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8 Jul

Scholten & Baijing

8 July, 2016
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Scholten & Baijing have been working together since 2000, with the creation of their studio; Stefan Scholten studied at the Eindhoven Design Academy, while Carole Baijings is self-taught. After the realization of several projects in which the boundaries between autonomous and applied work are perceived, in their subsequent works there is more interest in interior design up to be considered as one of the most interesting, innovative and dynamic duo in the field of world level.

Famous for their sensitive and discreet but functional products, their extraordinary and often unexpected use of color, their exquisitely made objects, they have applied their unique style in the most diverse sectors, from ceramics and silverware to fabrics and even to a concept car.

Scholten & Baijings have received numerous prestigious awards such as the Elle Decoration International Design Award (EDIDA) for Young Designer Talent 2011, the nomination for the Designer of the Year at the Wallpaper * Design Awards 2015 and the Oeuvre Sanoma Woon Awards 2014.

Their products and limited editions are exhibited in museums and galleries such as the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam. Their clients include many contemporary and experimental companies such as Maharam, Hay, Ikea, Karimoku New Standard, Georg Jensen, 1616 / Arita Japan, Moooi …

Based on extensive research on Arita ceramics and the analysis of local historical masterpieces, for example, Scholten & Baijings have created a series called colored porcelain. Typical Japanese colors, such as, for example, light green aquarelle-blue, red-orange and ocher, are recontextualized and applied in new combinations in a set of functional contemporary tableware that overall still reflect the typical Arita color spectrum, in a new and unedited refined and very contemporary image. The layered color compositions are carried out in various enamel textures and shades and are combined with the natural white of the porcelain itself. Made with a delicate sense of local craftsmanship, the color of the porcelain shows an original European perspective on the Japanese tradition.

This same approach has been used for many other materials such as wool, wood, glass, always looking for unusual combinations of colors, the result of stratifications and reflections and with an eye always turned to the Dutch tradition. From 2019 the two designers have decided to continue the work independently.

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8 Jul

RaR

8 July, 2016
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RAR is a studio founded in 2010 in Holland by two German artists, of very different generations, but united by the same course of study and the same passions: Beate Reinheimer and Ulrike Rehm.
Beate Reinheimer was born in 1943 and graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 1972, then holding many conferences at the same Academy for over 25 years; his ceramic works have been exhibited all over the world and are included in the permanent collection of the Boymans van Beuningen in Rotterdam and the Centraal Museum in Utrecht.
Urike Rehm was born in 1976 and graduated from the same Academy 25 years later and ended his study at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam in 2011. His work was exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and during the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven.
The two artists decided to combine passions and skills by starting to create some objects of great poetry, where Reinheimer’s long experience and recognized ability and skill are combined with the freshness and modernity of Rehm’s works.
The theme addressed is often that of vases or containers for flowers, where the flower itself becomes superfluous for the beauty of the object itself, to hang on the wall as a decorative element. Among the most interesting works of the two artists, a porcelain wall installation stands out: “Hain”: the collection consists of three tall porcelain trees combined with “mushrooms” and is glazed in semitransparent green. Mushrooms can be used as a display. The complete series was produced in a limited and numbered edition of 10. Three smaller sets are made in an edition of 99. “Hain”, the poetic German word for “forest”, originates from the designers’ fascination with the nature, art and architecture. This work combines the artistic structures of flora, the 17th and 18th century Wunderkammer and the previous use of consoles in a fascinating and magical object.
Another now iconic collection consists of more than 60 refined wall-beetle pots, all different, made and hand-painted, each numbered 1-30 in a limited edition: the beetles, each referring to a real existing insect, have become an object much desired by enthusiasts and collectors.

