Japanese designer Kouichi Okamoto of Kyouei Design has created the Composition Chair.
It was created by bending aluminium wire and crossing it one by one.
No bolts or welding is used at all.
The tools used for this design are only a jig and a pair of pliers.
Visit the Kyouei Design website – here.
Blasen Landscape Architecture have won an Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for their work on a residence in California’s Napa Valley. The jury for the 2009 Professional Awards considered nearly 600 entries from around the world and selected 49 projects for recognition.
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Wallflower Architecture have recently completed the Six Ramsgate Residence in Singapore.
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The first UK Restaurant and Bar Design Awards event was recently held in London. From a shortlist that included Home House by Zaha Hadid, Paramount by Tom Dixon and 1707 by David Collins, Carbon Bar by B3 Designers was voted as the best designed bar.
Visit the B3 Designers website – here. Visit the Carbon Bar website – here.
Pascal Arquitectos have designed the recently completed Nisha Lounge Bar in Acapulco, Mexico.
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Stefano Bigi has designed the Infinity tables for Italian manufacturer Porada.
The tables feature a never-ending sinuous stream of wood that hold up a glass tabletop.
Visit the Porada website – here. Visit Stefano Bigi’s website – here.
British designer Ross Lovegrove has created the Andromeda lamp for Yamagiwa.
From the designer:
Andromeda is an artificial structure for capturing artificial light.
Emerging from the concept of Netification; the reduction of physical mass through selective perforation across a pre defined form; the concept floats more as a diatomic sea creature in the free ocean of space. It floats in a state of apparent anti gravity, capturing its light within to graphically delineate a structural net as a soft external shadow of itself. The light that is emitted from its LED clusters is reflected back into itself via mirrors orientated to maximise their output and to freely distribute a very pure light. It becomes the source of ambient light within a room, vesting gentle forms like large roots onto adjacent surfaces to form extended relationships onto and into architectural dimensions.
The piece is moulded from a single material as a unified white Botanical, aquatic organism to softly implant a sense of nature into the spaces we inhabit.
Visit the Yamagiwa website – here. Visit Ross Lovegrove’s website – here.
Los Angeles based Marmol Radziner & Associates have won an Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for their work on the Vienna Way Residence in Venice, California. The jury for the 2009 Professional Awards considered nearly 600 entries from around the world and selected 49 projects for recognition.
Project Statement:
The design of the Vienna Way landscape fully integrates the residence within the surrounding California native landscape. The architecture and landscape were designed to work in unison, creating a seamless transition between the interior and exterior living spaces. The element of water links a “corridor” of exterior spaces—swimming pool, garden roof, riparian planting — and intersects with the interior spaces at the sunken kitchen.
The Tel Aviv, Israel based designer Arik Ben Simhon is known for bold design pieces which reference the fashions of contemporary culture and sport. This year’s new collection draws inspiration from the world of sport with shapes that reference the protective sportswear/pads
used in hockey and skateboarding as well as polished tubular stainless steel structures inspired
by gym equipment.
Visit Arik Ben Simhon’s website – here.
The Mentallys Sofa:
Yukio Hashimoto has designed the Moonbird lamps for Japanese lighting manufacturer Yamagiwa.
Visit the Yamagiwa website – here. Visit Yukio Hashimoto’s website – here.
Italian designer Antonino Sciortino has created the Inchino floor lamp for Busnelli.
Visit the Busnelli website – here. Visit Antonino Sciortino’s website – here.
Here’s some photos of what Quinze & Milan exhibited at the 2009 Salone del Mobile show.
Visit the Quinze & Milan website – here.
The Lisbon, Portugal based Camarim Architects have designed a tropical house, located in the fishermen’s village of Mundaú in the state of Ceará, in Northeast Brazil.
Visit the Camarim Architects website – here.
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British designer John Alfredo Harris has created the Golgi Chair.
Harris, who lives and works between Paris and London, has crafted the chair from reclaimed timber and timber that comes from well managed forests, featuring a mahogany frame with an interwoven leather hide seat.
Harris says:
Through my work I aim to have a lasting impact on the way in which people view old and unusable timber and to make a more creative and ecological contribution to the major issue of recycling, deforestation and the future preservation of the planet
Visit the website of John Alfredo Harris – here.
Samuel Accoceberry has designed the Suga Tables for the France based manufacturer Élitis.
Suga is a line of low tables handcrafted of polyester resin-coated fiberglass. The glossy lacquered finish is available in different colors, and the top can be either lacquered or stained glass.
Visit the Élitis website – here. Visit Samuel Accoceberry’s website – here.
