Ich werde heute über die Designgeschichte schreiben, denn ich denke dass das sehr interessant ist für euch Leser, denn wir schreiben viel über Design.

In der vorindustriellen Geschichte gab es keine wirklichen Designer. Diese kamen erst nach der Industrialisierung, denn die Firmen brauchten einen Prototypen von dem was herrstellen also musste jemand diesen entwerfen oder besser gesagt designen. Meistens haben Künster diese Aufgabe übernommen, denn sie hatten eine gute räumliche Vorstellung und konnten sich in den Geschmack von den anonymen Kunden hineinverstetzen.

John Flaxman war einer der ersten “Designer” sozusagen. Er kam aus London und war Bildhauer. Dann arbeitete er für die Geschirrfabrik Wedgewood.

Um 1840 gab es in Manchester ca. 500 dieser “Designer”. In anderen Ländern aber auch, wie zum Beispiel Deutschland. Michael Thonet fing auch an zu designen.

Reform der Romantiker

Nach einer Zeit gab es aber immer wieder Kritik, denn es war nicht jedem sein Geschmack was dort gerade hergestellt wurde. Also kam in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts das erste “Journal of Design” raus.

Dann gab es noch Henry Cole, ein Engländischer Staatsbeamter aus London, der etwas gegen die Geschamcksverirrung moderner Designer tun wollte. Er war der Gründungsdirektor des South Kensington Museums, welches jetzt das Victoria and Albert Museum ist.

Durch die Maschinen gibt es eine viel größere Masse an Ware dadruch gibt es keinen eigenen Stil, weil die Menschen die Ware nicht mehr Hand herstellen daruch alle Sachen gleich sind und es nicht mit Herz hergestellt wurde.

1851 gab es die 1. Great Exhibition Weltausstellung und diese war ein Design Projekt. Daraus entstand dann später das Victoria & Alber Museum, der sogenannte Archetyp aller Designmuseen.

Ein Deutscher Architekt namens Gottfried Semper hielt die Great Exhilition für misslunge. Deshalb begann er in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhundert ein Programm durchzusetzen. Daraus entstand der Beginn des moderenen Industriedesigns.

In der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts bildete sich eine Gruppe um William Morris, ein britischer Architekt, Maler und Dichter. Dieser machte den Kapitalismus für die Hässlichkeit seiner Zeit verantwortlich.Er wollte, dass alles wieder so wird wie vor der Industrialisierung. Das Mittelalter gab ihm sein Ideal und er machte eine alternativ Bewegung.

Diese alternativ Bewegung hieß Arts and Crafts aus diesen gründeten sich Gilden und Künstlerkolonien. Arts and Crafts inspirierte die Suche nach Ehrlichkeit und dem Echten.

Morris hatte eine Entfremdungstaktik, mit der er eine romantische Rebellion auslöste. (ähnlich wie Karl Marx) Er hatte eine antikapitalistische Version und diese wollte er international verbreiten. Das Magazin, “the Studio”, der Gruppe, haben viele Zivilisationsmüde Künstler gelesen.

Moderner Design (die Entstehung)

Es entstand eine Subkultur in Deutschland, die sich mit den Phänomenen der Moderne verbunden fühlten. Unter diesen Phänomenen der Moderne war auch modernen Design. Um 1900 haben sich “Werkstätten” gebildet, die Möbel und Einrichtungsgegenstände reformieren.

Die “Deutschen Werkstätten” waren sehr erfolgreich. Richard Riemerschmid, ein Kunstprofessor, der in München geboren wurde, war einer der Gestalter. Er hatte schlichte Möbel, die sich auch noch “Maschienenmöbel” nannten, die sich sehr gut verkauften. Auf vielen Ausstellungen in verschiedenen Ländern fand das “Neues Wohnen” made in Germany Aufmerksamkeit.

Design war also erst seit nach der Industrialisierung ein Thema. Wie man sieht hat nicht jeder den gleichen Geschmack aber darüber lässt sich streiten.

Wenn sie mehr über die Designgeschichte lesen wollen schauen sie auf : http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designgeschichte nach.

Quelle: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designgeschichte

Von: Ann-Kathrin Theischen (Praktikantin)

I think this looks awesome. Also it is a bit of the style we have in our store. It is a simple object there is nothing much with it (actually it is just a tent so there are just tent pegs, the tent material and the other stuff a normal tent has.) but it is made with creativity so it got something special.

