SBID offers chance to win three-month internship
(UK) - Three interior design students in their second or third year have opportunity to win internship.
The Society for British & International Design have opened their annual ‘Get Me 2 The Top’ internship competition – offering student the chance to work in one of three leading London interior design studios for three months this summer.
‘Get Me 2 The Top’ now in its third year, was developed to find innovative and talented students, the competition has been created to offer students the opportunity to develop key relationships and give them the tools and advice they need to kick-start their careers whilst studying.
Students are asked to complete a project task online, selecting their preferred interior design category: Residential Design, Public Design or Product Design. Each task has been set by this year’s judges; Hospitality Designer, Hans Galutera, Healthcare Interior Designer, Diana Celella and SBID Founder and Interior Designer, Dr Vanessa Brady, OBE. Judges will be looking for qualities such as originality of expression, individualism, creative use of materials and presentation skills.
Commenting on the competition, Dr Vanessa Brady said: “We are delighted to be running Get Me 2 The Top this year with the support of three of the best design studios in London and top interior designers in the industry. The knowledge and insights that students learn through a three-month internship is immeasurable to a student’s career and employment opportunities. SBID have seen the benefits of previous programmes, as students have gone on to obtain employment and further develop their skills in the industry."
The competition aims to nurture relationships between the country’s finest recruits and potential employers, bridging the gap between learning and earning. Each category winner will be awarded with a three-month internship from leading design studios such as 161-London and Crawford Partnerships.
Entries are now open and students have until 30 April to submit their entry through the SBID website.
www.sbid.org/education/get-me-2-the-top/
Resident opens international showroom
(Sweden) - In partnership with Swedish furniture manufacturer Massproductions, Resident to share office and showroom at Hammarby Allé 51.
The new space is located in a concrete walled, neo-modernist building in Stockholm’s former industrial area. Resident co-founder Scott Bridgens comments: “This is a collaboration that spans 14,000km and brings together the best of two like-minded and ambitious design companies. The Scandinavian market is one of the most informed in the world and one that we relish the opportunity to operate within.”
Resident is a New Zealand-based furniture and lighting brand established in 2011 by Simon James and Scott Bridgens.
Lee Broom creates window concept for Stockholm Design Week
(Sweden) - Contemporary interpretation of ‘The Red Planet’ designed for luxury department store NK Stockholm.
Lee Broom lighting and furniture designs were displayed in the store's window, including an installation of Orion lights, from Broom’s latest award-winning Observatory collection.
Comprising simple modular lights with opposing opaque and solid polished gold spheres along with opaque and solid polished gold tubes, they connect and expand horizontally and vertically to create bespoke constellations of light.
Adding to the celestial theme, Crescent and Mini Crescent lights were used to create an other-worldly glow formed from an illuminated sphere sliced in half to reveal a crescent-shaped brushed brass fascia.
Lee Broom commented: “We were delighted to be invited to collaborate with NK on their window display during Stockholm Design Week. Creating installations with a narrative that is thought-provoking and eye-catching has always been part of what I do as I designer and I am excited that this project shows off the products in a very different light.”
Roll & Hill launches LED lamp range
(USA) - New York-based manufacturer launches lamp collection to complement light fixtures.
Specifically developed for Roll & Hill LED fixtures, the lamps are made to the highest-quality, offering the aesthetics and richness of traditional lamps with consistent performance unseen in other LEDs. Additionally, they have been made available in both 120v and 240v.
Commenting on the launch, Roll & Hill said: “Nothing else we found met out standards… our lamps won’t flicker when dimmed, instead flowing smoothly from across the range of intensities. And because all the LEDs we use are single-sourced, you can be confident you’ll get the right light the first time and every time after.”
La Croisette, France
Cannes is a glamorous resort town along the French Riveria, famed for its luxurious hotels and beaches that attract the rich and famous. One of the most appreciated jewels in the city of Cannes is the scenic promenade of La Croisette. Stretching over 3 km, the promenade sits under tall pine and palm trees between the sandy beaches and the natural coastal road.
La Croisette is home to a number of deluxe hotels dotted along the curved Mediterranean coastline. The renowned Le Grand Hotel is a stand-out feature along the French Riveria. This glamorous five-star hotel is set in front of lush gardens and greenery and promises guests a perfect Riveria dream stay.
Le Grand Hotel is home to La Plage 45, a relaxing and fashionable beach-front restaurant. Set beyond the lush gardens of the hotel, La Plage 45 presents a number of delicacies on a diverse menu designed by Thierry Paludetto, with a range of meats and fresh fish from around the world.
