Photograph by Tom Mannion courtesy Caesarstone
Palazzo Clerici: Caesarstone. Caesarstone presented at Palazzo Clerici Islands designed
by Raw-Edges Design Studio, an interactive installation focusing on food
and dining within the domestic environment.
Caesarstone – Raw Edges Design Studio. A unique food concept, designed by
Raw Edges in collaboration with French/American chef Alice Delcourt, further
explores the installation's design concept and brings it to life by engaging
with the audience and highlighting the enjoyment and significance of preparing
food in a Caesarstone kitchen.
Caesarstone. Chef Alice Delcourt, of Italy’s Erba
Brusca, who collaborated on the project, developed a concept menu prepared on
site, demonstrating the fundamental synergy between the cook and chef, food and
utensils, and the overriding interaction with the surface of the kitchen.
Seen at Palazzo Clerici Sam Baron
Palazzo Clerici: Sutdio
Formafantasma – de Natura Fossilium. "Mount Etna
is a mine without miners – it is excavating itself to expose its raw
materials." Studio Formafantasma,
in collaboration with Gallery Libby Sellers, presented at Palazzo Clerici ‘De
Natura Fossilium’, an investigation into the culture of lava in the Mount Etna
and Stromboli regions of Sicily, two of the last active volcanoes in Europe. With ‘De Natura Fossilium’ Studio
Formafantasma investigates the cultures surrounding this particularly Sicilian
experience to bring both the landscape and the forces of nature together as
facilities for production. From the more familiar use of basalt stone to their
extreme experiments with lava in the production of glass and the use of
volcanic fibers for textile, Formafantasma’s explorations and the resulting
objects realize the full potential of the lava as a material for design.
Above. Big Pillar, In homage to
Ettore Sottsass, the great maestro of Italian design and an avid frequenter of
the volcanic Aeolian islands.
Studio Formafantasma’s Simone Farresin and
Andrea Trimarchi
Studio Formafantasma – de Natura Fossilium. Geometric volumes have been carved
from basalt and combined with fissure-like structural brass elements to produce
stools, coffee tables and a clock.
Palazzo Clerici: Bart Hess -WWMP
III - Work With Me People, part III. Bart Hess, the Dutch designer known for
combining material studies, animation and photography in a surrealist manner, together
with Work With Me People (part III) in collaboration with Mu Eindhoven, invited
the audience for an intensive collaboration, creating new fabrics for Bart’s
'high end' clients in the fashion world. “Would you like to lend us a hand
stamping rubber scales that may soon be appearing on the catwalks at Milan or
Paris?” he asked.
Bart Hess - WWMP III. Hess’s futuristic materials and textures
often blur the boundary between textile and skin, human and new species, which
has seen him design for the likes of Lady Gaga and Lucy McRae to name a few.
Palazzo Clerici: Golran. The Golan carpet Lake Collection designed by
Raw Edges Design Studio was conceived as a second reading of the Persian
rug. It takes its inspiration from the
lenticular Israeli artist Yaacov Agam who, together with Victor Vasarely,
revolutionized the world of optic perception in art.
An iridescent collection,
capable of moving from the vivid colors of daytime to the less bright shades of
the evening, just like the mirror of water of a lake, “agam” in Hebrew, changes
its reflection. As the designers
explain: “Imagine a rug that looks very vivid and colorful when you leave home,
but the very same rug will appear more relaxing and calming when coming back
from work. It is like having two approaches for one thing, two different ways
to look at it but then when standing at the right place, you could actually see
the whole picture. This may sound like illusion confusion but it is all based
on existing op-art lenticular technique that thanks to Golran, and their
craftsmen in Nepal, has been translated into marvelous rug making. The graphic
of the first series is based on traditional Kilim, but here in varying heights
of pile technique”.
photograph courtesy Golran
Raw Edges Design Studio - Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay
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