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(via Serif TV – Avis et test de la télévision design de Samsung)

Serif TV – Avis et test de la télévision design de Samsung http://www.decotendency.com/domotique-2/serif-tv-avis-test-television-design-41827

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DISCOVER THE GALAXY S8 IN MILAN

To celebrate the design of the Galaxy S8, Samsung has commissioned Zaha Hadid Architects and acclaimed digital art collective Universal Everything to create an immersive, interactive installation. The exhibition runs from 4-9 April during Milan Design Week.

The most important date in the design calendar, Milan Design Week sees over 300,000 visitors from all parts of the world, descend on the city for more than 1,000 events, product launches, talks and workshops. It’s busy, buzzy and bursting with trends that will come to define the year ahead.

An overhead view of the Samsung installation

Taking inspiration from the Galaxy S8’s seamless curved design, the award-winning studio of the late architect Zaha Hadid, famed for creating dynamic show-stopping structures, has created a completely bespoke interior. Meanwhile collaborators Universal Everything, who’ve worked with everyone from Chanel to Radiohead, has developed a mesmerizing interactive digital installation including create-your-own avatars that bring to life the Galaxy design philosophy. Be sure to pop along and join in the fun.     

The exhibition UNCONFINED: The New Galaxy S8 Design is at BASE, Via Tortona 54, Milan 20144, from 4-9 April, 10am-9pm.

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PAOLOZZI AT THE WHITECHAPEL

Often called the godfather of British pop art, Eduardo Paolozzi gets a long overdue retrospective at London’s Whitechapel Gallery. The artist who died 12 years ago, had a career spanning five decades, from concrete sculptures and Mickey Mouse meets Mondrian tapestries to iconic Tube station tiling.

(Images from top) The Whitworth Tapestry, 1967 Courtesy The Whitworth, University of Manchester. Fun Fair, 1947. Courtesy Government Art Collection. All images ©Trustees of the Paolozzi Foundation, licensed by DACS.

After studying art in Edinburgh and London, Paolozzi moved to Paris in 1947, where he met and was inspired by leading figures of the avant-garde including Giacometti, Arp and Leger.  A fascination with primitive art and anthropology is seen in this early collage work, with figures that look like African nail-riven fetish figures.

Cocktail Dress for Horrockses Fashions, 1953. Photograph by Norwyn Ltd. Courtesy the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston.

A pioneer of collage, Paolozzi was seldom without a pair of scissors at hand, to cut out and reassemble patterns, shapes and objects that intrigued him. He delighted in the energy of juxtaposing images from nature to machines and applied this approach beyond the picture frame into textiles, tapestries, ceramics, book covers, record sleeves, films and sculpture.

Diana as a Engine 1, 1963-6. Courtesy British Council Collection.

Eduardo’s voracious appetite for American popular culture, from sci-fi comics to colourful, brash advertising came to life in his tower scuptures from the early 1960s. The mythically named ‘Diana as an Engine 1’ is a retrofuturistic assemblage that’s part fire hydrant, part Dalek, dolled up in a funfair palette.

“Never one to be told what to do, Paolozzi broke all conventions of art and consistently reinvented himself and his work”, says curator Daniel F. Herrmann “and at times the inventiveness is overwhelming”.

Wittgenstein in New York (from the As is When portfolio), 1965. Courtesy Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

An ingenious but irreverent printmaker, Paolozzi really hit his stride with his print portfolios. The first, his ‘As Is When’ collection, combined collaged elements with zingy pop patterns and a punchy palette, but was inspired by his hero, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. It’s this experimental mix of the high and lowbrow that makes his work so relevant to today’s artists.

Tottenham Court Road Underground Station. Courtesy Transport for London.

If you can’t make it to London before the show ends, you can always view one of Paolozzi’s most iconic works along the station platforms at Tottenham Court Road Underground Station. The glass mosaics originally installed in 1986 were recently restored, capturing the colour, creativity and energy of his signature scheme and the streets above, which inspired them.

The exhibition continues until 14 May.

