Photograph courtesy Wallpaper magazine
Milan – Furniture Fair - Wallpaper Handmade with Leclettico
party. For
the fifth fabulous year Wallpaper magazine
assembled an international cast of star designers, craftsmen and makers to
produce one-off wonders. The exhibition
and party was held at Leclettico the contemporary design gallery. Claudio Loria, the brains behind Leclettico
also co-curated this years exhibition and together Wallpaper created a majestic
setting that was elegant as it was unexpected, a celebration of ‘handmade’ in
its own right.
Above. Angela Missoni and Wallpaper’s editor
in chief Tony Chambers.
Leclettico’s and co-curator Claudio Loria
Wallpaper Handmade: Wild Feast picnic basket –
designed by Neri and Hu – sponsored by Jaguar Design. Neri and Hu created a
distinctly modern and boldly Chinese interpretation of
a very traditional
British item, the picnic basket. Made from precision-engineered carbon fiber,
the beautifully realized
basket displays an intelligent understanding of the
contemporary Jaguar aesthetic.
Matteo Thun
Defne Koz
Wallpaper Handmade: Jungle Wash bathroom I designed
by Jose Levy and Up Group. From rough blocks of emerald-green Guatemalan marble,
where only the functional parts are polished, French interior designer Jose
Levy created an offbeat bathroom collection that, he says, is ‘a bit like
washing in nature after a tropical rainfall’. The shower, shelving, sink, tap,
mirror, foldaway stool and toothbrush were created in collaboration with
Italian marble specialist Up Group.
Jose Levy and Matteo Baldini
Wallpaper Handmade: Entangled Light – designed by
Suzanne Tick and Mary Wallis. Textiles and neon tubing may not have any obvious similarities, but in
the hands of textile designer Suzanne Tick and lighting specialist Mary Wallis,
the two media have poetically become one. Their glowing neon artwork, which is
realized in varying gradients of white, is an arresting homage to the
textile-making process. The duo started by mocking up weaving designs out of
paper. Wallis then traced the outline of the final paper model, rendered it in
3D, then had tubes of neon
bent accordingly. As a result, every undulating
piece in the graphic work is unique and loyally mimics the principles of
textile weaving.
Mary Wallis and Suzanne Tick
Liborio Capizzi and Nigel Coates
Wallpaper Handmade: Clothes Horse – designed by
Aaron Dunkerton and Kebony. Elevating
the humble clothes airer to a sculptural design piece, this work by Aaron
Dunkerton is a domestic item
that any home would be proud to flaunt. Created in
stainless steel and rich brown Kebony Radiata wood, provided by Brooks Bros,
the clothes horse can be collapsed and discreetly stored away when not in use,
then easily expanded back into its dramatic star shape when duty calls. It was
fabricated using the OpenDesk platform.
Yves Behar and Anne-France Berthelon
Wallpaper Handmade: Cork Jacket – designed Todd
Bracher and Amorim. Using cork’s natural pattern and texture as his starting
point, Todd Bracher offers a new twist to the classic material’s applications. Teaming up with Portuguese cork manufacturing giant
Amorim and using the international company’s high-quality product, sourced
straight from the country’s cork forests, Bracher created a minimalist two-tone
jacket out of different cork composites.
Asia Persico, Fabrizio Rollo and jewelry designer
Sveva Camurati
Wallpaper Handmade: Squeaky Clean set – designed by
Daniel Emma. Wallpaper had been looking to upgrade the tools
of their weekly
sprucing chores so they turned
to Australian design studio Daniel Emma. Knowing
how proficient the duo are at ennobling everyday tools, they challenged them to
scrub up the design of a broom, dustpan, bucket and sponge, which they’ve done
admirably, using walnut, polished aluminum and powder-coated enamel.
Barnaba Fornasetti arrives
by bike
Rosa
Bertoli
Wallpaper
Handmade: Tou tou pet transporter –
designed by Mathieu Gustafsson – sponzored by Jaguar and inspired by Jaguar
Design. Inspired by the Jaguar
F-Type’s attention
to detail, designer Mathieu Gustafsson
was set the task of
creating a bespoke carrier to transport small pooches from pavement to
passenger seat. The resulting transporter, in hand-stitched saddle leather and
rattan weave, means this maneuver can now be executed in high style.
Jerry Helling
Harry Allen, Gaye Cevikel and Arzu Kaprol
Speculum Mirror designed by Rony Plesl for
Verreum
Jurgen Mayer H with his Lamp Collection 1001
for Gaia and Gino
Wallpaper Handmade: La Jeune Rue – How one man
brought a world of creative talent and the best of French produce to Paris’ new
hub. La Jeune Rue is Paris’ startling new gastronomic and cultural hub, a
wildly ambitious initiative, combining sustainable agricultural, excellent food,
urban renewal and a bevy of design stars.
Over the next several months, a handful of dreary Marais streets will be
transformed into a prime destination for top-notch food and international
design.