Designed by Humbert & Poyet, La Plage 45 welcomes guests from mid-April to the end of September. The restaurant boasts a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere, with a large open terrace and sublime views of the peaceful Mediterranean Sea and Lérins Islands.
Humbert & Poyet adapted a tropical style throughout La Plage 45, with rustic-style shutters that add character to the restaurant and complements the soft white sand of the nearby beach. Mullan Lighting’s Ren outdoor wall lights delicately sit on these rustic-shutters. With a striking antique brass shade, the outside wall lights effortlessly encapsulate the theme of La Plage 45, adding a vintage chic to the terrace with exposed decorative lamps.
A seaside aesthetic is prevalent throughout the terrace and a soft-cream canopy helps create the relaxed environment that holiday-makers crave. Mullan’s Ren and Kai outdoor pendants are gently suspended from the canopy and create a relaxed, warm glow to complement the striking Cannes sun as it sets in the evening. An antique brass shade facilitates light to be directed downwards to echo the beautiful white marble dining tables and cream chairs below.
Icone Luce Wins German Design Awards
(Germany) - Caveau wall light beats competition in lighting category.
Icone Luce faced more than 46 designers from eleven countries in this year’s German Design Awards. Prizes are awarded to projects that truly represent pioneering contributions to the German and international design landscape, guaranteed by a highly esteemed international jury.
It is with Caveau, designed by Marco Pagoncelli, that Icone Luce stood out and was able to win this prestigious award in the lighting category.
Pagnoncelli captures light and inserts it inside a ‘caveau’. A new concept of lamp: no longer a minimum size recessed lamp, no longer a concave space with the function to accommodate an illuminating body, but a product able to combine the prerogatives of a spotlight with the size of a wall lamp with a brand new fully retracting system. All these things characterise Caveau, an unexpected creativity combined with technological innovation.
This wall light consists of a round element hinged to the wall. Composed of a thin disc of six millimetres provided with a rounded circumference that allows the adherence to the wall. When closed, it completely merges with the wall, without any protrusion or edges.
While opening, the disc is positioned at an angle chosen according to the requirements of brightness. The total opening is obtained with the positioning of the movable element perpendicular to the wall and parallel to the floor.
Through a selection panel, you can also adjust the brightness intensity. The electronic control unit, compatible with most known home automation systems, along with the the power supply unit, are incorporated in the recessed section.
Using minimum space, this lamp is characterised by a simple insertion and removal system, with no need for wall works.
www.iconeluce.com
Be.Re, Italy
In an iconic location next to the famous Vatican City, Be.Re is an oasis for beer lovers, where you can taste excellent craft beers of various types combining them various traditional dishes.
A space distributed across three areas - two bars and a restaurant which, decorated with barrels and spines for beer pays tribute to the popular drink. With access from the street, once guests enter, the interior is something to be admired: two different colours and materials are used to separate the staff area to the public, a game of symmetries and shades that complement and balance accordingly.
The staff area is characterised by a strong aesthetic, where the copper is dominant with wood-effect coatings and the original vaulted brick. It contrasts white and grey tones, mainly recognisable for the recovery of the original flooring in Carrara marble.
Natural light passes through the large glass façades open on both floors completing the lighting of Studio Italia’s suspended Spider lines creating an harmonious balance between the various colours used: warmer tones for staff area and opaque white for the public space.
Behind one of the bars, a staircase gives access to the upper level restaurant, which maintains the same combination of colours and materials of the bar. Here, a large open room allows customers to share a meal in a group, sit around a large communal table, or enjoy more privacy in smaller and secluded areas.
FutureBrand UXUS opens London office
(UK) - Leading international design studio and consultancy expands with new office opening in UK capital.
This new London location will strengthen the studio’s global presence, providing a new base for the company, in addition to its existing New York and Amsterdam offices. With a dedicated team in London, FutureBrand UXUS will have greater proximity to the exciting retail and hospitality opportunities within the UK and Northern Europe.
Alice Ellis, Senior Client Manager, Joseph Lane, Senior Designer, and Adam Thompson, Senior Creative Strategist will form the London team, facilitating greater collaboration and seamless experiences with existing FutureBrand and FutureBrand UXUS clients.
Chief Creative Officer, Architect and Co-Founder of FutureBrand UXUS, Oliver Michell says: “We are looking forward to expanding our reach and influence in the UK by opening a new London design studio. Our company has been working with British clients ever since FutureBrand UXUS’ inception 15 years ago, most notably Selfridges, Jaeger, the Chapman Brothers and Tate Modern, to name a few; naturally, we’re excited to continue building relationships within this vibrant, pioneering culture.”
