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Features
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architecture
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86 the farthest shore todd saunders’

Fogo Island Inn opens in Newfoundland
interior
80 100 the Big Dig A Montreal duplex adds light

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cars. Responsive design opens up a world of interactive possibilities. By Susan Walker
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94 not Your father’s office teknion launches

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focus: Kitchen
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← A vertiginous foot- Where the city meets the sea in marseilles, France, a new building by architect rudy ricciotti,
bridge connects the in collaboration with roland carta, stands in dramatic contrast to its heavily reinforced
new structure to Fort neighbour, Fort saint-Jean, which was built in the 1660s to deter revolutionaries. infinitely
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↑ Veil-like concrete of free-form concrete that recalls local fishermen’s nets. Despite the obvious juxtaposition,
cladding envelops both buildings constitute part of the new museum of civilisations from europe and the
the glass box of the mediterranean (mucem), which has some 250,000 objects in its collection, from 16th-century
museum. reliquaries to a pink Floyd mixing console. tying the structures together, a 115-metre-long,
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tion routes that wind building nearby serves as the museum’s conservation centre.
through the facility. although the 15,500-square-metre addition, named J4, is undeniably eye catching, the
architects sought to defer to the area’s historical architecture. “mucem’s dematerialization
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with Fort saint-Jean.” the concrete’s matte finish is subdued, he notes, and the overall form
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ordinary kind, the substance was pushed to its limits on this project. “it follows a long chain
of expertise, from concrete chemists and structural engineers to prefab and pre-loading
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glass box supported by a branching concrete structure. Within that transparent container
are two levels of permanent and temporary exhibition spaces, a 325-seat auditorium, a book-
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man on
Teresa Sapey crafts a surreal story starring
a houndstooth-suited main character for a
the move
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For pau, its new hotel in Barcelona,

the room mate group sought an
interior that would conjure an arche-
typal character. Luckily, architect
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her designs. “in this case, pau is a
catalan gentleman, a chef who is
refined and edgy at a time when
catalan cuisine leads the world,” she
explains. through graphics and
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elevator doors and walls. Wearing
a jacket with the same houndstooth
pattern as the carpet, pau has
his back turned to us, and his head
appears to be in a knot. “i have
always liked houndstooth for the
classicism of its directional black
and white checkerboard pattern,”
says sapey. “and the irony of a cook
wearing pata de gallo !” (in spanish,
houndstooth translates as “rooster
leg.” ) “the question might be whether
the rooster came before the chef.”
a stairway leads up to the
66-room hotel’s lounge and café-bar,
which opens onto a large wooden
terrace dotted with multi-functional
furniture pieces (adán, created by
sapey for Vondom) shaped like human
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bathroom tiles that resemble rustic
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tion area features it serves guests of the adjacent allez up rock climbing centre, recently
Mammafotogramma’s constructed at the base of the silo complex. the designers, giulio masotti and
inventive desk. gianluca Lo presti of the milan multimedia studio mammafotogramma, lived
← the site’s four sugar nearby for two months while they planned and built the curving, 12-metre-long
silos, with the rock structure in situ. the duo hand-cut and welded the over 15,000 steel pieces
climbing centre in the that support the desk’s intricate wooden shell. rather than a computer model,
middle. they constructed a 1:1 scale prototype to work out the positioning of computer
↙ the pliable Woodskin displays and floating rubber work surfaces. “We shaped and changed each
for the reception desk individual piece, based on the needs of the climbing centre,” says masotti.
is fabricated from ply- the shell represents mammafotogramma’s first test of Woodskin, a pliable
wood and vinyl mesh. material made using digital fabrication. computer-controlled milling machines
precisely cut a sandwich of plywood and vinyl mesh, producing sheets that
can be quickly shaped by hand into complex forms. “We like the mix of old
techniques and the digital,” explains masotti. “We’d like to have a family of
products that goes in that direction.”
the commission came about through friendship: masotti met Jean-marc
de la plante, president of the family-owned enterprise, during a stay in mont-
real as an architecture student. When de la plante engaged smith Vigeant
architects to design the new gym, he invited mammafotogramma to contribute.
so far, only part of one silo has been converted, becoming the reception area.
However, the 30-metre-high volume overhead might yet be transformed into
a private climbing area for groups or youth. “it’s still a work-in-progress,“ says
project architect Daniel smith. sweet. mammafotogramma.it

