Campana brothers: Blow up – bamboo collection for Alessi
To celebrate more than five years of collaboration, Alessi and the Campana brothers present Blow up – Bamboo collection. Until now, the pieces were only available in stainless steel, but this new version is made from hand finished natural bamboo. This shift from cold to warm materials not only emphasizes manual skills, but also pays hommage to the campanas’ and alessi’s methods of production.
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Helping Is Good For The Soul – Design Museum Tea Towel
Our very own high quality 100% cotton Tea-towels, designed by Build for the Design Museum Shop. These 100% cotton tea towels are hemmed on all sides and have a fabric hanging loop woven in the corner. Made in the UK. A handy and helpful Design Museum Shop item!
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I Love Design Mug from Design Museum Shop
Love Design? Love coffee? Quite fancy a tea? No problem. Each mug has a design on the front, the back and the base, so whether you are left handed or right handed, you can still let people know you are a design afficionado who enjoys a fine brew. A satisfying Design Museum Shop item, designed by Build, made in the UK.
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Dancing vases by Robin van Hontem
Five unique pieces are Robin van Hontem’s collection of vases that look more like a familiar toy: the spinning top. The name, “Dancing Vases” derives from the motion of the spinning top, which looks like a dancing ballerina practicing her pirouettes. Van Hontem has successfully completed his Product Design course at the Academy of fine Arts in Maastricht, Netherlands, just two months ago. The “spinning vases” was his final project at school and from the way he describes it, his passion for his work becomes obvious.
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The Moulding tradition of Formafantasma
Tradition can be a heavy weight and at the same time it can be the strongest source of inspiration. It’s the same with history, politics or love. Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin from Formafantasma have combined all the aforementioned and have managed to leave us openmouthed with their Moulding tradition series. Their inspiration comes from the baroque Caltagirone district of Sicily, famous for its ceramics and the purported local tradition. More specifically, the core was a Sicilian artwork called “teste di moro”. These are copies of vases of the 17th century that display the face of a native African- or Arab-looking man or woman. These artifacts refer to a period of Sicilian history when Arab-African people conquered Sicily. Due to this invasion the tradition of majolica started in Italy and later in other European countries.
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Bizarre ceramics by Sam Baron for Sisley
Fabrica, the Benetton group’s communication research center, will participate in ExperimentaDesign, the international Biennale of design creativity and culture to be held in Lisbon from September 10th to November 11th with Bizarre, a collection of ceramics designed by Sam Baron/Fabrica for Sisley and Take Your Time, an exhibition at the space Fabrica Features Lisboa. (more…)
Gold by Arik Levy
This doorstop and paperweight may look like a gold brick, but is actually made using aluminum, cast iron and steel. The product was created by designer Arik Levy for the french company Edition Nouveaux Objets (E.N.O.). The brick has the iconic form of gold bouillon with an official looking stamp on the top. The piece is made using a mixture of metal with a thin gold plating on the outside. The accessory is perhaps evocative of the world’s financial situation prior to its recent collapse. Looks can be very deceiving, so holding your door open with this brick may garner a few looks.
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OBJECTS of Sound by NOCC studio
Object of sound from paris based studio NOCC is a collection of objects consisting of a candle-holder, a lampshade, and a vase. The profil of the sound is shaped into a 3d form and become the object of it’s sound. The actual shapes are NOCC’s voices but the idea behind this is that every person with it’s unique voice can originate it’s own shape. “Object of sound” pieces are produced using rapid manufacturing technology. Thanks to this technology every object can be produced individually.
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Bottino Vases by Agnes Fries
Ceramicist Agnes Fries has created the Bottino series of vases, three of which will be put into production in Autumn 2009 by the Danish ceramics company Kähler. This series of vases is inspired by fishing floats and first came to life during a trip to China, where the technique of overglaze painting porcelain truly is mastered. Playing around with geometrical shapes and graphic decorations resulted in different shapes and patterns. Standing side by side they form new shapes and patterns.
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Continue Time by Sander Mulder
While moving to a new house our clock was damaged severely in transport, to a point where it’s minutes- and seconds pointer fell of the central axis, and where just laying in the transparent bubble cover. Witnessing the random patterns that occurred with the hour pointer still rotating, the first concept for the Continue Time clock was born. (more…)
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