today I popped into the conflict design store in maastricht. it is a little store with a carefully choosen selection of dutch design… and here it was again: the ma-ma vase by designer roderick vos. it is a beautiful vase for royal tichelaar makkum, the netherlands’ oldest company. you can have it in glossy white, matte gold, matte aluminum, matte brass and a decorated version.
marres, centre for contemporary culture, in maastricht has one of my favourite bookshelfs.
amsterdam-based interior studio eventarchitectuur have designed the wooden bookshelf in september 2005. but every time when I am there I realize that I like it more.
I am kinda into chairs at the moment because I have to write my bachelor thesis and as I like chairs a lot I choose for them as the main topic…
so the arched gallery in the nai, netherlands architecture institute, maastricht is showing an installation called ‘living with things’ by rotterdam-based architect rianne makkink & designer jurgen bey. the creative duo evoke the industrial hall, where they lived until recently, in the 3th level of the institute – a space that they regarded as the ideal house.
this chair is a little detail of the hole exhibition and one of my favorites. I like the combination of seating object and private space. armchair in a box. and when you sit inside you look through a tv window and you can observe whats going on outside. the only disruptive element are the black stickers on the box.
this is the egg chair (looks like a halved surprise egg) I saw yesterday in the nai, netherlands architecture institute, in maastricht.
the chair is designed by english architects alison and peter smithsons in 1956 and I couldn’t find it the 1000 chairs book by taschen. even google is almost not giving any informations about it. so, here it is – the egg chair – arne jacobsen has designed the famous version;-) – which colour reminds me of the yolk of the egg in my breakfast.
the plastic egg chair was designed for the smithsons
‘house of the future’, 1956 – an visionary ‘model home’
it’s a pleasure to read the apartamento magazine: no annoying advertising pages, no lifestyle tips, no luxury items I can’t afford, no butts and tits (ok, I do not mind these normally.. ).
just people who show how they life in their private moments and you just think that you want to sit next too them and share a cookie with them.
2nd issue of the bi-annual ‘everyday life interiors magazine’
british designer max lamb, chinese artist terence koh, argentinian artist julian gatto, london-based photographer felix friedmann, and many more..
duesseldorf-based dorlis tellmann is combining everyday’s objects like radiators, that are usually designed to be unobtrusive as parts of a playful installation created by light and movement. she is presenting her work in context of the transversale at the ‘pro forma’ exhibition in the kuenstlerhaus dortmund which runs until 22 march.
british designer ross lovegrove has announced in january during the design week in cologne that he is collaborating with issey miyake. he said that for him a dream comes true that he is able work with the japanese designer. I wouldn’t mind either to work with him.. ;-)
creatives like japanese designer naoto fukasawa or finish designer harri koskinen have already worked for miyake’s watch brand and now I am curious what the appointed captain organic will design. is it a watch in a shape of a waterdrop? or a membranous shape that surrounds the wrist? we will see in march. and as far as I know it is the first watch designed by lovegrove.
a sketch – a result of a telephone conversation –
I just had ross in my mind
I have been at the surface exhibition at the designers fair in cologne last month. see the previous post. I was disappointed that the company responsible for the project – heimatdesign (who describe themselves as a platform for young local talent) – did not actually present any german designs.
2 weeks ago they moved with the exhibition to dortmund, germany to participate in the transversale – an event about art and design. they settled down in a great location and added a new designer. one of them is dortmund-based designer pierre kracht who was one of 30 contributors at the [d3] design contest at the imm.
