MAISON & OBJET report/ The Strawberry Fields project involves artists and designers from widely different cultures and backgrounds who were invited by I + I to design carpets that would be the free expression of their creative language.
The latest project of the photographer Simon Høgsberg is called "We're All Gonna Die" and It consists of 178 people walking towards and away from the camera under an open sky. The best part is that this photo is 100meters long!
A post dedicated to ALL the animators of the UNIVERSE! An amazing fight between an Animator and an Animation in a FLASH battlefield by Alan Becker, an18 years old designer from Ohio, US.
MAISON & OBJET report/ Ligne roset launches the award winning (Elle Decoration Awards 2007) lamp "Hidden Agenda", designed by the greek famous industrial designer Afroditi Krassa. The Hidden Agenda is a wall/floor lamp that simply leans against the wall.
MAISON & OBJET report/ Using some 2D or 3D details from the museum collection or from the production pieces and mixing them on actual volumes as cylinders, Sam Baron is designing his own the Vista Alegre DNA.
MAISON & OBJET report/ During the Maison & Objet exhibition in Paris, Bosa added some new products in its unique ceramic collection, designed by Sam Baron under the title "Issima collection".
MAISON & OBJET report/ Utiles & [F]utiles is the new double glass collection designed by the art director of Fabrica Features, Sam Baron for Secondome. In this new edition the rational shape is opposed to the baroque.
Volksfaden is the name of an online shop which is based in Germany but is able to ship world-wide. The photo collages of the fabric previews are definetely able to make you buy some unique pieces from its founder's, Lind Gaylord, selections.
MAISON & OBJET report/ One strip is the latest domestic collection of wallpaper strips drawn by graphic artists and designers. Conceived to be used and installed vertically or horizontally, they are all deployed in the width of a single strip.
MAISON & OBJET report/ Destruction, power and the intentional contradiction of fine surface decoration - utilising traditional ‘crafts’ such as stitching, lace and appropriation of colour - manifest itself in the functional tableware of Terrie McGettigan.
MAISON & OBJET report/ Lowri Davies’ vibrant illustrations of birds, ‘traditional’ landscapes, floral and fauna adorn her own distinct bone china tableware designs of tea sets, vessels and vases.
MAISON & OBJET report/ Specialising in thrown porcelain tableware, Rachel Dormor’s range embraces and unites thrown and cast production techniques, decorated with contour drawings in platinum lustre.
MAISON et OBJET report/ Sustainability and function are the central aspects of Iris Lehto’s designs whilst also borrowing on aspects of cultural heritage and aesthetics from her native home Finland.
MAISON et OBJET report/ Every Drop Counts is a series of bowls where the bottom of the bowl is subtly inclined to create a whole new way of getting people to finish every last drop.
MAISON & OBJET report/ Carol Jacob ceramics were part of "Ceramic Futures" project, a showcase of new collections by ceramic designers graduating from the MA Ceramic Design course, Staffordshire University at Maison & Objet, Paris
MAISON et OBJET report/ A masterful stylistic undertaking between colored cut crystal or pieces engraved with gold and metallic ceramics which successfully bridges the gap between sumptuous transparency and velvety opaqueness.
Yatzer is happy to share with our readers some of Géraldine Klein's "sweet" secrets. Discover her talent...after a sweet break!.
MAISON et OBJET report/ The very last creation of i-bride studio, a large-scaled mule with its harness. The burden of the animal is the working place, a secretaire, and the animal’s structure can be used as an additional storage.
The mission of Letter Museum in Berlin is the preservation and documentation of letters, regardless of culture, language and font systems. Letters stand at the interface between written and visual culture. They are the basic building blocks of all semiotic textual traditions and written communication.
Adenike is a concept for a new type of furniture. It combines the qualities of a table and an upholstered piece of furniture. The table consists of a flat horizontal surface, supported by one ore more legs and thus, kept in an appropriate height.
MAISON et OBJET report/ It's name is "upwardly mobile" and is the latest design that was presented by Thelermont Hupton during the Maison & Objet exhibition this January in Paris. Instead of simple hungers this coat-stand has small model-climbers.
For her solo show at Fat Galerie in Paris, Bendetta Mori Ubaldini made two installations: The Riding Hood and wolves, and Happy Days, both filling the space with a symbolic and poetic narrative .
Ruigrok | Netpanel, an office for market research, choose an old concrete silo in Amsterdam as her new office.The rough, industrial, open space had the character that owner Marja Ruigrok was looking for and Cube Architects found the best solution to complete her vision.
MAISON et OBJET report/ A piece that is based on a symbolic element in Jaime Hayon’s career, his original chair designed for the Showtime Collection by BD Ediciones de Diseño.
LIVE FROM PARIS...here comes the first from Maison & Objet category of posts that are going to be puiblished soon at Yatzer. Let's start with the HAYON-ation trend...and one of Jaime hayon's latest design for Lladro.
A farm is basically an area of land devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food. Well at least until now... Forget anything you knew so far because now there is a farm which is producing and managing Art, designed by HHF Architects and located near Salt Point in upstate New York.
