Interior Design Ideas, Modern Furniture Design

The upper curved tube has the formal vigour and massiveness of a Viking helmet.  The totality expresses a certain and solid equilibrium, ultimately stabilized by the horizontal bar and firmly rooted to earth by a circular crown base.  However, it is possible to read into the work the crystallization of a just completed movement, or the intention of impending animation.  The apparent fragility of the supports, slender but as effective as the limbs of a flamingo, multiplies the visual combinations among the components, in the intersections and in the apparent parallelism that are produced from various vantage points.

The shape of this big light is meant to be reminiscent of a bomb and an airplane engine or propeller. The floating effect that is the result grows with the number of lights that are hung together and is also enhanced by the fact that the inner TL-lights don’t seem to touch the cylinder in translucent polyethylene that forms the outer skin. Both circular ends of the cylinder have been left open so that one has a see trough when the light is hanging low. The material is polyethylene, and because of the use of coloured light tubes or colour filters, the light changes tones.

Wrecking Ball Lamp and Crane Lamp are a floor-standing bronze structure. An enforced cord runs through the core to a hanging light and shade. Indicative of Studio Job’s fine attention to detail, small bulbs light the boom point from which the jib hangs. An ancient invention, the crane has a long history of industrial use.

‘Pure’ is a word that the Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen uses a lot when talking about Totem, the new cabinet he has designed for the Dutch furniture manufacturer Pastoe. The shape, for example, is pure. “Every detail has been thought through,” Van Duysen explains. “The proportions of the thickness of the material and the dimensions of the bodies are carefully harmonised.”

All City Papers was the third collection, created by the studio Inocuo The Sign (Javi Gutiérrez, David Fernández and Txema Algualcil), that brought urban art closer to the painted paper world.