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8 Jul

Mauro Mori

8 July, 2016
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Mauro Mori was born in Cremona in 1965 and since his youth he travels a lot and expresses the perceptions of his travels through his innate manual creativity; his opportunity to meet people and cultures, different languages ??and unusual places provide the ideas on which his research is based and express themselves in his personalized functional and figurative forms.
The shapes are simple and elementary like the mold of the hand that creates them; the materials create his unique works by amplifying the natural heritage and enhancing what Nature has created. Precisely for these reasons, Mauro Mori’s works are modeled directly by the hands and not by the machines, therefore they bring emotional and emotional values, which become the added value and the fulcrum of the work itself.
Solid blocks of natural material, often worked in their places of origin, such as the Albizia Rosa marine wood of the Seychelles, natural or ebonized, or the Italian marble, handpicked and worked directly in Carrara, are the origins of the unique handmade forms . The plasticity of the materials, the reliefs on them and the desired and evident craftsmanship constitute the common thread that runs through all the designer’s work and reveals the desired shape through a process of subtraction. His work develops through the reading of symbols and symbolisms, sometimes drawn from everyday life and sometimes sought after in specific historical periods and geographical contexts and then translated into a contemporary and personal language. Research changes, transforming and maturing continuously: it alternates between induction and deduction, belongs to today and adapts to the daily life that surrounds everything and is constantly updated.
Mauro Mori’s works identify a luxury not ostentatious, but hidden in the material, without the need to adopt decorative or complex forms; a luxury that is celebrated in the preciousness of the natural material and the potential that, through the craftsmanship, are expressed in the best way.
The constant research and development is also demonstrated by the work on metals, which are worked in the form of slabs and finished with oxidations and patinas: iron, steel and copper, often rough and never polished are among the preferred metals, with which they are made specimens unique, like all the designer’s works.
In 1994 Mauro Mori starts his own business and in 1998 officially opens his atelier, Mauro Mori Studio. In 2004 Ferrero1947 dedicated a retrospective to him in his gallery in Turin, with unique pieces in pink Albizia, ebonized pink Albizia, steel and copper.

8 Jul

Maarten Baas

8 July, 2016
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Maarten Baas was born on 19 February 1978 in Arsberg in Germany and since 1979 has grown in Burgh-Haamstede and Hemmen located in the southwest of the Netherlands; after graduating from high school, he studied at the Design Academy of Eindhoven in 1996 and during his studies he became passionate about experimenting with materials and techniques to analyze the behavior of the materials themselves, which led him to the famous and iconic “Smoke” collection, consisting of furnishings, iconic and not, burnt through a particular process, which allows the forms to crystallize during combustion.

In 2005 Baas began collaborating with Bas den Herder, his production partner: most of his designs are handmade in the “DHPH” studio in Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. Other important collections such as in 2006 the “Clay Collection” are born from this relationship: chairs, tables, lamps, fans, coffee tables, armchairs… handmade in a particular mass-colored resin, with a surprising, almost childish and final effect temporary, like children’s objects; the success is enormous and launches the designer on the international panorama of the world of author design.

Bass becomes one of the most influential Dutch designers of the early 21st century, sought after by museums, private collectors and exclusive clients such as Louis Vuitton, Swarovski, Dior, Gramercy Park Hotel, Dom Ruinart and Berluti.

Maarten Bass is often described as an “author designer”, his works lie on the borders between art and design; his work is known as rebellious, playful, intellectual, theatrical and artistic, gaining an autonomous position in the field of design, varying in many different sectors and disciplines: conceptual projects, limited editions, production planning, installations, public spaces, architecture , interior design, theater design and performance.
His works are found in the most important museum collections, such as the MoMa, Victoria & Albert Museum, Les Arts Décoratifs, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Die Neue Sammlung, Museo Stedelijk and Rijksmuseum, but also in some famous private collections, such as those by Brad Pitt, Kanye West, Ian Schrager and Adam Lindemann.

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8 Jul

Irma Boom

8 July, 2016
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Irma Boom is a graphic designer from Amsterdam, specialized in the manufacture of books: through her use of unknown formats, materials, colors, structures and typography, the designer manages to transform the book into a highly fascinating visual and tactile experience. Her passion for books was born from an early age and is ennobled through studies.

Irma Boom in fact studied graphic design at the AKI Art Academy in Enschede and after graduation she worked for five years at the Dutch Government Publishing and Press Office in The Hague, where she managed to enrich her theoretical knowledge with a very daily practice. intense. In 1991 he founded the “Irma Boom Office” studio, which operates nationally and internationally in both the cultural and commercial sectors. Among his clients: the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Inside Outside, Museo, Boijmans Van Beuningen, Zumtobel, Ferrari, Vitra international, NAi Publishers, United Nations, OMA / Rem Koolhaas, Koninklijke, Tichelaar, and Camper.

Since 1992 Boom has been a critic at Yale University in the United States and holds conferences and workshops around the world, being considered among the most authoritative minds in the field of publishing and graphic design. In fact, she has been awarded numerous prizes for her book designs and was the youngest winner ever to receive the prestigious Gutenberg prize for her work. For five years he worked on the “2136 pages SHV-. The Think Book”, which was published in English and Chinese and is considered his editorial masterpiece.

His project for ‘Weaving as a metaphor’ by the American artist Sheila Hicks was considered by the Leipzig Book Fair as ‘the most beautiful book in the world’. His books have been exhibited in numerous international exhibitions and are also featured in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His collection of wallpapers, which takes up the scanned and verticalized images of the continents, a UNESCO heritage site, are true artistic masterpieces, which incorporate the same concepts and the same way of working and representing the ideas of his precious books.

