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French industrialist, silversmith and teacher, Serge Mouille (1922 – 1988) is best known for his modernist lighting fixtures. His skilful mastery of metalwork is evident in all his designs.The son of a policeman and seamstress, Mouille had a passion for metal works from an early age. At 13, he began training at the School of Applied Arts’ silver workshop, studying under sculptor, Gabriel Lacroix. He was the youngest student there. Mouille graduated in 1941 with such a gift for the trade that he became a teacher at the school just four years later. The same year, he also opened his own workshop, initially concentrating on handrails, wall sconces and chandeliers. In the 1950s, he started to design intricate, hand-crafted floor lights and wall mounted lamps. These were inspired by the female form, in particular the musculature and skeleton. Showcased alongside Charlotte Perriand, Isamu Noguchi and Jean Prouvé, Mouille’s lamps soon grabbed the worldwide attention. In the mid 1950s, Hollywood legend, Henry Fonda turned up at his workshop and refused to leave until Mouille designed him a lamp. This became the first Mouille lamp to reach America.Mouille’s creations are timeless classics that still look modern today. His most iconic designs include the Contemporary Pendant Lamp, the MFL-3 Style Contemporary Floor Lamp, the MSC-R1C Contemporary Wall Lamp, MCL-R6 Style Contemporary Pendant Lamp and MSC-R2 Style Contemporary Wall Lamp.
“The form is always determined by the material.”
Todd St. John is a designer, image-maker, and animator. He sees little separation between the many mediums he deploys, just as he relishes the interplay between his ongoing generative personal practice, frequent collaborations, and client-driven projects. In the surfaces and forms of all St. John’s work—whether furniture, product, graphic campaign or illustration—reside the crosscurrents of his varied experiences and interests in texture, scale, light, movement, image, abstraction, and materiality.
Through HunterGatherer, the studio/workshop that he founded in 2000, St. John’s clients run the gamut from The New York Times, Toyota Prius, and GreenNYC, to Nickelodeon, MTV, and Pilgrim Surf + Supply. His work is widely broadcast and published and was included in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial, among other exhibitions. St. John taught for nine years in the Yale School of Art’s Graduate Graphic Design Program.
Originally from Oahu, Hawaii, St. John currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, Stella and their three children.
“Located in the South Bund district of Shanghai, the 19-room cutting-edge design boutique hotel with a separate converted warehouse event hall sits beside the Huangpu River and features spectacular views of the Pudong skyline in the distance.
The design concept is expressed through both a blurring and an inversion of the internal & external space as well as the public & private space, creating a slightly disorienting yet refreshing spatial experience for guests who seek the extraordinary. The public spaces allow glimpses of private guest rooms while the guest rooms invite you to look onto public areas, resulting in an unexpected welcome that defines the hotel experience.
The original dockyard building and warehouse date back to the 1930s. The new architectural concept involves a blending of old and new, where an original warehouse building with double-height interior is restored and given a look that reflects the industrial past of this historic docks area. The restored four-story hotel building features views of the Huangpu River and Pudong skyline beyond, serving as a contextual link to history and local culture.”
Photography by: Pedro Pegenaute, Tuomas Uusheimo, Derryck Menere
source; trendland
At first sight, it could be a set made of stiff and translucent fabric. Interesting, but it’s even more! The young german designer Fabio Vogel presents ‘105 ltr Formen’, a hand-blown polished glass vases collection. Thanks to the fireproof attribute of the cloth mould, indentations and stitches can be clearly reproduced on the surface of the glass. Despite the accurateness of the sewed mould, no vase can’t get the same pattern and the intentional irregularities contribute to the singularity of each piece.
The idea of creating objects out of fabric covers, shows, what is possible if you combine handcrafts with new technology. The base of this work has always been the experimental approach. The subject of the project was to create something new, using the power of the element fire as a designer – with all its destroying but also creative strength. The experiments aimed at applying fireproof textiles to other areas of use. The work does not only show the development of new production technologies but also points out another important aspect for successful innovation processes: allowing blurs. A further essential characteristic of this work is coincidence. When manufacturing objects made of textiles, you need to face constant changes. Every object is a unique copy. Even if the pieces are sewed accurately, they will turn out differently, due to temperature and size. You can can only influence deformation to a certain degree, as the process implies variance.
Wallpaper Magazine asked Sabine Marcelis to pair up with lava stone brand Made A Mano to design an object for the ‘Holy handmade’ exhibition during the Salone del Mobile in Milan 2017.
Pushing the limits of lava stone production processes, the Altar is a grand gesture. The largest possible slab of glazed lava stone produceable by Made a Mano seems to float above the ground effortlessly, held in place by an almost invisible glass box.
A heavy iconic object where materials are tested and applied in ways which defy common use and expectation; A pure focus and exploitation on materiality and production process; Glass is used as the structural base, where the Lavastone -more commonly produced as smaller tiles becomes an extra large table surface.
www.sabinemarcelis.com/altar
www.madeamano.com/love-lava-set-stone
Aectual Floors is an innovative 3D printed flooring system with a terrazzo infill. Offering customizable designs, environmentally friendly production and a long lasting quality.
Aectual uses huge robotic 3D printers to create the framework for its sustainable floors, which it infills with terrazzo.
As a result, these floors can be customised to fit spaces of any shape and size, and can be created in all kinds of designs – from traditional patterns to custom motifs.
“We make it possible to create your own design for spectacular floors in, for example, a hotel lobby, or for a striking retail brand,” said Hans Vermeulen, CEO of Aectual. “This gives designers complete design freedom.”
Lifestyle brand SKAGEN is expanding its smartwatch portfolio with the launch of its first-ever touchscreen smartwatch. In four brilliant colorways, including mesh straps in both stainless steel and rose, SKAGEN’s new Falster Smartwatch, powered by Android Wear™ 2.0 and the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ Wear 2100 platform, launches in January 2018. This watch, like the rest of the SKAGEN wearables collection, is the perfect balance of form and function—modern, minimalist design with added technology that simplifies rather than complicates, and connects rather than distracts. With the same thoughtful approach to style and function in both technology forward and traditional designs, SKAGEN continues to innovate the more wearable wearable.
The development of the tile stove by Dick van Hoff was a question of Royal Tichelaar Makkum how produces tiles which mainly are used for architectural applications.
The use of the tiles in the stove provides a nostalgic, Victorian look of the stove. An echo of the time heralded the industrial evolution. The function remains the most important. The tiles provide a gentle distribution of heat from the stove.
www.vanhoffontwerpen.nl
www.tichelaar.nl
New York design studio TBD has transformed an apartment in Manhattan’s West Village with white interiors and a new rooftop patio, complete with an outdoor shower and hot tub.
TBD reconfigured the New York apartment – located on Christopher Street and measuring 1,600 square foot (149 square metres) – to create an open-plan layout.
The two-bed, two-bath property boasts a private outdoor terrace upstairs, which includes a deck and bar area. A small pool was custom fabricated in Colorado by Diamond Spas, sent on a flat-bed truck and lifted by crane onto the roof.
Source:Dezeen
