unpredictable forms organically. We’re exploring this theme continuously and the new works presented this year are more sophisticated than before, while still fitting our conceptual mission. We like dark, mysterious, and surreal design. We always focus on the emotional and phenomenological aspects of lighting, and our way of doing so is through an investigation of materials and process..
Bocci
18 May 2013
Fired but unexploded
Exhibit at Venice Art Biennial
Each bomb has its own story. Some of them were fired but unexploded. They´re the subject of the exhibit in the Hungarian pavilion, during the 55th Biennale di Venezia, from 1st of June on. In the framework of the project Fired but Unexploded a special global conflict map is set up. Whoever visits www.fired-but-unexploded.com can contribute her|his conflicts and tensions. Venue: Hungarian Pavilion, Giardini, Venice.
image by Zsolt Asztalos.
17 May 2013
The world’s most reflective bar stool
The #flashtag barstool is so reflective that camera focus is confused, instantly resulting in a dramatic and unpredictable image. A person posing for a photo on the #flashtag is elevated to a new level, sitting in a strange new context. The world’s most reflective bar stool is on display at WantedDesign during the New York design fair ICFF - The Tunnel, nº 269 at 11th avenue between 27th and 28th street, New York
Ride the lightning, by Matt Cavanaugh, http://flashtagbarstool.tumblr.com
16 May 2013 / DAMn°38
Another exhibit about promotion and sales material
Stefan Sagmeister is a pop star”... exalts Mieke Gerritzen, a Dutch graphic designer and friend of the artist, when describing him in an article appearing in the exhibition catalogue. Indeed, best known for his CD boxed sets for David Byrne, Bryan Eno, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, and the Rolling Stones (for which he earned several Grammy Awards), Sagmeister is happy to set up actual performances to produce the print design of his projects. Whether it is composing sentences with letters carried around the world by bit players for a TV commercial or having a poster’s wording carv..
Stefan Sagmeister: Head Badge Posters, a silk screen production in celebration and tribute to the distinct design of vintage head badges in all their vibrant, metallic and colourful glory
grand-hornu-images.be/fr/expositions/Stefan_Sagmeister/15/
16 May 2013 / DAMn°38
New designers 2013
New Designers is the exhibition for emerging design. Taking place over two weeks, with eight distinct design zones and two prestigious Awards Evenings, New Designers is the UK's most important graduate design exhibition, full of innovation and fresh thinking. The show sees over 3,000 of the most talented, newly graduated designers from the leading universities come together to showcase the future of design and creativity. An exciting feature is Prime Cuts, featuring over 100graduates from across the UK, exhibiting films, videos, costume design, set design and other specialist motion..
New Designers 2013, Katharina Eienkoeck, EKDESIGN, A 'Nomadic Light lamp', One Year On
16 May 2013 / DAMn°38
A passion for Jean Prouvé. From furniture to architecture.
The collection of Laurence and Patrick Seguin.
This is an exhibition devoted to the furniture and architecture of French designer Jean Prouvé. The collectioners first discovered his furniture designs in the late 1980s, and were immediately struck by the unique aesthetic, in which artistic skill lies wholly in the imperceptible technical mastery that has been devoted to enhancing the strength of the materials. The couple then began to take an interest in Prouvé’s work as a whole, going on to discover his architectural designs. With the idea that “there is no difference between constructing a piece of furnit..
Jean Prouvé: Free-form coffee table, c.1955; Standard Chairs, 1930; Perriand bookcase, c.1950; Cité armchair, c.1933
patrickseguin.com/en/designers/jean-prouve/architecture/
