Archive for the History of Design

It's already tomorrow

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The year 1995 is to mark a milestone, not because at that time I passed the tray innocently, but because it was that year that Maison et Objet was born.

But what is it that Maison et Objet?

Well something like that, somehow,

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and much more ...

Created at the initiative of the Employers' Federation Workshop Arts of France, the Maison et Objet is an international gathering of all industry professionals, and a great forum for ideas and discoveries that inevitably takes its promises to give to see, hear, feel and touch and the latest trends in decor with a capital D, so the art of living, objects, furniture, everything related to near and far habitat and ornament.

Only with this it is enough to make sure you will agree.

But the show is also a talent scout and ideas that rewards the most innovative products on the market ...

In short, we are here before the treasure trove for all those inspired decorative leaves no one indifferent, coupled with an unprecedented mental torture because of his painful label reserve .

Fortunately, if this little privacy forbidden to ordinary people to travel to northern suburbs of Paris to survey every corner of its multiple spaces, it is the promise of attractive moultes grim discoveries that are sure to be relayed by any route known media. Just think, last September's edition of the show has ressembé nearly 70,000 visitors and 3,356 journalists ...

And when it starts, you might say, this rejoicing? Well, not later than tomorrow just imagine. The Parc des Expositions Villepinte will become within a few hours, and until January 27, the hub of international decoration, with the cult of honor Karl Lagerfeld, promoted for the occasion creator of 2009 . Then wait for a bit until you see how new finds of next season, I suggest you subjectively an example of which was recently discovered and enjoyed during the event.

My choice for the uninitiated is focused on the sculptural and revolutionary creations of the French brand Beautiful and Good . More than a lamp, these are real gems that have been proposed, combining advanced technology - the now unavoidable LED, ultra efficient and almost indestructible - and sophistication - a soft look, a simple drawing all rounded and smooth - reinventing our relationship to lighting. I am particularly sensitive to bright parasol , which seems to me very happily replace the services of halogens and broadcast into our living rooms sweetly supernatural atmosphere. And as he works with a charger, its beauty is by no means altered by any wire whatsoever.

I want to take this opportunity to allow me a brief aside lexical: we tend to describe as a biennial event that takes place twice a year. This is false! biennial is an adjective synonymous with biennial, and refers to that which takes place once every two years. In this case, Maison et Objet, whose fairs are held twice a year, therefore comes at a biannual frequency.

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What the heck these references come from school they do so in a space devoted entirely to pleasure and spontaneous fun of decorating?

Do not worry, I do not intend to delve into the bittersweet nostalgia of our youth, but obviously make today - more than on other days - Tribute to the ability of creators to divert objects to redefine the style and / or function. I find the relevance of these initiatives as they seize more deserving of the most banal everyday objects with a deeply exhilarating inventiveness.

Take the case of the carpet: a very long time confined to classic geometric shapes, and with short hair or long, it stands out more and more of the predefined framework, with the key patterns, colors and materials that lead us Similarly, progressively, to forget its original purpose (bring warmth and comfort) to see no more than an absolute decorative object or a call to reflection on our consumer habits. At Nanimarquina decidedly much I love, Marti Guixé has invented the carpet News , a large-scale reproduction of pellets that we will look with great passion in our favorite shops in the January sales.

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    Marti Guixé ... allows you to enjoy it

      If the eccentricity is your second nature, feel free to link to this testimony of the present version republished money mode of Louis XV commode old homes. Invoice a priori a little too flashy - no, I do not bring myself to write the onomatopoeia "bling" to register my vocabulary - in my humble taste, it seems to me that this creation that we need to Chaisor can bring in a room a little dull substantial elegance.

      In a less expensive bulky, I am not insensitive - while continuing to wonder if my ability to self-deprecation would not touch this, by including one of my portraits, its limit - in Horned , the - aptly named - frame horns home Pulpo . But after all, what would prevent us from posting the photographs of our favorite and imagine Medoro and artistic and humorous composition that has nothing to envy the most mythological of bestaires? Obviously, it is equally possible - but so predictable, so to speak - to make a nice touch to your half if painful separation - which I do not wish you naturally.

