tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24109115162493607372024-03-05T09:04:33.990-08:00DZINEOur perspective. Your thoughts. A community around design.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410911516249360737.post-44014558931598057712012-10-29T14:31:00.003-07:002012-10-30T14:30:30.369-07:00Camper Culture<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">30 years after opening their first store in 1981 in
Barcelona, Camper now boasts 300 stores and 4,000 points of sale in over 50
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The difference between Camper and other major brands though,
is that instead of designing a store identity that made all their shops
recognizably the same around the world, they hired different designers to make
each shop completely different and unique. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">From opulent to minimalistic, stark tiles to flowery
upholstered walls, each Camper store becomes its own little jewel of design and
experimentation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The New York Camper store in Soho designed by Shigeru Ban
and Dean Maltz is a diagonal design in a rectangular space, featuring one of the
best uses of Artek’s 10-unit system we've seen and a saavy hidden way of showing the
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A different approach is used in one of the London Camper
stores, designed by Tomas Alonso, where the shoes are laid directly into view,
and highlighted by the tile trompe-l’oeil in the background. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In addition to the tiles, the use of metal tubing throughout
the furniture and fixtures in the store give this design a certain quirkiness,
reminiscent of the 2D cube-based video games of our youth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A completely different use of tiles is shown here in Alfredo
Haberli’s Barcelona shop, where red mosaic takes over the bottom half of the
front of the store (a cross between a metro station and a Gaudi building?),
only to lead the weary customer to an elevator-like lounge where one can sit on
a ‘Take-a-line-for-a-walk’ armchair designed by the same Haberli for Moroso and
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Another Barcelona store, this one designed by Spanish
designer Jaime Hayon, takes the same color red in a very different direction,
with furniture that looks like it most certainly would have been adopted by a
French monarch named Louis, had there been any in the 21<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup>
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Another opulent proposition is Tokujin Yoshioka’s design for
a London Camper store, which utilizes the same folded fabric technique on a
large wall panel, as in the Bouquet chair he designed for Moroso, also present
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focuses on nothing but the shoes themselves, by making the completely white
background (including wall, ceiling and floor) disappear and giving the shoes
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By Claire Toussaint <span id="goog_1827266622"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1827266623"></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410911516249360737.post-32769058486633612722012-10-10T17:30:00.002-07:002012-10-10T17:30:40.295-07:00The Island of Misfit Furniture
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A far cry from Lissoni’s or Citterio’s sleek archetypes of
modern design, Rudolf’s got nothing on Moroso’s sculptural seating
propositions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now celebrating 60 years of prototype making, Moroso looks
back with Domus on their creations of plywood and foam, and the craftsmanship
that made them great. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Be sure to check out <a href="http://www.domusweb.it/en/design/moroso-60-years-of-prototypes/" target="_blank">Domus' interview of Marino Mansutti</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">After Lisa Koshkarian and Tom Di Francesco had
chidren, they realized their 3,600 sq ft home at the top of Potrero hill
presented a major acoustic challenge. The location of the living room,
sandwiched between the children’s bedrooms, made it impossible to entertain
after Rex and Zia went to bed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Disappointed in what the housing market had to offer, Tom
and Lisa turned to modern architectural guru Anne Fougeron to marry their love
of sleek minimalist design and family-friendly spaces. Taking issue with what
she calls the ‘Dwell Light Disease’ signifying modern houses that all end up
looking the same, Fougeron made some bold decisions in the design of the
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downtown San Francisco, Fougeron created a wall of glass, exposing the back
rooms of the house. The ‘dollhouse’ effect of this slightly (but unashamedly)
exhibitionist design is alleviated by the faceted shape of the glass wall,
which give the back of the house its character, and steers clear of the
‘unintentional uniform’ Fougeron decries. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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some of Italy’s most prominent fashion and furniture dynasties; a good
opportunity to see the faces behind some of our favorite furniture lines. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.wallpaper.com/fashion/family-fortunes-italys-leading-design-and-fashion-dynasties/5983#67215">Maddalena and Luca De Padova</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the fifties, Fernando and Maddalena De Padova began by
importing Scandinavian furniture to sell in their store in Milan, introducing
it to the Italian market. After starting a factory in the sixties to produce
licensed Herman Miller furnishings, the De Padovas graduated to producing their
own pieces, collaborating with some of the tenors of European design (Achille
Castiglioni, Vico Magistretti, Dieter Rams..) as well as acting as a platform
for up and coming designers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today, Maddalena has given up the reins of the company to
her son, Luca De Padova (Both are pictured above), who is determined to keep
expanding the company and follow in his mother’s visionary footsteps. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.wallpaper.com/fashion/family-fortunes-italys-leading-design-and-fashion-dynasties/5983#67216">The first De Padova showroom on via Montenapoleone in the1950’s</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.wallpaper.com/fashion/family-fortunes-italys-leading-design-and-fashion-dynasties/5983#67244">(left to right) Luca, Giuliano and Matteo Galimberti<o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Originally started by the four brothers Galimberti, Flexform
is now run by four Galimberti cousins of the third generation (Luca, Giuliano
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">With the collaboration of renowned designers, namely Antonio
Citterio, Flexform has developed a sophisticated and unmistakable
aesthetic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Flos was founded in the late fifties by Dino Gavina on the
idea of using Arturo Eisenkeil’s ‘cocoon technique’ to create a line of lights.
