Design Crack » Milan Zona Tortona Preview 2008

Berlin Design Dome

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:31:21 +0000

With the up to day largest presentation of Berlin in Milan in the Zona Tortona, the internationally known design district, the product designers, representatives of the UNESCO “City of Design” (title Berlin has acclaimed in 2006) exhibit their works to the international audience of producers, buyers and journalists.
CREATE BERLIN

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MyYour Furniture

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:13:17 +0000

The MyYour collection is a relatively young furniture company with a great deal of skill in not only crafting unique products but also presenting those products in the best possible light. And speaking of light… The Community table and chairs, which combines to make one monolithic form when not in use, has a beautiful detail that makes this piece sing. That is a light in the table leg. This light makes all the elements of the furniture glow and will soon be the hit of any white themed dance club, I’m sure.

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Holy Homes Designed for Tuttobene by Frederik Roijé

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:52:54 +0000

Tuttobene is a collection of Belgian and Dutch designers who work collectively to create a spectacle at Zona Tortona.

Holy Homes Designed for Tuttobene by Frederik Roijé Two bird houses made out of the best porcelain. Designed for a period in time and love for nature. "In my belief there will be peace."
TuttoBeNe

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David Trubridge

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:12:32 +0000

David Trubridge is a poet with narrow wood frames. His work takes on the sesibility of a handbuilt boat, but the shapes are more amorphous than the bow of a ship.

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Danish Crafts Collection: Charlotte Hargreave

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:10:15 +0000

"Hargreave completed her education at the Glass- and Ceramic School on Bornholm in 2002. Since 2004 she has run the glass workshop Celsiusglas with two other glass artists Sia Mai and Karin Mørch. Hargreave’s work is typically exploratory in nature, taking a specific technique as its starting point. Her works are created on the basis of a large number of samples, which she blows, cuts up and pieces together in ways that often produce results varying from what the original intention. Hargreave gets her inspiration from the design of the 1950s and 60s and her work has a clean-cut, simple expression rooted in Scandinavian design tradition. She has received several awards for her work, including a grant from the Jubilee Foundation of the Danish National Bank and the Toyota Foundation. In 2007 Hargreave will be participating in the Craft and Design Biennial as well as exhibiting at the Danish House in Paris."
Crafts Collection

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Danish Crafts Collection: Mathias Bengtsson

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:08:09 +0000

"Bengtsson graduated from Danmarks Designskole in 1997 and from Royal College of Art in London in 1999. Mathias Bengtsson designs and produces modern furniture, which is visually captivating as well as being innovative in its productive technique. As a furniture designer he has created several series including the Slice-series, a sculptural and organic series of furniture created form an array of different materials like aluminium, cardboard or plywood and using a special technique combining the latest computer technology with advanced laser-cutting techniques. He is preoccupied with finding ways to challenge technology by combining techniques and materials from the industrial world with traditional craft techniques. His interest and ongoing research in this field have most recently given rise to an elegant series of jewellery created in cooperation with designer Sara Bengtsson. Mathias Bengtsson’s furniture has been exhibited throughout the world in places like the Röhsska Museum of Design and Decorative Arts and the Design Museum in London. In 2005 Mathias Bengtsson received a 3-year working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation. "
Crafts Collection

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