Maison & Objet’s designers of the year 2012 are Humberto and Fernando Campana, originally from Brazil, Hubert le Gall from France and Tokujin Yoshioka of Japan.
To celebrate, each designer was given the opportunity to create an installation for the show. It was the Campana Brothers’ installation that really caught my eye.
I’m adding a couple of prints this week to The Design Milk Dairy, my collection of Society6 artist prints and accessories. I wanted to share some artwork centered around the theme of love, an appropriate topic considering this month contains the most romantic day of the year (or as us married people say call it: “next Tuesday”). Pictured above is Total Ellipse of the Heart by Michael Paukner.
One of the stand-out pieces at Maison & Objet for me was Doreen Westphal’s concrete lace curtain. Not only visually stunning, it plays with our conception of gravity, delicately suspending something we perceive to be very heavy in mid-air.
London-based graphic designer Konrad Bednarski has created a few new vector fonts. Check them out!
Chloe Scadding is a young designer that creates high-end textiles used for fashion and interiors. Her combined use of contemporary and traditional techniques, along with her creative use of materials, makes her work innovative and original. She pushes the boundaries of what textiles normally are and what they can be — truly unique. Her latest work consists of printed and laser cut wood and fabric that was exhibited at Designersblock London in September 2011.
February’s Designer Desktop is a quote by Nolan Bushnell: “The ultimate inspiration is the deadline” as illustrated by designer Burcu B. Koken. If you don’t know (I didn’t), Bushnell is inventor of Pong and founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese chain restaurants.
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Cold Comfort Quilt
Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, artist Ted Larsen focuses on making abstract sculptures with the use of found “non-art materials.” He chooses to stay away from one particular theme in his work and instead pursues many directions in which he continues to experiment with contexts, hybrids, and scale. I love how he uses a variety of salvaged materials including metal, wood, and wax to create such a diverse body of work.
Pete Oyler sent me some info about a most interesting exhibition he recently saw. Called The Exchange by Ben Blanc, the installation consists of 200 handmade and sequentially numbered black-dyed objects made of Douglas Fir. Inside of one object is a 20.06-gram river washed Alaskan Gold nugget recovered from the Nome area in 2011.
How genius is this 2012 Rocking Chair Sculpture Calendar by Katsumi Tamura for Good Morning, Inc.? It is designed to sit on your desk and it even rocks back and forth like a real rocking chair. The design is meant to symbolize a relaxing way to measure the passage of time, i.e., rocking. The current month sits on the back of the chair while the other months are stored on the seat. The chair assembles easily and stands 4.75″ tall x 2.75″ wide.
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Kennedy James‘ Serial Bondage series features chairs tied up, strung up and hung up in the ancient art of Japanese Shibari (rope bondage). Sexy!