With the Castiglioni brothers and Tobia Scarpa in tow, Flos became synonymous
with forward thinking designs and the use of beautiful and innovative
manufacturing techniques, a departure from Italy’s interior design landscape of
the time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the early sixties, the company was taken over by Sergio
Gandini, a more entrepreneurial minded manager, and started making headlines
around the world. Piero Gandini later succeeded his father and brought in new
designers, including Philippe Starck who has been creative director since the
nineties, setting a new standard of innovation for the company. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today, Flos boasts a growing stable of some of the world’s
most talented designers and expanding product lines in not only decorative, but
also architectural and in soft architecture (Flos’ most recent venture, at the
cross-section of lighting and architecture). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.wallpaper.com/fashion/family-fortunes-italys-leading-design-and-fashion-dynasties/5983#67263">(left to right) Federico, Lorenza and Claudio Luti<o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.squidoo.com/kartell-furniture-history-italian-design">Kartell</a> was founded in 1949 by Giulio Castelli, a chemical
engineer with the endeavor to replace traditional glassware with plastic. With
three pieces in the New York MoMa by the seventies and extensive research on
the properties of plastic during the eighties, Kartell was already a well-established
company by the time it was taken over by Claudio Luti, Castelli’s son-in-law,
in the late 1980’s. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The company hit their stride in the beginning of the 21<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup>
century with the recruitment of some of the world’s most famous design talent;
namely Philippe Starck, Ron Arad, Patricia Urquiola… creating some of Kartell’s
most iconic products. Coupled with massive innovation in the technical
department, especially in the way of environmental friendliness, Kartell has
become an international benchmark for plastic furniture and design objects. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today, Claudio Luti is accompanied by his children, Lorenza
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">With evolving needs in the technology department, the boundaries
between home and office are blurring. Beyond putting a sofa in an office and a
task chair in a home, designers are taking cues from one environment to use in
the other, with very interesting results. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The ambiance in the office has been warming up in the last few
years. Lounge areas have been moving outside of the break room and into the
business side of the workplace. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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meeting you sit on by the fire in your living room. (Artek, armchair 400)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Task chairs are also taking on a softer look, closer to that
of a fauteuil. The Softshell and Skape chairs (by Vitra) are good examples of
this trend. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In an effort to create a lighter but no less comfortable
armchair, some designers have been trading in traditional upholstery for
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working on a laptop. The high sides of the sofa provide a shield against noisy
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">If part of your job description is to get in touch with your
inner child, you might work in the development department at LEGO. Designed by
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including a slide from the top to the bottom floor and a plethora of toys to
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children, the Google engineering headquarters in London has a techy space-craft
feel in greys and bright blues and oranges. The cool lighting and integrated
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to build a fort. Although blankets and the backs of chairs are traditionally
used as building materials, a large scale office version requires a cardboard
structure, like this tessellated cave by Liam Hopkins of Lazarian. Recycled
cardboard is pulped and reconstituted into hollow triangular blocks which fit
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that only a small number of people are able to fit inside, and its unusual
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I learned the hard way that buildings, especially the ones you don't like, don't go away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The good news is, you can bury the incriminating evidence. Before starting my firm in 1986, I worked for and with other architects. And while my name and signature are somewhere on those drawings, drafts and contracts, I've been assured that they are deeply hidden in a storage area of pre-electronic files.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One of my very first moonlight projects was with my good friend Kent Macdonald and it was a remodel. The project included a revamped facade. I'd like to think that the project's final appearance was a result of naivete (I was paralyzed by </span>excitement and fear) and some stubborn clients.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It has an unfortunate composition that includes two different materials that step, something we would never do today. A clumsy balcony hovers overhead. It has been repainted in the ugliest cold color that emphasize the clumsy composition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Luckily, for a period of time, the evidence was located on a sleepy San Francisco street. Unfortunately, a popular store opened half a block away and now my abomination is passed by thousands. Worse yet, by the time I </span>opened<span style="font-family: inherit;"> my own firm five years later, I was living within walking distance to the project. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are some methods of coping:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Ignore the problem and wear dark sunglasses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. And when it's too overcast, you can move to the other side of the street.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Or take a very </span>inefficient shortcut.<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. Then, in a moment of maturity, you decide you <i>can</i> stand to walk by it buy only when you regard the project with cold-blooded cynicism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was in the time during and after this building that I learned to stand firm. And every time I am ready to cave in, to acquiesce modern design, I think of that little building on-well, the location isn't important.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The thing about buildings (other then their interminable lifespan) is that it takes a long time to get good at making them. You have to learn to communicate and compromise with a client without letting them steamroll over good design. You have to learn to utilize your space rather than just plop down your design. Oh and, not all your ideas are good ones.</span><br />
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Piero Lissoni is at Palazzo Bembo in the exhibition "Traces of centuries & future steps" with the following project: Maranello Tower.<br />
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The project for the city of Maranello makes radical choices with the aim of creating an iconic building with a well-defined geometry. The use of innovative material such a polycarbonate emphasizes the communication function of the building: variously sized cladding panels make up the translucent skin which is interrupted only by windows opening onto the surrounding countryside, while restrained back lighting transforms the building into a luminescent body which at night illuminates the square in front. The quadrangular tower houses the staircase and lift, while the covered panoramic terrace extends perpendicularly along Via Dino Ferrari. This alignment allows visitors to enjoy impressive views which take in the Centro Produttivo Ferrari, the Circuito di Fiorano, the historic centre of Maranello and the distant foothills.<br />
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And is at the Giardini della Biennale, inside Padiglione Italia, in the section Made in Italy, with the following projects: the headquarters of Boffi, Living Divani, GlasItalia, and Matteograssi.<br />
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Boffi headquarters, photo by Giovanni Gastel<br />
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Joshua Larson and Carrie Shores of Oakland, CA architecture firm Larson Shores have been busy. They've recently completed a funky modern, mixed-use coffee bar and Asian furniture gallery, Monkey Forest Road Cafe and Gallery. Now, Joshua is in the middle of a full scale renovation and interiors project in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. Carrie is helping to revive an Oakland institution, the New Parkway Theater, which leases space in an old warehouse in the city, by developing their new floor plans and conceptualizing the transformation of the facade. This week's Friday Five is a mix of what inspires the duo, separately and as a team.<br />
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Joshua and Carrie both love DZINE, a showroom inspired by the great showrooms of Milan. It;s carefully edited; the showroom floor is restricted to a handful of notable manufacturers of high-end contemporary furniture. The placement of furniture, accessories, and art is carefully planned to create vignettes that offer more than mere display; rather, the environment presents a unified design vision-an aesthetic, and attitude, a lifestyle.<br />
