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"Seems as if we're circling for very different reasons But one day the Eagle has to land" <a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6092/6284048702_024ce67f5c_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6092/6284048702_024ce67f5c_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 759px; height: 756px;" /></a> <a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6032/6283529919_edbe3f056f_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6032/6283529919_edbe3f056f_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 692px; height: 1024px;" /></a> Rose Tarlow vs Georges Jouve "a simple desire for the forms to tell the story." "<a href="http://www.magenxxcentury.com/designers/georges-jouve/">Georges Jouve</a> is known as one of the most important ceramists of the 20th century. He succeeded in modernizing the art of pottery by developing unique techniques motivated by his individual style of sensual and sometimes ironic creations that illustrate a subtle combination of rigor, savoir-faire and imagination. Jouve graduated from the prestigious Ecole Boulle where he received both theoretical instruction in Art History in addition to his technical studies as a sculptor. During World War II, Jouve was captured by the Germans, escaped from a camp and took refuge at his step parents home in a potters village in the South of France called Dieulefit. During that period, Jouve learnt from the local potter's traditions. He created decorative objects modeled in clay and inspired by the religious figurines that were common in that region. In 1944, Jouve opened his studio in Paris and was invited by Jacques Adnet to participate in the exhibitions of the Compagnie des Arts Francais. He subsequently participated annually in numerous 'Salons' in France and internationally: Salon des Artistes decorateurs in Paris, Association Francaise d'Action Artistique in Rio de Janeiro, and Vienna, Toronto, Rome and Cairo."<a href="http://www.magenxxcentury.com/designers/georges-jouve/"> (text from here)</a> Go to <a href="http://rosetarlow.com/light-detail.php?subcat=42" style="font-style: italic;">Rose Tarlow</a> "I have always had an aversion to the concepts of in style and out of style." <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANtxWeDIidI" style="font-style: italic;"> </a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANtxWeDIidI" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">lyrics from here.</a>

"Seems as if we're circling for very different reasons But one day the Eagle has to land" Rose Tarlow vs Georges Jouve ...

11:56 AM

Nigel Coates

... ‘I go for architecture that overlays and enhances. By blending observation and wit with reason, I want my work to generate a sense of the unexpected, and the seemingly spontaneous.’ - Nigel Coates <a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6103/6217680648_b8aab3fffd_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6103/6217680648_b8aab3fffd_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 469px;" /></a> Nigel Coates at <a href="http://www.padlondon.net/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=20">Pavilion of Art and Design London</a>: October 12th - 16th "Nigel Coates has designed and built interiors, exhibitions and buildings around the world. His buildings in Japan include the Wall, Noa’s Ark and the Art Silo, and in Britain, the National Centre for Popular Music, Powerhouse::uk and the Geffrye Museum. Throughout his career as a practitioner, he has pursued experimental work that has been shown in an art and design context, including such exhibits as ArkAlbion shown at the Architectural Association in 1984, Ecstacity at the same venue, and Mixtacity at Tate Modern in 2007." "This year, <a href="http://www.cristinagrajalesinc.com/">Cristina Grajales Gallery</a> will be featuring Nigel Coates' Domo Collection, produced in collaboration with famed Italian company Poltronova. This collection of furniture highlights Nigel's continued interest in the mixing of materials, the interaction of the human body with design, and the elaboration of traditional design elements into a contemporary context. The Domo collection is distinguished by its elegant and curving lines emphasized by the capriole leg. Here, Nigel reinterprets this design element, transforming this collection into contemporary sculpture."<a href="http://www.cristinagrajalesinc.com/artists/nigel-coates" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> text taken from here...</a> Cristina Grajales, Inc 10 Greene Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10013 -----------------------------

Nigel Coates

... ‘I go for architecture that overlays and enhances. By blending observation and wit with reason, I want my work to generate a sense of ...

