L'ATELIER d'exercises is very interesting new French brand for us. We have visited its stand at Maison et Objet in Paris last Month.
The brand produces very unusual products ranging from the wooden box for storage of found natural objects to the table mobile by Francois Azambourg or the special calendar system by Sebastian Bergne.
Its stand at the Paris fair was very friendly full of these on the first sight nonfunctional things but very playful and poetic.
Thanks all the blogs and magazines featuring our OKOLO Mollino book including Hypebeast, Its Nice That, Yatzer, Selectism and many many others.
Now the book was published again. This time on Surface Magazine website. And this post is one and only real original article from all the published pieces on the blogs. Thanks to writer Doug Black, who made small interview with us, for his editing work.
Teshima Art Museum by Ryue Nishizawa of Sanaa in Japan is one of the most interesting public buildings of the recent years. Organic minimalism sits in the nature as a drop of water on the leaf. The similar shape approach we have found in Alain Berteau`s Lens stationary box for his new brand Objekten as well. If you want have Teshima at home on your desk, you can take this elegant home wooden object. In both cases you can discover contemporary design spiritualism.
These brass pots are ideal friends of your nicely prepared dinner table setting.
Designed and produced by Japanese Futagami company, the pots which cover table against the hot pans and pots, are very nice plastic abstract, yet very practical every-day objects. Japanese raft mastery meets our dinner habits!
Some another news from Paris Maison et Objet. We were surprised by the new collection of The Danish furniture brand Hay. It presented whole new series of the paper accessories during the fair.
Nicely designed paper stationary, boxes, diaries and much more was designed by internal Hay design studio and it represents pure work graphic work with graphic and minimalist play with shapes. Do not miss brand new catalogue from Hay which contain whole collection in the very beautiful photos and graphics. Some more information about the catalogue later!
Really nice graphic leaflet and photos for Silent Revolution exhibition presenting contemporary Slovenian design last year at London Design Festival.
Originally manufactured by Heinrich Kaufmann & Sohne, Indiawerk in Solingen, Otter-Messer Mercator K55K "Kat" Knife is the legend of Kaiser Wilhelm's Army in WWI.
Now manufactured again by Solingen Company, this simple, but robust knife represents beautiful functionalist design with the iconic cat logo of The Heinrich Kaufmann & Sohne, Indiawerk.
More from Paris and its design scene. During Maison et Objet, we have visited Bensimon gallery for the opening and surprisingly we have seen newest collection of furniture of our favorite, Eindhoven-based Max Lipsey.
We interviewed Max some time ago about his passion for bikes and his furniture collection called Acciaio, which is the Italian word for steel. Made out of Columbus tubes, the furniture is elegant as some of the best hand-made Italian bikes.
In The Bensimon gallery we took a closer look for Acciaio 2 series, collection of cabinets, lamp or screen. All the pieces are made out of the same technique as before. We like the details of joining, perforating and cubist like shapes of the collection which was launched this autumn with the help of The New York-based Matter design store.
Our good friend from Vienna, designer Marco DessÃ, has presented his latest project called Frame.
Frame is the variable silver and perspex tray which Dessà designed for Wiener Silber Manufactur, traditional silver manufacture founded in 1882. The tray includes silver square tray and various colorful perspex circles creating the different plates. Very nice combination of tradition craft and contemporary design freshness.
The Another hot stand in the halls of Maison et Objet fair has prepared Belgian designer and producer Michael Verhayden.
His products are as abstract symbols of the big painting for us. We bring you these pictures of Verhayden`s stand as abstract compositions where colors and materials create wonderful world of decoration and craft.
In the style of many 20th century decorators, Verhayden creates delicate products and accessories using various materials, such as marble, leather, wood, brass or horn. The outcome is the ultimate luxury collection of daily things: combs, scissors, bowls, bags, as well as 1950s inspired 55 armchair or the minimalist stand lamp.
Verhayden makes all the things hand made and in the limited series. He is true decorator/maker of our time.