5 Things 11/06/20
Handmade Glass Designs from my dreams
Look at these colours. Just look at them! Each object is a sculpture in itself, organic, visceral, bringing glass art into the home. With more than ten years glassblowing experience Robbie lets the glass guide the process. Through experimentation and non-traditional colour techniques these home goods have a feel and look like no other.
BaleFire Glass is a line of sacred art objects designed and hand made by Robbie Frankel in Portland, Oregon. See more of his work here.
This Woven Cabinet by Chloe Walbran
Woven Cabinet from Manapan by Chloe Walbran. Combining a love of woven textiles and furniture design, the cabinet is made from Darwin Stringybark and inlaid with a weaving by the Milingimbi Community of Pandanus Spirifis, or screw palm.
Inside the Woven Cabinet are two adjustable timber shelves, also made from Darwin Stringybark, and placed against a bronze mirrored wall. Shelf-supporting timber plugs can be twisted when not in use and placed flush with the interior lining to create a seamless effect.
“I have always been drawn to textiles. What a great opportunity to combine this love with creating furniture, my other passion,” says Chloe, who applied the woven textiles created by the Milingimbi Community to the cabinet, made from Darwin Stringybark. “I saw the timber like the frame of a canvas, stretching it across the cabinet’s two doors.”
See more from the Milingimbi Community and Manapan here.
Darren Sylvester: Balustrade Stake
This dream-like installation hovers between violence, desire and prop house, presenting an environment providing pictorial opportunities with psychic mediums and literal self-defence weapons for unseen questions and enemies nobody knows.
Experience the Sydney Exhibition at Sullivan Strumpf.
Sohyun Yun Designs Furniture for a Utopian Korea
Seoul-based Sohyun Yun is the brains behind these candy-coloured designs that look and feel like they want to be looked at and felt. Her most recent partnerships have gone global, from designing hypnotic “wavy trays” for Danish jeweler Pernille Lauridsen, collaborating on seating with San Francisco-based graphic designer Jules Tardy, and designing acrylic plates for a range of light boxes from Japanese online concept store Studio The Blue Boy.
Denfair Announces DENFAIR 2.0
Like many other design fairs of 2020, Denfair is going virtual this year to adhere to restrictions in the wake of Covid-19. “The world has changed and so have we” is the new mantra, as they get ready to promote the talent of designers and their work beyond physical reach.
Denfair’s new virtual experience will give you an opportunity to explore the New Collections from participating brands, discover the latest design related video content and learn from all new Masterclasses. Over the past six years, Denfair has become a dynamic hub for the Australian design industry, and are set now to expand beyond the limitations of physical reach this coming July. Get ready to log in!
Read more on Denfair 2.0 on their site.