FutureBrand’s London Managing Director, Kate Fulford-Brown adds: “We’re very excited to work even more closely with our FutureBrand UXUS colleagues; having them here on the ground in London strengthens our ability to deliver great, completely connected brand experiences to existing and new clients alike.”
FutureBrand UXUS has a long history of delivering stellar projects in London, with some of its most exciting projects situated in the capital in recent years. FutureBrand UXUS teamed up with French natural beauty, skincare and fragrance brand, L’Occitane en Provence to create a retail experience in the brand’s first flagship store on Regent Street.
The team designed a new immersive experience that offers customers a luxurious and sensorial exploration of L’Occitane’s full range of natural beauty products, all inspired by the south of France art de vivre and Provençal beauty secrets. FutureBrand UXUS’ vision for the space was translated into an enchanting retail experience with education and trial at the core, sharing the L’Occitane beauty of life philosophy with the curious customer.
Secto Design wins Austrian copycat
However, Secto Design fully won the first insistence against EGLO in the Regional Court of Innsbruck in 2018 but EGLO then filed an appeal and the process continued. At the beginning of January the Higher Regional Court of Innsbruck stated that Secto 4200 works according to the originality standard of Austrian copyright law and is therefore a copyrighted work.
David Trubridge ditches plastic
(New Zealand) – David Trubridge design studio removes multiple product lines containing plastic.
Six of its thirteen remaining products with a high plastic content will be pulled from its portfolio with immediate effect. The remaining designs will also be phased out during 2019 and early 2020 as the last orders for the items are processed.
The company is known worldwide as a leader in sustainable design practices, with the bulk of its luminaires being made from sustainably managed bamboo plywood. “The items being discontinued are close to my heart,” says David Trubridge, Director of the company. “I designed them as storytelling prototypes for exhibitions in Milan. With that exposure, the designs were specified into projects globally and even collected by the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
“At the time we chose the Polycarbonate plastic due to its strength and the way it can diffuse light like rice paper. The designs had a lightness and ethereal nature, which I still adore. Despite this, we can’t go on selling them and still claim we are doing all we can as a company to reduce our environmental footprint. The time has come when we know we won’t find a more eco-alternative to this plastic.”
Rather than completely abandoning the designs, Trubridge set his studio with the task of designing new plywood pieces that take inspiration from these. The results of this challenge have led the company to find new ways of using plywood. Following on from the recently released Navicula, two brand new designs – ‘Maru’ and a set of three ‘Ketes’ – are being launched in April at Euroluce during Milan design week.
“I have joy in seeing the new designs come off my CNC machine, knowing the wooden off-cuts can easily be dealt with. We had to stockpile all our plastic waste and truck it to a recycling depot. Now our wood waste goes to a local timber mill for efficient incineration to generate electricity in its steam power turbines,” continues the designer. “The company has other smaller uses of plastic like fasteners, bubble wrap and tapes. So far we’ve converted to paper tape and found compostable zip bags where possible for the essential packaging of the nylon clips in the kit sets. We are also putting some pressure on suppliers of items like this to develop alternatives.
“I’m hoping I can bring light to the use of plastic in industrial design. Designers must think about materiality and life-span. What are you designing? How long will be it be relevant? What will happen to it when it’s discarded? Can you redesign the system rather than the object? I think this is such an exciting time to be a designer. We are all responsible for the future.”
La Lollo Applique - Slamp
Designed by Lorenzo Bozzoli, La Lollo is a tribute to the roaring 50’s; the wall lamp is available in five finishes, with sophisticated, gradient chromatics, metallization, lace patterns and geometric designs that adorn varying spaces with the same versatility as jewellery on a woman’s body.
Slamp’s unique, exclusive technopolymers shine like glass, but are unbreakable, and the wall lamp has two light sources (resulting in either cool or warm light, depending on the lamp purchased). A single lamp is ample enough for domestic illumination, and when multiplied, perfect for larger hospitality projects.
La Lollo Applique is part of a collection that includes suspensions of various sizes.
Fila - Kettal
Designed by Michel Charlot, the Fila collection presents a fitted fabric lampshade that covers a simple aluminium structure. When the fabric lampshade is lit up, it projects a colourful shadow display into the night.
The Fila outdoor lamps are available in three sizes and there are seven colour combinations to choose from, coupling coloured aluminium with the Parallels fabric collection designed, by Doshi Levien. Also available for use with batteries.