8:16 AM

"I started <a href="http://www.matthewhilton.com/">Matthew Hilton</a>, the company, because I wanted somewhere I would have complete creative control. <a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6191/6082209478_50a69681fb_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6191/6082209478_50a69681fb_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 702px; height: 468px;" /></a><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6186/6081675943_a243dee323_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6186/6081675943_a243dee323_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 467px;" /></a> "The company was launched in September 2007 and very soon after, made it's first Licence agreement for manufacturing and distribution of the products with <a href="http://www.delaespada.com/">De La Espada</a>. The pieces shown here are the first of a growing number of high-quality products which will be made in relatively small quantities, using hand-skills based manufacturing. I will be regularly adding new products using different techniques and materials. Matthew Hilton was born in Hastings in 1957. He graduated with a degree in Furniture Design from Kingston Polytechnic in 1979 when he started to design and manufacture a range of objects using low-tech casting techniques. These were picked up by Paul Smith and Joseph Pour La Maison and sold in their London showrooms. From 1980 to '84 Matthew worked as an industrial designer for the product design company Capa, London. During this time he also designed sets for the renowned fashion designer Koji Tatsuno's company Cultureshock. <a href="http://www.matthewhilton.com/">more here...</a> --------------------------

"I started Matthew Hilton , the company, because I wanted somewhere I would have complete creative control. "The company was laun...

12:52 AM

Cini Boeri "strips" "Soon after, Boeri created another masterpiece with the Strips sofa, which could be described as either a lounge made from sections of sleeping bags or a bed-sized puffer jacket!" <a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6085/6030077867_95a93e4248_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6085/6030077867_95a93e4248_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 719px; height: 440px;" /></a> <a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6030631878_7f7e902fd2_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6030631878_7f7e902fd2_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 858px; height: 609px;" /></a> "Born in Milan in 1924, Cini Boeri graduated from Milan Polytechnic in 1951 and began a long period of cooperation with Marco Zanuso, founder of Italian furniture firm Arflex. She set up her own studio in 1963, concentrating on civil architecture and industrial design. In 1967, Bobo Divano was released by<a href="http://www.arflex.it/"> Arflex</a> and became the first mono-block seat in polyurethane foam with no internal structure. The Serpentone, designed in 1971, was another revolutionary sofa made from thin sections of polyurethane articulated around a flexible central core, allowing for free-flowing shapes of unlimited length. Soon after, Boeri created another masterpiece with the Strips sofa, which could be described as either a lounge made from sections of sleeping bags or a bed-sized puffer jacket! The sofa’s impact would prove to be lasting – she eventually won a prestigious Compasso d’Oro industrial design award for it in 1979, and Patricia Urquiola recently stated that her critically acclaimed <a href="http://style-files.com/images/tuffibank500x397.jpg" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">B&B Italia ‘Tufty-Time</a>’ sofa was her homage to Boeri’s Strips sofa. <a href="http://www.homelife.com.au/home+ideas/decorating/cini+boeri,5610">all text taken from here....</a>

Cini Boeri "strips" "Soon after, Boeri created another masterpiece with the Strips sofa, which could be described as ei...