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org

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SIX STEPS TO SPRING STYLE AT HEAL’S

Longer days and shorter nights can mean only one thing. Spring is in the air. Time to shed the winter layers and spruce up your home with new season looks. We dropped in on our friends at Heal’s, to discover their key pieces to embrace vernal style.

1. If there’s one shade you need this spring it’s green. Not the drab khakis of recent seasons, but bold zingy, life-affirming shades that look as fresh as the new shoots popping up in your garden. The Wallis sofa by British designer Russell Pinch does verdant with verve.

2. Get beach ready with the nautical stripes of the Indigo Rain crockery collection for 1882 Ltd. Designed by interiors visionary Faye Toogood (her installations at Milan Design Week are legendary), the bold, brush-like stripes are her unique take on classic English blue and cream Delftware. Instant coastal style however far you are from the sea.

3. Sorted out your new season wardrobe yet? Invest in a full-length mirror to get a real feel for whether you can pull off that Vetements hoodie. An elegantly, handcrafted piece of furniture, the Iona Cheval Floor Mirror will also help to maximise all that sunlight (when it comes) and brighten up your space.

4. Pump up the pattern with artist Susi Bellamy’s new colourful cushions. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Susi begins by creating hand marbled paper art. This traditional craft process involves floating inks on water and then carefully laying a sheet of paper on the surface to absorb the pattern. The resulting unique impression is then digitally printed onto velvet. NB Velvet is still hot for spring.

5. Our favourite find at Heal’s is their new Fabian collection of lighting. Decidedly 1970s in attitude, the monochrome lights are a winning combination of sandblasted black metal and solid opal glass metal diffuser. Better yet the floor lamp is designed so that each sphere rotates, meaning that you can create your own configuration to suit your mood.

6. Grab a fistful of tulips and arrange artfully in Heal’s Copper & Smoke vase. The vogue for all things metallic shows no sign of stopping and the glaze here includes a mix of 24-carat gold for extra lustre. Teamed with the smoky finish of the mouth-blown glass you’ve basically got two trends in one.

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AESOP’S WORLD OF INTERIORS

For thirty years, Aesop has been making skin, body and hair care products in their signature minimal packaging. But beyond the bottles, tubes and jars they’ve also worked with a distinguished roster of architects and designers to create a striking portfolio of unique stores that are bursting with inspired materials and details.

Bringing the outside in: Westmount, Montreal, Canada.

Designed in collaboration with Quebecois architect Alain Carle, Aesop’s first Montreal store (pictured above) features a cluster of three locally sourced birch tree trunks. Left in their natural state – peeling bark included – the timber is installed from floor-to-ceiling, practically growing out of the floating floorboards. They add an organic texture to a highly ordered space.

Recycling the news: Nolita, NYC, USA.

The saying goes that “today’s news is tomorrow’s chip paper”, but for Tacklebox architect Jeremy Barbour, 2,800 reclaimed copies of the New York Times are both structure and decoration for this diminutive store. The sheets were cut into 400,000 strips, then stacked and bound together to create bricks of paper. These line the walls and create the bodies for the joinery. The ragged edges of the newspapers create a subtle pattern, which will transform from grey to a sepia yellow shade as the sheets age with time.

Fibreglass fantasies: James Street, Brisbane, Australia.

This building within a building takes its style cues from the sinuous sculptures of Anish Kapoor and the surfboard culture of Queensland. A collaboration with Rodney Eggleston of March Studio, the inside/outside space makes full use of fibreglass’s capabilities for creating curves and filtering light. We love the way that the external wooden skeleton frame is used as additional shelving for products.

A passion for parquet: Saint-Honoré, Paris, France.

Visit any of the grand apartments and elegant salons of the historic heart of Paris and you’re sure to pace upon floors of perfect parquet. Aesop pay tribute to the geometry (and luxury) of hand-crafted wooden mosaic flooring by filling their space from top to bottom with 3,500 boards of imported Victorian ash. Intricately arranged to create a dynamic display, every piece is positioned to showcase the intricate nap and grain of the timber.

The way of the Samurai: Fukoaka, Fukuoka-shi, Japan.

