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Design Week in Jerusalem: Israeli creative talent on show
Ancient city. Contemporary design practice. Jerusalem's inaugural week-long design festival foregrounds once more Israel's conceptually confident and steadily growing design scene.
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Beton in der Architektur (3): Möbel & Objekte
In unserem vorläufig letzten Teil unserer Serie „Beton in der Architektur“ liegt der Fokus auf Verwendung von Beton in der Innenarchitektur, insbesondere für Objekte und Möbel.
Der Reiz des Materials Beton liegt dabei vor allem in seiner rohen Oberfläche und deren individueller Ausprägung. In der modernen Architektur wird diese unbehandelte Rauheit und steinerne Härte gerne mit warmen, weichen oder edlen Materialien in Kontrast gesetzt.
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'There shouldn't be one rule about how to make furniture': in conversation with Interieur 2010 Designer of the Year Bram Boo
He's big in Belgium. And increasingly elsewhere, thanks to him being named Designer of the Year by prestigious design biennale Interieur 2010. Bram Boo's furniture designs delight and challenge in equal measure with their chaotic, often ironic, forms, which belie their resolutely practical functionality. Architonic made a date with the Belgian designer in Kortrijk to discuss his typology-troubling work.
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Beton in der Architektur (2): Nicht wirklich grau
Im zweiten Teil der Artikelreihe „Beton in der Architektur“ zeigt Architonic, dass Beton keineswegs maus-grau sein muss. Von sanften Tönen über starke Leuchtkraft kann er die vielfältigsten farblichen und emotionalen Kolorite annehmen.
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Beton in der Architektur (1): Einerseits stigmatisiert - andererseits zelebriert
Kaum ein Material vereint so gegensätzliche Assoziationen in sich. Einerseits stigmatisiert, andererseits zelebriert, erregt er die unterschiedlichsten Empfindungen. Im Folgenden wirft Architonic einen Blick auf das Material an sich, neue Technologien und eine Auswahl an interessanten Projekten, an welchen diese zum Einsatz kamen.
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Quiet Musings: Andres Lepik
A series of new architecture commissions and exhibitions suggests that museums might no longer be in the business of pageantry. In this first part of a short series examining post-spectacle museums, Museum of Modern Art contemporary architecture curator Andres Lepik discusses his new show 'Small Scale, Big Change', and how its earnest perspective aligns with his department’s vision.
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A Life More Ordinary: Architonic meets Jasper Morrison
Respected British designer Jasper Morrison has learnt many things in the course of his career. For example, how to design products that create 'atmosphere', as he describes it, yet have longevity, and how to ignore the marketing machine that would turn design professionals into superstars. And how a violent pink can sometimes be, well, a bit too violent. Architonic spent some time at the recent Orgatec fair in Cologne with the thinking designer's designer.
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Rückblick auf die Marmomacc Natursteinmesse in Verona
Die Marmomacc, wichtigste internationale Ausstellung für Naturstein und Naturstein-Verarbeitung, fand Anfang Oktober in Verona statt. Sie deckte mit 1500 ausstellenden Firmen ein denkbar breites Spektrum der Naturstein-Industrie ab - sei es das Material Stein an sich, Naturstein-Produkte, Verarbeitungstechniken oder Maschinen...
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Détente Cordiale: when Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance met Bernhardt Design
Already a contemporary classic, French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance's 'Corvo' chair for US manufacturer Bernhardt Design is certainly no flash-in-the-pan object to be consumed briefly and then forgotten. Highly considered in terms of its design and production, it invites an equally considered, long-term engagement from the user, one that's as much about emotion as it is utilitarian use. Architonic spent some time with the trained sculptor at this year's London Design Festival, discussing, among other things, his experience of transatlantic collaboration, why he's not a modernist, and the particular commercial – and physical – demands of the American market...
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Picknick, Pflanzen, Architektur - die wundervolle Welt Junya Ishigamis
Die diesjährige Interieur Messe in Krotrijk (Belgien) hat einen der herausragendsten zeitgenössischen Architekten als Ehrengast gewählt. Junya Ishigami, ein Schüler Kazuyo Sejimas, ist Gründer des Büros junya.ishigami+associates, Dozent an der Tokyo University of Science, Verfasser mehrere Bücher und Autor künstlerischer Wunderwerke, die durch ihren Reichtum an Phantasie und Hingabe ans Detail faszinieren...
