A Designer Looks at Art, Architecture and Everything
Kram Weisshaar designs a series of plates for Nymphenburg called My Private Sky.
Submit your birth data including place and time (date, hour and minute of birth) and Nymphenburg will generate the stars and constellations above the exact location and time.
Photos copyright kram/weisshaar, Frank Stolle.
Minimalist lighting from Lutz Pankow. The lights use an innovative magnetic joint creating a freedon of movement and modular combination of different bases, arms and light sources.
Enticing. There is something quite alluring about seeing multiples grouped into categories. You’re drawn in by the neat displays, you want to get closer, handle. I admire the architect designed collaborations Aesop uses for their retail stores.
Unforgettable use of corrugated materials for product display. Aesop Flinders Lane designed by March Studio.
Aesop @ Strand Arcade.
Lovely.
James Cameron worked with Universal Design Studio to create a space of classic institution, referencing aesthetics and colours from 1960’s French spy films and giving it a timeless approach for the circa 1920’s building it sits in.
62 Smith Street Collingwood, Victoria, Australia – PH: 03 9419 2400
I like this lamp — inspired by SANAA’s design for the New Museum.
Each piece is hand made using laser cut translucent white acrylic with a cool-white fluorescent bulb. Available at the website. $1200
Masters of Modernism offers lighting, silver, jewelry and hardware from the masters of modern design. I picked a couple of things that caught my eye.
Flexible Arm Wall Lamp, Eduard-Wilfrid Buquet, 1927
Door Levers, Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1927
“Le tre steghe” Pendant Lamp, Guenther Leuchtmann, 1981
You might think this fixture is strange, even ugly. It’s really a gorgeous piece and you can see it on display at Siematic Seattle.
Online here.
This sculptural form, composed of stacked drawers, functions as a dresser. Available through Established & Sons.
We’ve been looking for a pair of adjustable reading lamps for a couple of living room chairs. Looked at the Tolomeo but decided against it. We went with the Bill (new) floor lamps as we liked the maneuverability of the head and the warmer quality of the light produced. I’ll take pictures once we have them installed. In the interim, here is an image from the Tobias Grau website.
Handmade designs by Hudson incorporate a variety of rich materials including bronze, iron, teak, walnut petrified wood and lighting with Swarovski crystals. Many pieces offered in custom sizes and finishes, call for pricing.
Atlantis Chandelier
Love You Love You Not Chandelier
detail
Candles and Spirits Chandelier
Atlantis Chandelier, Knight Base Table
English Windsor
The Rock
Bronze Mirror Conv.
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davidmetnicole is an eclectic accessories and interiors shop in Surry Hills.
Simple classic lines split into three grades. The Kode Lamp changes in tone from base to top. Frame is composite wood covered in frosted matt polycarbonate. Inner coloured drop in insert is hand silk screen printed. Available colors: White/Yellow/Orange. $95
Vintage necklace made from vintage parts sourced from UK and France. 2 fob watch keys, a watch part and a 9kt tableware charm, a knife, a fork and a spoon on a long vintage chain. $225
From the Bocci Collection, no.22, flush mount power-point.
The Future Perfect has an ecletic range of designed objects including lighting, furniture, jewelry and wallpaper. Some of my favorite pieces below.
Bud V. Dragon, by Jaime Haydon for Lladro Re-Deco, $460
Timorous Beasties, Damask Wallpaper [2004], hand screened paper, per roll $182
Seconds Dessert Plates, set of four $90
Retail remixed by Ksubi. Walking by the outside you wouldn’t know it was a shop. No signage. Doesn’t look like a store. Maybe a gallery. Maybe it’s still under construction? Can I go in? Confusing signals. Which is the point. Ksubi manages to create a retail environment that fuses retail rules with no rules. Constructed entirely from cardboard and tape, the stores location is upscale Armadale so it’s quite a contrast to the surrounding shops which include themes and galleries.
1021 High Street – Armadale – VIC 3143
Designed in 2002, the Tord Boontje Blossom Chandelier created for Swarovski has already become a modern lighting design classic. I think it’s a beautiful creation and summarizes Boontje’s unique vision of the natural world around us. He describes the chandelier as a fusion of nature and the emotional qualities of crystal.