3:37 PM

YHBHS interview with Jonathan Hale Nesci

... "Design to me is like soup. My soup might have carrots in it and yours might as well, but yours will never have the same combination of ingredients because they are being made from a different combination of perspectives and experiences." - Jonathan Nesci <a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6147/5925350426_31f5a370ec_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6147/5925350426_31f5a370ec_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 814px;" /></a> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6026/5928768459_74e17ed1fb_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6026/5928768459_74e17ed1fb_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 702px; height: 351px;" /></a> top image: 4G shelf, waxed and polished water-jet cut 1/4" aluminum plate bottom images, l to r: Tidal Shelf and Prop Bookends </div> min·i·mal: barely adequate or the least possible It was a few years ago that I first saw Jonathan Nesci's minimal works. Sometimes it can take me years to come to grips with a form, a specific color, or a shadow. Have you ever been haunted by a form: fallen madly & deeply in love with its curves or straight edges, only to see it suddenly reappear everywhere? All of a sudden, the fire hydrant's red cylinders, or the lines of the fire escape seem alive and brighter! Over the past years, I've questioned and considered my attraction towards minimal forms (architecture, design, art). When one reduces color and form to its essence, what exactly is to be gained? In a conversation with Jonathan, I asked him about the word minimal, and he simply stated, "I have no feelings about the word itself other than there is nothing simple about making something that looks simple." And perhaps it is that difficulty that keeps me interested. In Nesci's designs, there is a subtle complexity, a puzzle if you will, that comes to life. Thanks Jonathan for having this conversation with me about your work.... - David John <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6004/5930287737_76dc5cbf60_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6004/5930287737_76dc5cbf60_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 368px;" /></a> Pendant light of powder-coated spun steel, aluminum, magnets from an edition of 20 + 2 AP. <a href="http://wvvolumes.com/galleries/5" style="font-weight: bold;">Volume Gallery Edition</a>. Edition is sold out. This is number 8.<a href="http://www.pavilionantiques.com/" style="font-weight: bold;"> (via Pavillon Antiques)</a> </div> Design philosophy? I am fascinated with order and systems that are formed from teams of creative thinking. We are surrounded by objects and systems that are made by man that are formed out of want or need. I am in awe of how mankind works together to get something done. I love urban areas because of this; I find myself deep in thought on how and why it all came to be realized. People had to design the roads you drive on, the bridges you cross and the coffee cup that you drink out of. Sometimes their designs work and sometimes they don’t, I like finding the answers to the questions of how and why the most. I am passionately discovering the history of how things came to be and working to add my own flavor to mix. My work is a compilation of all the things that I am personally experiencing. Design to me is like soup. My soup might have carrots in it and yours might as well, but yours will never have the same combination of ingredients because they are being made from a different combination of perspectives and experiences. Materials you are attracted to? What is the relationship between the fabricators and yourself? I appreciate the variety of ways to connect materials in general. I like discovering different ways of uniting objects and seem to understand this best with metal. A lot of my work ends up being mono-forms because of this idea of seamless uniting until visually the parts become a whole. Because of low quantity orders and continuous prototyping, I am at the fabricator's mercy for pricing and lead times. There are talented people out there who take small orders and I do my best to find them and stay on their good side. I’m always asking questions to fully understand their process and design around their capabilities. I’ve tried welding, grinding, machining myself and have come to realize I will never do as good of job than someone who does it every day. I love the variety of things that can be done in a industrial process without me being there while it is being made, it frees me up to work on new designs with other processes simultaneously. You were restoration manager for <a href="http://www.wright20.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">WRIGHT AUCTIONS</a>, can you talk about this experience and the effect it has had upon your work? The most unforgettable object you worked with there? I benefited from five years of solving design problems and soaking in important historical design. Prior to this I had a 3D CAD certification with a limited knowledge of design history. While I was at Wright I was exposed to a variety of craftsmen who were experts in processes with all different types of materials. It was a great opportunity to develop relationships with many talented people and get 10,000 hours of precious design and fabrication practice. Richard Wright and his late-wife Julie were monumental in training and supporting my work and I am very grateful for the chance they took in me. There were so many unbelievable pieces at Wright. I feel like every piece I touched had some type of impact on my vocabulary of scale, connections, and materials. If I had to choose one it would be <a href="http://www.wright20.com/auctions/view_search/B266/F57Z/296/LA/hectapod_table/CDHG">Scott Burton's Hectapod table</a>, I absolutely love that piece. Any periods in historical time, or specific designers that you are attracted to? I'm really drawn to artists who work with design sensibilities such as Burton, Brancusi, Noguchi, Albers, Judd, Tony Smith, Max Bill etc.. Most of them worked with craftsmen to fabricate their work and I like this idea of working with others to carry out your ideas. In a very short time you have been not only able to design quite a large portfolio of works, but also be awarded and recognized. Any advice for the young designer? Make your ideas into physical objects even if they are only full-scale mock-ups. The ideas can't stay in a gestation state in your notebook. They need to be born, from there they can be refined. <a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6145/5924792551_7bf4513522_z.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6145/5924792551_7bf4513522_z.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 701px;" /></a> <div style="text-align: center;"> The Secretary, via <a href="http://www.mattermatters.com/product.asp?id=651">MATTER, NY</a> leather, aluminum, steel. </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> Can you talk about your process from start to finish for a piece such as The Secretary for <a href="http://www.mattermatters.com/" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">MATTER</a>? The process for Matter was faster than I normally work. The Secretary went from a conversation in Indiana to a physical piece in New York in about 50 days. Technically speaking, this piece started as a rough sketch and was quickly brought in 3D CAD to work its assembly. It then had to be deconstructed from a 3D drawing back to a 2D file to water-jet cut the aluminum. Once I had a cut file I did multiple full-scale mock-ups in 1/4" thick Luan sheet to refine the form. From there I made corrections to the cut file and started the fabrication process. Artists & designers such as Tony Smith, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt appear to inform your work. What is the building block you hope to add to this conversation surrounding minimal design? I am most interested in how my ideas relate to the industrial process; I’m not sure how this adds to minimal design specifically. I'm constantly experimenting so I really never know where it'll all end up. I'd like to have a design that sells really well one day so I can advance my research in what else can be done. I really love this aspect of design thinking that you really don’t know what great answer to your problem that tomorrow will bring. 3 things I had no idea about Jonathan Nesci? I'm continually changing my mind. This makes personal and business relationships very interesting. Nothing says “this guy is crazy” more than having a idea you feel great about one day change completely overnight. This is how I work out problems though; I have to see it physically to see if it’s working. I'm itching to have large scale sculpture produced. Design should work; whether it works as a chair or works as a sculpture doesn’t really matter to me. I would love the opportunity to make a sculpture that works as a sculpture. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I learn a little bit everyday of what I don't want to do and try to do less of that. I like what my friend told me: “Just keep swimming and try not to breath in too much water." This seems to sum up a lot of what I’m trying to do. It’s an experimental journey to me. Future Exhibtions? I have a solo show in November with Patrick Parrish’s gallery <a href="http://www.mondocane.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">MONDO CANE</a>. He has an great space in Tribeca and I love the design history roots that the gallery has. <a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6125/5930939694_cc62dbb294_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6125/5930939694_cc62dbb294_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 702px; height: 526px;" /></a> <div style="text-align: center;"> jack stool <a href="http://hale-id.com/">HALE</a>, an industrial design company founded by Jonathan Nesci in 2006, is a part-design, part-production firm based dually in Chicago, IL and Scottsburg, IN. </div> <div style="text-align: center;">HALE uses a direct, intimate approach in securing quality, detailed, decorative art and fine furniture products from craftsmen in fields beyond the furnishing markets. In many cases, the designs are formed around industry capabilities and employ experts in a variety of manufacturing and production processes. </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div>