      What's more boring than a tragically wooden stool? This rhetorical question is certainly not turn myself in my head all day long, but I must admit not see this type of foundation the tutelage of head trend. Unless it is carefully customized as here and do turns into a happy rainbow gradient sky of balloons tied coated. The stool Baloon Nathalie Kruch shows us once again that they are certainly very strong in Umbra ...

      Reminder: You have one day to get to the Biennale in Saint-Etienne

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      "Design is no longer considered a fad, it is no longer expressed only a decorative but appropriates more fundamental questions related to changing lifestyles, social changes, by breaking down barriers, by confronting other approaches "

      It's not me saying, but Elsa Frances, Director of Design City of Saint-Etienne and Commissioner-General of the eponymous Biennale - which closed its doors today, 30 November - in the edition of November 27 a journal of the earthy afternoon.

      These meetings must-have this year celebrated their ten years (so it is here the fifth edition), have been sharply this year under the banner of environmental awareness, with many offers of furniture, objects and devices for better control consumption habits, at least to reduce their environmental impact.
      Although it still all to be done to make us fans informed and careful decoration, the creators are literally taken over this concept and we propose, for almost all of our modern, intelligent solutions and, hopefully promising.

      Recovery is undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of the new consumerist philosophy. I have already mentioned all the admiration that I wore the carpet of bibicleta Nanimarquina or mats of at Fred Feet First , each made ​​from recycled tires. But manufactures are not alone in suffering the pangs of waste, and I wanted today to present a happy medium advantageously collect rainwater.

      In Japan, the label design Kyouei has indeed invented a green umbrella stand White ceramic composed of not one but two tanks at the radically different functions. The most obvious and the two large cylindrical bowl is a very sober and wide, to accommodate the other umbrellas and canes of your guests and everyone in the house ... so far, nothing but very classic. The good news comes from the lower growth, which communicates with the first bowl and shelter your small plantations that are well supplied with water by dripping droplets of the fabric of our waterproof gossamer frames. You will with this umbrella of ecological what to bring to your entries look a little green, even in winter ...

      This original creation is not without recalling the series of garden furniture "to cultivate" imagined here some time by so brilliant 5.5 Designers . For the record, the design whiz kids had developed a set of chairs, tables and benches outside concrete filled, instead of arms, trays or folders, planters to awaken the inspiration of all the Tistou Green Thumbs inside of us.

        Judge for yourself ...

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        If you are lucky enough to own a garden, here's a happy way to unify your space by performing a set of correspondences between your deck and your hallway ...

        Here at last creations that we offer to celebrate the weather!

        Great start to the week (wet) at all

        The good Saint Eloy

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        I just now spoke ill of canine sex toy designed by Clement Eloy, the day has now come to do justice to this talented young designer whose creativity is matched only by the relevance and accuracy refined (with the notable exception of Hot Doll, but I do not épancherai more about it).

        Talent, beauty, creativity and youth, Clement Eloy has, it seems, little fault to his credit.

        Engineering graduate of the Institut Supérieur de Design of Valenciennes - a reference for 20 years of expertise and rigor in the galaxy formations in the decor and design - it has not taken the time to rest on its laurels and has not been slow to invest our lives by putting his energy and inventiveness in favor of brands.

        For example, he worked for Decathlon, the creation of sports accessories as stylish and functional.

        At 24, he founded the agency Feel Addicted , real space innovation and emotions entirely devoted to men's imagination and daily life, Clement Eloy auscultates the existence and design objects that have to issue us new experiences, visual, gustatory, tactile, in a word global, and lead us to taste the flavors of the ultimate body and mind.

        Make no mistake, Clement Eloy is not an inventor of the accessory, but a creator of reality that sublime monotony of the world.

        His ambition is sustainable, as well as his deep environmental awareness and willingness to participate, through its work in reducing our environmental footprint.

        So he designed his name Lucifer, a matchbox all curvy and solid battery to restrict the use of throwaway, or baskets of office SamePaperPlayAgain which prove that masterfully sorting can be just as playful aesthetic.

