Curated

‘Jellyfish’ by Studio Nendo from Japan for Milan Design Week. Vases that float like jellyfish in the water. 30 vases of various sizes are placed in a 1800 mm aquarium filled with water and the strength and direction of the water’s current is carefully adjusted so that they undulate moderately.
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‘Fold’ is the first collaboration between São Paulo-based designer Guilherme Wentz and Brazilian design label ‘Nós Furniture’. The tables are made by metal sheets folded to create a tabletop embed on a marble block.
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‘Petite table d‘angle’. Number 013. Rosa Portogallo stone from Portugal. Designed by French artist Hervé Humbert for Berlin-based Atelier Haußmann. The series is comprised of 31 unique objects each consisting of a remnant marble slab with a breakpoint, surrounded by a steel angle frame.
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A lot of their work is about questioning what happens when a piece of furniture becomes a sculpture and what happens when a sculpture becomes functional.
In this case a stool at first sight but somehow an art sculpture as well. Object from a groupshow at Patrick Parrish Gallery (NYC) by Pettersen & Hein, Denmark.
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Ian McDonald’s sculptural pieces create a visual language of its own. In between practical pottery and art-form, his vessels play with the viewer’s imagination as if they were parts of a bigger unknown mechanism. Ian exhibits his pieces also as installations, where one can grasp the vocabulary of shapes he is constantly building. This ‘Four Level Vessel’ is a unique creation exclusively available at BON. Visit www.bonceramics.com.

Find this article also inside our second issue “Sirens”. Here available.