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SCENT AND
Three experimental perfumes
explore how scent relates to place
SENSIBILITY
and memory
BY NINA BOCCIA
←↓ It’s not unusual for big-city dwellers to turn to Twitter to

complain about the foul smells imprinted on certain neighbour-
#MILANSMELLS hoods. During last April’s Milan Design Week, designers Olivia
Mapping the Alice Clemence and Kate McLean turned this activity on its
Italian head by inviting pilgrims to tweet the city’s sweeter aromas with
city’s aromas the hashtag #milansmells. Then, with Clemence’s distillation
system, a handcrafted piece she has employed in multiple ex-
periments, they bottled Milan’s olfactory hot spots. In one trial,
they dropped the paper packaging of a local pizzeria’s fresh-
baked pie into the glass beaker and steamed it to release an
earthy tomato and basil scent.
They plotted out the smells on a cityscape that covered a
dining table at the Magazzini, a creative hub in the Tortona
district. The street grid, drawn in black marker, was filled in with
paper replicas of local buildings that diffused their correspond-
ing smells. Visitors breathed in a tiny espresso bar’s rich notes,
and the mini-Duomo’s incense. Whether they knew it or not, they
were triggering the brain’s olfactory bulb, that tightly wired
neighbour to the hippocampus, where smells forge memories.
oliviaalicedesign.co.uk, sensorymaps.com
SECRET EDITIONS
A perfume
for a cult film
ACQUA ALTA
An art object that
captures the
Venetian lagoon
↑ Filmmaker Mark Harris, along with perfumer Josh Meyer, takes merchan- ↑ For Acqua Alta (translation: “high water”), Italian designers Giorgia Zanellato
dising that extra step with a fragrance based on his 2011 sci-fi thriller, and Daniele Bortotto collaborated with perfumer Lorenzo Dante Ferro to
The Lost Children, about a New York socialite who joins an extraterrestrial concoct a scent that captures the essence of the constantly flooded city of
commune. It mingles lemon and clean musk aromas of linen and birch leaf Venice. They infused this lagoon scent into three ceramic cylinders – a nod
with such exotic notes as castoreum and ambroxan (extracted from beaver to the bricole, the wooden poles used to steer gondolas – surrounded by a
and sperm whale scent glands, respectively). Co-produced by the Institute specially crafted vessel of chartreuse Murano glass. The art piece launched at
for Art and Olfaction, a Los Angeles lab that elevates perfumery to an art form, Salone del Mobile last April, and then the design showroom Rubelli exhibited
24 bottles were distributed at a screening of the film, where one audience it during last summer’s Venice Art Biennale. acquaalta-collection.com
member remarked how it added a “weird, erotic tone.” artandolfaction.com