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2. Axel Vervoordt's Kanaal Gallery<br />
A recent visit to Axel Vervoordt's Kanaal Gallery in Belgium left Joshua speechless and inspired. Kanaal at Wijnegem is a former distillery complex consisting of several large brick-and-concrete industrial warehouses with adjoining grain silos originally constructed in the late 19th century in 2000, the Axel Vervoordt Company purchased the site and transformed the setting into the perfect location for exposition rooms, offices, warehouses, and restoration workshops. In the lofty industrial rooms of Kanaal, Axel Vervoordt furthered his ideas of how we might wish to live in the 21st century: enormous spaces, total purity, lack of decoration-just the necessary architecture and inspiring objects and art. In these rough, empty spaces, an old piece of furniture becomes a contemporary piece of art.<br />
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3. Arkanary II iPhone Speaker<br />
In our studio there is always music playing, and Pandora and the iPhone are usually involved. Often when working on residential projects, incorporating the TV and music system can be a battle, because we want to embrace technology, but hide the cords. Carrie recently ran across the Arkanary II, a great speaker that snaps into the iPhone. Like many simple designs, thought and design intent went into this product. The old-fashioned form is set against the new technology, creating an interesting juxtaposition that is really fun. The designer, Sang Lee, set up the perfect angle of the phone so the user can see what is happening on the screen, plus there are no cords!<br />
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4. Milena Zu<br />
One of the exciting parts of designing restaurants and retail spaces is that your experiences as a designer are broadened by the creations and products your clients bring to the projects. This is how Carrie came to know the jewelry designer Milena Zu. Originally a native Italian, Milena has lived in Bali for over 13 years. She has developed a technique for hand weaving metal to create an exquisite mesh that she then forms into unique pieces of jewelry. The pieces are surprisingly light, engage beautifully with the body, and organic in form.<br />
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5. Pancho<br />
Joshua adores his two-year-old rescue dog, Pancho, who seems to be disguised as a fox.<br />
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Find the original article <a href="http://design-milk.com/friday-five-with-larson-shores/">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410911516249360737.post-38615481074262469202012-07-23T14:46:00.000-07:002012-07-23T14:46:20.861-07:00Koshino HouseKoshino House, Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan designed by Tadao Ando<br />
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Tadao Ando's design for the Koshino House features two parallel concrete rectangular confines. The forms are partially buried into the sloping ground of a national park and become a compositional addition to the landscape. Placed carefully as to not disturb the pre-existing trees on the site, the structure responds to the adjacent ecosystem while the concrete forms address a more general nature through a playful manipulation of light.<br />
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The northern volume consists of a two-story height containing a double height living room, a kitchen and a dining room on the first floor with the master bedroom and a study on the second floor. The southern mass then consists of six linearly organized children's bedrooms, a bathroom and a lobby. Connecting the two spaces is a below grade tunnel that lies beneath the exterior stairs of the courtyard.<br />
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Ando used the space within the two rectangular prisms as a way to express the fundamental nature of the site. This space reveals a courtyard that drapes over an contours to the natural topography. A wide set of stairs follows the sloping land into the enclosed exterior space and allows the light that penetrates through the canopy of trees into the sunken courtyard. This self-governing space represents the fold of nature that has been bound by the conditional structures and become synthetic.<br />
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Narrow apertures have been punched through the facades adjacent to the exterior staircase and manipulate complex crossings of natural light and shadow into the interior spaces. The patterns provide the only amount of ornament to the simple rooms. Other slots are cut from various planes of the two modules to produce the same effect of complexity throughout the entire house.<br />
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See the original article <a href="http://www.dailyicon.net/2012/07/icon-koshino-house-by-tadao-ando/">here</a> posted by Daily Icon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410911516249360737.post-33638272246330562342012-07-16T15:55:00.000-07:002012-07-16T15:55:43.569-07:005 Signed Tip Tons to be Won!<br />
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This month, Vitra will be holding a competition on its Facebook page in which participants will have the chance of winning one of five Tip Ton signed by the designers, Barber and Osgerby. <br />
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To join the competition go <a href="http://www.facebook.com/vitra">here</a>. The competition deadline is August 1, 2012.<br />
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DZINE is pleased to announce that the "ANDO" vase designed by Tadao Ando for Venini is now on display at the showroom. An absolute synthesis between shape and chromatism, "ANDO" is the perfect evidence of the ability in works of glass.<br />
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We originally did a post on the "ANDO" vase a year ago <a href="http://dzinestore.blogspot.com/2011/06/ando-for-veninis-90th-anniversary.html">here</a> as it was designed for the celebration of Venini's 90th anniversary.
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We hope that you will visit the showroom soon to see the "ANDO" vases in person as well as many other pieces from Venini's ArtGlass and ArtLight collection currently on display.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410911516249360737.post-35873522728930170632012-06-26T14:28:00.000-07:002012-06-26T14:28:05.866-07:00Gyöngy Laky now at DZINE<div class="MsoNormal">
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Gyöngy Laky
presents a series of work examining our complex relationship with nature. Sculptural vessels are
made of painted and stained branches and twigs combined with screws, nails,
and wires. The organic essence
of the natural wood contrasted with the spiky industrial elements draws upon the
ambivalence of the natural and artificial, organic and industrial, and
encapsulates co-existing feelings of violence and serenity, aggression and
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Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944, Gyöngy Laky studied at
UC Berkeley where she earned both her B.A. and M.A. degrees (B.A., 1970 and
M.A., 1971). She has exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United
States and internationally in France, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Holland,
Switzerland, Hungary, Lithuania, Colombia, the Philippines, China, and England.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowship, and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis,
Laky’s work is in museum collections in Europe and the United States, including
the San Francisco MOMA, The Smithsonian’s Renwick Museum of American Art, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum, and the Contemporary Museum in
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An artist, academic and activist (all encouraged during
studies at UC Berkeley), I engage subjects of particular and on-going concern
to me using hand constructions as my primary vehicle of expression. I build
pieces in the architectural spectrum. Environmental concerns are obvious in my
sculptures and temporary site-specific works composed of orchard, park and
street tree prunings from the tons of debris available as growers and gardeners
trim and dump (or burn). With these exquisite hardwoods, I play with the
question, “What is waste?” What is, and is not, garbage or is considered
useless, is both intriguing and problematic. The specific choices I make
selecting materials and structuring forms allow me to experiment with intent
and attitude, extending and altering possible responses. The juxtapositions of screws
and branches or toothpicks and charcoal, address the edgy relationships and
flux of human interactions with nature. With language works, incorporating
words and/or signs, I borrow from the concrete poets and their visual poetry --
that physical attributes, pattern or arrangement enhances meaning. Transforming
wall works and basketry into vessels for meaning lends itself to associating
pieces with issues beyond just my worry about the rising threat to our
environment. The word/symbol works, particularly, have allowed me to present
more strongly the activist part of my life associated with such concerns as
gender equity, diversity, economic upheaval and, after March of 2003, with my
opposition to militarism and our wasteful and tragic wars. I support the Occupy
Wall Street movement.<o:p></o:p><br />
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The 'Maarten' chair designed by Spanish designer Victor Carrasco, for the furniture manufacturer Viccarbe, was designed as a tribute to the late Belgian designer Maarten van Severen. <br />
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This swivel chair was designed for both the home and for public spaces. It's lacquered steel tube structure and carefully made, elegant, upholstered seat recall the classics of the '70's.<br />