Source: http://www.thecoolhunter.net/design

1900-1909: The Thonet brothers designed this chair 1900 and it`s called Schreibtischfauteuil Nr. 9 better know as “Wiener Sessel”.         It is made of beechwood which just got bended and with nothing else. It is really a masterpiece.

1910-1919: Josef Gočár made a wardrobe which is called Glasschrank. He made it in 1913 and it doesn`t look like a normal wardrobe but thats what makes it special.

1920-1929: 1927 Eileen Gray designed a table which is called Adjustatable table.It`s made of glas and steel pipe. She got inspired for the table from Marcel Breuers. It`s her most known furniture.

1930-1939: Christian Dell made a lamp called 6631 Luxus in year 1934. It look old, maybe because it is but it`s really nice and classical. In the fifties it was the popularest lamp in germany.

1940-1949: 1947 the Peacock got born. Who is the father? Hans Wegner designed this chair. I really like it and it looks comfortable. It is a variation of the classical english Windsor chair.

1950-1959: Marshmellow isn`t that something to eat? Yes indeed but it is also a couch from George Nelson who created the delicious furnitur 1956. “It`s not really comfortable but it looks funny”, said the magazine.

1960-1969: Eero Aarnio made a bubble. A bubble chair and he designed it in 1968. It looks really nice like a bubble as the name says. The magazine says that it`s good to have a quiet zone.

1970-1979: This armchair looks so luxury, but when you see the colours of the fabric blind than it`s more childish but in a good way. I really like it.

1980-1989: FNP from Axel Kufus is a bookshelf which got designed in 1989. It`s actually just a simple bookshelf but it has something special and I really don`t know what it is.

1990-1999: Bookworm from Ron Arad was the best thing i saw in the magazine. This is art! It looks good and funny and I would buy it if i would see it anywere in a store.

2000-2009: I wound a really cool lamp in the magazine. It got designed by Front and it`s called Horse Lamp. Front is a group of women and they asked in their academic studies other people what are their favorit things. They found out that they have a big connection to figurativ things. So they made the horse lamp.

Source: A&W Special 1/2012 111 Design-Ikonen aus 11 Dekaden             Written by: Ann-Kathrin Theischen (Intern)

There are a lot of known brands like HAY and Montana. But they are just examples, there are much more.

Well here are a few facts to scandinavian design became in the fifties. The scandinavien countrys sweden, norway, denmark and finnland in created it and it is bassed on minimalism and formality. The thought behind it was, that it should be really cheap. Also a brand nearly everybody know is IKEA which is a sweden furniture brand. It is really cheap but the quality is okay. The furniture we sell here in Reed and Simon is more expencive but it is better quality and top designers designed them so you have really hip furniture.

Im going to poste some of the furniture we have in stock here and they are on sale!!

Little Tulip from Artifort SOLD HERE IN REED AND  SIMON STORE!!

Tulip from Artifort SOLD HERE IN REED AND SIMON STORE!!

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skandinavisches_Design

The designers of Flos are Achille Castiglioni, Antonio Citterio, Edward Barber, Gino Sarfatti, Jasper Morrison, Jay Osgerby, Joris Laarman, Konstantin Grcic, Laurene Leon Boym, Marc Newson, Marcel Wanders, Marcello Ziliani, Paolo Rizzatto, Patricia Urquiola, Philippe Starck, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Piero Lissioni (also designs a lot of stuff for Living Divani), Ron Gilad, Sebastian Wrong, Tim Derhaag, Tobia Scarpa, Johanna Grawunder, Knud Holscher, Jorge Herrera and R. & E. Boutoullec.

Flos won the Good Design Arward for lighting with their Kelvin LED light which designed Antonio Citterio.

Here is a picture of it.

I think the light is really nice, it is not classic but it is made easy and it looks great on a desk. You can also buy it in white.

Also Flos has a new store in Los Angeles, Carlifornia. They are really exited because LA is a really popular place where many celebritys live and go shopping so maybe someone known is coming to their store.

