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This year the Moustache is on!

Cosmina Dinu — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:32:07 +0000

Founded and run by Stéphane Arriubergé and Massimiliano Iorio, moreover partners in Domestic, Moustache’s aim is to bring together a group of like-minded designers to nurture the development of innovative and honest furnishings that will stand the test of time.
Moustache seeks to break away from pre-set market concepts and create innovative products by combining a variety of approaches and thought processes. To open new domestic horizons designers such as François Azambourg, Big-Game, Matali Crasset, Ana Mir + Emili Padros and Inga Sempé cohabit in Moustache.
Rather than artificially developing the principle of novelty at any price, the products produced by Moustache will attempt to take advantage of passing time and to give them a little of the heritage value that furniture and objects held in the past.
Far however from looking nostalgically at the contemporary production of the objects, the Moustache collection will try to anticipate and project the solutions for our scenarios for future life.
At the scale of its market, Moustache will attempt to take up a position beside those which, rejecting some ideals of the society, are entrusted with substituting and inventing new ones.
New French brand Moustache presented furniture and lighting by designers including Inga Sempé, Big-Game and Matali Crasset in Milan last April.
The new range also features products by François Azambourg and Ana Mir + Emili Padros.
The collection was on show at Via Tortona 19 in Zona Tortona from 22-26 April, during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile (international furniture fair).
And finally, let’s take a look at the products.

Vapeur lamps and suspension by Inga Sempé

Weightless in our interiors. The Inga Sempé Vapeur collection uses the mechanical and structuring qualities of the pleat to create strange and large lighting volumes.

La belle et le clochard table by François Azambourg

A previously unknown association of two materials with opposing qualities, La belle et le clochard table by François Azambourg invites the use of fused precious wood and polyurethane foam to create an extremely light table (12 kg) with astonishing acoustic qualities.
A table-top sandwich in maple or brazilian ironwood plywood and polyether foam. The base in solid maple or solid maple veneered with brazilian ironwood.

Instant table by Matali Crasset

With the Instant range, Matali Crasset has designed obvious articles starting with a simple tool: the trestle. While retaining it, Matali completes the trestle principle so that only one is needed to support the table-top. To be unfolded according to requirements, the Instant Table table is economic in materials: its top is made of all the wood chips left over from the cutting of its own base.
In plywood beech and brass.

Box table by Big-Game

Taking inspiration from and applying the pleating techniques used in the cardboard and aluminium industry, very light, the Box coffee table is easily moved by means of the handles drilled into its sides.

Bold chair by Big-Game

Made up of two tubular parts in metal embedded in each other, the Bold chair is an updated version of the tradition of a chair in tubular steel. Inflated with a thin polyurethane foam, the line drawn by the Bold successfully plays the role of foot, seat then back and gives it an amazing level of comfort. With a single stroke, in the manner of the Osvaldo Cavandoli Linea, and thickened similarly to the font which is made bold, the Bold chair succeeds in doing away with the seat and back. Covered with a removable textile coating, the Bold chair can change colour in a few seconds.

Box stool by Big-Game

Taking inspiration from and applying the pleating techniques used in the cardboard and aluminium industry, very light and versatile, the Box stool can be folded away like a cardboard box. A hole is pierced in the centre of the seat so that it is easy to carry, it brings to mind certain mass seating in the last century.

Instant seat chauffeuse by Matali Crasset

With the Instant range, Matali Crasset has designed obvious articles starting with a simple tool: the trestle. While preserving its versatility, Matali associates it with a shell seat to create an armchair. The trestle shape follows the shell’s profile and, at the back, has a hook for a bag or anything else. The two are very easily separated so they can be put away or stacked. An article conspiring to make the Instant Seat armchair comfortable can at any time disappear to take advantage of the space it took up.

Armoire souple storage module by Inga Sempé

Inga Sempé has done substantial research on the pleat and, this time, uses its characteristics to create the façades of an amazing storage module… Made of a sycamore structure, its flexible cupboard can be accessed from the front or the back and, by stacking, enables storage space of variable dimensions to be created.
Access to this flexible cupboard is by simply sliding and folding back a pleated textile surface along a rail. Precisely observed and studied, the mechanical qualities inherent in the pleat applied to the simple and recurring gesture of opening and closing. Available in 4 colours, a large number of combinations, horizontal, vertical with 2, 4, 6, 9 elements, are available. Its dual access and the possibility of stacking several also enables it to be used as an element partitioning the space.

Mètre shelf by François Azambourg

The Mètre shelf unit by François Azambourg takes over the mechanical principle of the mason’s yardstick to articulate a support all along the wall to take the shelves. Delivered folded. It is up to the user to unfold the Mètre to install his shelves.