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        bins that relax

        Willingly subversive, Clement Eloy dares also explore areas that a lack of right-thinking world today rencarderait easily among the vulgar and taboo side. It is the first to suggest a sex-toy dog, named HotDoll maliciously, and in a spirit of delightful false innocence, a pen cap while sweet candy, the now famous Suckmybic ...

        un crayon à déguster...

        a pencil to taste ...

        Alloys of noble materials and lines combining finesse and restraint, explosive, breathtaking and unique projects Clement Eloy can not remain indifferent, and brilliantly corroborates the adage too often overlooked: "The value is not the number of years ". (More about this quote in Pierre Corneille, Le Cid (II-2))

        I Want the Sun (1): get up and walk

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        Climate and time change fall, that's not necessarily the desire to give cheerfully to leave his nest cozy bed to survey chilly corridors, kitchens and bathrooms frozen chilling .... If some (s) of you have ideas to bring good humor and warmth in our cubicles, they make themselves known!

        I obviously did not wait for my advanced age and the adventure of this blog to try to make up my most pleasant rest ... that my efforts have not always been successful, I mean I do not necessarily jump my bed singing a song in praise of "waking up beauty" ...

        However, I am working to make this morning when the delicate prelude to a successful day, which here, mood and decorating ideas to support the various crucial stages

        déco du matin, tout va bien

        Deco in the morning, so good

        First step: breakfast, not always easy when everything is dark and cold ... so try to get warm as quickly as possible, and to do that, nothing like a good tea.

        Ah, the tea ceremony by itself, fans will not contradict me ... and for a successful tea, of course, an ideal warm water (between 70 and 95 ° C for different types of tea) is mandatory

        I discovered with amazement the cordless kettle from Morphy Richards Americans. In this case, nothing revolutionary in the mechanism, but what refinement in appearance ... I do not dwell on its sleek, minimalist design and functionality of its handle and its wide wireless system, no; This changes everything with this kettle is its transparency illuminated ... let me explain: it is not only transparent colored glass that allows for once, to accurately measure the water level of the device, but especially she has a sublime and clever lighting system that switches on when the water boils, and the envelope part of a bluish halo to the hypnotic power incomparable.

        Nothing better to imagine lagoons and warm even in the most polar kitchens

        For the drink itself, I'm quite a purist, smoked tea kind remaining my optimum ... Fortunately, the growing enthusiasm for this type of beverage has greatly raise the level and quality of these leaves to brew. For anyone wanting to discover the incredible richness of tea, like wine, has an infinite number of wines and flavors, Tea Forté offers a pretty good introduction. The packaging is attractive and original, with varied selections - "natures" or flavored, though I owned the category of purists who consider a flavored tea is no longer a tea - presented in beautiful pyramids, and boxes really successful ... so many good gift ideas in anticipation of an approaching Christmas

        There is also a great invention in the field of receptacles of our hot or cold liquids. I like the design nicely retro mugs and bowls Menu , their geometric decoration and tart is a tribute to the Danish designer Verner Panton. Little more, making thermos avoiding burns while keeping our beverages warm.

        If you're more likely on coffee, know that my friends (see the first section of this blog) from Bosch , always at the forefront, have developed a coffee worthy of the most glittering of zincs, which provides a snap the quintessential coffee frankly ground ... I know we are here a thousand miles of beautiful aluminum pods that bloom in coffee section of our supermarkets and machinery suitable perforating them with love, but without taking into account the environmental issues raised by these capsules, Is there really a comparison possible - no offense to fans of George - between a quasi-professional coffee machine and a pseudo-overused gadget?

        Remains a major concern for the least of us in the morning: that of the pale light that often lack not to blind our little tired eyes. It is always difficult to find a balance between soft lighting tricky but not very powerful and dazzling power of a neon ... A valiant heart, nothing is impossible, Laurent Baule created a suspension whose shape reminds me a little of that a butane camping, and acts as a filter for saving to the gaiety of our disco lights and a pleasing effect in our kitchens.

        Farewell bleak revivals, a successful day can only begin!

        Appointment very soon on this blog following my adventures Deco morning ... next episode: the art of living in my bathroom.