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November) is an all-in-one tool that works like a lens, starting with the building into the computer and generate a form, so we are there at the point of inspira-
and then zooming outward. It covers five categories, based on scale: building, tion, before they’ve locked in a major portion of a project’s energy consumption.”
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or “swatches.” In the building category, for instance, you’ll find a solar shading be an essential tool for the entire design process.
swatch that provides instructions on positioning overhangs above glazing, The site’s main goal is to help practitioners meet Architecture 2030’s chal-
along with images of exemplary projects that employ similar passive design lenge of making every structure carbon neutral by 2030. In less than two
solutions. Under regional, you can view a swatch on inundation maps – of decades, urban centres will require 83 billion square metres of new buildings,
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Architecture 2030 platform, one of the top non-profits committed to furthering One thing the database won’t do is assign LEED points for the swatches:
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IN THE EARLY HOURS of a July 2012 morning, in a public plaza in a 7.5 -by-7.5 -centimetre module outfitted with a sensor, and ↖ A rendering of
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the levels deemed acceptable by the World Health Organization. state security agents that we weren’t trying to overthrow the Wang helped locals
Called Float, the project is the brainchild of grad students government,” says Wang. “But we hope residents will use this data build the kites in a
Xiaowei Wang, of the Harvard School of Design, and Deren Guler, to compel them to enact environmental change, whether through series of workshops
of Carnegie Mellon University. The high school friends came political means or by improving their own habits.” While the project in July and August
up with the idea for an open-source mapping project while Wang is shortlisted for an Index: Design to Improve Life award, Guler of last year.
was taking a class at MIT. A former resident of Beijing, she saw and Wang are already preparing for the next step: making the data
the cultural significance of kites as a way to engage communities, infrastructure more flexible and accessible to a wider audience.
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art-design.
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accessories and more at
display for a sneaker exhibit at toronto’s Bata shoe
germany’s premiere design
museum (far left), will show off its flexible, lightweight fair. imm-cologne.com
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Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and motion simply by being looked at. Tables, originally made for Bonaldo created by native architecture firm
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IDENTIKIT
JON
The Canadian designer produces thought-
provoking objects and installations that explore
STAM
our digital inner lives
BY WILL JONES
Born
Waterford, Ontario, 1984
Location
Amsterdam
Education
2013 Design Academy Eindhoven,
the Netherlands, master’s degree in
social design
2005–08 Design Academy Eind-
hoven, graduated cum laude from
the man and well-being department
Occupation
Designer
↑→ Crafted from solid western red cedar, the
Selected awards Curiosity Cabinet combines ordinary storage
2013 W Hotels Designers of the drawers and boxes equipped with radio fre-
Future Award, Design Miami ⁄Basel quency identification tags. When placed near a
2008 Nominated for the Melkweg computer, the tags recall digitized mementoes.
Design Prize, the Netherlands
Selected exhibits FROM ONTARIO TO AMSTERDAM

2013 Design Miami ⁄Basel In a way, I fell into being a designer. My father is
2011 ⁄2012 Salone Internazionale a carpenter, and I grew up in a workshop. When I
del Mobile, Milan applied to university, I opted for industrial design
2008 Curiosity Cabinet added to the at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and I
Design Huis permanent collection, became obsessed with Dutch design. The work of
the Netherlands Gijs Bakker, his sense of fun and playfulness, is
2008 Rene Smeets prize for what lured me to the Netherlands. I went to the
best all-around project at Design Design Academy Eindhoven to get some portfolio
Academy Eindhoven advice, and to my surprise I was accepted on the
spot, so I left OCAD and moved there. Aldo Bakker, show, where I presented the Curiosity Cabinet, my
Gallery representation Gijs’s son, evaluated my work and gave me the attempt at bringing my meaningful physical and
Caroline Van Hoek (Brussels) offer. His work is form driven and precise. It digital things together. I wasn’t sure the cabinet
Victor Hunt (Brussels) widened my perception of Dutch design, and he would resonate with a larger public, but people
remains an inspiration. It’s difficult to pinpoint really responded to it, recognizing the problem of
Selected clients precisely what in my work is Dutch or Canadian. wanting to hold on to their favourite digital photos,
Dutch Association of Public Libraries It’s a mix between the two. movies, music – files destined to be hidden away
House for Contemporary Art Z33 on a hard drive – as well as cherished objects.
Heineken FIRST IMPRESSIONS COUNT The cabinet’s first incarnation alternated
The first time my work was shown on an inter- physical drawers and digital ones with embedded
commonplace.nl national scale was at my Eindhoven graduation memory and radio frequency identification tags,

