london design festival

wallpaper magazine commissioned london-based designer martino gamper to create a chair arch in the atrium of the victoria and albert museum. the multicoloured installation is build from original ercol stacking chairs.

london design festival

london design festival is on. yesterday evening I went to the johnson trading gallery to see max lamb‘s china granite project. the english designer spend 2 weeks in china to turn black granite into a collection of furniture pieces.

berlin

16 students from the esad strasbourg were presenting their work under the name zou! during the international design festival in berlin earlier this year. this shelf is called ‘up’ and is made by mabon leblanc.

maastricht

last week I visited maastricht based entrepreneurs paul rinkens and suze thomma in their office. damn, they could request money for the admission. I came across a nice collection of furniture and products. the globus, a compacted office space by michiel van der kley for artifort was my favourite.

berlin

belgian designer damien gernay was exhibiting within the brussels spacioline design studio during the dmy, international design festival in berlin. his ‘textured sideboard’ was presented at the dmy allstars location.

london

this is gio ponti‘s ‘wall light’ from 1959. his work is one of the most important influences in design.

last year I went to the preview of philips de pury ‘s auctions during london design festival and saw this brass and painted metal beauty which was manufactured by arredoluce.

80 x 20 x 12,7

berlin

german designer sebastian schönheit has created a oversize knitting that aims to make people think it is from a fairy tale.

the work with the title ‘300’ was exhibited at the dmy allstars during the international design festival in berlin.

1,80 x 1,40 m

milan

spanish designer martí guixé has created this chair in 1999. this year he presented his concept of the chair at the prophets & penitents exhibition from the damn magazine. basically it is just a newspaper. also a chair.

london

the design museum‘s current exhibition called ‘super contemporary’ shows key moments in the development of design in london. It explores what attracts creatives to live, study and work in the capital.

london-based designer thomas heatherwick presents his ‘lamp post chandelier’ – his vision of lanterns for the english capital.

berlin

designdrive, a creative platform for latvian and european designers in latvia, was exhibiting at the dmy, design festival in berlin.

gundega zake cimza, one of the participating designers, presented a new kind of prayer bench which is easy to use in different positions. ‘goodspeed’ can be also used as a bench at home, school, clubs, sport hall etc.

goodspeed by gundega zake cimza

berlin

beta tank the design practice which is based in berlin and london has presented their new product called ‘memory stücks – stone’ during the dmy in berlin. basically it is ‘a limited edition of memory pieces which bond the tangible physical with the ephemeral digital’.

memory stücks – stone
beta tank, 2009

london

london-based designer philippe malouin and his architect friend sacha leong have designed the new interior of the b store showroom.

the creatives work together under the name post office – interiors and architecture studio. my favourite in the b store is the noticeable lamp that consists from white long lightbulbs. simple and good. guys, when are you coming to my place to install my lamp?

hasselt

the furniture is an 2 year old project of london-based designer martino gamper. a series of design classics by Italian designer gio ponti were destroyed and reassembled into new pieces in front of a live audience at the design miami/basel. the whole happening is called: If only gio knew…’. the pieces were exhibited at the superstories triennale at the z33 in hasselt, belgium.

london

I visited the new designers show last month. design students andrew duffy, craig tyler and edward harrison from the university of rochester presented a minature rotational moulding machine.

the DIY (do It yourself) rotation moulding machine is built to replicate the industrial process to help further understand its possibilities. it was built at no cost from scrap materials and simply powered by a cordless drill. one of them told me that they just invested 5 pounds for the machine. what a bargain.