Source: http://www.flos.com/Int-de-GoodDesign

They also have goals I am going to list here:

- They want to reduce the energy use in the year 2013 up to 20% less than in year 2006 (messured by men per year for students and co-worker)

- They want to reduce the CO2 emissions up to 20% less than in year (messured by men per year for students and co-worker)

- Until the end of 2009 all the buyings will be based in agreement to sale and until 2013 75% of the buyings over agreements to sale will be presuppose to sustainabiliy.

- The University of Copenhagen will develop guidelines for physical planning and will account for the sustainability of all physical plans and projects.

 The interior decoration is from Montana, a danish disign company.

I am going to post some picture below.

Source: http://greenlighthouse.ku.dk/english/

You can also make a charter holiday with it which costs 646.000 US doller per week. Thats a lot of money, you could buy 61 compact cars of 10.500 US dollar.

The disigner of the yacht is Design Studio Spadolini of Florence.

I put some pictures here so you can see the yacht it is huge and awesome!

Source: http://www.thecoolhunter.net/design

We blog about HAY because we have this brand new in stock. Actually not really new but since the last time we blogged we got it in.

HAY is a danish design brand and its really colourful. It`s not classic, as all the other stuff in our reed and simon store, and it freshes up every room.

The furniture and the accesoires are made simple with not much material but also with a lot of creativity and love to the design.

On the webside www.apartmenttherapy.com they wrote about the maison & object. They said that HAY didn`t dissapointed them. Expecialy the boxes (photo in the blog) they liked really much.

Sources: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/the-latest-from-paris-maison-objet-highlights-maison-objet-2012-164795 ,

http://hay.dk/#/site/news/milano2011after

vibe of the 1950s is not a fake as it has a great storied past and its stories are based on real life, real events,

real personalities.

source: thecoolhunter.net

Haus FK Schmerikon

Der MINERGIE®-certifizierte Neubau sitzt an einem Südhang mit  bester Aussicht auf den Obersee und die Glarner Alpen. Die Inszenierung der grandiosen Aussicht bestimmt den Grundriss und das Gesicht des Hauses.

Drei Geschosse mit drei verschiedenen  – aus der Funktion abgeleiteten – Raumkonzepten, sind harmonisch miteinander verbunden. Fliessende Grenzen zwischen Innen und Aussen ermöglichen einen vielschichtigen Lebensraum für die achtköpfige Familie.
Das Haus bietet Raum zum Wohnen, Spielen, Lesen, Kochen, Entspannen und zum Empfangen von Gästen - sowohl für die Kinder als auch für die Eltern.
Ein wichtiges Kriterium des Bauherren ist die optimale Ausnützung der Aussicht unter gleichzeitiger Wahrung der Privatsphäre. Das zweigeschossige Haus mit Attika ist dank seiner Hanglage von der Strasse her kaum einsehbar. Der lange, schmale Baukörper liegt parallel zum Hang. Dies ermöglicht u.a., das Haus möglichst hoch zu setzen, die Panoramasicht über die Nachbarbauten hinweg zu sichern.
Das Haus ist in Kindergeschoss (EG), Wohngeschoss (OG) und Elterngeschoss (Attika) gegliedert.
Der Hauptzugang zum Haus findet über die östliche Aussentreppe statt. Man tritt auf ein Zwischenpodest in die zweigeschossige grosszügige Eingangshalle, welche über ein grosses Nordfenster beleuchtet wird. Die Halle ist nicht nur Auftakt, sondern auch die räumliche und akustische Verbindung zwischen Kindergeschoss und Wohngeschoss. Die Treppe führt in den Wohnbereich mit offener Küche. Erst jetzt offenbart sich die einmalige Aussicht.
Das Wohngeschoss ist durch einen mit Holz verkleideten Körper - in welchem sich die dienenden Räume befinden - und durch den Verlauf der Glasfront in verschiedene Bereiche gegliedert. Auf derselben Ebene - gleichsam ins Wohnzimmer geschoben - liegt der Swimmingpool.
Über die teilweise gedeckte Terrasse und die Anordnung des Pools entsteht ein fliessender Übergang zwischen Innen und Aussen.
Die breite Freitreppe verbindet Wohn- und Kindergeschoss im Aussenbereich.
Die fünf Kinderzimmer im Erdgeschoss haben über eine Porch den direkten Bezug zur Spielwiese. Ein dickes Heckenkissen rahmt und schützt den privaten Aussenraum. Das Kinderbad und die Spielzone im Erdgeschoss sind über einen hangseitigen Bambushof belichtet.