Above: individual crystals used in the Original colourway. (Crystal with Blue AB coating & Rosaline)
The November 2007 issue of House and Garden magazine wrote a story on Gwyneth Paltrow’s house in the Hamptons. A large Blossom is shown hanging in her dining room. Habitually Chic has a nice story on the photo shoot for the article.
Tord Boontje Blossom Chandelier for Swarovski
Available in the following sizes:
Large: H145cm x L90cm x W165cm, 17kg
Small: H85cm x L50cm x W85cm, 12kg
Mini: H53cm, L15cm, W54cm, 6kg.
Available in the following colourways:
Original: Crystal with Blue AB coating & Rosaline
Night: Jet & Jet with Blue AB Coating
Spring: Light Peridot & Yellow Shadow
Autumn: Bordeaux Blue Violet with Golden Teak coating, Crystal with Golden Teak coating, Copper & Topaz
Check out Crystallized, the Swarovski magazine for crystal innovations.
Woodnotes manufactures paper yarn for a variety of architectural and interior design applications. The company began with their pure modern designs in floor coverings, today they feature numerous products including carpets, blinds & partitions, table textiles, furniture & upholstery fabrics and accessories. The clarity of materials and aesthetics produces the perfect minimalism.
Woodnotes Carpets
Woodnotes Blinds
Woodnotes Table Textiles
Woodnotes Furniture
Woodnotes is a Finnish design company founded by Ritva and Mikko Puotila in 1987.
We bought one of the last remaining editions of Naoto Fukasawa’s Shelf X for B&B Italia. We ordered the piece from our Interior Design source in Italy and waited patiently for about 22 weeks.
The limited edition Shelf X design created by Naoto Fukasawa is limited to 300 pieces worldwide.
It took us several hours to de-crate the Shelf and get it into position. Davide at Santiccioli fabricated an excellent container that made the trip from Florence to Seattle. Above the shelf hangs Tony de los Reyes’ The Imago Sea Series no. 12.
We liked the idea of the white corian Shelf X against a white surface so we painted three walls in the room a modern bright white. This color scheme allows rich grey shadows to wander across the wall throughout the day.
Notice how the Shelf appears to float.
On top of the shelf sits a series of 8 beakers by Pieter Stockmans.
Unique spaces are created between the vertical forms. Books can stack flat or stand conventionally with vertical bindings.
There are no visible seams in the piece which gives the impression it’s been cut from a single piece of stone. Although the overall appearance is thin and light, the corian is absolutely rigid and can easily withstand the weight of a collection of books and objects.
We visited the gallery of goldsmith Malcolm Betts in 2001. At that time he had just opened his new space on Campden Street. The pristine interior detailing is a nice contrast to the hammered look of his work. Newly updated website with sumptuous up-close images of his jewellry designs.
1 Campden Street
London W8 7EP
T. 44+(0)20 7229 9565
F. 44+(0)20 7229 9909
E. malcolm@malcolmbetts.com
I enjoy the designs Antonio Citterio has created for Maxalto, B&B Italia, Flos, Kartell and other leading Italian and European manufacturers. He also creates stunning architecture in a rigorous and minimal vocabulary. Here are a few projects from his company, Antonio Citterio and Partners, portfolio.
Architecture: Commercial: Zegna Group Headquarters and Showroom
Architecture: Residential: Private House, Basel
Villa
Interiors: Fashion: Alberto Aspesi Showroom
De Beers: London
I’ve always been attracted to Kasthall’s amazing rug creations. Here are a number of my favorite styles from their collection. From the hand-tufted series are Fogg and Moss, from their woven rug category, Esther.
Fogg is ‘an elegant pile rug that shimmers in a variety of shades.’ The sheen comes from the 100% linen component used to make the rug. The texture is soft and has a distinct smoothness, despite the depth.
Moss is made of long linen threads and short, coarse wool yarn which makes the rug feel warmer. The contrasting elements of matte wool and shimmering linen strands comes together perfectly.
Esther is from the Woven Rug collection. The bouclé rug is made of a loop yarn that shimmers from the addition of a linen element woven throughout. the mixture of linen and wool in a number of shades creates the unique depth of color and marbled quality.
