In the coming exhibition at Galerie Nordenhake in Stockholm Mikael Olsson has delved into the legacy of Bruno Mathsson, one of Sweden’s most important Modernist designers and architects.
Frösakull is a house Mathsson both designed and lived in. Olsson interacted with the remains of the house, and just as Mathsson he experimented with the house and its possibilities. The result is a collection of images wich shows us an arrangement of an architectonic legacy. Olsson has arranged and transformed the rooms into a stage, only using props like light, emptiness and shadows.
The Södrakull residence, which had been closed off since the Mathssons’ passed away, Olsson approached in a different way, as a voyeur. It is photographed from the outside and through half-drawn curtains. With this method Olsson creates a feeling of frozen memories.
In this body of work Olsson has created an interplay between presence and absence, inner meaning and representation, turning the very notion of the human gaze inside out. The images are marked both by sober objectivity and by tenderness. Together, they form a sort of portrait, as well as a chronicle of architecture, remembrance and ageing. For this reason the photographs cannot be considered documentary but instead a very subjective depiction of Mathsson’s public and private legacy.
This project includes an impressive monograph, published by Steidl Verlag, to be released later this fall. The book includes texts by Beatriz Colomina, Hans Irrek and Helena Mattsson. Designed by Acne Art Department and Mikael Olsson.
The exhibition Södrakull Frösakull takes place 9 January – 14 February 2010.
The first Camper shoe store in Sweden recently opened up in Malmö. It’s designed by TAF, Gabriella Gustafson & Mattias Ståhlbom. The design concept of the store derives from the well known truth that “everybody loves Ice Cream”. Several scale models were built by real Ice Cream sticks to be re-scaled into full size furniture. The furniture collection is made to expose at least 40 pair of shoes and consists of tables, stools, benches and one cash desk. The tabletop and the sticks are made out of color stained solid birch. All the used colors come from different tastes of Ice Cream. The curtain walls are made out of vanilla colored sliced rubber to hide the stock of shoes on the backside. The floor is vanilla colored concrete. All the existing walls and the ceiling are painted in matt vanilla color.
100 Places to Remember Before they Disappear features 100 photographs from one hundred different places around the world in risk of disappearing or seriously threatened by climate change.
The pictures are taken by some of the world’s best photographers and all the places are based on reports from UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
On their website you can see the photographs and find further information and news about climate change and the project.
“100 Places to Remember…” is also an outdoor exhibition that among other places was exhibited in Copenhagen during the COP 15 climate meeting.
Bonnier R&D has made some research into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. The video above illustrates one possible vision for digital magazines in the near future. The concept is presented by BERG.
Bonnier R&D would be more than happy to hear what you have to say regarding the concept and ideas expressed in the video: the magazine reading experience, digital browsing, text versus images, as well as hear about your own digital reading experiences and thoughts.
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec has just finished the interior for Dos Palillos, the new restaurant of the Casa Camper Hotel in Berlin. Looks great. Will try to go there soon. Between the images below you will find the story about the project told by the Bouroullec brothers.
Camper invited us to design Dos Palillos, the restaurant of the Casa Camper Hotel in Berlin Mitte that will open in January 2010. What immediately interested us was that Dos Palillos was a one of a kind culinary experience offered by Albert Raurich, elBulli’s former chef. In order to celebrate his cuisine, the concept of the restaurant gives full means of expression to his culinary art.
Naturally, the kitchen had to be the centre of the space and thus, it had to be wide open so that guests could see the preparation of the dishes from the beginning to the end. We have decided to articulate the environment around one long wooden table and the stainless steel kitchen, one module facing the other. Consequently, the guests find themselves at the centre of the kitchen, while the chef acts in front of them.
It was important for us as well to set a dialogue between the 10 cooks and their nearly 30 guests, invited in the chef’s kitchen. In order to emphasize such an interaction and encourage eye contact, we worked on different ground levels so that the guests are able to have a global experience once seated at the table, as if they were attending an artistic performance. Throughout the project, our intention was to reduce our level of intervention to the utmost to let the scenery express itself. Indeed, the space is voluntarily raw with very few elements and materials to sustain the idea that the legitimate sense of the space comes from the relation between the guests and the cuisine.
The restaurant is located on the ground floor of the Casa Camper hotel. Large glass windows separate the space from the street in order to invite the people passing by to participate to the show that is happening in the kitchen.
Natacha Marro has created these fabulous Mary Jane ‘heal-less’ liquid red glitter shoes exclusively for online shop 20ltd.com.
Natacha Marro grew up in Nice before moving to London to study at the world renowned Cordwainers College. After serving a traditional apprenticeship she opened her first shop in South London in 2000. Over the last 14 years she has created her own unmistakeable style (her work is proof of her motto: ‘anything is possible’) that is mandatory wear for the world’s most flamboyant dressers. Her client list includes David Bowie, Gwen Stefani, Goldfrapp, Daphne Guinness, Grace Jones, Girls Aloud, Olivia Newton John and Grayson Perry. Her reputation became truly galactic when she was asked to design Luke Skywalker and Obi One’s shoes in the latest Star Wars films.
Handmade to order. Only 10 pairs will ever be made. Delivery Time is two weeks so you better hurry up of you want them for your New Years Eve party!
The new issue of unique polish magazine FUTU is presented by an eye-catching video. As an alternative way of design magazine presentation you can watch page by page and listen to the music. It’s a begining of a series – every new issue of FUTU will be complemented by a supporting video.
FUTU brings new look to design, photography, fashion and luxury by combining most advanced publishing techniques with newest trends in graphic design and typography. FUTU8 SUSTAINABILITY was creating in a cooperation with Frost design studio from Sydney. Its all focused on responsibility, ecology, thinking about the future for the next generations. FUTU is a phenomena on a magazine market – every issue is designed by a different, best studios all around the world. /Studio8 Design from London, Albert Folch from Barcelona/Frost Design Australia.
There are some interesting writers as well… In this new issue of FUTU I have as editor-in-chief of David Report, on six pages, delivered a checklist for sustainability!
The City of Copenhagen, one of the world leading cycling cities, aims at establishing a new bike share system and has therefore initiated an open international design competition. The winning entry, called OPENbike, puts the user in the centre and proposes a system that is easy to use, flexible and fully scalable. The design goal has been to create a system that seamlessly integrates with public transport and becomes a natural part of Copenhagen’s existing bicycle culture. The system proposes a smart card system and positioning solutions integrated in each bicycle to create a fully floating bike share system. OPENbike does therefore not need special stands and bicycles can easily be repositioned and adapted to the cities changing needs.
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