Watch out – Australian Designers

 

I spy a couple of upcoming brilliant Australian Designers: 

BRODIE NEILL

Brodie Neill is a young dynamic designer capturing the attention of the international design scene with his new and exciting use of form. Only recently having graduated, the 28-year-old Australian has quickly built up an impressive collection of international exhibitions and prestigious clientele.

 

jet - desk

carbon / fibre / Swarovski crystals

A Swarovski-inspired desk with seamless fluidity partly encrusted with crystals. The dynamic form’s undulations are detailed with a mix of dark crystal colours and effects contrasted against the smooth graphite table surface.

 

    

 

 

 

 

scuba - chair

leather / fibreglass / lacquered fibreglass

A contouring lounge consisting of a single surface rolling and wrapping to create both form and function. 

scuba is sold through domodinamica 

 

 

 

 

 

KORBAN/FLAUBERT

 

Korban/Flaubert is a design and production office founded in 1993 by metal specialist Janos Korban and Architect Stefanie Flaubert.  In 2001 Korban and Flaubert set up their current studio/workshop/showroom in the industrial suburb of Alexandria in Sydney.  They describe the workshop as ‘a laboratory of form’, in which they playfully explore the cross-over between geometry and nature.

 

Jetstream

Sculptural Lounge 

Material: Stainless Steel

 

 

 

 

Big Noodles

Material: Stainless Steel

 

 

 

For details on the above mentioned products please contact Korban/Flaubert.

Massproductions presents the ‘Harry Stool’ : designed by Chris Martin

Called Harry, the product comprises two curved, laminated components held together by solid, wooden wedges.

      

 

   

This simple concept led to a charming stool which can also function as a footrest or a side table. The Harry stool has pleasing tactile qualities and is available in two heights and three surface finishes; natural, black and white stained.

Massproductions : Harry Stool

via: Dezeen & Daily Icon

Knoll : Live. Learn. Play

 

Has been created for the ones we love.  Knoll kids is a collection of spirited, modern furniture scaled for a younger generation. 

 

 

 

              

From the top: 

Kids Cyclone Side Table, with Child’s Bertoia Diamond Chair

Isamu Noguchi’s Playful tables were manufactured in 1954 in varying sizes, and later evolved into a table that became a companion piece to the Bertoia wire children’s chair.

Child’s Womb Chair

Eero Saarinen’s 1948 Womb chair, made exclusively for Knoll, displays the Finnish-born designer’s flair for challenging rules, breaking molds and setting new standards for modern design. 

Child’s Risom Amoeba Table and chairs

Jens Risom’s original 1941 collection for Knoll incorporates a natural aesthetic characteristic of understated Scandinavian design. 

All pieces are available through Knoll

 

Splashbacks : Architectural Kitchen Spaces

 

 

Wanting a change in the kitchen? Lets show you a couple of fantastic ways to transform your kitchen into a place of desire.

           

The Splashback Company has collaborated with a unique team of artists to create Everprint Glass. The product allows them to capture any image, pattern or photograph on glass for use in a range of architectural applications. Everprint Glass is suitable for use in both interior and exterior settings including: kitchens, bathrooms, bar, restaurants, facades, signage and furniture. It’s constructed using 6mm toughened safety glass, it is suitable for use behind a gas cook-top.  And is UV and fade resistant. 

 

The project is a collaboration with Melbourne Artist Soula Mantalvanos. The sketch is an adaptation of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s ‘The Banquet of Cleopatra’.

    

 

Everprint Glass: Created By Melbourne Based Designer Brent O’Keefe

 

 

    

                                                   

 

 

Products:

The Splashback Company: Everprint 

 

Insitu Furniture: Caprice Stool: Marcello Ziliani

 

Areaware: Orbit Chandelier: Patrick Townsend

 

Next up is another wonderful product from The Spashback Company.

 

Prosatin is a smooth, non-reflective glass splashback.  Prosatin is an alternative to the ‘high gloss’ finish of a regular glass splashback with the same level of heat resistance and durability.

