copperindesign
exploring the potential of copper in design world
www.copperindesign.org
issue 57 May 2014
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Moiré Jewelry
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De Natura Fossilium
Mars & Pluto
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Spun Lamp
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Wave Table
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Animal Farm No.01
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Clic Case
Gem Tables
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Paolo Giordano
Ethno-Eames Bronze
The application of ethnic Indian decoration to modern
design icons is at first sight provocative. It is the layering of
ornamentation on pieces that originated precisely in the
refusal of decoration; the uniting of thought and ideas that
were historical opposites.
Italian industrial designer Paolo Giordano believes, however,
that these objects acquire a new identity as distinctive yet
indefinable hybrids, somehow so coherent they make us
forget the reasons of the separate initial gestures.
The limited edition chair, a tribute to the iconic mid-century
modern LCW chair, have been (re)cast in bronze. The chair
have identical silhouette to its famous progenitor but is
manufactured in unexpected material.
Link: www.i-and-i.it
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David Derksen
Moiré Jewelry
Dutch designer David Derksen has recently showed his
Moiré collection of layered jewellery at Ventura Lambrate
in Milan last April.
Each pendant is made from a piece of chemically etched
brass, overlaid with a piece of etched stainless steel.
This series of jewelry, is a celebration of the intriguing
moiré effect. By moving or rotating the black front layer,
the pattern interferes with the background pattern. Rings
or dots seem to appear and to move, making this into an
almost hypnotic effect.
There are five pendants in the collection. One features two
discs, both perforated with circular dots. When the front
disc is rotated from the centre, a series of expanding and
contracting rings appears. A similar design, when rotated
from the top, creates a series of larger dots.
Two square discs pierced with square holes create a grid
pattern.
Link: ww.davidderksen.nl
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Constantin Brancusi
Simplicity Is Complexity Resolved
Celebrating a hundred years after Constantin Brancusi’s
debut at The Armory Show - the first large exhibition of
contemporary art in America organized in 1913 - Paul
Kasmin Gallery presented the exhibition ‘Brancusi in New
York’. The exhibition was showed till January 2014 at the
Paul Kasmin gallery’s location in New York, the city where 90
per cent of the Paris-based Romanian artist’s works were sold
during his lifetime (1876-1957), to which he undoubtedly
owes the unfolding of his career.
The numerous American collectors, muses, friends, and
exhibitions that enabled his success had a profound
influence on the eccentric Romanian artist who lived in
Paris. And the feeling was definitely reciprocated. From the
trial concerning his Bird in Space—which helped define
modern art—to his first museum retrospective, and his
dream of a skyscraper sculpture, New York was the place
where Brancusi’s career unfolded.
‘Head’, ‘Mademoiselle Pogany II’, ‘The Newborn’, ‘Sleeping
Muse II’, and the ‘Fish’ are the five bronze masterpieces on
display which testify to Brancusi’s unsurpassed sculptural
frugality and witness how much he was inspired by the
Romanian folk art and African sculpture.
Link: www.paulkasmingallery.com
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Formafantasma
De Natura Fossilium
Italian designers Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin
of Studio Formafantasma, in collaboration with Gallery
Libby Sellers, recently presented De Natura Fossilium – an
investigation into the cultures surrounding this particularly
sicilian experience to bring both the landscape and the
forces of nature together as facilities for production.
As in their previous projects Autarchy and Moulding
Tradition, Formafantasma questions the link between
tradition and local culture and the relationship between
objects and the idea of cultural heritage.
Presented during Milan Design Week 2014, De Natura
Fossilium is a project that refuses to accept locality as
touristic entertainment. The wide-range of experiments
figuratively become different expeditions, where the
landscape is not passively contemplated but restlessly
sampled, melted, blown, woven, cast and milled. From the
more familiar use of basalt stone and brass to their extreme
experiments with lava in the production of glass and the
use of lavic fibers for textile, the material explorations and
the resulting objects realize the full potential of the lava as
a material for design.
Link: www.formafantasma.com
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Joa Herrenknecht
Mars & Pluto
Studio Joa Herrenknecht, a product design company
based in Berlin and founded in 2012, has recently designed
the Mars and Pluto side tables with copper and silver wires
woven into glass tables with wooden legs that appear
to float. Mars is the copper version and Pluto is the silver
version. They were launched during the Milan Design
Week last April.
Having been nominated for the prestigious German Design
Award 2014 and being part of the 22 young talents selected
and presented at ‘D3 Contest’ at IMM Cologne, the Studio
with this new project is steadily growing to be a new
highlight in Berlins creative scene.
Link: www.joa-herrenknecht.com
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Evie Design
Spun Lamp
The Spun lamp was inspired by the classic wooden
spinning top toy. Modernised with reflective copper and
surfaces, the Spun lamp’s curvaceous form distorts the
surrounding environment and creates an interesting play
on light and sculptural feature to any space. Versatile in
its application, the Spun light is available in three sizes as
pendants, table and floor lamps. The lights are designed
to use in simplicity on their own, in in symmetry of pairs.
Alternatively, a bold statement is achieved when hung in
clusters at varying heights. With an innovative assembly
method, there are no visible fasteners or screws used in
the Spun lamp. The frosted glass shade acts as a diffuser,
creating an even spread of light when the lamp is turned
on, whilst hiding the bulb within.
Link: www.eviegroup.com
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Boca do Loco
Wave Table
Traditional coffee table is no longer the only way to
decorate the living room; recently coffee tables are taking
original shapes and designs that give the living room
a whole unique look through unusual forms and new
materials.
Wave is an original and a stylish coffee table for a modern
living room as it is also an unconventional center table for
your sitting room. With great style and elegance it creates
an exclusive ambiance to your modern interiors.
Developed by a Portuguese jewelry artisan/designer Boca
do Loco, this piece is made of hand hammered copper
with a black mirror top. It’s made in wood finished with
manually hammered copper, with a curvilinear top made
from black mirror. The base is lacquered in black finished
with a high gloss varnish.
Link: www.bocadolobo.com
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Tom Strala
Animal Farm No.01
For his 10th anniversary Zurich-based object designer
Tom Strala presents ‘Animal Farm No. 1, a wall light that
explores the “technical and aesthetic possibilities of brass”.
In a process of 3 years this wall light found its shape. During
that time the technical and aesthetic possibilities of brass
were exhausted and enhanced on many prototypes.
Slits and bores were branded by most modern laser
technology into raw tubes, dimensions were changed,
transformed, and the consigned marks and shapes
analyzed. Aim was a grand metamorphose by minimal
destruction.
The wall light “Animal Farm No. 1” spreads a warm, white,
atmospheric light and is produced 100% in a small domestic
manufactory. The consistently dazzle-free source of light is
LED.
Link: www.strala.ch
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Fabien Nauroy
Clic Case
The Clic Case, designed by Native Union’s Head of
Design Fabien Nauroy, combines traditional cherry or
walnut wood with a slash of brushed brass. Each case
is individually cut from solid wood, hand-polished and
precision engineered to fit the iPhone 5 perfectly.
Inspired by trends in the design industry, Clic Case combines
unconventional materials and craftsmanship providing a
unique aestetic.
Link: www.nativeunion.com
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Debra Folz
Gem Tables
Inspired by the reflections of light and transparencies
found in gemstones, these bronze and glass coffee tables
designed by Boston-based designer Debra Folz, translate
facets through layers of color. Their modular geometries
allow for sculptural arrangements within a space and
gracefully project color onto the floor surfaces they occupy.
Gem Tables was recently lanched at Wanted Design during
NYCxDesign 2014 in New York.
Link: www.debrafolz.com