berlin/dmy

eva marguerre studied at the university of arts and design karlsruhe. she created a collection of 6 stools and tables with a delicate structure. nido is an extremly light chair made of fibre glass strands.

berlin/dmy

german designer hannes grebin presented ‘ohrensessel’ (wing chair) which is an idea of a redesign of a typical german living room. hannes graduated in product design at the bauhaus university in weimar.

berlin/dmy

bless is split between berlin and paris. bless is the name for german fashion designers Ines kaag and desiree heiss.

bless 07.- chairwear b, 1999, is available for $ 210.00. it is a living concept. it is a chair. the chair was exhibited at the appel design gallery.

previous story about bless here

berlin/dmy

I have been in berlin at the dmy, international design festival, in the last 3 days. more about what I saw and who I meet in the next days.

dmy allstars, kreuzberg

dmy awards: the host and joerg suermann, ceo dmy

design symposium

milan 2009/

eindhoven-based designer julien carretero presented his new ‘drag vase’ and ‘drag lamp’ at the jewels and joules exhibition during milan design week. julien was inspired by the traditional plaster dragging technique in which the plaster is constrained in shape by a profile while hardening.

see the drawn interview of julien carretero here

belgium/

belgian designer casimir designed a wooden box that is used as a piece of furniture and a wooden building-construction-I-profile which is used as seating object. casimir launched his new collection in the end of last month.

milan 2009/

one of the mayor design websites in the netherlands published a video overview about dutch design from milan design week. some of the interviews like the one with richard hutten or pieke bergmans, are done by me. sometimes you just hear my laugh but can’t see its me.

‘check out our special design.nl video of dutch highlights during the week of the milan furniture fair. video filmed and produced by robert andriessen. extra reporting by jeanne tan and matylda krzykowski.’

direct link to the post on design.nl here

maastricht/

dutch food designer franke elshout was responsible for the catering at the opening of the ‘nl=new luxury’ exhibition at the nai. just as museums store insects and artifacts in thin draws, franke uses a similar method to display her food creations.

franke elshout

maastricht/

the nai opened a show called ‘nl=new luxury’ yesterday. the new luxury is attention to the craftsmanship and to the material a product is made off.

marcia nolte – investigation how a human body could adjust itself to the design of products

cygalle shapiro – put a sheet of paper between the large serving platters and you got new plates

lianne kuijpers – wall covering inspired by the appearance of the human body translated into rubber

sayaka yamamoto – carpet inspired by the human skin

celestine briet – birdhouses made of pressed leaves

hung-pin hsueh – system for using taiwan cypress driftwood as an architectural building material

maastricht/

on this sunny day I went to the nai, netherlands architecture institute, in maastricht for the opening of the ‘nl=new luxury’ exhibition. the show is curated by alexander van slobbe, fashion designer and creative director of the design academy eindhoven. since april 1st 2009 the nai operates independently as the naim/bureau europa, an organisation for architecture and design.

_______I will show some of the exhibited work tomorrow_______

unknown guy,
alexander van slobbe, creative director design academy,
guus beumer, director of naim/bureau europe

nai maastricht – 1st floor

nai maastricht – arched gallery

milan 2009/

ilona huvenaars + willem derks presented ‘knitted vase’, a rapid manufactured vase that ‘adapt to the single beautiful rose or the bunch of wildflowers instead of the other way around’.

milan 2009/

los angeles-based industrial designer jang won yoon presented ‘janus’, a stool that is convertible to a chair and the other way around at the salonesatellite last month.