SNOWFLAKE

Project: Snowflake

Location: Milan

I saw a few images of Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshiokas completed installation comprising of hundreds of transparent plastic sticks at the Kartell showroom in Milan last week, and it immediately caught my attention. Called Snowflake, the installation displayed Yoshioka’s beautifully minimalist Invisibles collection of clear plastic furniture:

‘I am drawn by things that do not have forms but leave emotional effect to people. At a glance, such material is invisible and its existence is erased. Through the interaction with light, however, the form suddenly emerges.’

info and images from:

http://www.tokujin.com/
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/04/20/snowflake

BOYS AND GIRLS: LEGO LEGO LEGO

New Dublin based advertising agency ‘Boys and Girls’ approached architecture and design practice ‘ABGC’ with a brief to transform their new establishment, a gorgeous Georgian house with high ceilings, great spaces and original joinery, into something that was more playful without becoming juvenile.

ABGC went ahead, by trying to give the space a more small contemporary gallery feel they stripped all the floors and whited out all the 90’s color paint covering the walls, which also made the space more functional for presentations etc…The proposal also included a 1.2m x 2.7m boardroom table made out of Lego. The company’s logo is built in relief into the table- top. The table consists of 22,742 pieces clicked together with traditional Lego construction techniques; a 136mm grommet is located in its centre. It sits on a polished Stainless Steel square hollow section structure and is topped with a 10mm sheet of toughened glass.

Artist Cormac Browne made this 2 minute stop frame animation of the construction and installation of the table, which consists of over 8,000 photos. I noticed the table a little while ago, but only saw the video today and it made me happy…

Info and images from ABGC’s website:

http://www.abgc.ie/portfolio/boys-girls

SOFT PARCEL

SOFT PARCEL

Object: Upholstered Furniture Collection

Design: TAF, Gabriella Gustafson & Mattias Ståhlbom

Photo: Joakim Bergström

Date: 2009

Saw this project by TAF architects and thought it was fantastic. It seems like such a simple idea when you see it. Here’s a little info on the project taken from their website:

‘What could be the easiest way to upholster a piece of furniture? We took a piece of foam and wrapped it with fabric in the same way you make a parcel. The fabric looks like paper and the product becomes a gift.’/ ‘The parcels are soft and work as modules to build different comfortable seating possibilities. When the trolley is loaded with parcels it becomes an easy chair.’

Images and info from:

http://www.tafarkitektkontor.se/