 

 

 

 

Products:

The Splashback Company: Prostain Splashback

Insitu Furniture: Miura Stool by Plank: Designer: Konstantin Gricic

 

Poliform: Free Sideboard: Designer: Carlo Colombo

 

 

 

The Gauge : workplace

The latest Green Star-rated building, the Gauge at Melbourne’s Docklands, is the next big thing for Lend Lease, which is riding the green style wave after the success of its award-winning building, 30 The Bond, in Sydney.  The building was complete in April 2008

 

 

  

Throughout The Gauge, where the focus is on the individual, traditional desks interplay with work style alternatives.  The cosy lounge area by the open fire is complete with board games and magazines, it’s a sanctuary for personal time.  The environment is diverse managing to keep it social, but professional.  The glazed meetings rooms with a natural stream of light, foster collaboration and team work, while elsewhere den-like concrete walls enclose for privacy.  This sophisticated result reflects the authenticity and diversity of Melbourne’s commercial and cultural aesthetics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hecker Phelan & Guthrie in association with WHO Design and Lend Lease

 

photo: Marcus Clinton

 

the selby : interesting people & their creative spaces

 

stefano tonchi – editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine at his home – new york city – june 15 2009

More photo’s on the selby 

Joseph Dirand : Hotel Distrito Capital in Mexico

 

Parisian interior designer Joseph Dirand’s work graces Grupo Habita’s Distrito Capital in Mexico City. 

 

Grupo Habita has unveiled its 8th hotel, Distrito Capital, in Mexico City’s international business neighborhood of Santa Fe, helping the city to cement its reputation as the leading 21st-Century metropolis.  With Distrito Capital, the company once again delivers its signature chic and outstanding service to previously unthought-of environments and transforms them into instant classics.

 

 

The latest, most arresting, interior design trends – this time courtesy of Joseph Dirand – come into their own at Distrito Capital. Grupo Habita left nothing to chance; from the most prominent vintage furnishings to details like John Pawson’s cutlery, and even in the smallest (yet significant) in-room accessories from Acqua di Parma.

 

    

 

 

In all spaces, rigorous horizontals and verticals are enhanced by modern furnishings courtesy of Platt, Hansen and Aalto Artek Aalto A110 Pendant Lamp, Hans Wegner CH008 Coffee Table in the lobby, planter low table from Knoll, Organic Chairs by Vitra, and includes pieces by German Industrial Designer Dieter Rams among others.

 

     

 

 

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Distrito Capital, Mexico City, Mexico, by Joseph Dirand, Diámetro Arquitectos
for Grupo Habita

via: Yatzer,  Daily Icon

photo © Adrien Dirand, courtesy of DISTRITO CAPITAL

Fjall Ski Lodge : Falls Creek

The Fjall Luxury apartments in Falls Creek, Victoria. Interior Design by Paul Hecker.  Looks like it’s going to be a bumper year for skiing the Aussie slopes. This place is exactly where I’d like to play.   via The Cool Hunter to read more.

 

Matthew Johnson : Artist

New Paintings  21 July – 9 August  2009 exhibtion at Tim Olsen Gallery, Paddington Sydney

 

Matthew Johnson’s pigmented surfaces demonstrate a delight in the application and layering of paint.  His studio is full of precious pigments that recall the work of Japanese nihonga- style painters who are trained in traditional methods of mixing rare pigments.  Often made from natural materials such as shell, nihongo-style painters mix pigments that glisten with different textures Johnson uses the iridescent pigment iriodin which is made from sand to imbue the canvases with an effervescent glow. 

 

 

 

 

In the series Ambrosial light, an intimate scale is enhanced by a tranquil palette. The fragility and delicacy of the fine grid is overlaid with pastel colours from sumptuous lilacs to misty blues. Like wafts of clouds, these smaller paintings seem hazy as colour is distilled into harmonious pools of light. Dissipating spheres suggest an experimental quality reinforced by the fact that Johnson sensitively observes shifting light sources throughout the day. The saturated and bleached light of Australian conditions imbues these works with a silken, atmospheric quality. Ultimately, Johnson inflects his abstraction with a reverie for texture and light. (via)Tim Olsen Gallery

 

Deborah Bowness : Wallpaper

Are we in the middle or end of the Wallpaper craze.  I’m not sure which way to go with that question, but some wallpapers are literally wallflowers and others stand out in a crowd.  Here is one woman who gets my attention in the world of paper -  Deborah Bowness. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She has been designing and hand printing wallpapers for seven years, developing her unique design style and the quality of her product.   This is art for your walls. Deborah’s quirky wallpapers can be found at Empire Vintage in Australia.