Slastic coat rack by Ana Mir + Emili Padros

The Slastic coat rack goes back to the order that parent generally give to their children not to draw on the walls and, once adult, invites them to disobey it. Each deposit on the coat rack marks your having been there and participates in the collective achievement of a work very far from being just an accident.

Xtra room interior refuge by Matali Crasset

Matali Crasset has always been interested in the principle of building/unbuilding articles in the living space. Flexible, therefore her interior Xtra room refuge, according to needs and wishes, can be unfolded or removed. Putting up a passing friend in the house, cutting oneself off to work, read, watch television, the Xtra room offers a better management of space by creating transient sub-spaces. From the simple principle of a trunk/posts, the Xtra room makes it possible to build a structure which, according to the number of elements assembled, becomes a screen, a private corner or a real refuge.
Completed by a felt-lined skin, the hut becomes homely and welcoming, suitable to carrying out a large number of activities in a single open area. A tool for partitioning the area, the Xtra room refuge is a light alternative to building walls.

Moustache
Inga Sempé
Big Game
Matali Crasset
Ana Mir + Emili Padros

ABR: a young Spanish company to keep an eye on

Cosmina Dinu — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:36:48 +0000

Haven’t been to Kortrijk just for meeting the the old pals, and revisit past affairs. Definitely the main reason was greeting the newcomers, embracing their freshness. So we came came across ABR, a young Spanish, Catalonia based company at its second collection. The company pride itself with its young and dynamic team, led by Toni Pallejà from Porcuatro Studio, together with Marc Hernández.
Reccomended by ingenuity and humor, the team became famous very soon. Some of you appreciated the holy approach of saving data, through the Virgin Mary-shaped USB memory designed by Luis Eslava and I’m almost sure you all paid at least a zoomed glimpse to the provocative Cul is Cool chair of Ramón Úbeda and Otto Canalda. Check out for the new released white version!

This is about all we knew about ABR. At a second closer look we discovered the beautiful Feel-Thru collection of space dividers, serene and cosy – attributes given by the material it is made of : flame-proofed felt. The 2008 collection includes new versions.
So, as you may see, we had all the reasons to pay all our attention to the new released products.
Having displayed its capacity to offer new and fresh styles with the first collection, with the second collection ABR is reaffirming this freshness. At present the company keeps offering new types of products: a modular sofa and carpet, a rude-cut chair, a calendar with a design that could be personalized and a ceiling lamp adjustable in height.
Here they are:

Dayboard
Designed by StokkeAustad, 2008

Calendar with mobile dates in which the user determines their final layout and the calendar design
Dimensions: 100 x 60 / 100 x 120 cm
Materials: White painted steel sheet metal and pieces injected in ABS. Glossy finishings and matt-coloured stickers.

Latten
Designed by Max Gumpp / Hannes Gumpp, 2008

It is a chair with a premeditatedly rude design.
Dimensions: 45 x 45 x 80 cm
Materials: Structure: Pine from the North. Seat: 5 mm MDF.

Liam
Designed by Toni Pallejà (Porcuatro), 2008

A modular sofa with a heavy rectilinear design of rounded arrises.
Dimensions:
Seats: 65×65 cm / 80×80 x40 cm / 130x80x40 cm
Backs: 64×80 cm / 114×80 cm
Laterals: 80×60 cm / 80×80 cm
Cushions: 55x43x10 cm / 105x43x10 cm
Versatile cushions: 55×55 cm / 52×30 cm
Material: Structure: Solid pine wood. Backs: Curved board. All covered with high density foam. Seat cushion: Made of foam and padded with raw cotton.

Interlock
Designed by Tomek Rygalik, 2008

If sofas are modular, why can not carpets be modular?
Dimensions: 240×80 cm
Material: Woven wool

And of course I couldn’t finish the post without taking a last look to these enchanting panels, the new models.
What do you say?

ABR

Camelot Screen by Smanks

Cosmina Dinu — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:01:55 +0000

The Best in Show awarded at the Milan Furniture Fair by UK magazine MIX Future Interiors, Smanks Design Studio has a solution for ill-timed meetings.
Camelot is a screen developed for the open plan office. It can be used as a regular screen between desks. By zipping it together you can form longer wall-dividers, and turn it in to small meeting rooms.
80% of the meetings in an open plan office take place by your desk, and lasts only for 5-10 minutes. This is a very important strength of open planning since it increases information exchange. But at the same time it can be disturbing for collegues close by trying to do concentrated work. By placing “camelot” inside the plan, it becomes an easily accessible place for these short meetings. In contrast to a regular meeting room, you don’t have to book it, it is closer to your desk, and you don’t have to pass through a door to use it.

Smanks

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