Im zurückgesetzten Attikageschoss liegt der Privatbereich der Eltern. Er ist in drei auf die grosse Terrasse ausgerichtete Nischen gegliedert, welche das Büro, den Schlafbereich und das Bad beinhalten.

Die Garage ist vom Haus getrennt und nur durch einen Schacht mit dem Wohnhaus verbunden. Dieser Schacht ermöglicht den späteren Einbau eines Liftes und ist bis dahin mit einer Wendeltreppe ausgerüstet, die lediglich von der Garage ins EG führt.

Das Haus ist MINERGIE certifiziert.

Parzellenfläche: 825 m2

Geschossfläche: 330 m2

Projektierung: ab Okt 2005
Ausführung: 2007
Bezug: Mai 2008

In Zusammenarbeit mit
Pierre Robin, Architekt HTL SIA

Umgebungskonzept:
Rotzler Krebs Partner GmbH Landschaftsarchitekten BSLA>>
 
Schreinerarbeiten, Küche:
Odermatt Ideen-Schreinerei>>

Fotos:
Dominique Marc Wehrli>>

SOURCE: http://www.muellertruniger.ch/index.php/mt/Projekte/Wohnen/Haus-FK-Schmerikon

Die Kunst des Webens, der Herstellung von Teppichen und Textilien aus Naturfasern, ist eine der ältesten kulturellen Aktivitäten des Menschen. Heute geht die Aufwertung der Natur zur Kultur über viele Stufen, von der Fasergewinnung über die Garnherstellung zum Weben.

Bei Ruckstuhl verstehen wir uns auf die Kunst, aus Naturwerten Kulturwerte zu schaffen. Für uns ist es dabei wichtig, dass die Natur erhalten und gesund bleibt. Denn das Wohlbefinden, das dem Menschen durch eine sinnvolle Kultivierung einer gesunden Natur ermöglicht wird, ist durch nichts zu übertreffen.

 source: www.ruckstuhl.com

CLAUDY JONGSTRA FOR RUCKSTUHL 2010

DEBORAH MOSS FOR RUCKSTUHL 2010

ALFREDO HAEBERLI FOR RUCKSTUHL

 HUGO ZUMBOEHL FOR RUCKSTUHL 2010

JUTTA BERNHARD FOR RUCKSTUHL 2010

www.carlhansen.com

The founder and first-generation owner, Carl Hansen, was a master cabinetmaker who made furniture to order as well as in small series. He opened his first workshop in Odense, Denmark, on October 28, 1908.

The company entered a second generation of growth when the founder’s son, Holger Hansen, took over the reins from his father. A master cabinetmaker himself, Holger Hansen understood the making of quality furniture from the ground up. He was also quick to discover a new breed of young Danish furniture designers that were coming onto the scene after WWII – including the then relatively unknown Hans J. Wegner.

The cooperation between Carl Hansen & Son and Hans J. Wegner began in 1949. Wegner, who trained as a master cabinetmaker before he became a designer, worked closely with Holger Hansen and his team of craftsmen to find a way to bring Wegner’s daring designs into series production. The first models, including the legendary CH_24, “The Wishbone Chair”, were introduced in 1950.

Since then Carl Hansen & Son have crafted a wide range of other Wegner chairs and tables. Many of these have achieved status of as collectors’ items and design icons in their own right.

Today, Carl Hansen & Son is led by Knud Erik Hansen, grandson of the founder. The third-generation company now produces these enduring designs in a new, dedicated facility according to the strictest quality and environmental standards, with exports throughout the world

WISHBONE CHAIT CH24 1949

SHELL CHAIR CH07 1963

FROM SEPTEMBER 2007 TO MARCH 2008

ARNE JACOBSEN_ARCHITECT AND DESIGNER  ( 1902-1971 )

1902-71
Arne Jacobsen is the Danish architect who master the most personal and successful interpretation of the international functionalism. His architecture includes a considerable number of epochmaking buildings in both Denmark, Germany and Great Britain. Arne Jacobsen initially trained as a mason before studying architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Copenhagen, graduating in 1927.

