Magis Voido
Il nome di Ron Arad è sinonimo di costante sperimentazione con i materiali e radicale rielaborazione concettuale di forme e strutture per arredamento che lo hanno reso protagonista del design contemporaneo. Oltre all’attività di studio, concentrata essenzialmente su pezzi in edizione limitata, Ron Arad firma il design per molte società di livello internazionale. La collaborazione per Magis ha dato vita nel 2006 a Voido, una poltrona a dondolo in polietilene in rotational moulding, anche verniciato. Adatta per esterni (nella versione non verniciata), ma perfetta anche per gli ambienti interni più moderni. Disponibile da SoloAlto
ACNE furniture
The Swedish creative agency Acne, which is mostly known for its fashion brand, presented its first furniture collection during the Paris fashion week. They started off from a Swedish design classic by Carl Malmsten: the Nya Berlin (New Berlin) Sofa. Malmsten designed it for the Swedish consulate in Berlin and it hasn’t been in production since 1949.
Rocker by Oooms
Dutch design firm Oooms has recently developed an adapter they call “Rocker” that converts nearly any four-legged seat into a rocking chair. It solves the dilemma faced by anyone who craves the nostalgia of their grandparents rocking chair without upsetting modern design sense.
Developed with in cooperation with Meinte van de Meulen for the Designboom rocking chair contest, the Rocker attachment took 12th place out of thousands of entries. | via Black Not Black
Genius Wall
Genius Wall è un oggetto difficilmente definibile, può essere un appendiabiti, un portaoggetti, una decorazione o uno spunto di riflessione. Il concetto fondamentale è la semplictà: pulito, lineare acquista potenza grazie alle parole del genio provocatore Oscar Wilde, che oggi, in un mondo dominato dalla bellezza, vogliono andare controcorrente esaltando il Genio! Genius Wall è un oggetto materico, che unisce la robustezza dell’acciaio alla libertà e al movimento sconnesso di ogni singola lettera. Ideato e realizzato da Jody Mattioli per il marchio Zero Zero Design è il primo oggetto di una serie in via di sviluppo che vuole andare ad omaggiare altri geni: Platone, Calvino, Shakespeare. In vendita online per 80€.
Dieter Fan + Cobo Lamp by Skanno
Dieter Fan by Skanno is as pleasant to your eyes as it is to your ears. Designed by Nathan Young from Singapore, who has been designing different products also to multinational companies. Beautiful and minimalistic product was also noted in Wallpaper magazine last autumn.
Cobo is the result of a table- or bedside table lamp stripped down to it’s bare bones, where the design is inspired by harsh Finnish nature. Colors: red chili, white snow and smoke grey. Designed by Sebastian Sandelin. More pics after the jump.
Symbol Coat Rack
This playful but sophisticated coat rack was the result of a domestic argument. We were out of closet space, and the coats were overflowing. But Emily and I had an aversion to wall hooks – empty and unattractive many months out of the year. We created the Symbol, a practical object we’re happy to look at year-round.
During the coatless summer months the Symbol hangs as a purely aesthetic piece, as the hooks lay flat and belie their function. When needed, the hooks pull smoothly out to help you organize your stuff. Available in monochrome aluminum, or in white with vibrant anodized colors. A product by Desu design.
What is time for you?
“Time is never time at all…” Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins leader) sing in Tonight Tonight. He is right, time is not just a count, time is a philosophical concept in everyone’s life and also an aesthetic concept. Diamantini&Domeniconi agree with this and the factory has created a series of clocks inspired by different ideas: time is running out as men or butterflies, time as a perfect circle, time as coloured design or time as nature element. A lot of models are available on the web site, find your personal way to express your time.
Vega Lamp
Einstein described gravity as a wraping of space-time around a massive object. This lamp is a translation of the general principle of relativity, the fabric is curved under the mass of the bulb. The shape of the lamp is a geometrical consequence of the nature of the materials used. Its function is the equivalent of a domestic star.
Vega Lamp is a project by Alice Rossignoli.
Bellato Rotor
Rotor is a minimalist low table with rotating tops: its cool decoration furniture for large or small space “simultaneously reflect modern and contemporary lifestyle”. Upper and lower tops are fixed, three central rotate 360° for various configurations.Designed by Luciano Bertoncini for Bellato, Rotor is available in various finishes: entirely wengé, or bleached oak, ebony, white laminate with edges in wengé, all black laminate or “Acrilux” highgloss in white, red, grey with edges in bleached oak or wengé. Rotor table is a wonderful piece of furniture perfect for modern living room. Available at owo.
Xmas Gifts Picks: Rocket Design
Have you got some friends crazy for the music? Rocket design collection could help you to find a nice gift for them. The concept of the collection was born between London and Milan by the italian designer Marco Fanelli & Luca Bregoli: quality made in Italy and inspiration from East End district focused on indie scene and rock’n'roll icons! An hanger like an old equalizer (€ 98) or a surrealistic shelf named “Smash it” (€160) in memory of the destroyed guitars on the stage by Jimi Hendrix. Coasters (€29) like vintage vinyls and napkin rings (€29) as dj’s headphones.
All pieces are available on Yoox, find the complete collection following the link: yoox.com/selection.asp?name=rocket
Mendes-Hirth woodworking
The Brazilians Fernando Mendes de Almeida and Roberto Hirth are studied industrial designers and trained carpenters. A few years ago Mendes and Hirth founded their own design studio. Whilst Roberto Hirth is a descendent of the furniture producing family Laubisch-Hirth, renowned in South America, Fernando Almeida worked for over seven years as the “right-hand man” to Brazilian design guru Sergio Rodrigues (design classics such as the “Mole Chair”). A deep understanding and love of the unique raw material wood is impressively combined in their furniture pieces with technical know-how and a richly traditional understanding of design.
Their low-key workshop in Rio de Janeiro with its five employees is a creative forge for contemporary Brazilian furniture design. In an age of mass production the two Brazilians and their staff take their own alternate route: Every chair and every table is produced in a painstaking and individual process, which requires numerous days and makes each item of furniture a small piece of art.
Bonaldo Tree
L’ appendiabiti Tree di Bonaldo è sicuramente una originale alternativa all’appendiabiti standard. Disegnato da Mario Mazzer, è realizzato in polietilene colorato in massa attraverso la procedura dello stampaggio rotazionale. Un disco di acciaio nella base gli dà robustezza e stabilità. Tree , che come il nome suggerisce, è una moderna raffigurazione del bucolico albero, è disponibile in vari colori in massa (rosso, arancio, bianco, verde e antracite) e laccati ( oro, argento, bianco, nero) e può essere usato singolarmente o in composizione. Un pezzo di design colorato e divertente, capace di illuminare qualsiasi ambiente: a partire dalla camera dei bambini fino a arrivare a sdrammatizzare un living serioso o l’ingresso di un ufficio. In vendita da SoloAltoDesign.