YHBHS interview with Jonathan Hale Nesci

... " Design to me is like soup . My soup might have carrots in it and yours might as well, but yours will never have the same comb...

10:56 PM

seatdown sitdown satdown "The expression of the furniture is inspired by the world of architecture. Architecture is spatial art, and spatial art is architecture." <a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6049/5915831794_2482d8271a_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6049/5915831794_2482d8271a_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 675px; height: 506px;" /></a> <a href="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5116/5915271655_30142f3729_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5116/5915271655_30142f3729_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 675px; height: 506px;" /></a> seatdown – flexibility is the key word Designed by<a href="http://www.r-randers.dk/en/products/living/seatdown.html"> Friis & Moltke</a>: " “Our physical surroundings must be human, and the conceptual foundation of the project is the supporting structure. A good interplay between buildings and the surrounding landscape, as well as between the internal rooms and the materials, is an important factor for the atmosphere you experience in the room. The goal is unity – to create strong links between shape and function.” "The SeatDown modular series is exceptionally flexible. The individual seat may be equipped with or without arms and the table can be separated from the seats with arms. Furthermore, the wallmounted self-tipping seats are reduced to only 32 cm in depth. The modules are easy to rebuild or extend with more seats. For instance the table can be replaced with a seat, arms can be added or removed, and SeatDown can be extended indefinitely. " --------------------------

seatdown sitdown satdown " The expression of the furniture is inspired by the world of architecture. Architecture is spatial art, and ...

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YHBHS interview with Jonathan Hale Nesci

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