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LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 2011
TSAI & YOSHIKAWA JEREMY COLE
Readers of mondo*arc will already be familiar with the work of Jeremy Cole. His pieces, largely inspired by floral forms are created in bone china. “It’s an incredibly difficult medium to work with,” he told mondo*arc’s Design File early last year. “The challenges are exhausting in terms of finding solutions to support the ceramics when in the kilns so their shape is not lost or too greatly distorted, but the end prod- uct is worth the journey.” Cole’s work has been installed around the world with clients ranging from interna- tional royalty to world-class restaurants, celebrity superstars to high-class spas. Following on from his Aloe pieces (which he produced in three forms - bloom, bud and stem), Cole has created a new piece, White Flax, whose spikey form sadly didn’t make it past customs on its journey from New Zealand, where its creator is now based.
www.jeremycole.net
Hsiao-chi Tsai and Kimiya Yoshikawa are a pair of London-based artists whose collabo- rative works combine organic forms with synthetic modern materials. They work on commissions creating public sculptures, and lighting installations. Their contribution to Lux Craft, Aquatic Flora, hung from the ceiling space like a huge alien flower. Shiny fluorescent Perspex and matt neoprene flowed and radiated from three stamens, here represented by compact fluorescent light bulbs that – unusually for the much- maligned light source – fit easily within this organic setting. The application of UV light ensures the piece glows vividly regardless of surrounding light levels.
www.tsai-yoshikawa.com
KIRSTI TAIVIOLA
Kirsti Taiviola (MA) is a Helsinki-based glass designer producing a range of pieces from jewellery to lighting and tableware to installations, all of which she balances with her post as a senior lecturer in The Aalto University School of Art and Design. Taiviola’s works interpret the aesthetics and qualities of the material in different ways. Her pieces play with the reflections created by hand-blown glass lenses. Though her previous pieces have projected light onto surrounding surfaces this new work, Illusia Pendant, includes a series of floating white lily-pad panels to catch the light from spherical glass elements within the piece.
www.kirstitaiviola.com
ONTWERPDUO
It was while studying at the Design Academy that Tineke Beunders and Nathan Wierink first began collaborating, setting up the fledgling design studio that would become Ontwerpduo (Dutch for ‘design duo’). Tackling design from their very different approaches (Beunders is described as ‘wist- ful’ while Wierink is said to have ‘a more mathematical line of attack’) the two come together to create pieces with a impres- sively magical aesthetic. Their studio is one of ten in The Yard, a
creative hub set up in an old factory in Ein- hoven. They work on interior installations, furniture and product designs, both for their own collections and for other companies. Their Light Forest piece takes the form of a meandering ‘etch-a-sketch’ of copper pipes, green in colour to imply moss covered vines or perhaps banyan tendrils. These work their way across the ceiling and down walls in right-angled movements before blooming into drooping heads of light.
www.ontwerpduo.nl
Photo: ©Sophie Mutevelian
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