← One of the Table Quints, → In the Save as [Mine]
a set of bone china bowls installation, on the floor of
with optical glass lids that a decommissioned mine in
enhance the appearance of Belgium, computer screens
their contents – whether milk, and 3-D-printed tiles create
sugar, pepper, salt or oil. a memory mosaic.
↑ Imaginary Museum is a hacked View-Master find new ways to design. I work on the borders of
for online imagery (still, moving, 2-D and 3-D) art, technology and design, yet I ultimately see
curated by various artists and designers. myself as a designer, since I am making for others.
← Created for Design Miami ⁄ Basel, the Claude A piece can be aesthetically beautiful, but if it
Glass embeds digital images of nature, manipu- does not respond to people it’s not as satisfying.
lated by spinning the round black mirror.
REWARDING CHALLENGES
As part of the W Hotels Designer of the Future
which enable digital content to pop up on a nearby Award from Design Miami ⁄Basel, I was sent to
computer. After the first RFID model, I experi- Verbier, Switzerland, to envision an installation for
mented with other ways to bring the digital and the new W Hotel opening there this December. I
the physical together. A popular version of the was introduced to the local photographer Guido
cabinet incorporates engraved data matrix codes Perrini, and we collaborated on an abstract
in the wood. timepiece to bring the beauty of the Alps to Basel.
Claude Glass is a round black mirror that displays
PERSONAL TRANSLATIONS digital reflections of the landscape through the
I take much of my inspiration from contemporary glass. The image changes every minute, showing
artists, such as the Belgian artist David Claerbout. photos captured from a 72-hour time-lapse
In his digital video projections, he presents set-up. To change the hour or witness a whole day
↑ Recalling vintage projectors, Bioscope lets
seemingly ordinary scenes with a surreal twist, in passing, you rotate the edge of the Claude Glass,
you rotate the handle to animate a home movie
a manner that forces you to look in a new way. I and time will advance or reverse in the speed and
on a USB stick, frame by frame.
try to translate this way of looking but apply it to direction you turn. For the final installation in the
↓ The Lakes Rug pays homage to Canada, with
a daily personal context, by framing a sense of W Hotel, I envision summer shown in winter. As
seven embedded speakers that mix personal
richness and intimacy with our digital media. This most guests only visit Verbier during ski season,
tales and Canadian folklore.
is a reaction against the speed, impersonality and this might entice them to return in summer.
information overload of today’s communication.
I find it essential that we select, curate and make BEYOND BASEL
choices regarding our digital things, to make them I am now working with contemporary art spaces
meaningful, which is why some of my projects are in Belgium and the Netherlands to develop a tool
purposely limiting. For example, my Imaginary kit that mediates the memory of these spaces.
Museum, a digitally hacked View-Master, allows One of the first pieces consists of a small convex
a sequence of just seven images to be shown on wall mirror and a pull cord. The mirror reflects the
each disc. installations on show, but when one pulls the cord
the image is captured and displayed at the art
BRIEF INTERSECTIONS centre. You can project yourself into the exhibition
I like using different materials, whether new or while creating a whole new participatory archive
old. Whatever I am working on, I want to discover that the institute can document.
the craft behind it and learn from those who have I find working on memory and contemporary
worked in that medium for a long time. Meanwhile, art centres especially exciting, since it seems to
having a naive viewpoint can be interesting. It’s be a sort of paradox. These spaces have no
important to draw in experts from other disciplines, collections, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have
whether woodworkers or computer programmers, stories to tell. This project will revolve around
and I like to ask questions, push and provoke, to telling narratives as they happen in real time.
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From sugary confections to houses built from corn, 3-D printing is changing the
way everything gets made By Will Jones
over the past year, 3-d printing has exploded into the mainstream with a sensa- ↑ new food dimensions
tional list of firsts: the first houses to be built using the technology are now under One of Kyle and Liz von Hasseln’s sweet structures.
way; the first model for a lunar module assembled by robots has been unveiled The California partners operate Sugar Lab, where
(courtesy of Foster + Partners); and, infamously, the first operational firearm was they 3-D-print custom cake toppers, lacy pie crusts –
squeezed into existence, printed at a cost of just $25. Of course, 3-D printing even chandeliers – made of sugar.
(formerly known as rapid prototyping) has been around for decades, and leading
manufacturers routinely use it to supplement traditional mechanical operations. → this is cement
But its growing presence is being touted as the next industrial revolution, poised Emerging Objects is a leader in 3-D printing
to change entirely how things are made, how designers manufacture their products, technology. It teamed up with Andrew Kudless
and how architects build buildings. on an art exhibit that included printing this fibre-
“The current limitations are bound only by the size of the printer and the reinforced cement sculpture, called Seed.
materials used,” says Ron Labaco, the curator behind Out of Hand: Materializing

