Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec momentané

Les Arts Décoratifs du 26 Avril au 1 Septembre 2013

Exposition monographique présentant l’ensemble du travail de Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec.

Que ce soit dans un contexte artisanal de production limitée ou industriel de grande qualité, à l’échelle d’une cuillère ou d’une architecture, leurs objets sont toujours le résultat d’une alchimie entre forme et fonction. Intéressés par la modularité, le nomadisme ou l’autonomie de l’utilisateur, ils cherchent à apporter des solutions nouvelles aux modes de vie de leurs contemporains.

L’exposition Momentané occupe la grande nef des Arts décoratifs et ses deux galeries adjacentes. Ces espaces permettent aux designers de développer trois approches de leur travail : au centre, une voute textile abrite une installation qui nous attire dans leur univers onirique ; côté jardin, la rélexion autour du bureau et de l’espace de travail entourée de multiples dessins et esquisses préparatoires; côté Rivoli, une approche plus domestique intégrant le processus de création et dévoilant leur méthode de travail.

www.bouroullec.com/

(Crédit photo : M.B.)

Barrier, le séparateur d’intérieur

Designer : Thomas Schnur

Thomas Schnur, jeune designer allemand talentueux revient avec Barrier, une création atypique et fonctionnelle mêlant tissus et structure métallique permettant à l’utilisateur d’agencer un espace intérieur en un mouvement.

S’appuyant sur le concept de double peaux, le tissu peut-être retiré pour entretien, transformant ainsi la fonction de l’objet.

=> www.thomasschnur.com/

A factory building in Berlin’s city center

After relocating from London, Eve and Gerard Ruecker were in the hunt for a quiet, light-filled oasis in the middle of the German capital.

But when they found this crumbling factory, they instantly fell head-over-hills in love with its charm and saw plenty of potential in it.

They hired the German architectural firm Miethe+Quehl to help them transform the industrial structure into a home with the Scandinavian flair they were going for: an ultra comfortable environment with a clean and minimalist approach.

=> http://www.miethe-quehl.de/

Vertical Horizon Serie

Photographer : Romain Jacquet-Lagreze

La série de l’artiste français Romain Jacquet-Lagreze « Horizon vertical » est un voyage photographique entre les bâtiments d’une ville sans cesse croissante. Utilisant la nature première de Hong Kong et ses horizons verticaux, le résultat qui a été réuni dans un livre, est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.

=> www.rjl-art.com/

Parisian Jewel

Designed by Betillon / Dorval-Bory

This micro apartment in Paris was designed to fit everything needed to live comfortably.

French design firm betillon / dorval-bory used a minimalist approach in its design where light becomes an important element to compartmentalize the space.

Using white as its primary color was key in making the apartment look more spacious than it actually is. This proves that square footage doesn’t actually matter that much, and it’s how you take advantage of it that counts.

=> www.betillondorvalbory.com/fr/

NewspaperWood

Designed by Mieke Meijer & Studio Vij5

La designer hollandaise Mieke Meijer, en collaboration avec le studio Vij5, a réfléchi à une manière de transformer la papier journal en bois. En serrant et compressant au maximum les feuilles les unes aux autres et en les liant grâce à une résine bio, ils ont réussi à obtenir un matériau proche du bois pouvant être façonné de la même manière.

=> www.miekemeijer.nl/

=> www.vij5.nl/

Wireflow /// 2013

Designed by Arik Levy

Une exploration géométrique en deux et trois dimensions, Arik Levy a conçu pour la marque espagnole Vibia, un éclairage en pendentif.

Wireflow réinterprète les luminaires suspendus classiques, 

diverses configurations géométriques créant des installations lumineuses au caractère unique, contemporain et original.

=> www.ariklevy.fr/

=> www.vibia.com

Puffin  /// 2013

Designed by Peekaboo x Perrine Durgnat

En collaboration avec la céramiste Perrine Durgnat, les designers de l’atelier suisse Peekaboo viennent de réaliser cette carafe d’eau.

=> www.atelierpeekaboo.com/

=> www.perrinedurgnat.ch/

Antiprism & Astrahedra Lights /// 2013

Desgned by Andreas Hopf and Axel Nordin

Andreas Hopf and Axel Nordin explore the geometry of light with their new pendants Antiprism and Astrahedra.

“An antiprism is a convex polyhedron; a form consisting of two parallel copies of a regular polygon, connected by an alternating band of triangles.”

The lights are folded from a single perforated titanium-ceramic (TiN) coated sheet of stainless steel. The folds provide stability and, by their perforations, trace the form with light into space.

The angular geometry of antiprisms allows high-performance LEDs to be mounted invisibly and glare-free, directing their light upwards to be reflected by the matte white inner top face. The luminous flux is optimised and shadow casting is much reduced. The LED’s heat is dissipated by one triangle each and no extra heat sinks are required.

=> www.hopfnordin.se/

Rethinking the split house /// Shanghai, China

Architect : Studio Neri&Hu

Chinese architecture studio Neri&Hu sliced away the rear wall and replaced it with glass for this renovation of a 1930s townhouse in Shanghai.

The three-storey building is located in the Tianzifang district of the Chinese city, where it originally functioned as a house for a single family. Neri&Hu’s redesign converts the building into three divisible apartments, each with a combined living and dining room at the back and a bedroom at the front.

A bulky metal staircase replaces the old timber steps that previously connected the floors. Sandblasted glass (completed after photography) separates the stairway from the corridor of each apartment so that residents can see the outlines of neighbours passing by.

A 45-degree skylight brings daylight into the stairwell, while a shared laundry room and terrace are positioned at the top.

“The blurring of both the private and the public acts as the central concept that binds the split level together, and at the same time, bring life to the middle and darkest portion of the house,” says Neri&Hu.

The building is arranged over split levels, so the architects have also inserted a second set of stairs within two of the apartments. Unlike the main staircase, both are constructed from timber to match the flooring.

Bathrooms stretch along the southern side of each apartment and are enclosed behind another layer of sandblasted glass. Showers feature a west-facing window, offering a view down into the shared lobby below.

New windows were added to both the front and rear elevations, while the rest of the exterior has been coated in black paint. “The colour black was selected to make the building disappear,” add the architects.

Although the building was designed for three separate tenants, it is currently being used as one large house.

=> http://en.neriandhu.com/

This That Other Chairs /// 2013

Designed by Stefan Diez

Edited by e15

A set of three - dining (This), low lounge (That), high stool (Other) - takes its name from a card trick, and develops the processes used for Diez’s previous Houdini chair.

Curved plywood shell, solid frame, and colours by Farah Ebrahimi: natural wood, neon pink, navy, white, light grey and dark grey.

=> www.stefan-diez.com/