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Jean Prouvé arrives to Madrid

Touch By — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:15:34 +0000

As from 1 September 2011, Ivorypress Art + Books Space I presents the show Jean Prouvé 1901-1984: Industrial Beauty, dedicated to the outstanding French engineer, artisan and designer Jean Prouvé (Paris, 1901 – Nancy, 1984). Curated by the British architect Norman Foster and by the Professor of Architecture Projects Luis Fernández-Galiano, the exhibition revisits the whole of Prouvé’s career.

One of Spain best Interior Designer: Catherine Grenier

Touch By — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:13:42 +0000

The Spanish edition of the Art and Design Magazine, AD, has unveiled the 2010 best interior designers list for Spain. After the awards received in 2006 and 2008 by the Andrew Martin International Designer of the Year Award , her work was again plébicité.

By Touch is pleased to work with Catherine and invites you to discover the pieces we publish on its behalf.

The fantastic world of George Nelson

Touch By — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:18:47 +0000

George Nelson (1908–1986) was one of the founders of American Modernism, along with Charles and Ray Eames. He was one of the most influential figures in American design during the second half of the twentieth century. With an architectural degree from Yale, he was not only active in the fields of architecture and design but also a widely respected writer and publicist, lecturer, curator, and a passionate photographer. Nelson was also a prominent innovator in the development of the modern office environment.

“Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.” — Bill N. Lacy, FAIA

Carlo Mollino: a universal furniture Designer

Touch By — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:03:34 +0000

The furniture that Carlo Mollino (1905 -1973) designed was often one-off pieces produced specifically for the client whose house he was decorating.
He interpreted the doctrines of neo-plasticism and rationalism of the period with great freedom, adapting spatial, material and technical ideas with complete originality. The figure or the form of the human body is an element which is always present in mollino’s designs. the factory that produced most of his furniture work was the Apelli & Varesio joinery in turin.

Today, Zanotta has reedited its work as a tribute to his career.

Ilmari Tapiovaara (1915-1999) Congo Chair

Touch By — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:29:25 +0000

In his designs, Tapiovaara always sought to create a humane, well-lit and warm dwelling environment. The furniture designed by him were always part of a whole, with the architecture as their starting point.

Ilmari Tapiovaara was awarded a total of six gold medals at the Milan triennials of 1951, 1954, 1957, 1960 and 1964. He received Good Design Award in Chicago in 1951, the Pro Finlandia medal in 1959, the Finnish State Design Prize in 1971 and the Furniture Prize of the SIO Interior Architects’ Association of Finland in 1990.

Charlotte Perriand At The Petit Palais – Paris

Touch By — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:02:34 +0000

The reputation of Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999), the Parisian-born photographer, architect, furniture designer and urbanist, resides easily alongside the heavyweight 20th century designers. Notably Le Corbusier and Jean Prouvé, although throughout a 66-year career she may not have beneﬁtted from much intense scrutiny outside her native France.

Her work, religiously catalogued and archived throughout a proliﬁc career has now been revisited and exhibited to maximum effect in the richly curated exposition Charlotte Perriand: De la photographie au Design at the Petit Palais until September 18th, 2011.

Ramón Esteve makes his Cannes Festival

Touch By — Sat, 21 May 2011 08:03:02 +0000

Ramón Esteve, architect of the harmony, serenity, timeless and the universality, has created mineral and expressive shape that makes FAZ a design that contextualizes with the home and installations.

FAZ is an outdoor modular furniture collection designed for the Spanish Company VONDOM.

This year, the FAZ collection, has been chosen to decorate the 64^th Cannes Film Festival. You can enjoy the collection in the area that have prepared the French TV Channels: CANAL +, FRANCE 2 and 3 to interview the winners at the film festival.

Eileen Gray: Brick Screen

Touch By — Tue, 17 May 2011 21:11:19 +0000

Eileen Gray, Irish designer (1878 – 1976), was fascinated by the beauty of traditional lacquerware. She learned the centuries-old craft from a Japanese artisan and then perfected her skills over the course of many years. Between 1922 and 1925, Eileen Gray designed several of them including Brick Screen one of her best-known creations. She experimented with various dimensions and panel finishes. More than just a room divider, this folding screen with its understated elegance commands the presence of a sculpture.

This masterpiece, reedited by the German manufacturer ClassiCon authorised by Aram Designs Ltd, is part of the permanent design collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

“Luz”

kybalionAdmin — Tue, 03 May 2011 15:52:04 +0000

I created this model from the characteristics of a material, acrylic stone, in particular for the possibility to have forms without joint and to allow lighting effects from LEDS thanks to its transparency. The sensor technology gives a must about the sensuality of the material and the special relation between the piece and its owner.

Table de ma Grand Mère

kybalionAdmin — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:03:14 +0000