Seung-Yong Song: Object B
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Bethan Laura Wood: Stain
Stain is a set of a teacups designed to improve through use. This project examines the assumption that use is damaging to a product, for example, scratches on an iPod).
The interior surface of the cup is treated so as to stain more in predetermined places. The more the cups are used, the more the pattern is revealed. Over time they will build up an individual pattern dependent on the users personal way of drinking tea.
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Zaha Hadid: Liquid Glacial Table (2012)
The Liquid Glacial design embeds surface complexity and refraction within a powerful fluid dynamic. The elementary geometry of the flat table top appears transformed from static to fluid by the subtle waves and ripples evident below the surface, while the table’s legs seem to pour from the horizontal in an intense vortex of water frozen in time.
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James Clar: Lightning Strikes (reduction)
2013
40cm width x 200cm height x 35cm depth
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Kimsooja: To Breathe - A Mirror Woman (2006)
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Mathieu Lehanneur: Local River
“Local River, home storage unit for fish and greens.
The Locavores appeared in San Francisco in 2005 and define themselves as ‘a group of culinary adventurers who eat foods produced in a radius of 100 miles (160 km) around their city’. By doing so they aim to reduce impact on the environment inherent to the transport of foodstuffs, while ensuring their traceability.
Local River anticipates the growing influence of this group (the word ‘locavore’ made its first appearance in an American dictionary in 2007) by proposing a home storage unit for live freshwater fish combined with a mini vegetable patch. This DIY fish-farm-cum-kitchen-garden is based on the principle of aquaponics coupled with the exchange and interdependence of two living organisms - plants and fish.
The plants extract nutrients from the nitrate-rich dejecta of the fish. In doing so they act as a natural filter that purifies the water and maintains a vital balance for the eco-system in which the fish live. The same technique is used on large-scale pioneer aquaponics/fish-farms, which raise tilapia (a food fish from the Far East) and lettuce planted in trays floating on the surface of ponds.
Local River responds to everyday needs for fresh food that is 100% traceable. It bets on a return to favour of farm-raised freshwater fish (trout, eel, perch, carp, etc…), given the dwindling supplies of many saltwater species due to over-fishing. It also demonstrates the capacity of fish-farmers to deliver their stock live to a private consumer as a guarantee of optimum freshness - impossible in the case of saltwater fish that has been netted.
Local River aims to replace the decorative ‘TV aquarium’ by an equally decorative but also functional ‘refrigerator-aquarium’. In this scenario, fish and greens cohabit for a short time in a home storage unit before being eaten by their keepers, the end-players in an exchange cycle within a controlled ecosystem.”
NOSIGNER: HK Gravity Pearls
“Taking advantage of the collective wealth of knowledge of the artisans of Izumi – the group who first created artificial pearls in Japan – we designed “Gravity pearls” for HK (pronounced haku). The magnets embedded within the artificial pearls allow it to transform from a necklace to an earring, to a ring and to a broach. Coming together to resemble a cluster of bubbles, the pearls stand alone, not as copies, but as a unique product, proud of its artificiality.”
3D printed ceramic teacup by Lily X. Su
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This chandelier from Hilden & Diaz projects the shadow of a forest into your room!
Tokujin Yoshioka and Swarovski Crystal Palace: Stellar
Swarovski crystal chandelier, Milan Design Week 2010
Stellar area rugs designed by Schönstaub
Snarkitechture: Drift (2012)
Snarkitecture is a collaborative practice operating in territories between the disciplines of art and architecture. Established by Daniel Arsham and Alex Mustonen, Snarkitecture aims to make architecture perform the unexpected.
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