"Less Light" is a sealed lamp shade that needs to be broken in order to release the light trapped within. The shell is cracked using a specially designed hammer. The user decides the appearance and position of the hole depending on how much light is required and where it is to be directed." Jordi Canudas
Title Quote: Nietzsche
Link: Paul Loebach.
"Paul Loebach was born in Des Moines, Iowa in into a long line of German carpenters ...
Paul says about his work:
“I’m through with editing down the world. My work represents a new process of design for the basic purpose of trying to understand the emotive
complexity of people, the meaning of our manufactured environment, and its material consequences”.
Broken Mirrors ... Street refuse given new life. Found pieces of broken glass are inset into reclaimed heart pine utilizing a tricky secret fabrication process. "
Link: main.
"Nobody is Perfect"
"Every living being has distinctive features. However, it appears that in contemporary society great pressure is placed on fitting the mould of the perfect human being. Many individuals approach this challenge by hiding or eliminating features in order to match given parameters.
This collection of vases aims to demonstrate the beauty of imperfection. Made in delicate ceramic the vases are a replica cast of existing bottles enchanced and encouraged each piece has individual imperfections - dents, chips, deformations, scratches and other irregularities."
Eva Menz
Link: The Ornamented Life - CRACKERY TABLEWARE.
The Crackery Tableware consists of ready-made plates, bowls, cups, etc, themselves coming from different services, and what they all have in common is that they are all white and each one has a crack and/or chips. Instead of rejecting these time-worn pieces, I celebrate their imperfections by glazing each crack in gold luster, and further transform it by turning the golden crack into a flower, placing the transfer of a blossom on one end, and a transfer of roots on the other. Other chips are also gold lustered and become the button of flowers, or bulbs – the decoration which I apply depends entirely on the shape and
positioning of the chip. The decoration borrows from classical tableware floral decoration, but with a fresh and modern stylization. And the painting of the cracks in gold is a contemporary take on an ancient Chinese ritual of filling cracks with gold leaves and thus accentuating the accidents rather than trying to hide them. The result is a poetic floral tableware service whose components are related to each other, while each piece is unique due to the fact that no two cracks or chips are ever the same. Individual pieces also work well alone inside people’s own tableware.
via reset design
Link: - WOOD - Stain Teacup. Bethan Laura Wood
via coolhunter
"Stain is a set of a teacups designed to improve through use. This project examines the assumption that use is damaging to a product (For example, scratches on an iPod).
The interior surface of the cup is treated so as to stain more in predetermined places. The more the cups are used, the more the pattern is revealed. Over time they will build up an individual pattern dependent on the users personal way of drinking tea."
Link: nendo | works：crack-vase.
crack-vase 2003.04
We are encouraged when we see a flower growing between the crack of an asphalt-paved road. This design emphasizes the power and beauty of small nature in the urban cities by using a crack as a flower vase.
Link: Tjep..
hock Proof is a collection of existing vases upon which Tjep. has applied the Do Break principle. When broken the vases don't fall apart and remain watertight because of a special rubber coating that is applied to the inside. The cracks form a new superimposed decorative pattern, witness to dramatic events to which the vases may be subjected: anything from a lovers quarrel to earthquakes.
The first Shock Proof collection was presented at the ACME Gallery in LA (April 2006) and realized upon special request of curator John Geresi. LA seemed to be a very suitable location to introduce the concept as the region is subject to frequent and sometimes intense seismic activity.
Link: This Is Broken - Place.
A project to make businesses more aware of their customer experience, and how to fix it. By Mark Hurst.
Link: 5.5 Designers.
Graduated in Paris of the "Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d’Art " (hereinafter ENSAM), Vincent Baranger, Jean-Sebastien Blanc, Anthony Lebossé, David Lebreton, and Claire Renard, were responsible for launching the cabinet 5.5 Designers in August, 2003. With their successful presentation of the REANIM project at the Paris furniture fair in 2004, 5.5 founded a new discipline: the remedial treatment of objects. After opening at the galerie de la Salamandre in Nîmes, their work was presented at the opening of Lafayette Maison and at Pitti living in Milan, occasion where they were invited by Christina Morozzi. More recently an exhibition of their design was held at the Peyroulet & Cie gallery in order to mark the production launch of their range of
remedial accessories for furniture. After being part of the biennale de Saint-Etienne and Tokyo Designer’s Block, they designed furniture for Lafayette VO before responding to a commission from the APCI to design scenographies for the Observeur du design.
At the same time they re-worked the image of ordinary objects and presented a collection for the 10th Puces du design event, for which they also did the layout. Charmed by the novelty of their work, Fabien Bonillo of Editions La Corbeille decided to produce their first objects. Their presentation at the Paris furniture fair 2005 confirmed their ambitions and their subversive presence in the context of the design scenario, identifying them as a team to keep an eye on, indeed. At the present time they are working with big-name makers (Salviati, Arc, Oze, Bernardaud, Galeries Lafayette…), nevertheless, attention must be drawn to the fact that they remain determined to continue proposing consumer alternatives and to blaze a design trail that is different and functional. 5.5 designers are out there now.
Ceramics in porcelain exploring the loss of the British traditions of afternoon tea.
The cups and saucers have layered doilies and wallpapers intertwined on their surfaces. The porcelain has slight imperfections, they are irregular and have small cracks to highlight the deterioration that gradually occurs over time.
Claire has applied her unique stitching and layering pattern techniques to furniture and lighting. Using second hand furniture and changing the surface and texture of the piece gives new life to objects that have been forgotten over time. Claire Coles Hidden Art