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8 Jul

Hella Jongerius

8 July, 2016
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Hella Jongerius was born in Holland in 1963; in 1993, after graduating from the Industrial Design Academy of Eindhoven, she founded the Jongeriuslab studio, where independent projects and collaborations with the main customers are developed, including the furniture fabrics company Maharam, the interior design of the delegates’ room of the United Nations headquarters in New York, the interior cabin for the airline KLM and the installation “Color Recipe Research” following the invitation of the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist for the MAK in Vienna.

Hella Jongerius’ work combines traditional with contemporary, the latest technologies with age-old craft techniques, aiming to create products with individual character by including handcrafted elements in an industrial production process. The designer sees her work as part of an endless process, and the same is essentially true of all Jongeriuslab’s designs, which possess the power of the final stage. The unfinished, the temporary and the possible reside in the attention to imperfections, traces of the creation process and revealed potential of materials and techniques. With this working method, Jongerius not only celebrates the process value, but also involves the viewer, the user, in his investigation.

Since 2012, Jongerius has been artistic director of the Danskina carpet company and since 2007 artistic director of colors and materials for Vitra; recent projects include the publication of the book “I don’t have a favorite color” for Vitra in 2016, the “Breathing Color” exhibition on his search for color for the London Design Museum in 2017, as well as an exhibition and an accompanying publication “Beyond the new. On the Agency of Things “with Louise Schouwenberg for the Pinakothek der Moderne, Die Neue Sammlung in Munich in 2017.

Many of Jongerius’ products are found in permanent collections of important museums such as the MoMA in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam.

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Fratelli Campana

8 July, 2016
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Humberto (1953) and Fernando (1961) Campana were born in Brotas, a city 250 kilometers from São Paulo, with an economy based on agriculture, being in a region with abundant natural resources. Until they moved to São Paulo to start their university studies, both brothers lived in the family, the father was an agronomist engineer and the mother an elementary school teacher, in a house without a floor and with a large courtyard surrounded by trees from fruit and streams that flowed to the waterfalls in the Brotas region.

Humberto graduated in law, but as soon as he graduated he officially started pursuing what had been his main interest since he was a child: the infinite possibilities of artisan art. In the eighties he opened a small studio of handicraft products.

Graduated in architecture, Fernando was interested in the search for alternative methods in the production of design, becoming passionate about Le Corbusier and the communicative power and linear synthesis of Oscar Niemeyer as well as for the creation of small-scale objects. After graduating, he collaborated in the 17th edition of the Biennale of Art in São Paulo., Until at the end of 1983, Humberto asked him to help him with the delivery of a large order. Since then, they have become among the most celebrated figures in contemporary design.

They are recognized for their contributions to the unconventional reading of new objects together with an effective contribution for a change in daily life. The first Campana exhibition was staged in 1989 at the Nucleon Galery in São Paulo; the iron chairs collection has been called ‘Desconfortáveis’, a rich selection of unique pieces that speak of an artistic aspect, the error and the poetry present in the unease.

From the 90s onwards they brought their eclectic and unique, very recognizable trait around the world, always starting from their roots, the traditions of their country and local crafts. They went to the favelas to discover the seemingly casual techniques of architectural layering and ventured into the Amazon jungle to create objects with kaleidiscopic colors with the most diverse materials: resins, recycled leathers, branches and natural fibers. Among their multiple successes, created by Studio Campana or, in a limited edition, by the Italian Edra, we can mention: the Favela armchair, the Corallo sofa, the Anemome and Sushi armchairs, the Brasilia table …

In 2009, ten years after the exhibition that launched them, the Campana Brothers were chosen by the Vitra Design Museum, in Germany, to celebrate the ten years since its foundation. Humberto and Fernando Campana were awarded the Special Prize at the Museu da Casa Brasileira in 2001, and appointed Designer of the Year by Design Miami in 2008.