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The 'Maarten' chair premiered at this years Salone del Mobile.<br />
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If you find yourself in the San Francisco design district be sure to stop by <a href="http://dzinestore.com/">DZINE</a>, where a new display by <a href="http://www.gensler.com/">Gensler</a> featuring the <a href="http://flosusa.com/individualProduct.php?type=Decorative%20Products&cat_name=&seriesID=502&cat_id=0&Dname=&family=124&related=&tag=&tag_name=">FLOS Minikelvin lamp</a> is brightening its storefront. The display is entitled "Light, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" and features cutouts of an elephant and donkey surrounded by a heart-shaped series of the Antonio Citterio–designed lamps in what Collin Burry, Principal at Gensler, describes as "a big bipartisan smooch." In addition to the Minikelvin, DZINE stocks the Piani, D’E-Light, and Miniteca by FLOS.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5.30.12 | San Francisco, CA | <b>DZINE</b>, San Francisco’s leading retailer of high-end, modern furniture, is pleased to announce a new window display curated by <b>Gensler SF</b> in the <b>FLOS</b> section of the showroom. <b>Collin Burry, Principal</b> at Gensler SF, led the team and selected FLOS’s new <b>Minikelvin LED</b> lamp, designed by <b>Antonio Citterio</b>, for the display entitled “Light, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” The design represents the political ideal of the Republican and Democratic parties working together to lead the country more efficiently.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“DZINE, FLOS and Gensler help put the symbols of the political parties, elephant and donkey, head to head in a big ol’ bipartisan smooch,” said Burry. “What better way to illuminate this lovely union than a heart of Minikelvins, a light source for all no matter your affiliation.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Minikelvin LED lamp is a pint-sized version of FLOS’s best-selling Kelvin LED lamp by Antonio Citterio. Featuring all of the technologically advanced aspects of its predecessor, the Kelvin LED, including an on/off switch with Soft Touch technology (touch sensor), light flow adjustment to 2 intensities (100%, 50% and 0%), an adjustable head and a fused aluminum alloy body in chrome, this mini version has an arm length of 11.81” and weighs just 1.76 lbs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“We are thrilled to have Collin Burry and the Gensler SF team contribute this latest design to the FLOS window, incorporating FLOS’s Minikelvin LED lamp,” said <b>Cardenio Petrucci</b>, Co-owner of DZINE. “Gensler selected a very apropos theme for the display, which will be debuted prior to the anticipation of the presidential election.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">DZINE will unveil the new window display at a private event on Wednesday, May 30<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>th</sup>, 2012 from 5:30-6:30 pm at their showroom (128 Utah St., at Alameda St.). Burry and other Gensler SF team members will be on hand at the event to answer any questions about the display.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Gensler SF team in front of their window display entitled “Light, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">FLOS opened its San Francisco store inside the DZINE showroom in November 2011 with FLOS classics such as Arco, Taraxacum and Toio by Castiglioni, as well as new favorites such as the elegant Wallpiercing, part of the Soft Architecture line, the simplistic Lightspring and La Linea, and the inventive Miniteca table lamp, all designed by Gilad; the Ktribe by Philippe Starck; Glo-Ball by Jasper Morrison; Skygarden and Zeppelin suspension lamps by Marcel Wanders and, of course, Antonio Citterio’s Kelvin LED and Minikelvin LED lamps. The initial FLOS window display featured the Piani lamp by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec and was designed by renowned interior designer Nicole Hollis.</span><br />
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Read original article <a href="http://www.officenewswire.com/12615" target="_blank">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410911516249360737.post-77286095612230303822012-06-08T15:19:00.000-07:002012-06-08T15:19:18.190-07:00Shigeru Ban - 10-Unit System<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Shigeru Ban, born in 1957 in Tokyo, Japan, is an internationally recognized Japanese architect. He has been a pioneer in applying the principles of sustainable development to architectural design. Shigeru Ban’s architecture emphasises refinement and a highly developed innovativeness, especially in materials technologies. His original and bold approach to the use of paper, cardboard and bamboo as construction materials, combined with a clean-lined and contemporary architectural aesthetic, has made him one of the most important architects of our time. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Artek New York (2009)</span><br />
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Shigeru Ban studied at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and later on in the Cooper Union’s School of Architecture. Ban graduated in 1984 after which he started his own practice in 1985.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Artek in Milan (2009)</span><br />
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Shigeru Ban can be described as a modernist, experimentalist as well as a rationalist. The architect is most famous for his innovative work with paper tubes as a material for building construction. Ban’s architecture has strong influences from his interest in humanitarianism. Shigeru Ban is concerned with building as a whole, and is not interested only in so-called beautiful architecture: providing assistance in coping with catastrophes is just as important to him. Shigeru Ban’s DIY Refugee shelters (used for example in Japan after the Kobe earthquake, in Turkey and in Rwanda) have proved very effective for disaster relief housing. Ban knows that simple solutions are often the most difficult to develop –especially when using inexpensive materials.<br />
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Shigeru Ban’s major works include among many other things the Japanese Pavilion at the Hannover Expo 2000 and the new Centre Georges Pompidou in Metz, which is expected to be completed in 2009. In 2007, Shigeru Ban designed the Artek Pavilion, “The Space of Silence”, for the Salone del Mobile. Ban’s 10-UNIT SYSTEM for Artek is launched in Milan 2009.<br />
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The 10-Unit System is comprised of 10 wood plastic composite L-shaped units. The 10 L-units in a system can be used to assemble several items, including a chair, a stool and a frame for a table. By combining more L-units you are able to create new furniture pieces, such as benches.<br />
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In 2010 the products of Ilmari Tapiovaara became part of the Artek product range. The manufacturing facility where llmari Tapiovaara pieces were being produced had been failing. Artek saw this as an opportunity, in purchasing the facility, to keep the furniture pieces in production and promote them to a wider audience than before. The Ilmari Tapiovaara pieces added to their existing collection mainly designed by their founders Alvar and Aino Aalto, Maire Gullichsen and Nils-Gustav Hahl.<br />
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Ilmari Tapiovaara was one of the greatest interior architects and designers of his era. With the mind of an explorer and a soul of a craftsman, Tapiovaara was always seeking for new solutions to improve everyday objects. During his long career Tapiovaara created dozens of iconic objects loved by the public.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Domus Lounge chair - Ilmari Tapiovaara (1946)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Domus chair - Ilmari Tapiovaara (1946)</span><br />
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Tapiovaara is especially revered as a master of characteristic and human objects and surroundings who captured the essence of Finnish identity. Today the contemporary Tapiovaara Family Collection maintains the timeless heritage of a master of Finnish design. Ilmari Tapiovaara graduated in 1937 as interior architect from the department of furniture design of the Central School of Applied Arts in Helsinki. After graduation he obtained the position of assistant for six months at Le Corbusier’s office in Paris. In 1938 Tapiovaara began work as artistic director and designer at Asko Oy, the largest furniture manufacturer in Finland, and in 1941 he was hired as artistic and commercial director for the furniture company Keravan Puuteollisuus Oy. In 1946–47 Tapiovaara designed, together with his wife, Annikki Tapiovaara, furniture for Domus Academica, the new student housing facility in Helsinki. It was in that project the famous Domus Stacking Chair was designed.<br />
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Ilmari Tapiovaara also worked abroad in various capacities. In 1952–53 he was employed as professor at the school of design of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and he also worked for a while in the office of Mies van der Rohe. In the late 1950s, he travelled to Paraguay, where he designed furniture on behalf of the UN development program, and in the mid-1970s he worked in Mauritius in a similar project. He also worked in an expert capacity in Yugoslavia, participating in the development of a centre for furniture and joinery industry. He also designed furniture for clients in Italy and Sweden, among others.<br />
