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    11/4/11

    Daniel Rybakken

    As the design world starts to descend on Milan for the Salone del Mobile kicks off on Wednesday, there's much we're looking forward to seeing and doing. This week we're dedicated to sharing the best and most interesting new talents to watch out for.

     

    Stockholm-based Daniel Rybakken has actually been a top tip of ours since his graduation show three years ago, but this year he's proving us right with new concepts and launches in numerous different locations across the fair. Having made a name for himself in the art and installation design worlds for his uncanny ability to replicate the feeling of natural, direct sunshine through his products, finally we are now seeing his wares hit the market as manufactured goods.

     

    While most designers think about light in terms of lamps and lampshade, in Rybakken's products the idea is to make the light itself the main material, his aim is to challenge the way we think about light and what a lamp can be.

     

    This year the designer has completed a commissioned by Cosmit, the organizers of the Salone del Mobile, to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the fair in SaloneSatellite, where he will also feature new prototypes for a table and a task-light. Elsewhere in town Rybakken is also showing new work at Rossana Orlandi's gorgeous concept store.

     

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    22/12/10

    The Book of Job

    This is the Book of Job. Complete with gilded, letterpressed pages, the first monograph of Dutch design duo Studio Job is biblical, enclosed in a foil stamped slipcase, and featuring a signed bookplate, four gatefolds, two ribbon markers, and a foil stamped case. Just 3,000 of the leather-bound edition are available, and we're guessing, so praiseworthy is the effort that's gone into it all, they're not going to end up in the bargain bin.

     

    Job Smeets and Ny Tynagel have amassed a cult following for their work, which includes monumental (often dramatically larger than life) everyday objects, often infused with grand historical themes while still remaining primarily functional. No process is too laborious or luxurious for Antwerp-based Smeets and Tynagel, who have been known to explore a religious devotion to craftsmanship with collections in stained glass and marquetry as well as extensive use of precious materials.

     

    In this beautiful tome interior spreads feature new specially commissioned photographs and gatefold tableaux created using special dies. Contributors include Victor & Rolf, Murray Moss and Nadja Swarovski - all giving a rare insight into Studio Job's quite particular approach to design and pattern-making, the result is a collectible and highly rarified book. A signing is planned in London for January - watch this space.

     

     

     

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    2/12/10

    Tron Armchair by Cappellini

    Henrietta loves this… because it's so much more meaningful when there's a story behind a design and Walt Disney knows how to tell a tale better than most. Launching at Design Miami, Cappellini and Walt Disney Signature has produced a special series of the Tron armchair, inspired by the upcoming film Tron: Legacy. Without going too far into the plot here, Tron is about a young man who - while investigating the disappearance of his father, a video game developer - gets sucked into a crazy mad cyber world where he proceeds to have thrilling multi dimensional adventures.

    It's a lot to ask a chair to convey, but the Cappellini design, by Dror Benshetrit, pays homage to the digital landscape in the film in both form - which is comprised of "intersecting layers and textures of digital rock"; and material - the chair consists of impregnated fiberglass with polyester resin processed with manual layering. The result is a somewhat unusual 3D high tech chair, perfect for those intent on total entertainment immersion.

     

     

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