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Same But Different: furniture that repeats on you
In his analysis of how pleasure works, Freud argued that repetition – the act of doing or experiencing something over and over again – can, in its compulsiveness, be highly enjoyable. The grandaddy of psychoanalysis might, in that case, have enjoyed a number of designs presented at last month's Interieur 2010 design biennale, which play with the idea of repetition, both formally and in terms of the notion of play itself.
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'Life is important. Design is not important': Architonic goes for a walk with Alain Berteau at Interieur 2010
Alain Berteau is often told by journalists that he is representative of Belgian design. He's not so sure. Architonic caught up with architect-designer Berteau at the Interieur 2010 design biennale to discuss his latest work, the trouble with defining design in national terms, and why designers aren't as important as perhaps they (or, rather, we) think they are.
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Messe-Rückblick: Architonics "Best of Cersaie 2010"
Die Cersaie 2010 - eine der grössten Fliesen- und Bad-Messen der Welt - findet jährlich in Bologna im Norden Italiens statt.
Wie bereits im Vorfeld der Cersaie angekündigt, präsentiert Ihnen Architonic nun die besten Neuheiten, die wir für Sie auf dieser beeindruckenden Messe recherchiert haben.
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DIY Design: the art and value of creative self-promotion
As the academic wheels of design creak into a new term, thoughts of the most recent graduates striving to avoid a professional-scrap-heap scenario fall to the back of the mind as the hunt for the latest bright young creatives begins again. But, with an increase in applicants and graduates in design subjects (around 60,000 this year in the UK) aiming to fit through what seems to be a shrinking net of professional opportunity in an already competitive field, how do designers react and evolve to ride out financial and employment turbulence?
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Fair Preview: Design Biennale INTERIEUR 2010, Kortrijk, Belgium
Der mittlerweile gigantische Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Mailand ist das Mass aller Design-Möbelmessen – doch eine kleine Messe in Kortrijk, Belgien, kann zwar nicht mit Mailands Besucherzahlen mithalten, steht ihr jedoch hinsichtlich der Präsenz an High-End Design und echter Coolness in nichts nach. Hier ein kleiner Vorgeschmack auf das, was Sie erwartet...
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Man of the Cloth: Cristian Zuzunaga talks textile and more
In the (unfortunate) hierarchy of design disciplines – just ask any architect and they'll confirm this – textile design has traditionally occupied a less-than-superior position. Spanish-born Londoner Cristian Zuzunaga has been troubling the creative order of things recently, however, with his conceptually and technically innovative work for such leading textile manfuacturers as Kvadrat and Nanimarquina. Architonic met up with Zuzunaga at the Design Post in Cologne during this year's Orgatec fair to pick at some threads.
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Valencia Disseny Week
Dank der Einladung zu FEED, dem ersten Treffen internationaler Blogger und digitaler Medien, durch die Valencia Disseny Week und den ADCV, der Gesellschaft Valencianischer Designer, wa es Architonic vergönnt, neben der Habitat Valencia auch Einblicke in die Produktionsstätten einiger spanischer Hersteller zu gewinnen.
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'It's all about surprising yourself': Matthew Hilton at the London Design Festival
British furniture designer Matthew Hilton's work manages to walk that very fine line between restraint and expressiveness. It's probably why his designs, offering as they do a kind of reassurance, are so respected by so many. But the path hasn't always been a smooth one, as Architonic discovered when we met up with Hilton at this year's London Design Festival...
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When in London...: In conversation with Giulio Cappellini
This year's London Design Festival, now in its eighth year, was not only bigger than ever, it was also more international in complexion, with a significant number of non-British brands exhibiting in their permanent showrooms, in pop-up spaces and at the somewhat-past-its-sell-by-date 100% Design fair. Part of this foreign presence, but by no means a new one in relation to the UK, came in the form of Cappellini's exhibition at the V&A Museum, which reflected on the manufacturer's collaborations with British designers for over two decades. Architonic was there to talk to the company's art director and creative-talent scout, the ever dapper Giulio Cappellini.
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Arbeit und Vergnügen: Design für mobiles Arbeiten
Im Oktober findet die Orgatec 2010 in Köln statt, die international führende Design-Möbelmesse für den Büro- und Objektbereich. Das Büro als Arbeitsort - sein Ende wurde schon vor einiger Zeit heraufbeschworen, doch es ist noch immer unter uns, oder vielmehr sind wir noch immer darin. Dennoch gehen immer mehr Menschen ihrer Arbeit an dem Ort nach, an dem sie sich gerade befinden. Die Wireless-Technologie und die Verbreitung einer neuen Kommunikations-Kultur via E-mail, Skype, Videotelefonie etc. machen dies möglich. Architonic hinterleuchtet dieses neue soziale Phänomen..
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