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Ilmari Tapiovaara was awarded a total of six gold medals at the Milan Triennials in 1951, 1954, 1957, 1960 and 1964. He was awarded the Good Design Award in Chicago in 1951, the Pro Finlandia medal in 1959, the Finnish State Design Prize in 1971 and the Furniture Prize of the SIO Interior Architects’ Association of Finland in 1990.<br />
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All Porro products are the result of a subtraction, form a progressive simplification process. Systems which are complex too, are the result of a very simple aesthetic vision, based on consistency, simplification, simplicity, without forgetting quality, the best possible quality at all.<br />
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In the recent years, Porro has collaborated with International designers such as Jean Marie Massaud, Christophe Pillet and the Swedish group, Front.</div>
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This year at the Salone del Mobile Porro introduced a few new pieces but also reinvented some of their already established pieces from their furniture collection.<br />
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The new Chameleon unit, designed by Front, is a magic volume, opening on itself as a Chinese box game, changing appearance and revealing new finishes. To be used as a bedroom unit or to furnish the living room, it consists of a pear-wood crate, a soft wood in a delicate rose color, customized with drawers and shelves and covered with precious leathers, used as a hinge, allow to turn it and changed into a luggage or a bag, to change its color and look - from white to black - according to your mood.<br />
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Piero Lissoni designed a new accessory for the Porro Collection: the Tiller sideboard, available in two models, vertically developed on 1.6 meters wide and horizontally developed on 2.2 meters wide, shows 4 doors can be opened one on the other pleasantly changing the front design appearance. Raised on 4 matte black metal feet from the floor, Tiller proves once more the technical expertise of a brand able to test year after year new opening mechanisms and technologies. Structure in Eucalypt wood, inner drawers on demand.<br />
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The new design to enter into the Porro table collection is the new extension table, Taac, by the young Italian designer Michele Cazzaniga, whose top can extend form a minimum of 190cm to 300cm wide, and is 95cm deep. A project simply translating the practical requirement of the new shapes, materials and technical solutions: in Eucalypt, a dark wood, extremely consistent and richly shaded, barely displaying the internal black aluminum frame.<br />
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Stolen form a fairy tale, directly coming from a children's book, the result of any dream coming true, the Gentle chair entirely reinterprets the seat archetype, making its shapes far more modern and purified. If at a first glance it looks like a continuum, a pattern drawing drafted without moving the pencil from the paper, in reality it perfectly hides a complex project, matching metal covered by soft leather at the back legs level, moving up to the back arch, to the light wood of the front legs, becoming the arm and back supports, in a subtle opposite contrast. The soft back and the leather upholstered seat make the chair "soft" at the touch and at sight, in a harmonic double-colored optical effect, graphical and retro at the same time, always two colors perfectly and elegantly matched.<br />
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The Jade designed by Christophe Pillet was reintroduced this year in a new finish, canaletto walnut. Its harmonious lines and relaxed posture distinguish the Jade lounge armchair: presented by Porro in leather or eco-leather it appears to be suspended on the structure with cross base, supported at four points. <br />
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A new round version for the Synapsis table, designed by Jean Marie Massaud, was added this year to compliment the original design of the oval table with cut ends version. The innovation of this item is represented by the bearing element: a plated, white or black steel wire grille that has been emptied and transformed in a web of welded pipes. The base looks very light when coupled with the light top. The oval version is available in Pral, in all the lacquered colors of the sample collection, white or black high resistant matte lacquered, in black stained hemlock or in "carbone" oak. The round version is available in Pral or in all the lacquered colors of the sample collection.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Window display: Pendant lamp A331 designed by Alvar Aalto (1953), Tee Tee Table designed by </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">llmari Tapiovaara</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(1940),</span> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Armchair 401 designed by Alvar Aalto (1933), and Bench 153B designed by Alvar Aalto (1945).</span><br />
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DZINE is pleased to be representing the Finnish company, Artek. Their business model “to sell furniture and to promote a modern culture of habitation by exhibitions and other educational means.” The founders of Artek advocated a new kind of environment for everyday life, a philosophy close to that of DZINE, a belief that design is ultimately about living with greater elegance and ease.<br />
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Alvar Aalto, one of the founders of Artek, was born in Kuortane, Finland. Alvar Aalto is recognized today as one of the great masters of modern architecture. During his long and prolific career, Aalto’s work embraced almost all key public institutions - town halls, theatres, churches, libraries and universities - as well as standardized housing and private homes.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Lounge chair 43 designed by Alvar Aalto (1937)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Chair 66 designed by Alvar Aalto (1935)</span><br />
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Aalto’s architecture is distinctively Finnish. It is marked by a warm humanity and strong individuality. His buildings derive their special aesthetic character from their dynamic relationship with their natural surroundings, their human scale, superbly executed details, unique treatment of materials and ingenious use of lighting. Like all great art, however, Aalto’s architecture transcends national boundaries. His work is not the exclusive property of Finland: it forms a part of a common cultural heritage of European and worldwide significance.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Pendant lamp A110 desinged by Alvar Aalto (1952)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Tea Trolly 900 designed by Alvar Aalto (1937)</span><br />
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Alvar Aalto began designing furnishings as a natural and important extension of his architectural thinking. His first modern piece of furniture was created in 1931-32 for the Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Paimio, which proved to be his international breakthrough. Artek was set up in 1935 to market and sell Alvar and Aino Aalto's furniture, lamps and textiles, particularly on international markets where Artek focused its operations from the initial stages.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Armchair 41 "Paimio" designed by Alvar Aalto (1932) for the Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Paimio.</span><br />
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Through the innovations in form and line that were born in his furniture designs, Alvar Aalto’s name has also become important in the history of design. In fact, Aalto first achieved fame in Continental Europe as a furniture designer, and only later on as an architect. His contribution to furniture design was among his foremost achievements in its own right, and it sowed the seed from which many of his architectural ideas sprang forth. Alvar Aalto’s furniture and lighting pieces form the basis of the Artek range.<br />
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Living Divani, the dynamic family-run firm with its signature upholstery, presents a new collection born of curiosity and the drive to experiment, to instill new genres, materials and balances into its geometrical world full of light, comfortable furniture.<br />
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This year, the greatest interpreter of the Living Divani style, Piero Lissoni extends the family of upholstered pieces from the brand with the new Rod sofa, with its distinctive slender back and light, airy shell, lined with inviting cushions. Raised up on 12 mm wide chrome-plated steel feet, screwed into the frame, Rod comes in set dimensions, as an armchair, bench and two- or three-cushion sofa, available in two different depths. Its distinction lies in the possibility of choosing different coverings for the shell and cushions – enhanced with quilted details and bold buttons - mixing finishes with striking two-tone and two-material effects and captivating leather/fabric combos.<br />
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For the bedroom, Piero Lissoni brings us the new Chemise Bed and Chemise Sofa-Bed, which both echo the soft, enveloping lines and reassuringly classic design of the sofa from which they derive, created in 2010. In these products, minimal shapes are accompanied by maximum visual comfort, for those who do not wish to be parted from the harmonious softness of Living Divani even at night, and in their dreams.<br />
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The Milanese designer Francesco Rota, who skilfully balances neo-bourgeois touches with a more informal sense of relaxation, is the creator of the charming Hinge family of stools, with a slender metal structure that exudes measured elegance. Four light legs, joined together horizontally to provide comfortable footrests, topped by a slightly curved rectangular upholstered seat, in a range of colors, represent the ideal extension and complement for the Hinge family of tables, presented in 2010.<br />
