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Designers Sam Tew and Marie Chan combine their experience in industrial design and architecture to create products that question consumer habits but also the responsibility of designers to choose materials with consideration for the future. They produce urban/street wear bags made from recycled billboard canvas. Pattern pieces are cut with consideration for their positioning when constructed but the original billboard image and the approach taken in laying out the cuts ensures no two bags are the same. The above bag retails for USD 150 and the other for USD 143.
Materialise
Building on the trend of mass exclusivity, materialise uses its rapid prototyping technology to turn the customer’s wildest dreams into reality hence the reason for its name (materialise). It allows designers, engineers and manufacturers alike to explore the infinite possibilities of 3D printing in a new dynamic way. Shown here are examples from their lamp shades collections.
Body Furniture by Franz Schnaas
Presenting three beautiful collections with the names ICE-COILS, CAPILLARI and KATENARI comprising bracelets, cufflinks and rings. Colourful glass pixels, resins, vinyl, nickel plated steel and other materials are used to create these accessories. The ring above cost USD 20 and bracelet USD 199.
At first sight those concoctions reminded me of the inners of old television sets with their large clear glass transistor tubes and abundant wirings, very intriguing yet very simple in construction. Would imagine different people would see them in different ways, I saw old transistor tubes others may see jelly fish! Beautiful.
Halvorsen Clay
Wife and husband team producing African looking clay objects. Each having own quite distintive style, Liza paints her objects with so much color while Larry uses exclusively black and white colours. Her terra cotta vessels cost USD 300 each. Larry’s wall vases cost USD 25 .
Margaret Romero
Margaret’s (a Cuban) works are so fresh and out of the ordinary it makes me dizzy thinking how she could come up with such extra-ordinarily creative concoctions. The more I see the more I want, that xmas list is growing larger by the day now.
Designing and making her own work at her workshop she concentrates mainly on footrests and benches and I personally would encourage her to try her hand at designing other things and I woud love to see what she could do to sofas and seats.
Vladimir Kagan
Far from being an up and coming designer like most of the featured artists mentioned on this website, Vladimir is a household name the world over. However, do not mind featuring some of his designs which fit the most contemporary of tastes.
As you would imagine his works dont come cheap and be prepaired to raid your bank account for bags of dosh. Table USD 3100 and seats USD 2800.
Clone from Bruno Bordese
Dont realy have much to say on this except look and enjoy the work of this Milano designer.
and some for the ladies….
Cybertart
An Australian design outfit with a sense of style and fun. Their products are sold online and through various other markets in Australia. Made of plastic front, denim back and cotton lined.
You can submit your design and photo and they are ready to turn your dreams into reality. Price wise, cheap, purse USD 6 and bag USD 33. Be prepared to pay extra if you want your own design on them.
Carey Ann
All earings and pendants in the fine silver collection are made by hand from fine Silver (.999 pure) with sterling silver chains & findings. These beautiful and versatile products are made by hand one by one each one hand carved individually each stone set by hand so no two pieces will ever be exactly alike. The results are beautiful and unique.
Prices are quite reasonable, earings retails for USD 75 and pendant USD 102
Ferrari Divani
Has no relation to the motor brand however from their base in the Tuscony region they are producing equally impressive range of products.
Rather accentric use of leathers in a wide variety of colours and paterns.
J shoes
Oh sooo cool, and no it has nothing to do with J Lo or LL Cool J but they should certainly keep an eye on this!
The J./Journey international team have a very simple design philosophy. To be included within the Journey collection a product must adhere to some brand values such as : attitude, seriously casual, ageless, sense of fun, sociable ……
Their 2005 Spring/Summer collection is awe inspiring and definitly sets good standards in casual footwear for others to follow. The shop off Carnaby St. in London is well worth a visit and so is the website.
Tretiak
Thin sheets of fine silver or copper are embedded into pieces of exotic and domestic wood. Wood blocks are split or cut in a way that reflects its natural grain. The metal pieces are then sandwiched between the two pieces of wood allowing the metal pieces to flow with the grain.
One-of-a-kind pieces that are elegant yet casual and they are prepared to use any type of wood or metal you wish in your own pendant. They cost USD 50 a piece.
Peter Malinoski
Outrageous, hilarious and wonderful are words I can use to describe Peter’s work. Full of humor yet seriously attractive. Can see his inspiration coming from pop art and cartoons which to me is a welcome sign in a world giving up on true values of individuality and creativity in an ever increasing trend towards mass consumerism.
A well educated craftsman with numerous participations in trade shows to his credit.
Kenneth Cobonpue
Kenneth a Philippino educated at the Pratt Institute in New York and apprenticed for a leather and wood workshop in Italy has gained recognition at home and abroad for using ratan and leather in new and imaginative ways.
Discovering that modern design could have a new face using natural fibers and materials as the medium, he slowly created the pieces which form the collection today. Integrating locally sourced organic materials with innovative hand-made production techniques offered an alternative to the Western definition of modern design. The items shown here retail for USD 1600 each.
Moooi
Oooo! strange name nonethelss nothingcan stop this company from bringing out quite a delightful range of furniture and home accesroies.
Fresh and delightful collection of commissioned works by a talented bunch of European designers should continue the rise of the young Moooi.
