New York: John Derian – Hugo Guinness – New Work - Exhibition
Opening.In the John Derian Furniture store in
the East Village, the opening of Hugo Guinness’s New Works
exhibition. Alongside his flower ink linocuts
and watercolors, Mr. Guinness presented original portraits of writers, authors
and thinkers in primary colors for the first time.
New York:
Design -Terminal Stores - WantedDesign
Manhattan
WantedDesign
is a platform dedicated to promoting design and fostering the international
creative community. Founded in New York City in 2011 by Odile Hainaut and
Claire Pijoulat, WantedDesign has established itself as a constant and staunch
supporter of U.S. and international design via events, conversations, and
partners and its yearly programming aims to nurture New York City’s design
dialogue.
Around the
World at WantedDesign
WantedDesign
has sourced the best design pioneers from around the world, including brands
and creators from Argentina, Mexico, Poland, Quebec, Tunisia, Norway, France,
and the Netherlands which were presented as country group exhibitions at
Terminal Stores.
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York - The Dutch Edition - The Netherlands
Daniel de
Bruin – The New Technology
De
Bruin shows the worlds first analof 3D printer called ‘This New Technology’. 3D
printing allows products to be created more swiftly and mechanical, yet De
Bruin misses the aesthetic quality handmade, artisanal objects. By designing a
relatively old-fashioned contraption that produces almost primitive pottery, De
Bruin merges best of both worlds. The machine is powered by gravity and
weights, allowing the designer to be directly involved in the printing process.
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York -The Dutch Edition - The
Netherlands
Hongjie Yang -The Primitive Collection
Yang
presents a cutting edge project using biotechnology. In ‘The Primitive
Collection’ Yang researches the notion of luxury. Rooted in the idea of rarity,
the notion of luxury traces back to the dawn of civilization, from a
fascination toward objects made from laborious process or valuable materials.
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York -The Dutch Edition - The
Netherlands
Simone Post
– Post-Vlisco
With
a clear interest in textile design, Simone Post has evolved a passion for
material adaption and technique. On show her graduation work ‘Post-Vlisco’.
Vlisco is a leading producer of batik-printed fabrics for the African market.
To ensure its leading position in a niche market, Vlisco removes any material
from the production line that fails to meet their standards of the highest
quality.Using folding and cutting
techniques, Simone Post created patterned rugs inspired by the big rolls of
textile in the factory. With endless possible color combinations, a unique
product is created with every rug. This way, what was once waste, now holds
value. In addition, her entire process is carefully documented in a book, fully
made and published by Post herself.
Sara Skotte
presented Vei ceramic tableware, designed to enhance the sensory experience of
eating, and Dialog, a collection of vases in different materials.
Lars Beller
Fjetland and Norway’s oldest silverware producer Theodor Olsen solvvareverksted
have created Monstera, a cold-forged cutlery range inspired 1950s design.
Wave is a
modular shelving system that invites users to create a customized Wave to
showcase their unqiue belongings in a variety of different spaces and
configurations. Justin Donnelly produces architectural designs that are
inspired by geometry and driven by industrial manufacturing processes.
“The chair
is as vibrant and mesmerizing as the combination of uplifting disco samples and
heavy filters used in tracks during the heyday of the French house musical
genre.”
Juliette
Mutzke-Felippelli - designer
French Touch
is an art chair inspired by French house music during the 1990’s, paying homage
to experimental artists like Daft Punk, Cassius and Etienne de Crecy. Designed
and manufactured in Los Angeles, the French Touch is composed of dichroic film
applied to CNC-cut acrylic and is connected by steel bolts. Naturally
interactive with light, the dichroic application is combined with puzzle-like
lap joints as part of a conceptual demonstration of the way tracks during the
period were produced by combining disco samples with filters to create it's
distinctive sound. The construction of the chair allows a luminous color
spectrum to reveal itself at every angle.
Textile
designer Mariem Besbes presented The Sarj Collection, a series of seats
combining traditional technics of weaving, knotting and twisting threads with
industrial metallic structures. Inspired by Nomadic horse saddles originating
from North Africa, the project is titled ‘Sarj’- the word for ‘Saddlery’ in
Arabic.
“The form of
ESW furniture is a naturalistic study of a specific quartzite rock I have found
in a forest.”
Anna Bera -
designer
The aim of
the project was to create a functional piece of furntirue bringing a fragment
of natural landscape indoors. Due to its dynamic nature, the irregular solid,
inspired by the trigonal crystal system, changes completely its visual aspect
depending on light and perspective.
Probably the
plural formation and global observation capacity gave the Argentinean brand
Espina Corona a way of synthesis. The same as expressed in the furniture,
highlighting the simplicity of the material, the nobility of wood. Espina
Corona arose two years ago, with the idea to value the typical woods of South
America.
Above.the Kangoro Armchair
designed by Marcelo Orlievsky.