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Living Divani renews its collaboration with Nathan Yong, the Asian designer whose work derives from a process of heartfelt thought, influenced by society and by Singaporean culture, and rooted in his childhood experiences. Off Cut bookcase is made by piecing together bits of solid walnut or oak, the off-cuts from processing larger wooden boards used to create other pieces of furniture. A light, ethereal construction, defined by what is removed, a subtle weave upholding invisible glass shelves and giving new life to material that would otherwise have gone for pulping, with a view to recycling and treating the environment with respect. Stack Table coffee tables on the other hand, focus on texture; comprising a set of three stackable containers of different heights, with a trestle structure and colorful shelves, which are lots of fun to rearrange, until you find your own favorite configuration.<br />
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The Rabbit and Tortoise collection alludes to the world of childhood and cartoons, to the stylized shapes of animals drawn by children. This family of occasional tables of various heights is designed by the young duo Timo Wong and Priscilla Lui, alias Studio Juju, also from Singapore. Seven tables, each a different shape and size, to be arranged so as to create flow within their space, making for constantly new ways of interacting, an experimental experience to be shared with the people who sit around the curves and use them in their everyday life. While the Rabbit model is shaped like a little bunny face, with two long ears pointing upwards, the cute Tortoise model depicts a head and shell, and the three Round tables A, B, C and two Long tables A and B, with different heights and dimensions, complete the range, offering a vast array of possible configurations.<br />
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2012 sees the continuation of the collaboration with emerging designer Victor Vasilev, born in Bulgaria, raised in Israel, trained in Denmark, and now working in Milan, who renews the success of Bukva bookcase with his new Coffee Table B2, which encloses magazines and other objects in an interplay of moving layers, with panels of different heights and sizes set over a square base. Available in a single 84 x 84 cm version that can stand alone or in multiples to create a larger composition, B2 seems like a miniature architectural structure, offering different perspectives according to the viewpoint.<br />
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From the imagination and creativity of Giopato&Coombes, the young designer duo - she Italian, he British - comes the armchair Kiru, with its name derived from the root of the Japanese word kimono, which means ‘to dress’. Refined, with impeccable bearing and grace, it has soft, broad shapes and distinctive sartorial details in the fabric that folds over on the sides and back, like an haute couture dress. A bold, decorative look, that arose from a rethink of the construction technique: the internal structure consists of a tubular steel insert with polyurethane foam padding, meticulously wrapped in a simply pleated fabric, without any visible stitching.<br />
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Among the new finds for 2012 is the young Italian designer Mario Ferrarini, born in 1978, who shapes the unbroken line of his stool/table Kalè using Crystalplant, a cutting-edge technological composite material. An object that brings to mind celestial worlds, a space-age habitat made of purified forms developed around the simple geometry of a circle. Softened with a round cushion, which sits asymmetrically on the splayed seat, it transforms into a handy stool. Kalè can be used alone or to enhance an existing setting, and is particularly attractive in small groups, forming a constantly evolving imaginary floral landscape.<br />
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These are the ten new designs from Piero Lissoni, Francesco Rota, Nathan Yong, Studio Juju, Victor Vasilev, Giopato&Coombes and Mario Ferrarini, which will all feature at the Living Divani stand at the Salone del Mobile, alongside the best-loved products in the existing catalogue. The architectural showcase, designed by Lissoni, creates a scenario with a highly seductive cosmopolitan look, where the brand’s sophisticated, contemporary proposals fit in seamlessly, proposing settings where home meets contract, as the firm reaches out to both sectors simultaneously.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410911516249360737.post-17593186501556494622012-05-14T13:54:00.000-07:002012-05-14T13:54:37.004-07:00Venini and Tadao Ando - Salone del MobileThis year at the Salone del Mobile Venini with Tadao Ando and Carl Hansen & Son presented the "White Collection" at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museo in Milan.<br />
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"I desire rather a lot, hope little, and ask for nothing." This is the inscription engraved on the fireplace in the private room of Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi, one of the rooms of the so-called museum that, this year, hosted the creations designed by Venini.<br />
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Venini's precise style and taste is the fruit of an enchanted mix, created over time, of a few exclusive techniques, a handful of exceptional artists who were inventors of forms, and a predilection for certain colors. This tradition and these boundaries are Venini's magic formula. It contains the calmness and skill of clear craftsmanship that has remained pure and intact throughout time.<br />
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Japanese design meets Danish craftsmanship with the new design collaboration and prototype preview: A Carl Hansen & Son world premiere featuring Tadao Ando's chair design - a lounge chair as a tribute to Hans J. Wegner. Carl Hansen & Son is one of Denmark's oldest manufacturers of high-end furniture with more than 100 years of experience. Carl Hansen & Son is the world's largest producer of furniture designed by renowned designer Hans J. Wegner.<br />
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Chair designed by Tadao Ando in collaboration with Carl Hansen & Son.<br />
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Limited edition ANDO vases designed by Tadao Ando in 2011.<br />
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photography by Marco CuratoloUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410911516249360737.post-68753372181484550612012-05-11T15:39:00.000-07:002012-05-11T16:50:13.254-07:00Fashionable chairsChairs of 7 S.F. fashion schools tell what's new
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">San Francisco Chronicle - </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sunday, May 6, 2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Design school chairs: Bo Breda (front) and Amy Williams; (middle row) Nancy Rabolt, Gladys Perint Palmer, Mary Stephens; (back) Diane Green, Suzy Furrer. </span><br />
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Some of the best trend spotting in town can be found on the corners of Polk and Eddy, Fourth and Mission, or Eighth and Hooper, where fashion students gather during breaks, many wearing their own designs or inventive thrift store finds. They're everywhere, from Dogpatch to Ocean Avenue.<br />
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San Francisco is home to seven schools with fashion degree or certificate programs, run by seven veteran industry insiders. These women craft their curricula as carefully as a designer constructs a jacket.<br />
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Responding to the popularity and influence of personal style blogs, some chairs recently added wardrobe-styling classes.<br />
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When the economy began to tank, says Simon Ungless, director of the school of fashion for the Academy of Art University who works under Executive Director Gladys Perint Palmer, "Gladys knew we had to start bringing in more instructors in traditional hand work, like embroidery and beading, because craft and quality were going to become more important to both designers and customers. We recently added a class in how to build a classic ballet tutu, and students are just flooding into that class."<br />
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This month, with the annual spring student runway shows in full swing as the collective Class of 2012 heads out the door, we thought it was a good time to talk to the fashion departments chairs form one end of town to the other.<br />
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<b>Gladys Perint Palmer</b><br />
<i>Academy of Art University, fashion school executive director since 1995</i><br />
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<b>When did you begin your fashion career?</b><br />
When I was 3 years old and started drawing.<br />
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<b>Proudest fashion teaching moment?</b><br />
When a student learns to see, not just look.<br />
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<b>Recent improvements to your curriculum?</b><br />
We've recently opened classes for a fashion marketing, promotion and PR program, and increased class offerings in visual merchandising and styling and added to our CAD curriculum for all fashion disciplines.<br />
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<b>New design trends from current graduating class?</b><br />