Yatzer Design Fight No7. "Manana" lamp by Marie-Louise Gustafsson for Design House Stockholm or "Eileen" by Vincent & Paul Georgeson for Misewel?
Zaha Hadid Architects first London interior for two decades explodes within the Georgian restoration of the ground floor at Home House private members club. The furniture installations, flow through the bar, entrance, and reception rooms to create an interior landscape of sculptural islands.
For the avant-garde cocktail lovers, the "Hooker's delight" is a must have accessory. Designed by Greece Is For Lovers, one of the most conceptual design Teams based in Athens.
The future headquarters of Antwerp Port Authority will be designed by the London firm of Zaha Hadid Architects. The choice of architect was made at the Port Authority board meeting on 13 January. The new Port House will occupy the site of the technical services building on quay 63.
The floor lamp CORDULA is inspired by objects used on construction sites. It is the crossbred of a spotlight and a cable reel, designed by Stephanie Jasny
At first sight this sculpture seems mysterious and requires some explanation; that with a simple movement it unfolds into a dining table for ten and ten dining chairs.
A simple, almost childlike form combined with happy colours and wood. Normann Copenhagen presents Plane – a wooden aeroplane designed by Ole Søndergaard for children of all ages.
The landscape in which these rooms are placed is by most people considered spectacularly beautiful and varied and the topography allows a layout where no room looks at another. A project by JSA Architects in Norway.
Industrial designer Constance Guisset in collaboration with Grégory Cid designed the "Tri3". A garbage can of sorting with 3 different pedals which open 3 different cans. If you are freak with recycling your garbage in house, you will definitely find this product useful.
C18 Architects developed a layout for the first house that jewelry designer, Georg Spreng build for his family, which accomplishes work and living in one building and Yatzer has the honor to share it with you for the first time in the e-world.
When set designer Nicola Yeoman mixed together some red and white objects, he had only one thing in mind. All his red selections to form a two-dimensional E letter when viewed from one specific vantage point .
Marina Bychkova is a doll sculptor and her enchanted porcelain dolls reflect the dark and sometimes threatening undertones that classic fairy tales often contain - they are fragile and vulnerable in their beauty.
After their staircase light installation, WORKS.PSLAB was approached by interior designer Cynthia Zahar for the development of the lighting concept for "MAKAM" art gallery.
The project takes place in a former 1200 square meter anti-atomic shelter. An amazing location 30 meters down under the granite rocks of the Vita Berg Park in Stockholm. The client is an internet provider and the rock shelter hosts server halls and offices.
For the 21st edition of the International biennial Interieur in Kortrijk, the Foundation Interieur managed to snare the Spanish designer Jaime Hayon. Since the first edition in 1968, an international guest has been chosen carefully for his ability to surprise, to reflect and preferably outpace the spirit of the times
The first exhibition to identify and analyze today’s most influential lifestyle trends–as seen through the eyes of the world’s leading trend forecaster, Li Edelkoort.
Made by the photographer Jean-Yves Lemoigne for the 3rd issue of the French magazine Amusement. A magazine dedicted to video games and interactive culture. The PIXXXEL shooting was made by the best naked "pixelized girls" we've ever seen!
El Departamento de Sanidad y Osakidetza, the new unified headquarters of the Basque Health Department created by the young and prolific firm Coll-Barreu Arquitectos are located in the Ensanche, New Town (Spain).
Each different piece of the "Possible" platforms looks like a unlikely random pile which on the contrary was precisely designed following standard design rules such as ergonomics, stability and use.
Kaman Tung graduated from the "Man and Living" Department of Design Academy Eindhoven in December 2008. Today she sent us her conceptual graduation "FAMILY" project. The members of this family include the Case Chair, the Backpack Chair, the HangerChair and the Table.
Detour Design announces the release of the first title in a limited edition Fornasetti collection “Theme and Variations”, animated interpretations of the work of Italian artist Piero Fornasetti. This high definition Blu-ray disc is the first in a series of three titles
The latest project of famous Slovenian OFIS Architects completed in October 2008. The location of the LACE apartments block is in the centre of Nova Gorica which is situated in the west of Slovenia.
The idea of hammock is transformed from a simple ‘rope’ object to an actual furniture piece. Using the state of art technology for a simple idea, this hammock has become the FIRST in the world that is ergonomic to sleep in.
Designed to carry in your pocket or coin purse by 5.5 Designers, currenkey is a USB flash drive designed like a coin for Lacie. The coin facing value illustrates the memory capacity.
Graphic designer Shaz Madani was ommissioned by " Ideas Factory ", a London based graphic design studio to create the window installation for estate agents Douglas & Gordon in South Kensington, London.
Korean industrial designer Jaebeom Jeong explores the relationship between computer generated and classical forms through his grid series project.
"I'm very partial to pop," says architect Pedro Gadanho to ICON's design editor - Johanna Agerman . "I think that comes out in my work." His most recent project, a family home in Oporto in Portugal, demonstrates this penchant with bold and colourful details inspired by Transformers.
Zachari Logan is a 28 year old Canadian artist who paints and draws his own body as subject, engaging personal narratives that contradict and question existing notions of masculine representation. Logan talks to Yatzer, two weeks before his solo exhibition in Paris.
