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Lovely Liaigre

Lovely Liaigre

Heather Clawson of Habitually Chic reiterated her belief about the best setting for Modern furniture on her blog today.  ”I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again [but] contemporary furniture looks best to me in the elaborate boiseried apartments of Europe.”  This sentiment happens to be one of the founding beliefs of Artecase! We are based in Paris, finding Modern and contemporary Design for our clients here and abroad. Click on “Lovely Liaigre” for her article and then click here to learn more about Artecase!

Hella Jongerius’ Mini-Swatch Table

Posted on by February 17, 2014

We attended the ‘techniques mixtes et dimensions variables’  vernissage at galerie kreo  last evening. Susan is standing behind Hella Jongerius’ 2008 Mini-Swatch low table. (Jongerius also produced a smaller version.) A graduate of the Academy for Industrial Design, Eindhoven, and former member of the renowned dutch group droog design, Jongerius has created a body of work that weaves between the boundaries of craft, art, design and technology to exceptional results.

“I’m designer who uses a lot of ingredients to get to a product. Not only form, but also history, tradition and contemporary inspiration. And I like to mix craft with industry.” Hella Jongerius for design boom.

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Nigel Coates

We just love nowness.com! This ethereal double exposure documentary created by filmmaker John Maybury was created during Salone del Mobile in Milan last month. It showcases the British designer Nigel Coates’s Casa Reale exhibition of new furniture and lighting designs. “I wanted to make a royal place out of a decrepit apartment—to give the peasant house a sense of royalty,” says Coate. “Those kinds of contradictions are what drive me. We can take whatever place we live in, and create a bit of grandeur and playfulness in our lives.”

We are completely inspired by this collaboration and made to believe – again – how one’s choices about the objects they surround themselves with form who they are and how they live. The music and setting transports the viewer. Enjoy!

(Source: http://www.nowness.com/)

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Yonnel Lubovici ‘Pyramide Pantographe’ lamp

Posted on by February 17, 2014

This extraordinary ‘Pyramide Pantographe’ lamp (1978) by Yonnel Lubovici is lot 176 in the Artcurial sale on 15 May with an estimate of €15,000-25,000. It reflects the artist’s background in aeronautics and his long and fruitful love of light aluminum metal. He said “I do not like to be bored or to bore others. I love and want easy, pleasant playful things of which the utility in the end will depend on the imagination and desires of the individual”.

(Note Ingo Maurer’s Porca Miseria! chandelier in the background!)

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Wolfgang Tumpel wall lamps (1927)

Posted on by February 17, 2014

Wolfgang Tumpel, an early student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, was both a goldsmith and a silversmith as well as one of the pioneering designers in industrial production. His elegant and functional designs link the Bauhaus formal language and standardization principles with his creative vision. This set of four wall lamp appliqués (circa 1927, fabrication Bunte & Reiner), will be lot 102 in the same Artcurial sale tomorrow, carrying an estimate of €6,000-10,000.

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Jean Prouvé ‘Standard’ Chair and ‘Cafeteria’ Table

Posted on by February 17, 2014

Jean Prouvé (1901-1923), one of the most influential furniture designers of the early modern design movement, always aimed for the most materially and constructionally efficient designs. His iconic ‘Standard Chair’ (1934) and ‘Compas’ or ‘Cafeteria’ table (1955) bear witness to his extraordinary success according to his modern design aesthetic.

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Jean Prouvé’s ‘Meudon type’ door, Artcurial

Posted on by February 17, 2014

In the forthcoming Design sale at Artcurial in Paris (May 15th) Prouvé’s work is well represented.Lot 55 features a lacquered aluminum ‘Meudon type’ door from the Maison de Monsieur D (a former collaborateur of Prouvé’s) in Nancy. The estimate is €50,000-€70,000.

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