Designers are very focused on developing unique skills such as beading, embroidery, hand knitting, tailoring and millinery as well as becoming proficient in the use of technology such as laser cutting and digital printing.<br />
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<b>Bryanboy, "Project Runway," Polyvore: Bring it on or give it a rest?</b><br />
I have no idea...never follow (what is Polyvore)? Our students learn the traditional way: they must cut, sew and draw.<br />
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<b>Favorite recent fashion purchase?</b><br />
White blouse with interesting collar form Saks Fifth Avenue.<br />
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<i><b>Stats: </b>Approximately 2,700 fashion students. More than 40 locations. Fashion classes held at 626 Polk St., 180 New Montgomery and 2300 Stockton St. Tuition: $8,880-$10,080 per semester. Only university to show student collections at New York Fashion Week.</i><br />
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<i><b>Spring show: </b>Held Thursday, the Cannery, 2801 Leavenworth St.. About 30 fashion department students and several fine arts sculpture students (accessories) participated. Videos and photos on youtube.com and academyart.edu.</i><br />
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<i>Apparel Arts Fashion Design and Patternmaking School, director since 1996</i><br />
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<b>When did you begin your fashion career?</b><br />
In the mid-'80s, I bought a knitting machine and started making shrunken cardigans and interesting twisted knit sweaters. i sold to local boutiques and received some recognition from fashion magazines. And later I got hooked on balancing the creative end with the business end.<i> </i><br />
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I'm always proud when a student presents their eight-piece collection.<br />
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I've added more patternmaking classes, so there's less of a wait list. We've taken more space for smaller lecture-demo classes.<br />
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I'm seeing more focus on sustainable fabrics and more attention given to the effects of fabric finishing on the environment. I also notice and encourage dialogue about how to balance disposable fashion and the slow fashion movement.<br />
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<b>Bryanboy, "Project Runway," Polyvore: Bring it on or give it a rest?</b>
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I feel we're hitting a saturation point, but I do encourage my students to watch "All on the Line," with Joe Zee (Sundance channel), which focuses on the business end of the apparel industry. There's money to be made and a lot of money to be lost if you're not savvy.<br />
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My H&M Marni black/gray long polka dot coat purchased on ebay. I love the short sleeves and the darts near the back hemline. It is simple yet clever and perfect for our climate. I can see wearing it all year round.<br />
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<i><b>Stats: </b>Non-accredited, year-round classes. Tuition: approximately $7,500 to $10,000 for the 24 to 36-month program. Approximately 150 students enrolled who must produce an eight-piece fashion collection for their instructors and another 15-20 who take one-off classes. 2325 Third St., S.F., www.apparel-arts.com.</i><br />
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<i>Art Institute of California, academic director of fashion design since 2007</i><br />
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<b>When did you begin your fashion career?</b>
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I began making clothing as a child because my mom made everything we wore. in college I worked as a sample hand for a young designer in downtown Manhattan, the after completing a B.A. in linguistics, I learned to weave and spin yarn. My first job was as a sample weaver in New York's garment center. After five years in textile design, I moved over to clothing design. Using my hands to create fabrics and garments is a magical experience.<br />
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<b>Proudest fashion teaching moment?</b><i> </i>
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A few years ago, a young second-year student showed me his sketches. he was afraid he wasn't ready to apply for the runway show. I took one look at the sketches and told him, "You're ready." He reworked his sketches and began constructing them. He won one of the four scholarship prizes at our show.<br />
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<b>Recent improvements to your curriculum?</b>
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The faculty, career services staff and I have made the portfolio preparation class into a really powerful place for our students to create a full package of tools for them to go out and besiege the industry. What used to be just a book with sketches and spec sheets is now a website with magazine-quality photo shoots, among other content. We've also beefed up the four textile design classes and worked with the upperclassmen to make collections that are larger and more similar to what a real line is like.<br />
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<b>New design trends from current graduating class?</b>
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Letely there's been a lot of interest in relaxed wearable menswear, edgy modern asymmetrical women's wear, and lots of accessories added to the collections. Students realize that in the industry today accessories are often what keep a label afloat.<br />
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<b>Bryanboy, "Project Runway," Polyvore: Bring it on or give it a rest?</b>
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These are OK for initiating discussions, but that's all. our focus is professional preparation for the industry as it exists today across the globe. Designing denim, children's wear, active wear, shoes and textiles are some of the jobs our future grads will be looking at. We send them on field trips to factories, so they can see how things really are made.<br />
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<b>Favorite recent fashion purchase?</b>
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A raincoat for the 1960s by the Italian rainwear firm of Fidus. It's a waterproof nylon leopard print, and can be folded up into a pocket. Got it at the Vintage Fashion Expo. Twice a year I find fantastic items for out school's historic clothing collection.<br />
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<i><b>Stats: </b>Eight California locations, with approximately 250 students in San Francisco. Tuition: $5,690-$6,216 per quarter. 1170 Market St., S.F., www.artsinstitutes.edu.</i><br />
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<i><b>Student-produced spring show: </b>"What's Next: Are You Ready to Wear?" June 16, San Francisco Design Center, Galleria (students are not required to follow the theme). Seventeen designers participating.</i><br />
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<b>Amy Williams</b><br />
<i>California College of the Arts, fashion program chair since 2007</i><br />
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<b>When did you begin your fashion career?</b>
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The moment I graduated from Parsons School of Design in '83. I soon discovered sweater designing - I fell in love with being able to imagine and create the whole garment form the surface textures through the shape, stitch and color flow to the fit and movement on a human form. When I saw my designs on the cover of WWD for the first time, I felt complete satisfaction as a designer.<br />
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There are some many. Les Schweikert's call telling me he was appointed design director of Badgley Mischka Couture, the moment that shock and pride lit up Krista Bachmeier's face when a juror told her he wanted to bring her collection into his store immediately - and he did! When Sage Matthews '07 presented me her designer business card for Levi Strauss & Co., or when I received Paloma Von Broadley's text message telling me she was "in" as a designer in residence with SF's new Fashion Incubator program, which began in March.<br />
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We've added two mandatory curriculum courses in sustainability. Interdisciplinary courses allowing for expanded research into related product fields have been fantastic for creating deeper investigation into local fibers, industrial design/fashion design and gear development.<br />
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The collections this year have really smart thinking integrated into their materials, shaping and color choices. I see that the clothing is building with a more investigative voice - real thesis work - curiosity is driving the making rather than trends or market demands.<br />
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<b>Bryanboy, "Project Runway," Polyvore: Bring it on or give it a rest?</b>
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The curtain has been raised regarding the truths for the career of a designer - the hard work, some of the joy and sorrow; however, the massive amount of "reality" attention has dulled everyone's senses to the real work involved and the time required to learn how to design and build clothing. Not everyone can do this or should do this for a living! My biggest concern id that these shows and sites have made real crafts people seem at times frivolous and silly. Real fashion product is not mad for market in 24 hours! <br />
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<b>Favorite recent fashion purchase?</b>
