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exploring the potential of copper in design world
issue 30 February 2012www.copperindesign.org
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www.copperindesign.org is a meeting space for contemporary designers and their followers. This international platform provides a comprehensive source of information on the crafting of the red metal: copper creations, first-hand accounts from designers, exhibitions, competitions and many others. The website is aimed at creators, design professionals, journalists and all copper-loving netsurfers, offering them an invitation to (re)discover this material whose natural properties have established it over the past few years as an essential feature of the design scene.Sponsor: European Copper Institute www.eurocopper.org
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Aldo CibicRiviera DeCastelli is an Italian producer that offers a wide selection of indoor and outdoor vases unified by its objects’ measurements: often oversized. They also produce mobile and modular decorations that build space whilst simultaneously personalising it, large frames and mirrors that decorate and increase the appearance of space, and seats made out of copper, bronze and iron to create a system of coordinated furniture.In this project, Italian architect and designer Aldo Cibic has developed a minimal and simple design using thin copper for seats and iron for the frames. The whole collection is characterised by a strong capacity for working these materials and a great knowledge that enhances the expressiveness achieved by copper alongside the emotionality of surfaces. Link: www.decastelli.it
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10 Downing Street British designer Simon Hasan is interested in the convergence of ancient crafts and industrial production processes. His work is imbued with a richness and texture born of historical research and a fascination for obscure crafts techniques. Hasan is currently developing his own brand of production pieces for retail, and continues to work on gallery and bespoke commissions, most notably with Italian luxury brand Fendi. Hasan has used the opportunity to develop his interest in crafts and mass-production by prototyping a leather stool with a brass frame, designed for volume production. To achieve this, he has modified his leather-hardening process to create a deeply-drawn seat, suitable for everyday use.The No. 10 Vase was developed for Contemporary Craft – a showcase of the best in contemporary craft and design curated by Janice Blackburn and hosted by 10 Downing Street. For the group show, which also included work by Edmund de Waal and Studio Glithero, Simon Hasan developed a faceted vase in boiled leather and mirror-polished brass for a site-specific installation in one of the house’s anterooms.
Link: www.simonhasan.com
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The Runtal Arteplano Anima collection, designed by Italian sculptor Andrea Zanotti and produced by Runtal, was undoubtedly the centre of attention at the recent Salone Internazionale del Mobile of Milan. Zanotti outdoes himself with this new radiator, mixing a white steel cover with a core sculpture in polished brass. The light above completes the scenic effect of the radiator.The collection, produced in a limited edition of only 100 pieces, explores the confines of design, art and technology.
Link: www.runtal.it
New Ages was the first solo exhibition in Germany of the Italy-based art and design collective Nucleo: a synonym for research, innovation and introspection. New Ages presented works from the ‘Metals’ collection consisting of three tables made with different materials based on the age of metals: Copper Age (2010/11), Bronze Age (2010) and Iron Age (2010). The ages of the metals have influenced our society in a sustainable manner and directed it towards civilisation as we know it today. The tables are all unique pieces and are made entirely of thin sheets of different metals assembled by welding.All pieces were created and produced exclusively for Gabrielle Ammann Gallery in Koln.
Link: www.nucleo.to
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Jeremy Maronpot is an artist and sculptor primarily working with copper. He produces unique metalwork for public and private spaces, galleries and collectors. The works of Maronpot vary in scale and style depending on his personal intentions or the needs of particular art galleries.Copper Honey Bee is a wall sculpture with polyester resin wings and honey. The honeycomb is 30 inches long and can hang flat against the wall, or can float off, allowing light to shine through the honey. The bee is attached to the honeycomb by a copper-threaded rod, welded to the abdomen. The bee can be removed and the head, thorax, and abdomen can be separated. The body of the bee is shell-formed copper sheet metal.