From 1927 until 1930, he worked in the architectural office of Paul Holsoe. In 1930, he established his own design office, which he headed until his death in 1971, and worked independently as an architect, interior, furniture, textile and ceramics designer. He was proffessor of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts, Copenhagen, from 1956 onwards. His best known projects are St. Catherine´s College, Oxford, and the SAS Hotel, Copenhagen.

Arne Jacobsen´s designs came into existence as brief sketches and were then modelled in plaster or cardboard in full size. He kept on working until his revolutionary ideas for new furniture had been realized at the utmost perfection. The “Ant” from 1952 became the starting point of his world fame as a furniture designer and became the first of a number of lightweight chairs with seat and back in one oiece of moulded wood.

Model “3107″ from 1955 is often merely called ” The Number Seven Chair”. It was launched in beech, black and white. The colour scale has through the years been further developed by a.o. the Danish architect Verner Panton and the Danish painter Poul Gernes 1925-96 and today includes a variety of colours in lacquer or lazure as well as beech, maple, ash, and cherry. “3107″ has become the most important success in Danish furniture history - manufactured in more than 5 million copies.

The Royal Hotel 1956-61, situated in Copenhagen, is one of Arne Jacobsen´s masterpieces. For the decoration of the hotel he designed several pieces of furniture, lamps and fabrics, and also cutlery, glasses, and door handles. As significant counterpoints to the stiffly upright, monumental building his easy chair, the “Swan” and the “Egg”, stand out as organic sculptures.

During the 1960´es Arne Jacobsen turned to forms as the circle, cylinder, triangle, and cubus. On the whole, his mind as an architect began to influence his design. Both the stainless steel tableware set “Cylinda-Line” and the lamp series “AJ” reflect this. Common to all Arne Jacobsen´s designs is that they have become international design classics.

“The Ant” and “The Number Seven” ´chairs made Arne Jacobsen world famous as a furniture designer and made Fritz Hansen an international manufacturer of design and quality furniture. Fritz Hansen´s collection of timeless furniture includes both well-known Danish classics and more recent furniture series designed by Danish and international designers.

SOURCE_WWW.SCANDINAVIANDESIGN.COM

PETROL STATION_KYSTVEJEN 1936

DANISH NATIONAL BANK_1970

CITY HALL MAINZ_1973

THE EGG 1958

THE SWAN 1958

THE ANT 1952

LILY 1970

In the past few years, the award-winning, Brazilian-born architect’s Studio MK27 has produced a steady stream of low-rise, boxy work – all with an uncanny intimacy, yet without any of the usual stuffy treatments that supposedly create intimacy.At the Panama House, there are no cozy nooks, no soft furnishings, no homey touches. And yet, there is a feeling of comfort and livability in this art-gallery-of-a-house that makes you want to move in tomorrow.All levels of the three-storey house — including the bedrooms, office, gardens and patio — are used to display the owner’s substantial collection of predominantly modern Brazilian art and sculpture.Most beautifully, they also create the soft play of light that matches the overall linear shapes — created by creases in window treatments, the floor boards, the rows of pillows on long sofas, the stone work outside — continuing the elongated language of the entire building.

The São Paulo-born architect Marcio Kogan graduated from Mackenzie University in 1976 and created films until the age of 30. His considerable talents of creating drama, understanding a setting and leading the eye are certainly evident in the award-winning Panama House. -

SOURCE_WWW.THECOOLHUNTER.NET ARTICLE BYTuija Seipell

Our modern classics are collector’s items − not only the masterpieces of yesterday, but of tomorrow as well. We aim above all to produce individual pieces of great originality and formal perfection – pieces with the potential to become classics in their own right one day. Displaying the kind of value that lasts, these pieces are destined to become coveted investments for future generations.

ClassiCon has from its inception aspired not only to offer pieces by established figures such as Eileen Gray and Eckart Muthesius, but also to foster contemporary design and to present selected examples in its program. Naturally, the models chosen must display the kind of quality and advanced form that earns them the designation “classic”. That’s why ClassiCon is always open to new design ideas.

The ClassiCon brand stands for quality, individuality and a timeless aesthetic – regardless of passing fashions. More important than the degree of fame achieved by the designer is a demonstrated fascination with new formal concepts. This focus helps ClassiCon to continually discover exciting young designers. In the case of Konstantin Grcic, this has resulted in a longstanding collaboration, which the Munich designer took advantage of right from the start by including references to the iconic Eileen Gray in his Orcus secretary.

