CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE
Mirabelle
July 8,2016
PHILIPPE STARK
Born
January 18, 1949 (age 67)
Paris, France
Nationality French
Hometown New York
Website
[Link]
GHOST CHAIR
This iconic seat shows Starck playing with
form and material, recasting the royal Louis
XV chair concept with translucent, injectionmolded polycarbonate. More than a million
of these chairs have be
JUICY SALIF LEMON SQUEEZER
Likely the only juicer displayed
at MOMA, Starcks aluminum
tripod design could be mistaken
for a streamlined alien invader
from a 50s pulp comic. Hes
rumored to have said: "It's not
meant to squeeze lemons, it is
meant to start conversations."
KARIM RASHID
Born
September 18, 1960 (age 55)
Cairo, Egypt
Nationality
Canadian-American[1]
Ethnicity
Egyptian,English
Alma mater
Carleton University
Occupation
Industrial Designer
Home town
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Website
[Link]
The dining table has a very light
and simple deign but it also
hides a very functional structure.
The dining chairs have designs
inspired by nature and they
celebrate the beauty of the leaf.
When pushed in, the chairs
create a very elegant and
beautiful image in combination
with the table. The sideboard
has colorful inserts that can be
used to customize the handles
and the ends.
This is the Float Sofa that was
designed by Karim Rashid for
Spanish furniture manufacturer
SANCAL. The piece was
presented at Salone del Mobile
2012. Its design is also simple
but far from ordinary, just like
all the designers creations. The
sofa is composed of a series of
rounded and colorful elements
with soft shapes and these
elements intersect and create a
harmonious composition.
FRANK GHERY
Born
Frank Owen Goldberg
February 28, 1929 (age 87)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality
Canadian, USA
Alma mater University of Southern California
Occupation
Architect
Website
[Link]
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of
modern and contemporary art, designed by
Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and
located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.
The museum was inaugurated on October 18, 1997,
by former King Juan Carlos I of Spain. Built
alongside the Nervion River, which runs through
the city of Bilbao to the Cantabrian Sea, it is one of
several museums belonging to the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Foundation and features permanent
and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and
international artists. It is one of the largest
museums in Spain.
THE WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL
Grand Avenue in Downtown of Los Angeles,
California, is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles
Music Center and was designed by Frank Gehry.
It opened on October 24, 2003. Bounded by Hope
Street, Grand Avenue, and 1st and 2nd Streets, it
seats 2,265 people and serves, among other
purposes, as the home of the Los Angeles
Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angeles
Master Chorale.
The hall is in a vineyard seating configuration,
similar to the Berliner Philharmonie by Hans
Scharoun.
GEORGE NELSON
Born
December 6, 1908
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died
November 27, 1934 (aged 25)
Wilmette, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation
Gangster, bank robber
LEISURE LEATHER CHAIR
Originally introduced by Herman Miller in 1955,
the Nelson coconut chair is a 20th century
furniture icon. It has a simple, striking shape, and
it's also a very comfortable place to unwind at
home or in the private office or lounge.
Settle Right In
Relaxing comfort. With its shallow sides and
inviting curves, the chair is designed to let you sit
in any position and move with ease.
Thick cushion. The one-piece foam rubber,
leather-upholstered cushion provides comfort
and classic good looks.
Durable materials. The chair's molded plastic
shell sits atop a three-leg chromed steel base
with glides.
This is a sofa to brighten a room,
to be happy and relax on. You
look at its 18 10-inch
"marshmallow" cushions and
you can't help but smile. It's
been that way since it began
turning heads in 1956, when the
Nelson Marshmallow sofa was
described in our catalog this
way: "Despite its astonishing
appearance, this piece is very
comfortable."
PATRICIA URQUIOLA
Born: 1961, Oviedo, Spain
Education: Polytechnic University of Milan, Technical
University of Madrid
Books: Patricia Urquiola: Time to Make a Book
KEY FACTS
Product: Volant
Family: Volant
Manufacturer: Moroso
Designer: Patricia Urquiola
Country: Italy
Groups: Seating-Armchairs
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Frame in steel upholstered with
ame-retardant and stress resist antpolyurethane foam
with differentiated densities and polyester bre. Base in
steel with chrome nish. The Volant collection covers are
removable.
KEY FACTS
Product: 570 Gender
Family: 570 Gender
Manufacturer: Cassina
Designer: Patricia Urquiola
Country: Italy
Groups: Seating-Stools Seating-Poufs Lounge area/Waiting
room-Ottomans
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Measurements:
pouf: 60x43xh.38cm
Materials:
Frame belted tubular iron
padding flexible polyurethane foam
upholstery leather/fabric in fixed combinations
feet black painted steel bar
slip-ons black saddle leather, green or purple iridescent leather.
ZAHA HADID
Born
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
31 October 1950
Baghdad, Iraq
Died
31 March 2016 (aged 65)
Miami, Florida, U.S.
Nationality
Iraqi-British
Occupation
Architect
Website
[Link]
Buildings
MAXXI, Bridge Pavilion
Maggie's Centre
Contemporary Arts Center
THE MAXXI
The MAXXI, Italian: Museo nazionale
delle arti del XXI secolo, or National
Museum of the 21st Century Arts, is a
national museum of contemporary art and
architecture in the Flaminio quartiere of
Rome, Italy. The museum is managed by a
foundation created by the Ministero dei
beni e delle attivit culturali, the Italian
ministry of cultural heritage. It was
designed as a multidisciplinary space by
Zaha Hadid and committed to
experimentation and innovation in the
arts and architecture.
