About design influence : design : a universal code ?
At the moment when
the museum of Architecture honors ALVAR
AALTO with an exhibition showing his contribution
in the history of design, let's discover the work of the stars of design
through some universally recognized iconic objects, as well as the ambassadors
of design or new emerging names and which will be the classic signatures of
tomorrow
The museum presents a large retrospective of the Vitra Design Museum and the Alvar Aalto Museum, (Finland).
It brings together an exceptional selection of its main architectural achievements and its iconic design pieces. Thirty years after the last major French retrospective, this exhibition realized in partnership with the Alvar Aalto Foundation traces, through nearly 150 works (models, drawings, historical and contemporary photographs) largely presented for the first time in France,the milestones fifty years of activity of the architect since the first Finnish projects of the 1920s to the international development of the agency. While the sanatorium of Paimio (1929-1933), the villa Mairea (1938-1939) and the Finnish pavilion of the New York World's Fair (1939) put it in the forefront of the modern architectural scene, Alvar Aalto profoundly original way reconciling functionalist principles and humanistic aspirations.
Through examples of furniture, lighting and historical glasswork, his research restores
a thought and a work that places man and his perceptions at the heart of the creative
process.It brings together an exceptional selection of its main architectural achievements and its iconic design pieces. Thirty years after the last major French retrospective, this exhibition realized in partnership with the Alvar Aalto Foundation traces, through nearly 150 works (models, drawings, historical and contemporary photographs) largely presented for the first time in France,the milestones fifty years of activity of the architect since the first Finnish projects of the 1920s to the international development of the agency. While the sanatorium of Paimio (1929-1933), the villa Mairea (1938-1939) and the Finnish pavilion of the New York World's Fair (1939) put it in the forefront of the modern architectural scene, Alvar Aalto profoundly original way reconciling functionalist principles and humanistic aspirations.
Through examples of furniture, lighting and historical glasswork, his research restores
a thought and a work that places man and his perceptions at the heart of the creative
Gae AULENTI and the PIPISTRELLO lamp : a global success !
A cult object of design, the Pipistrello lamp was created by Gae Aulenti in 1965.
This lamp with its lampshades resembles a bat, which means pipistrello in Italian.
It is a table or floor lamp with diffuse light. A telescopic stainless steel system adjusts
its height (66-86 cm). The diffuser is in white opal methacrylate and the base in white
or dark brown lacquered metal. Mythical and exhibited in major museums around the world,
Pipistrello is one of those objects that constitute our universal heritage.
Original model from 1965, made in Italy by the Martinelli Luce factory.
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To discover urgently the subtle and almost museum selection of the new Gallery A1043 G
RUE DE MONTMORENCY, opened in September 2016, by the artist Didier Jean Anicet
Courbot and the architect Stéphanie Courbot
The Tulip chair
designed by Saarinen, benches by Bertoia and Akari lamps by Noguchi are icons
created respectively by an architect and two sculptors. A1043 being founded by
an artist and a landscape architect, they are particularly intrigued by these
creators who test the boundaries of their conventional practices. If previously
mentioned creators developed their projects with manufacturers, others, by
choice or lack of opportunity, abandoned their productions at the prototype
phase or small-scale production. Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Sonia
Delaunay, Sophie Tauber Arp, Donald Judd, Franz West and Jorge Pardo, to
mention the most famous, are among the artists who, at one point in their
careers, for artistic, practical or simply financial reasons, designed
utilitarian objects. We are, of course, familiar with seats designed by Judd
and West but less so, for example, with lamps by Brancusi, Calder and Sonia
Delaunay.
At a time when
some designs borrow manufacturing, production and exhibition procedures from
contemporary art, A1043 presents a selection of objects in the Borders
exhibition by creators who do not usually fall within the scope of design or
toying with its limits. They are artists, graphic designers or even gallery
owners. These objects are at the boundary of design, decorative arts and
contemporary art. They share a diverse language that prevents them from
belonging to a single discipline and at the same time perhaps open up
perspectives for a new category of objects. Planted in the ground, Tony Cragg’s
garden tools become sculptures. Lawrence Wiener’s office waste bin becomes a
sculpture positioned in the white and sterile gallery environment. Borders is
an opportunity to discover and rediscover objects that disappeared prematurely
or were insufficiently displayed.
Anne Chistine,
Pierre,( MARAIS DECORATION) has also chosen the talent of DIMORE STUDIO:
Emiliano Salci and
Britt Moran are formed as part of family-friendly businesses, as they visit a
joint project in Shangai mark the beginning of a collaboration involving DIMORE
STUDIO. With their unique
dual branding, their visual identity provides simple and sophisticated interior
designs in a subtle cocktail that offers a poetic vision and a personal style
How not to fall in love with the glamorous and
structured world of INDIA MAHDAVI ?
India Mahdavi is
the reigning queen of color. “It’s the best way to bring sunshine into a
space,” says the Paris-based interior designer. “Sunshine is happiness, and my
work is about happiness.” Her daring clients clamor for more. “They aren’t
looking for mainstream,” Mahdavi explains.
Mahdavi attributes
her love of color to her Irano-Egyptian heritage and cosmopolitan childhood.
Born in Tehran, she was raised in America, Germany, and France. During college
her studies kept her moving, from Paris’s École des Beaux-Arts to New York’s
School of Visual Arts and Parsons, before she settled in the French capital to
work as artistic director for Christian Liaigre. “Location is the starting
point for all my projects,” she says. “Each fits one location, one client. So
they are all like couture pieces.”
After seven years
with Liaigre, she set out on her own in 1999 and now oversees a studio,
showroom, and shop—all within a few doors of one another on the rue Las Cases.
Awarded France’s
Officier des Arts et des Lettres last year, Mahdavi is still slightly under the
radar Stateside, though her spirited line of furnishings can be found at the
New York-based Ralph Pucci International. But she predicts her bold
aesthetic sense is where the zeitgeist is headed. “After decades of beige and
white, Europeans are finally bringing color back into their living rooms,”
Mahdavi says. “I think America is probably ready, too.”
Jaime Hayon has been a guest speaker at the Innovation by Design Conference.
The event was organized by the Singapore Design Week 2016.
Jaime Hayon was named Best Interior Designer by the prestigious
magazine Fuera de Serie. The ceremony took place in Santa Coloma’s Palace
in Madrid, where nine luminaries from different fields were also awarded.
The “People of the Year Award” recognises Hayon as
a leading figure in Interior Design.
Jaime Hayon has been
selected as one of the most 200 important influencers in the design industry
according to Wallpaper
Magazine‘s Power List.
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