Eileen Gray - Her Life and Her Work

By Peter Adam

A comprehensive, richly illustrated study on the life and work of stalwartly independent interior designer Eileen Gray, a radical modernist who created icons of modern living. Largely forgotten
when peers like Le Corbusier were lionized as visionaries, she was rediscovered in the 1970s.

Eileen Gray - Her Life and Her Work By Peter AdamSchirmer/Mosel. 360 pages, 174 colour and duotone plates and 265 illustrations. Size: 25 x 29 cm, hardcovern. www.schirmer-mosel.com ISBN English edition: 978-3-8296-0420-8 Price: EURO 78,00 Now available in good selected bookstores.

 EILEEN GRAY

KONSTANTIN GRCIC

SERGIO RODRIGUES

BARBER OSGERBY

ROQUEBRUNE CHAIR_EILEEN GRAY

PALLAS TABLE_VENUS CHAIR_KONSTANTIN GRCIC

PARIS SHELF_BARBER OSGEBRY

LOTA COUCH_ST TROPEZ RUG_EILEEN GRAY

Boom boxes were introduced commercially by various companies in the late 1970’s, when stereo capabilities were added to existing designs of the radio-cassette recorder, which had appeared earlier that decade. More powerful and sophisticated models were subsequently introduced. They are often associated with 1980s phenomena such as breakdancing and hip hop culture, having been introduced into the mainstream consciousness through music videos, movies, television and documentaries. It was during this time that the major manufacturers competed as to who could produce the biggest, loudest, clearest-sounding, bassiest, flashiest and/or most novel boomboxes. As the decade progressed, manufacturers tended to compete more on price (often at the expense of quality), and smaller designs (often designed for simple background listening) became more popular. This era was prior to the introduction and cultural entrenchment of the Walkman style, personal stereos with headphones which would later displace boom boxes in popularity.

Features

Technically a Boombox is, at its simplest, two or more loudspeakers, an amplifier, a radio tuner, and a cassette and/or CD player component, all housed in a single plastic or metal case, often with a handle for portability. Most units can be powered by AC or DC cables, as well as batteries.

Various boombox designs differ greatly in size. Larger, more powerful units may require 10 or more size-D batteries, may measure more than thirty inches in width, and can weigh more than 20 pounds.

Audio quality and feature sets vary widely, with high-end models providing features and sound comparable to some home stereo systems. Most models offer volume, tone and balance (Left/Right) controls.

More sophisticated models may feature dual cassette decks (often featuring high-speed dubbing), separate bass level control, five- or 10-band graphic equalizers, Dolby noise reduction, analog or LED sound level (VU) meters, larger speakers, ’soft-touch’ tape deck controls, multiple shortwave (SW) band reception, auto song search functions for cassettes, Line and/or Phono inputs and outputs, microphone inputs, loudness switches and detachable speakers. A handful of models even featured an integrated vinyl record player or a (typically black and white) television screen, although the basic radio/cassette models have historically been by far the most popular.

A few of the most modern boomboxes have integrated (or removable) satellite radio tuners. Also in many cases with newer versions of the boombox, iPod docks have been put in place of cassette players, creating a fusion of new technology and old personality.

SOURCE_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boombox

SOURCE_http://www.afgh.ch

SOURCE_www.designaddict.com/exhibitions/paulin/

www.artifort.com

PIERRE PAULIN

LITTLE TULIP_1965

THE RIBBON CHAIR_1966

THE ORANGE SLICE_1960

TONGUE CHAIR_1967

In the form of unfurling petals, upholstered in brown leather, the frame in sculpted wood, lacquered brownish orange and silver and modelled as the serpentine, intertwined bodies of two dragons, their eyes in black lacquer on a white ground, their bodies decorated in low relief with stylised clouds.

The unique and remarkable ‘Dragons’ armchair was acquired from Miss Gray by Suzanne Talbot, the first patron to provide her with an opportunity to create a complete environment. The exotic, symbolist character of the piece situates it conceptually within the first phase of Miss Gray’s creative cycle. It aligns with the figurative panels and screens that can be traced to her first public exhibit in 1913 and the first published feature on her, in British Vogue, of 1917; it has an altogether different spirit from that evidenced in reductionist features such as the ‘brick’ wall panelling and screens that gave the Suzanne Talbot apartment so radically modern a character. The armchair distils all that was so personal and so magical in the first, intimately expressive phase of Miss Gray’s career — surprising, imaginative, subtly sculpted and crafted, it is a masterpiece of invention and execution.

