New York:
Twenty First Gallery - Emmanuel Babled. At the Twenty First Gallery's new
townhouse space in West Chelsea, until June 10th, a selection of furniture,
lighting and design objects by French designer Emmanuel Babled, featured above.
The pieces have never before been exhibited in the U.S. and exemplify the designer's
innovations with classic materials including Murano glass and Carrara marble.
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Emmanuel Babled – Osmosi Furniture 5
Emmanuel Babled creates products in collaboration with
the highest Italian craftsmen, mixing ancient knowledge with cutting edge
technology, allowing sophisticated production processes. The Italian technical
heritage is being explored and revisited in order to propose new unexpected
results.
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Emmanuel Babled – Osmosi – Vase 3
By combining new technology with traditional
craftsmanship in an entirely innovative way, a virtual fusion is made between
marble and hand-blown glass. These materials are put together with a precision
that is only possible thanks to high-level digital technology.
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Emmanuel Babled – Osmosi Furniture 1
The process of the pieces begins with the realization
of the glass. The hand-blown form is then captured by a 3-D scanner. Through
the digitalization of the form, the matching shape is CNC (computer numerical
control) milled into the marble, creating two unique pieces that match each
other perfectly. They are separate pieces, but one has no meaning without the
other.
Twenty First Gallery
director and founder - Renaud Vuaillat
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Emmanuel Babled – Osmosi Lamp 1
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