Link: www.maronpot.com
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The new Fluide collection – designed by the Italian architect Simone Micheli – represents an important turning point in the way that Micheli and ST Rubinetterie work, and it’s a product absolutely “against the grain” in comparison with today’s design trends. Easiness, elegance and fluency are the characteristic features of this tap collection, which encourage combination with various new bathroom backgrounds. A joystick cartridge with ceramic disks allows the working of an ergonomic lever, while the spout is provided with an invisible flow straightener, a detail which makes this collection absolutely exclusive and innovative. Presented for the first time at the Abitare il Tempo fair as part of the ‘Domestic Campus’ installation by Simone Micheli, and shown at Cersaie in Bologna shortly afterwards, the Fluide range is distinguished by its simplicity, elegance and fluidity, characteristics that make it suitable for use in a range of bathroom settings. Fluide is available in chromed and brushed nickel brass.
Link: www.simonemicheli.com
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Martin Boyce was born in 1967 in Glasgow, Scotland, where he continues to live and work. Primarily using sculpture, Boyce engages with the historical legacy of Modernist forms and ideals, assembling pared-down visual elements in order to conjure up the sight of larger environments. His work is endowed with a romantic and melancholic vision of nature, which extends to the city’s built environment. His installations often stage the outside within the gallery space, evoking an entire landscape through a few carefully chosen details, which include ventilation grills and wire fencing, supported by the artist’s singular attention to brass as the key material. His pieces also reference key elements from the Modernist era, such as iconic furniture design and the grid, originally meant to evacuate narrative in favour of utopian and democratic structures.
Link: www.themoderninstitute.com
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The latest work by English ‘kinetic sculptor’ Michael Chaikin – entitled ‘Fish Tank’ – is a 50 ft window display on Shaftesbury Avenue, London, featuring moving copper sculptures that include a 2.7 metre-long shark. Each of the one-off pieces is available to buy.Michael’s one true love is movement. Most of the sculptures he creates move in some way, and he is continually experimenting and playing with different types of movement using the wind, steam power, hand cranks and electric motors. It is his life’s work to strive to make sculptures that look beautiful when they are still, and spectacular when they move.On the use of copper, he says, ‘I have been using copper for over 20 years. It is a beautiful material to use: strong, easy to manipulate, malleable and easy to join.‘I am not very good at colour, so to find a material that goes beautiful rainbow colours when heated is a bonus. Copper can go outside, it weathers really well, is waterproof, and can be easily patinated. It’s an all-round brilliant material!’
Link: www.metalchicken.co.uk
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Catellani & Smith Gold Lights
Catellani & Smith designer lights evoke associations with the warm sun, the mystic moon and the life-giving power of light. The lamps Luce D’Oro – which means ‘golden lights’ – represent a design product with a strong focus on the colour of light. These table, floor and wall lamps, with a structure of brass and aluminium, represent the golden light of the sun or of fire.The Italian Enzo Catellani is neither architect nor designer, yet is a passionate creator of elaborate lighting fixtures. He founded Catellani & Smith in 1989 together with English architect Logan Smith. The company is dedicated to the design and production of hand-crafted decorative lights and every-day objects far beyond industrial mass production. Since its beginnings, Catellani & Smith has been creating light installations for sacral buildings, museums, fairs and exhibitions with excessive success that regularly leads to the serial production of commercial lighting collections. However, Catellani & Smith remains true to the founders’ philosophy: every lamp is still made by hand, turning each of them into a unique piece of design.
Link: www.catellanismith.com
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This collection of necklaces and brooches by Polish jewellery designer Justyna Stasiewicz is composed of objects entirely designed by her and created from copper.She creates unique, handmade jewellery by using thin copper sheets. Her compositions are made up of several layers, like stories repeated over and over, with each piece of jewellery changing according to the narrator.In Stasiewicz’s sculptural, intricate jewellery, the beautiful and ugly, reality and dreams unite, and human vulnerability and the stories of past eras are revealed.
Link: www.behance.net
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