I find new materials endlessly fascinating, both for their designed use as much as their creation. Here are three seen recently at the MateriO stand at Maison & Objet. Mushroom skin from South America with a suede-like feel One of my favourites and a badly needed invention, UV reflective coated glass, the finish almost invisible […]
New materials
Recent work by Jessica Zoob
Jessica Zoob’s work is featured at Decorex this year and she has also a current show with the Loughran Gallery in London where I saw some of these. With her background in scene painting she’s used to working on a large scale. I always love the experience of immersion one can achieve with large works […]
New products from Atypyk
Atypyk’s quirky, off-key sense of humour always amuses so I caught up with them at Maison & Objet to see what they’ve come up with this season. Their Aladdin Sane flash mirrors, created exclusively for the David Bowie Is… exhibition at the V&A earlier this year did very well and, although I already featured their Battersea Power Station ashtray, […]
Maison & Objet: Illuminations presentation by Elisabeth Leriche
I always find the information presented by Elisabeth Leriche inspiring and sometimes poetic. Her latest presentation at Maison & Objet didn’t disappoint and I was surprised to meet one of the exhibitors, Geoffroy Gillant, who had also been at the Libby Sellers private view a few days before. His white Carrara marble disc, “Stella”, forms part of […]
Grandmateria III at Libby Sellers
Showing at the same time as the copper mirrors is Granmateria III: simple materials transmuted into something more. For example “Nido”, these glass blocks and lamps by Paola Petrobelli which can contain objects in addition to functioning as lights. The insect and butterfly are also made of glass. Lex Pott uses the qualities of copper […]
The Copper Mirror Series at Gallery Libby Sellers
Steel, granite and copper, three materials symbolising Norway’s industrial heritage, are combined for these imposing and very beautiful mirrors by Hunting and Narud, currently on show at Libby Sellers. They are very seductive with warm mobile surfaces and multiple light reflections held in pace by immovable granite blocks. Really sensual and tactile. You can see […]