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Two Ryan Roberts vests and a great jacket from MAC - they are modern, utilitarian and so easily worn! Then there are my Ellen Verbeek gorgeous green metallic wedges from Gimme Shoes. Why? They're just perfection in the line and material!<br />
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<i><b>Spring show: </b>Untitled, to be held May 11 on campus with 13 students participating. For photos, go to www.cca.edu.</i><br />
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<i>City College of San Francisco, founder of the fashion merchandising program in 1982; fashion department chair since 2002</i><br />
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In 1966, when I was chosen to be in the merchandising training program of Abraham & Straus Department [now Macy's] in Brooklyn, N.Y. My maternal grandparents worked on Seventh Avenue; my grandfather worked for Pauline Trigere at the time and I wore her designs as a teenager. To this day, I have a hard time putting together casual outfits, as I was so used to wearing high fashion.<br />
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They all revolve around former students: When Durand Guion was named men's fashion director of Macy's New York; Teresa Spiers was appointed assistant store manager of Neiman Marcus and Konrad Janus was mande coordinator of special events at Saks Fifth Avenue in San Francisco.<br />
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A new 16-unit wardrobe styling certificate. This has proved to be one of our most popular programs thus far.<br />
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Zippers, repurposing/recycling, a focus on knits and stretch fabrics, body conscious lines, vintage details, layers, playing with volume while maintaining body-conscious shapes and curved lines, combinations of knit with leather and knit with wovens, and "texture blocking" in neutral tones.<br />
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<b>Bryanboy, "Project Runway," Polyvore: Bring it on or give it a rest?</b>
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On the positive side, these have been a boon to CCSF enrollment. The downside is that students may have unrealistic career expectations. We've seen many students start out in design and then switch to merchandising because design was not what they thought it was.<br />
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Beige silk tailored peplum jacket by French designer Marc le Bihan, purchased at Les Habitudes in L.A. I love the peplum effect and the heavy silk fabric.<br />
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<i><b>Student-produced spring show: </b>"Ethereal Night," 7:30 p.m., May 20, Ruby Skye, 420 Mason St. Forty students participating.</i><br />
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<b>Mary Stephens</b><br />
<i>Fashion Institute of Merchandising and Design (FIDM), founder and director of fashion department since 1970</i><br />
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I had my own fashion business before I got the job to develop the fashion program, and I'm still here.<br />
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<b>Proudest fashion teaching moment?</b><i> </i>
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I haven't taught for many years, but I was very proud when Leanne Marshall, a FIDM S.F. graduate, won "Project Runway" in 2009.<br />
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<b>Recent improvements to your curriculum?</b>
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A "Special Projects" class for seniors in which they are recommended by a faculty member, present a portfolio and finished garment to an industry and internal panel. Each will design a four-piece collection using the same theme. This year, the Jean Paul Gautier exhibition at the de Young is their inspiration.<br />
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<b>New design trends from current graduating class?</b>
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Bright colors were an important factor. And I'm seeing that students use today's technology with fabrics that literally light up, along with washable metallics. Overall individualism is still the dominant trend.<br />
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<b>Bryanboy, "Project Runway," Polyvore: Bring it on or give it a rest?</b>
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All influences are good for students in determining their own path to a fashion career, but a formal and informal education in principles of design and technical academics must still be learned.<br />
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<b>Favorite recent fashion purchase?</b>
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A beautiful structured purple wool Marni coal with a stand-alone collar and a bow, I found at the Marni outlet store in Cabazon, near Palm Springs.<br />
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<i>San Francisco State University, Consumer and Family Studies chair since 1998</i><br />
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I learned how to sew and design in 4-H when I was very young. My mother said she would purchase the fabric if I made something, but I had to pay for anything store-bought, so I did a lot of sewing.<br />
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I'm most proud of our Apparel Design & Merchandising faculty in the department who work with out students to produce such professional shows each year. Students learn leadership, team building and organizational skills, develop contacts and add wonderful images and content to their portfolios.<br />
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<b>Recent improvements to your curriculum?</b><br />
This past year, despite budget cuts, we added an elective for all programs in the department: Sustainability in Textile, Housing, and Food industries. Sustainability is a major value and thrust of all our programs. E-portfolios, which students create in their Professional Development class, have been a wonderful way to showcase their work.<br />
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<b>New design trends from current graduating class?</b><br />
There's a real sense of self coming through their designs, less emphasis on fashion trends and more emphasis on a cultural or historical trends. Colors are more neutral and dark with an exaggeration of silhouette.<br />
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<b>Bryanboy, "Project Runway," Polyvore: Bring it on or give it a rest?</b><br />
"Project Runway" and "Fashion Star" give students a critical perspective to evaluate designs. We were very proud watching Christopher Collins, one of our alums, on "Project Runway." Our students get their news from Twitter, read and write blogs, sell their one-of-a-kind designs on Etsy, and carry their smart phones as required accessories. Educators and industry cannot escape this movement; they should embrace it.<br />
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<b>Favorite recent fashion purchase?</b><br />
A hand-painted silk kimono from Kings Mountain Art Faire in Woodside.<br />
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<i><b>Stats: </b>Approximately 400 fashion majors. Tuition: $1,600-$2,700 per semester. 1600 Holloway Ave., S.F. sfsu.edu.</i><br />
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<i><b>Spring show: </b>"Runway 2012: Defined" held Thursday, San Francisco Design Center, Galleria. Approximately 30 students participated. To see photos, go to www.sfsu.edu.</i><br />
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location: DZINE, 128 Utah St., San Francisco, CA 94103<br />
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To read the full length article go <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/06/LV7C1O7V7P.DTL" target="_blank">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410911516249360737.post-37369317949661772302012-05-07T17:41:00.000-07:002012-05-07T17:41:45.228-07:00Nendo, Nendo Everywhere<span style="font-size: x-small;">The New York Times - Home & Garden</span><br />
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THE scale of the Milan Furniture Fair - 5.7 million square feet of the exhibition space in the main fairgrounds alone - would seem to ensure that no single design studio could stand out in the crowd. But this year, the Tokyo-based Nendo, which was founded in 2002 by Oki Sato, now 34, seemed to be everywhere.<br />
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On Via della Spiga, the Nilufar gallery showed tiny bowls made of glued sheets of paper lacquered and sanded to resemble wood. At Spazio Rossana Orlandi, LED-illuminated glass bulbs to which the blowers' pipes remained attached dangled from a chandelier produced by Lasvit. At Moroso's booth in Rho, thick white canvas looked tossed over the backs of metal-frame sofas and chairs: meet the upholstery. And at Established & Sons' display on Via Savona, a desk lamp called Hood tilted forward like a hawk. Nearby, bath fixtures for Bisazza in pale larch and gleaming white serenely dotted the space.
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The bath collection was typically restrained. Bisazza produces glass tiles in flamboyant hues, but Mr. Sato chose transparent tiles for his mosaics, which he combined with Carrera marble to create a pattern of Japanese and European flowers. (He was raised in Canada until the age of 10 and routinely mixes East and West.)<br />
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"Transparency is not only making things disappear," he said. "When things disappear, you notice light and texture."<br />
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Nasir Kassamali, the chief executive of Luminaire, a furniture store in Coral Gables, Florida, praised Mr. Sato's precise eyes for proportions. "There's minimalism," he said. "And then there's intelligent minimalism."
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