SOURCE_www.theglamazondiaries.com/2009/02

Im Regal, auf dem Boden, auf einer Konsole, Licht auf Bilder - FALLING IN LOVE bietet viele Möglichkeiten. In der Ø 8cm großen Kugel sind neueste LEDs integriert, leistungsstark und mit bester Farbwiedergabe.
Es gibt sie in den Ausführungen aluminium poliert oder in schwarz, mit einer schwarzen oder gelben Zuleitung auf einem roten, blauen oder schwarzen Nest.

SOURCE_Architonic.COM ID 1075746

www.tobias-grau.com

www.montana.dk

Le quartier Buci est devenu un vaste goulet d’engorgement de piétons. On en fait des bouchons, des caillots, des chenilles, colonnes et autres figures à grappes. Parfois, ça n’avance plus. Alors, on s’arrête dîner, ­déjeuner un peu n’importe où, d’où le mélange assez cocasse mais pas loupé du Café Germain. Il y a là quelques éclairés du quartier se planquant sur les arrières, les touristes en terrasse, les VIP se faufilant, des couples en torpeur, quelques extravagants cherchant un public où se mirer, des familles exténuées. Tout cela bouge pas mal avec un va-et-vient fort intéressant.

MAIS ENCORE

Est-ce cher ? Pas franchement, c’est même une surprise : croque-monsieur à 8 €, volaille et frites à 14 €. Finalement, en picorant à trois, nous nous en sommes sortis à prix Buci : 117 €. Conforme au prix du mètre carré.

Faut-il y aller ? Bah, bof…

Café Germain, 25, rue de Buci, VIe. Tél. : 01 43 26 02 93

François Simon LE FIGARO-ECONOMIE
23/06/2009 

In Zusammenarbeit mit bekannten Designern und jungen Designtalenten entstehen bei Established & Sons signifikante und richtungsweisende Designs. Qualifiziertes Handwerkspersonal und neueste Fertigungstechniken sorgen für die Umsetzung der Entwürfe.

Seit der Einführung von Established & Sons im Jahr 2004 hat sich das Unternehmen zu einem der wichtigsten britischen Designunternehmen auf dem internationalen Markt entwickelt. Bei einem Blick auf das Sortiment wird schnell die weitreichende Bandbreite und Vielfalt der Produkte deutlich.

Von der “Crate” Serie eines Jasper Morrisons oder dem “Aqua Table” von Zaha Hadid über den “Convex” Spiegel von Sebastian Wrong oder dem “Writing Desk”von Michael Young bis hin zur “Fold” und “Tank” Leuchtenserie des Design-Newcomers Alexander Taylor verspricht das Sortiment von Established & Sons eine Menge Vielfalt und Innovationskraft

SOURCE_www.connox.de/hersteller/established-and-sons.html

FUTURE SYSTEMS

THE BOUROULLECS NEW SITTING OBJECT_THE QUILT

THE REEDANDSIMON PARTNERSHIP CONSISTED IN EXPOSING DESIGN FURNITURE AND TO PARTICIPATE

AT THE ARTIST INSTALLATIONS LIKE VOLUME MAGAZINE@GALERIE BEAUMONT..

Colophon 2011 should:

- Become “Colophon 2011 – 3rd International Independent Magazine Biennale of Luxembourg”

- Will a programme divided in three parts :
a three day symposium for experts, professionals and students including talks, markets and networking
a tour of magazine-related exhibitions on show for several weeks and months
a « Night of the Magazine » on the opening night of the symposium

- Make Luxembourg « The international gathering for the independent magazine industry »

- Invite Luxembourg’s main cultural institutions to become permanent and co-producing partners of the Biennale

- Invite international cultural institutions and organisations to become co-producing partners too
Colophon needs

- to become a permanent organisation linked through a convention to both the government of Luxembourg and the City of Luxembourg

- strong partnerships with private companies, embassies, organisations, etc.

SOURCE COLOPOHON2009.COM

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