THE BRIDGE PAVILION
The Bridge Pavilion panish: Pabelln Puente) is a building designed
by British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid that was constructed for the
Expo 2008 in Zaragoza (Spain) as one of its main landmarks. It is an
innovative 280-metre-long (919 ft) covered bridge that imitates a
gladiola over the river Ebro, connecting the neighbourhood of La
Almozara (es) with the exposition site, and thus becoming its main
entrance. The new bridge is, at the same time, a multi-level
exhibition area; 10,000 visitors per hour were expected to frequent
the Pavilion during world exhibition.
Hadid chose fibre glass reinforced concrete from Austrian company
Rieder to envelope the bridge: she covered the outer skin of the
building with 29,000 triangles of fibreC in different shades of grey.
During the Expo 2008, the Bridge Pavilion hosted an exposition
called Water a unique resource, designed by Ralph Appelbaum
Associates. When the Expo was over, the building was purchased by
the local savings bank Ibercaja to use it as a site for expositions.
RON ARAD
Born
1951 (age 6465)
Tel Aviv, Israel
Nationality
Israeli
Occupation
industrial designer, artist, and architect
Matrizia is instead a sofa-sculpture, an upholstered
furniture item which acts as the ideal midway point
between design skill and craft talent. The idea came
about by accident, after seeing mattresses dumped in
the street when walking in town, a sight which
captured the boundless imagination of Ron Arad and
triggered an imaginary operation of salvage and
[Link] was thus born by
modelling and recovering a mattress so as to create a
comfortable and innovative seat, while the name is a
witty combination of the word mattress with
Patrizia.
Ron Arad 3 Nuns Stool
This new collection from Ron Arad includes a floating sofa
(GLIDER), a sprung stool (3 Nuns) and a modular bookshelf (ZSHELF). The conceptual irony is based on the masterful use of
steel which sometimes acts the rigid, supporting structure,
sometimes as a springy elastic band and sometimes as a
simple folded sheet.
3 Nuns: a stool made using strips of tempered steel connected
using butterfly nuts which have been positioned to gradually
discharge the tension of the seat. ideal for long conversations.
Dimensions
diameter 400 mm
height 490 mm
Design:
Ron Arad
Manufacturer:
Moroso
GEORGE NAKASHIMA
Born: May 24, 1905, Spokane, Washington,
United States
Died: June 15, 1990, New Hope,
Pennsylvania, United States
Education: Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Books: The Soul of a Tree: A Woodworker's
Reflections, more
CONOID CHAIR
Artist:
George Nakashima (Japanese American, Spokane,
Washington 19051990 New Hope, Pennsylvania)
Date: 198687
Culture: Japan
Medium: Walnut
Dimensions:
H. 35 3/8 in. (89.9 cm); W. 20 5/8 in. (52.4 cm); D. 22 1/4 in.
(56.5 cm) H. of seat 17 in. (43.2 cm)
DINING TABLE
This dining table by Art in Furniture
Homage to Nakashima is a beautiful
example of George Nakashimas style
of work giving respect to nature and
the tree.
GAETANO PESCE
Born
1939, La Spezia, Italy
Education
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Nationality
Italian
Occupation
Architect
Practice
architect, designer, educator
Design in 1969 Serie Up since its debut,
has been one of the most prominent
design performance. There are seven
different sizes of seats. UP5_6 is the
design focus on the most famous, has
now become a real symbol, metaphor
male bias women are always victims.
Elastic fabric coated fabric is black, red,
yellow, gray and violet, and orange and
beige stripes. UP7 "foot" is the
performance of modern and traditional
large-scale sculpture, almost
archaeological relic of the modern era,
showing the fusion of art and design.
Description: Gaetano pesce,
vassoio in resina
Date: 7 October 2011, [Link]
Source: Own work
Size of this preview: 800 570
pixels
ROBERT VENTURI
Born
June 25, 1925 (age 91)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Princeton University
Occupation
Architect
QUEEN ANNE CHAIR
Design: 1979 - 84
Production: 1984 to the present
Manufacturer: Knoll International,
Inc.,
New York
Size: 98 x 68 x 61; seat height 49
cms
Material: molded multiplex,
laminated
plastic, imitation leather cushions
VANNA VENTURI HOUSE
The Vanna Venturi House, one of the
first prominent works of the
postmodern architecture movement, is
located in the neighborhood of
Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. It was designed by
architect Robert Venturi for his mother
Vanna Venturi, and constructed
between 1962 -1964.
The house was sold in 1973 and
remains a private residence. The house
is not open to the public.
XAVIER LUST
Born:
August 27, 1969 (age 46)
Bruges, Belgium
Xavier Lust is a furniture designer and sculptor based in Brussels.
He is best known for the unique technique of shaping metal that
he uses to make furniture. The simple and original shapes
created by folding and curving metal sheets without a mould
have become his work signature. He has collaborated with
several furniture manufacturers including MDF Italia, Driade, De
Padova, CerrutiBaleri, Kristalia, Fiam and [Link] is the
founder and principal of Xavier Lust design studio
Product description
A coffee table made with a
sheet of aluminium, curved and
bent, aluminium lacquered or in
the new version in matt white
finish suitable for outdoor.
Height 27 cm. Dims 90x94 cm,
90x125 cm.
Round or oval tables. S-shaped twisted
stand, moulded in a compound of
minerals and polyesther resins, masspigmented in matt white. Tops in 15 mm
thick tempered clear glass, or extra light
glass, or in a 30 mm medium-density
wood fibreboard, lacquered in matt white
with scratch-resistant finish, or in a 30
mm thick compound of polyesther resins,
mass-pigmented in matt white. The
round table is available in the new version
in gloss black lacquer with a top in grey
smoked tempered glass.