8 Jul

Dick Van Hoff

8 July, 2016
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Dick van Hoff was born in Amsterdam in 1971 and graduated from the Arnhem School of Art in 1996, now based in the east of the Netherlands.
After graduation, he immediately started designing with his name, opening a small studio, which follows the entire evolution of the project, from the first design phase to that of production; in all these years Van Hoff has produced a constant flow of exquisitely made objects.
Through his work as a designer and as professor-tutor at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, Dick van Hoff continues to play an important role in shaping the future of many young Dutch talents and what is called “Droog design thinking”. His promotion of fine craftsmanship coupled with industrial techniques forges a renewed interest in modern standards of form, function and adequacy.
The designer embodies universal values ??in modern products that seem to exist for centuries: functionality, quality and relationship between user and product give strength to projects; you will always sit well on a Dick van Hoff chair, one of his lamps will always impeccably illuminate the desired spot, his leather wood holder will still be among the best existing containers for wood to be placed next to the fireplace … functioning is more important than aesthetics, but this does not mean that form follows function; the designs are present, they are solid and convincing precisely because of their powerful visual language, they are icons that capture the heart.
Often robust in form, but subtly detailed, they are timeless objects, where their presence is obvious, their place in the house as logical and pleasant as a good friend.
Industrial customization guarantees an intact and penetrating way of production in which the quality, finish and choice of materials are fundamental; the designs are made with love: love for the product, the decision-making process, the user and the profession. Whether the design is produced industrially or manually, perfection and craftsmanship are always very visible.
Dick van Hoff’s work is represented in the permanent collection of the Boymans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Fond National d’Art Contemporaine, in Paris and the Centraal Museum in Utrech.

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8 Jul

Davide Medri

8 July, 2016
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Davide Medri was born in Cesena on August 7, 1967 and graduated from the Fine Arts of Ravenna, the Mosaic Art Institute and the Albestainer Mosaic Professional School, considered one of the best schools in the world for teaching the mosaic technique.

After various artistic experiences and in the world of design, in 1997 the designer began the production of mirror mosaics, entirely handmade with extreme meticulousness. Immediately these highly decorative objects, the result of an aesthetic marked at times maximalist, become design icons, desired all over the world; the shapes are manifold, united or broken down to form different compositions, square or curved, in natural mirror, gold or black glass for an always very spectacular effect.

The work is totally handmade and every single piece of glass is fixed by hand ensuring high quality; each work of art and design is unique.

Parallel to the mirrors, panels and large frames, the designer also creates tables, coffee tables, consoles and lamps with the same characteristics, combining stainless steel with the glass or mirror mosaic, in a pleasant play of glossy-opaque and clear- dark. Among these furnishings we can mention the conical tables with mosaic interior illuminated by light, the long steel table with mosaic inserts and the famous lamps that can be combined with rings in a luminous mirror mosaic.

Many years after their first appearance, the mirrors and their grandiose frames remain the most ingenious, original and recognized product of Davide Medri, now called “the king of the mirror mosaic”. In more recent years, a new ironic and very decorative collection has been added to the famous type of mosaic mirrors, consisting of large mirrors with the enlarged appearance of real or imaginary road signs. This apparently playful collection must not be misleading: each specimen is made entirely by hand, painting, as on a painting, the road sign with its related symbols and colors.

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Boda Horak

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Boda Horak

Boda Horak completed her architecture and interior design studies at the College of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague, where she graduated in 1980 and a few years later, in 1987, was one of the co-founders of the legendary group of designers “ATIKA”, much acclaimed by critics and audiences; very soon he became one of the main European exponents of that recognized as the post-modernist movement of the 1980s. According to many critics, while in Italy the Memphis movement with Ettore Sottsass and his other collaborators manifested itself in Prague, following an ideological and aesthetic path very similar, the figure of this designer was highlighted.
His works, characterized by impeccable craftsmanship and a very thick plastic sense, are of very different types and sizes: from the glass to the candlestick, from the chairs to the sofa. All these pieces are characterized by a very strong aesthetic, at times monumental and dramatic, always of great impact and out of the usual design paths,
From 1993 the artist began to collaborate with the German company Anthologie Quartett, who first sensed his great talent, creating a successful line of design products that helped define the same distinctive style of the company. Horak’s designs are all unique, never the same, sculptural, but attentive to use, ergonomics and practicality: what seem to be precious sculptures, turn out to be very comfortable chairs or perfectly usable sofas.
In 2012 the designer started a new project, working together with the designer glass sculptor Vladimíra Klumpar and creating a collection of highly refined objects, including vases, candelabra and glasses. This is followed by a new line of lighting objects, which includes monumental chandeliers, but also small lamps with a great atmosphere.
In the same year Boda Horak began collaborating with Rückl crystal glass companies A.S, Bomma, PRAGER Kunstsalon and from 2013 with some art galleries: the KREHKY gallery, PRAGA KABINET and TIME ART AVANTGARDESIGN in Germany.
Boda Horak participates in prestigious exhibitions in some famous international galleries such as Binnen in Amsterdam, Jannone in Milan, Ferrero1947 in Turin, dadriade in Rome, the Moss Gallery in New York, the Limn gallery in San Francisco, UNICA Las Vegas, etc … works are regularly published at home and abroad, in many art magazines and books and are also exhibited in the most famous design and applied art museums in the world and in some private collections.

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