How do you apply the philosophy and craftsmanship of the Samurai order to a beauty store? For Japanese studio SIMPLICITY, the clue’s in their name. Pared back to an almost ascetic degree, their space is designed with a rugged palette of materials: oxidised metal, black stone and concrete, teamed with a ruthless symmetry. In the centre of the room, two monolithic polished steel sinks reference the glint of the Samurai’s katana blade. Austerity has never looked so appealing.

Cardboard chic: Downtown LA, Los Angeles, USA.

Architectural firm Brooks + Scarpa are more used to designing award-winning art museums, high schools and gyms. For Aesop’s store in the historic theatre district of South Broadway, they went beyond the bricks and mortar to explore the design possibilities of the cardboard tube. In a nod to the bolts of fabric to be found in the area’s fashion houses and costume shops, they took the tubes and created undulating walls, minimal chandeliers and simple counters. Cardboard’s neutral colour adds easy warmth.

Going nuts for coconut: Millenia Walk, Singapore, Singapore.

Our very favourite Aesop has sadly closed but we couldn’t bear to omit it. Why? Because the primary material that March Studio used to create this store was the coconut husk. The ceiling-wide installation consisted of 30 kilometres of it. Each individual strand was cut to the same length and hung from an intricate grid. Meanwhile ropes made from husk were coiled around columns and pedestals. Widely used throughout the region, here the humble husk becomes both architecture and sculpture.

http://www.aesop.com

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BOUROULLEC BROTHERS JUDGE DESIGN AWARDS

Back in 2016, brothers Rowan and Erwan Bouroullec bagged not one but two Wallpaper* Design Awards. As well as winning the much-coveted Designer of the Year Award, they took home the Best Domestic Design for the Serif TV. This year, the tables were turned and the brothers were part of the judging panel.

Fellow judges were artist Tom Sachs, architect Amanda Levete, actor-director Laetitia Casta and artist-designer Ramdane Touhami. The eclectic panel was matched by an equally diverse shortlist that ranged from Stelton coffee sets and Wary Meyers soaps to the city of Shenzken. The brothers, pictured above with this year’s Best Domestic Design winner the AK70 music player by Astell and Kern, were impressed by its perceived longevity. Its reassuring weight and clever oblique angle design teamed with the latest digital tech inside suggest that there’s still a place for a dedicated music player in our lives. (Photograph: Alexandre Guirkinger)

Designer of the Year was awarded to Jasper Morrison. In a 30-year career, the champion of functional but minimal furniture has also turned his hand to toasters for Muji and mobile phones for Samsung. Most recently he created the Bankside seating range (pictured above) for Tate Modern’s members’ room - and designed his first kitchen for Schiffini. “He’s really looking at a lot of the world”, said Erwan “he’s not a creator, he’s more”.

Blowing our minds in the Best New Private House category was winner Konieczny’s Ark. Created by architectural practice KWK Promes in Southern Poland, the angular concrete construction, looks like a boat listing on a wave of countryside. That distinctive tilt is not just for dramatic effect, but maximises the view and allows ground water to flow underneath. (Photograph: Jakub Certowicz)

Moving on from the tactic of exiting through the gift shop, museums have been getting in on the act of hosting dining destinations too. Best New Restaurant award winner, Odette is on the ground floor of Singapore’s landmark National Gallery. Conceived by London-based Universal Design Studio, the room is a calming palette of pale pinks and white, teamed with terrazzo, marble, brass and wood finishes. (Photograph: Jovian Lim)

An equally sensitive use of materials can be found at the winner of Best New Public Building. Designed by Hiroshi Sambuichi, the Naoshima Hall in Japan uses hinoki cypress and handmade washi paper throughout its interiors. Outside its distinctive roof is a modern take on the traditional irimoya hip-and-gable roof. The open top allows air to circulate through the building keeping the rooms below cooler during the hot summer months. Japanese architects “have got their own way of playing with light, thickness and material” said Ronan. (Photograph: Shigeo Ogawa)

For a full list of this year’s Wallpaper* Design Awards winners, visit: wallpaper.com/design-awards/2017