Eujeni Quitllet, Albert Boti and Marc Vicens
Wallpaper Handmade: Sewing Kit – designed by 1205 and
Bulo. When Wallpaper asked London-based fashion designer Paula Gerbase, of
label 1205, to contribute to the Handmade project, her inspiration came from
her tailoring work. Her idea was to make a compact tailor’s travelling kit,
which could be taken apart into four boxes ‘reflecting the interchanging
relationships between all the different processes required to create
a
garment.’ The kit is made of four triangular boxes, which attach with magnetic
joints and a leather strap. Each box is dedicated to different functionalities
of the craft; there’s a pincushion box, a scissors case, a container for
bobbins, and a compartment to hold smaller items. For the manufacturing task, they enlisted
office furniture expert Bulo, which made the kit using upcycled oak, darkened
and given a silver-grey tint thanks to the natural black ink of wasp larvae
that inhabit the trees. The wood was balanced with a Swiss polyester fabric,
which was developed in a honeycomb pattern to balance and complement the oak.
Emily Marant and Tom Dixon
Wallpaper
Handmade: Inflated Weavings – designed by Raw Edges and Dedon.
Israeli-born designers Yael Mer and
Shay Alkalay, aka Raw Edges, were looking
for an alternative to the normal type of weaving, on top of a rigid structure,
and decided using the technique on inflatables that would bring volume and
softness. The first of two mats is an inflated inner tire with weaving that
creates a nest. The second invites users to sit together with two inflatable
cushions placed in the corners of the mat. The design nicely complements the
contemporary materials-meets-traditional craftsmanship that is a hallmark of
Dedon.
Jonah Takagi and Katrin Greiling
Noe
Duchaufour-Lawrence
Wallpaper
Handmade: Designer’s Survey Belt – designed by Noe Duchaufour-Lawrence and
Valextra. On the fifth anniversary of the Handmade endeavor, Wallpaper thought
it would be fitting to produce a tool belt that celebrated
the marriage of
design and craftsmanship. To give new
panache to this most practical of products, they enlisted Valextra’s
leather
expertise and French designer
Noe Duchaufour-Lawrance’s creative flair. His
‘Designer’s Survey Belt’ is a versatile, modular piece that can be worn or
hung, and has a lightness that the designer likens to birds on a wire. The
pockets are shaped after the Valextra signature ‘V’ and each can be detached
and reassembled according to the wearer’s needs.
Wallpaper Handmade: Tablet Book – designed by Paul
Loebach and Logitech. Designer Paul Loebach, above, joined forces with tech accessories
giant Logitech to rethink digital life on the move. Loebach café-hopped across
New York to see how people engage with their laptops, tablets and smartphones
as their desktop activities move out of the home and into the public realm. He
looked at what analogue habits are valuable enough to keep and what should be
reinvented. He also drew inspiration from vintage Braun and Vitsœ technology
products and found Muji objects, which are all characterized by humbleness and
understatement. The ‘Tablet Book’ combines the metal spiral binding of the
utilitarian notebook and the functionality of a tablet case and keypad. It
balances the human, tactile experiences of physical objects, with the
ephemeral, ever-evolving world of technological advancement.
Wallpaper Handmade: Coffee Kettle and Trivet –
designed by Iacoli and McAllister and coming Soon Coffee. Last year Wallpaper
attempted to perfect their coffee offering when they brought the Coming Soon
Coffee bar to Handmade. The search for
the perfect pour-over coffee-making
utensils made them appreciate the scarcity of beautifully designed equipment of
this nature. So they looked to Seattle,
the coffee capital of the States and home to design duo Iacoli &
McAllister, who put their heads together with Hoi Chi Ng of Coming Soon Coffee
to design the perfect pour-over kettle and trivet in black powder-coated
stainless steel, copper and oak.
Jose Levy and Pierre Frey
Wallpaper Handmade:
Flat Chair – Schemata and Hancock. When Wallpaper started discussing a
project with Scottish rubberized fabrics specialist Hancock, they decided to
take the waterproof material away from its usual raincoat use and bring
it to
the outdoor furniture world. Given the brand’s affinity with the Japanese
market,
they identified Tokyo-based architectural practice Schemata as the
perfect companion for the project. Schemata director Jo Nagasaka was intrigued
by the fabric’s strength and thinness and, inspired by the ‘flat’ sheet
of
fabric used to make the Hancock coats,
he devised a chair made of a flat layer
of material. The chair is made of a moss green super 120s wool/cashmere bonded
fabric, bearing the Siphonia Elastica print, a Victorian-era etching by
Thomas Hancock illustrating the rubber plant used in the bonding process.
Doganberk Demir
Wallpaper Handmade: Clerkenwell Coat – Wallace Sewell, Gieves and
Hawkes and Designtex. Tasked with making a jacket out of Wallace Sewell’s
bold upholstery fabric collection, Gieves & Hawkes chose to create a
boating jacket out of ‘Clerkenwell’. This
Wallace Sewell designed fabric is
made with Designtex and woven at Hield
Brothers textile mill, Yorkshire. To make
the most of the cloth’s vibrancy, the
single-breasted, three-button jacket design comes with gently oversized pocket
flaps
and has been paired with the barest of linings so the color contrasts of
the reversible fabric can also be admired on the jacket’s inside.
A
beautiful dog await its owner
