Wearing Chairs While Sitting on Pants by Hansol Kim.Korea-born, Netherlands-based artist Hansol Kim uses found items of material as a medium to explore the human relationship with clothing and furniture for Wearing Chairs While Sitting on Pants. Questions as to why furniture feels less...
Four Graduates from London’s Royal College of Art Create Tabletop Products from Waste Material.Uniting design with science, four graduates from London’s Royal College of Art made a collection of tableware products from the industrial waste material bauxite residue, also known as Red Mud. Questioning our notion of ‘waste’...
Canopy Chair Collection by LAYER and RAEBURN.With LAYER and RAEBURN’s shared passion for sustainability, Canopy furniture collection celebrates innovative thinking from both the industrial design and fashion world. Celebrating a shared interest in recontextualising undervalued...
Second Hand: Ceramic Clothing Created From Found Ceramic Tiles by Zhanna Kadyrova.Second Hand is the project Ukrainian artist Zhanna Kadyrova started in San Paulo in 2014, inspired by the widespread practice of tiling coloured walls in Brazil. Objects formally reminiscent of clothing are lined with original tiles...
Oil Plastic Sculptures by Stefan Gross.Artist Stefan Gross creates sculptures from his unique ‘oil plastic’ material, made from dying recycled industrial thermoplastic with classic oil paints, creating a translucent substance that behaves like glass at room temperature,...
Carla Cascales Alimbau’s ‘Closer Than They Appear’ Geometric Sculptures.Spanish artist Cara Cascales embraces the irregularities of timber, stone, glass and metal in her latest sculptural series and first solo exhibition ‘Closer than they appear’, on show at WE COLLECT gallery in Madrid. ‘Closer than...
Studio Mumbai’s Handmade Furniture at Maniera Gallery in Brussels.The new furniture collection by Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai is constructed entirely by hand with the aid of a few basic tools. On show at the Maniera gallery in Brussels, the collection manages to at once resemble historical artefacts from...
Bricks Decoded: The Versatility of Ceramic Facades & Screens.The options are vast when it comes to clay-based ceramic tile facade systems, holding major appeal for contemporary projects thanks to their durability, versatility, and sustainable merit. We’re exploring some of our favourite...
Composite Apartment in Madrid, Spain by Gonzalo del Val, Daniel Fernández Pascual & Alon Schwabe.Besides the bright yellow bathroom in this Madrid apartment, natural cork, black rubber, and pale orange living room columns provide the only tonal colour throughout the common areas of the apartment. Stark white surfaces lead all...
