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Limber Gern
Designer Pleunie Buynk
Location: Menno Kroon, Cothen
Photo: Pleunie Buynk
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ANNOUNCING THE 2015 TRENDS AND THEMES: MATERIAL RESEARCH & THE DESIGN–FASHION MERGE
14/4/2015-19/4/2015
Today, materials are viewed not merely as substances that make up objects but as entities worth investigating for their undiscovered potential. Materials are getting smarter, the range is expanding, and we’re questioning the limits of use and pushing the boundaries of possibility. From using natural beetroot dye to shaping marble, designers are deepening their materials expertise.
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Posted 12 March 2015
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This increased interest goes hand in hand with another tendency: the intermingling of the design and fashion industries. Ventura Lambrate exhibitors such as Edelkoort Exhibitions and Craafts draw on contemporary craftsmanship and traditional techniques that are applicable for both furniture and fashion, reshaping both fields.
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The two textile designers of Studio Gutedort have a strong interest in working with unconventional and waste materials. They acquire one of their key materials at the butcher’s, walking away with intestines they’ll use to create leather like pieces. At Ventura Lambrate they’ll also present a research project based on the potential uses of beetroot dye. ??In the Burnt Sienna project, Studio Laura Daza works with a yellow pigment that becomes reddish-brown when heated. The artisan colour technique was widely used in the Renaissance, and the contemporary design studio is reviving it.?? A collaboration between designer Paolo Ulian and Bufalini Marmi has yielded a series of furniture pieces that make use of optimised marble techniques. The exhibition also features the 40x40 collection: marble tiles, cut by a water-jet machine, that can be easily assembled into objects. The special cutting technique means no waste material is left behind.?
Dust is the main material in Lucie Libotte’s designs, which re-evaluate a substance that’s usually perceived as dirty. After collecting samples of dust from several households, she’s created a series of vessels, each telling the story of the dust’s original location and explaining its value as a material. ??Design studio Handmade Industrials sculpts its objects by using balloons as flexible moulds and filling them with biodegradable thermoplastic granules. These Made&Mold techniques, which reclaim industrial materials and borrow processes from the plastic-moulding industry, can be seen first-hand at Ventura Lambrate.
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Limber Gem
Designer: Pleunie Buyink
Cultuurbazaar, Den Bosch
Photo: Pleunie Buyink
PLEUNIE BUYINK, Netherlands
Address: Via Ventura 14, 20134 Milano, Italy
Limber Gems, interior jewels, made from a newly developed material where rubber is a component. Flexible laying on the floor or being wall mounted as an art object. Once the light touches the limber gems the interplay between the crinkly background, ruff edges and the warm colors really starts.
Website: http://www.limbergems.com
Website: http://www.pleuniebuyink.com
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MU will present an overview of five years of We Make Carpets’ singular products at Ventura XV. Whether it is clothes pegs, candy bars or sheets of paper, there’s no material they can’t turn into a floor covering.
Pleunie Buyink’s liquid-looking Limber Gems – pieces of jewellery for the home interior – will also be on show at Ventura #14.
The Design Academy Eindhoven graduate has perfected “gems” that look like solid metal but are actually made from a bendable rubber composite.
Finally, don’t miss the chance to see a designer defying the limits of his material: at Via Massimiano 23, Floris Wubben will be extruding objects using a custom-built press, in an operation that defines the final look of the product.
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Ventura's design-fashion merge
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With the “implosion” of the fashion world (as trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort framed it) comes an increased intermingling between the fashion and design industries.
As familiar industrial conditions fall away, what remains is designers striving to bring the world the best crafts and most exceptional techniques.
During Ventura Lambrate 2015, this emerging phenomenon will be on display at the Via Cletto Arrighi location, which will be specially dedicated to a selection of double souled projects that merge fashion and design, research and craftsmanship, technique and reverie.
Read the Manifesto text at DeZeen>
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EDELKOORT EXHIBITIONS, Brazil, France, Italy, Netherlands
UNKNOWN YET
Presents GATHERING: From Domestic Craft to Contemporary Process.
Address Via Cletto Arrighi 19, 20134 Milano, Italy
This exhibition will present over 20 chairs by various acclaimed designers using trend techniques such as pleating, smocking, folding, wrapping, layering, ribboning and draping, thus connecting Contemporary creation to a long lineage of domesticated crafts. The result of such research processes and cutting-edge development is the birth of a new hybrid in production that brings together man and machine, opening up a new range of options conceived through our living memories and unbridled imagination.
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/trendtablet
Twitter https://twitter.com/edelkoort
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'Our future will be hybrid and we will see disciplines merge. The performing arts and design will drift together as well as fashion and design, that both are looking for new ways to bridge the "made by hand" with the "produced by machine". A new generation of smart production systems will allow the machine and the human to go hand in hand' Lidewij Edelkoort
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Edelkoort Exhibitions deepens this development in several designs using pleating, smocking, folding, wrapping, layering, ribboning and draping. The results constitute a hybrid between contemporary creativity and domestic craft. The exhibition’s title, Gathering, underlines a plea for humans to overcome tendencies such as greed and lack of respect.
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CRAAFTS, Italy ELIF MALKOCLAR, DAVIDE DELL'ACQUA
Address: Via Cletto Arrighi 19, 20134 Milano, Italy
This is an object like a domestic space. It's a simple metal structure, creates gaps that with an exclusively handcrafted procedure become colonized with surfaces designed and finely woven, in according to Craafts know-how, which stands on that very fleeting threshold between design, art and craft.
Website http://craafts.com
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Craafts/562735073763216?fref=ts
Twitter http://twitter.com/craafts
Instagram http://craafts.com
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Craafts is a company specialising in craftsmanship for haute couture. Having worked with names like Prada, Gucci, Celine and Alexander McQueen, Craafts realized that its techniques could also be adapted for the furniture industry. Craafts will display a variety of handmade items featuring diverse techniques and materials in an iron-framework installation.
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