[ Stockholm 2011* ]]

Mobilier + Axel Bjurström

 

Stockholm 2011: Stockholm designer Axel Bjurström will present a collection of furniture including these wheeled side tables as part of the Greenhouse exhibition of work by young designers at Stockholm Furniture Fair next week.

 

 

Above and top: Dolly. The dolly side table takes care of the pile of magazines often found on the bottom shelf or on the floor next to the sofa. It uses the weight of the magazines to gain stability and the small wheels on the backside make it possible to move your pile around just like a hand dolly.

Called Dolly, the tables incorporate a bar to hold magazines, which in turn weight the piece.

 

Other products in Bjurström’s collection include a combined vase and candlestick, a tray in the shape of a wedding ring, makeup mirror and two chair designs.

 

Above: Flora. Flora gives you the possibility to use your candlestick as a vase or combining candles and flowers in your candelabra. It is made of high quality laboratorial glass and has a conic silicone joint in the bottom to sit steady in almost all sorts of candlestick.

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Axel Bjurström is a freelance designer/architect with a MFA from Konstfack (2007) working with architecture, interior and product design.

 

Above: Piga. Piga is a remake of the old fashion swedish “pigtittare”, a mini cabinet with an adjustable mirror to use when applying make-up. Behind the mirror i t has a partition to hold bottles and bigger tubes behind the mirror.

Clients are companies such as the Swedish fashion brand Filippa K, outdoor furniture company Nola, Panasonic etc. Exhibiting at Sthlm Furniture Fair is a first step towards focusing more on furniture and product design.

 

Above: Hammock Chair. The hammock chair is a simple tube rack with a more sophisticated free hanging textile. The seat is form sewed just like the knee on a pair of skipants that will adapt to your body and follow your movements just like a hammock.

The ambition is to find interesting companies for long term collaborations.

 

Above: Trinity. The Trinity lounge chair is a small simple lounge chair. It uses the advantages of the three materials; a wooden structure to keep it light and to get natural feel, a steel frame to achieve a stiff, thin curvy back and textile in seat and back get a smooth and comfortable feel.

via dezeen

[ David Taylor + Biologiska ]]

Point and Dot by David Taylor + 20 Designers at Biologiska

La Festivalul de Design din Stockholm (Biologiska 2011) designerul David Taylor + Stockholm studio Made By aprezentat aceste lustre galbene din plastic impachetate in hartie ca parte a colectiei 20 Designers at Biologiska din Stockholm luna aceasta. Intitulata Point, aceasta lustra se gaseste in cadrul muzeului Biologiska, unde 20 de tineri designerisi-au prezentat creatiile printre exponatele existente.

Imi place combinatia indrazneata a celor 2 maretiale: plasticul, cu o textura deosebit de glossy si opaca si hartia, cu textura sa rugoasa si translucida. Din pacate nu se poate intelege clar efectul creat de lumina aceastei lustre asupra unui spatiu (pentru ca in imagine sunt si alte surse de lumina)… dar sunt convinsa ca odata montata intr-o incapere aceasta va produce o lumina difuza tipica vremurilor trecute si lampilor pe gaz, care uneori erau infasurate in hartie colorata.

Voi mai tineti minte asa ceva? Eu stiu ca ma jucam, cand mergeam in vizita la bunici cu niste bucati de material textil pe care le puneam in lumina lampii (nu era cea mai safe activitate, dar nu am avut niciodata probleme)… oricum, ideea era ca reuseam sa creez tot soiul de umbre interesante pe peretii camerei !

Designerul a mai expus si o seie de suporturi de lumanari denumite Dot, realizate din pin, alama si argint.

Iata cateva detalii despre cele 2 creatii ale lui Taylor:

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A new candlestick series accompanies a pendant lamp in kicking off an exhibition intensive 2011.

The candlestick edition “Dot” comprises 3 pieces made to work together as a group and to cooperate when used throughout a living space. Brass, pine and silver are integrated into a pleasing disharmony that projects a natural balance and speaks of an earthy, organic calm.

“Point” has been named after the place where the land runs out and the water begins, a pendant lamp that borrows it’s characteristic form from it’s candlestick cousin “Dot”. Plastic, paper and hemp each play a role in the construction and look of this piece. “Point” is a reduction, without removing the sentiment of the work, exuding a warm and welcoming generosity that is its essence.

My workshop and studio is at MADE BY: in the Birkastan district of Stockholm. Here I produce unique applied art objects and short series pieces for private collectors, museums and institutional collections.

[ o cabana rustic chic ]]

A family effort yields a stylish mountain retreat

Ce merge mai bine iarna decat o mini-vacanta la munte? Multi vor spune ca ar vrea sa isi petreaca zilele acoperite de zapada la snowboard sau ski … dar eu prefer sa stau la fereastra unei cabane minunate ca aceasta si sa admir peisajele inghetate. Si cand casa in care stai arata astfel …  ma intelegeti, nu?

Titlul articolului este cel folosit de elledecor … si mi se pare ca se potriveste de minune  Rustic Chic e sintagma care caracterizeaza cel mai bine aceasta locuinta de vis.

The Sawtooth Mountains cut a jagged swath across the high blue western sky above Ketchum, Idaho. The American Alps, as they are ambitiously called, cradle more than 300 pristine lakes in their glacier basins. This is Hemingway country—Papa spent the last years of his peripatetic life here—a place he loved for its rugged authenticity and the myriad streams running through it. The beauty of these majestic mountains (not to mention the world-class skiing) has been luring Rusty and Mary Lynn Turner and their three children here from their native Newport Beach, California, for more than a quarter century. But it was only three years ago that the couple decided to build their ideal family retreat, one that Mary Lynn, an interior designer, insisted appear as if it had been there all along. “I always wanted to do something rustic,” she says, “but I didn’t want a luxury log home or a modern ski chalet. I wanted a house that looked like we had rescued it, like we brought it back to life.”

 

via elledecor

[ Eco | Urban + Forest ]]

Urban + Forest  aka virtualdesignlab creaza aceste suporturi de lumanari, etajere “organice” si alte obiecte cu valoare naturala, din lemn care provine din Maine. Toate creatiile lor mi se par simple, dar interesante si tocmai bune pentru a aduce un pic de “afara” in casele noastre…

[ decoratiuni | covorul mileu ]]

Va mai amintiti nelipsitele mileuri? Ca fata presupun ca era o activitate zilnica stersul prafului prin casa, lucru care implica ridicatul toturor celor 20 de bibelouri si acarete decorative dar si al mileurilor insotitoare )… amuzanta treaba! Acum, noi romanii, le detestam; putini sunt cei care mai apreciaza indemanarea batranelor care inca mai lucreaza macrameuri… Dar ce ziceti de imaginile acestea?! Se pare ca strainii nu au ajuns sa le deteste in timp, tocmai ca ei le apreciaza din ce in ce mai tare si au ajuns sa faca covoare tip macrame/ mileu!!! Mie, personal, inca imi plac , au imaginea aceea retro care e ca o gura de aer curat printre tonele de acarete moderno-contemporane cu care magazinele de lux ne ataca! )

 

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