3-D Printing
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↑→ printing cement
British engineers Richard
Buswell and Simon Austin
demonstrated 3-D printing
with concrete by producing
Wonder Bench. Its arched
shape shows how compli-
cated building components
such as double-curved
panels can be built.
the Postdigital, an exhibit opening next month at New York’s Museum of Art and Design,
where products and prototypes by such future-thinking designers and architects as
Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind and Greg Lynn will be on display. Labaco has spent close
to two years tracking how digital fabrication has worked its way into the design realm, ↑ learning from silkworms
and like many industry watchers he believes we have only begun to exploit its potential. The Media Lab at MIT is exploring the next frontier
“The creativity that abounds around the technology,” he notes, “will open up to great of 3-D printing by mapping out the cocoon-building
new concepts.” actions of 6,500 silkworms, now housed within
Perhaps the current race to construct the first so-called 3-D-printed house illustrates a suspended pavilion. The caterpillars’ complex
this best. At least four such houses are in the works, each by architecture firms using activities are then simulated by a robotic arm.
their own purpose-built methods, including one by Softkill Design of London. Fabricated
out of plastic, the structure’s ultimate form will look like a web of fibrous strands, a
design based on the algorithms of bone tissue. Earlier this year, DUS Architects began
printing its canal-side house in Amsterdam, using bio-plastic blocks produced from
corn. The firm developed its own giant printer, named the KamerMaker, and its pro-
duction facility, enclosed within a shed near the site, is open to the public so they can
observe the process first-hand. Each brick measures two by two by 3.5 metres and is
printed over three days. Completion of the facade is expected by the end of this year.
DUS principal Hedwig Heinsman sees the pioneering project as both a discussion piece
and an actual house. “We want to revolutionize architecture,” she says. She anticipates
that the four-storey structure will be used as a venue for debate, and to develop standards
for this new kind of construction. “There are no regulations for how to build this way,” she
says. “Policy-makers will have to catch up if these structures become commonplace.”
The firm’s ambitious project brings to light a number of ways 3-D printing is having
an impact on the industry, not only in how things get made, but in terms of what form
structures will take. Among the pioneers exploring the technology as a viable process are
Richard Buswell and Simon Austin, engineering professors at Loughborough University
in the U.K., and leaders of the Freeform Construction project. In 2007 they began devel-
oping an architectural-scale 3-D process that uses a cement-based mortar. They have
partnered with such innovative firms as Foster + Partners and Buro Happold, both of the
U.K., to develop a wet extrusion process that can print complicated components, such as
double-curving walls.
To demonstrate what this might look like, they have produced Wonder Bench, an

3-D Printing
↑ large-scale printing
London’s Softkill Design plans to test the boundaries of printing on a
massive scale with this nest-like habitat, called ProtoHouse 1.0. Thirty
fibrous pieces will be assembled into one cantilevered structure with
no need for adhesives to bind it.
↓ robotically printed lunar base

Foster + Partners is working with the European
Space Agency to build habitats on the moon,
using robots and lunar soil (known as regolith). A
1.5-tonne mock-up has already been printed in a
vacuum chamber to simulate lunar conditions.
↑→ house made of corn

In Amsterdam, DUS Architects
is constructing a house using
a purpose-built printer that
squeezes out one corn-based
bio-plastic block every three
days. The four-storey facade
should be completed by the
end of this year.
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3-D PRINTING
↑→ DISRUPT DIXON
Tom Dixon’s open-
source competition
asks designers to come
up with a function for
3-D-printed hinges,
which have no purpose
as yet. The goal is to
encourage designers
to think creatively.
REPLICATOR ERA
Who could have foreseen that Chuck Hull’s “solidification machine,” built in 1984, would define the next industrial frontier?
Here’s how the sci-fi technology has taken shape Compiled by David Dick-Agnew
1984: U.S. 1990: BELGIUM 2005: 2010: SPAIN 2010: 2012: U.S. 2013 2013
Inventor Materialise NV opens, RepRap.org Architect Enrico NETHERLANDS Cube, the first May: Online instruc- June: U.S. manufacturer
extraordinaire giving designers launches an open- Dini develops the Couture designer desktop 3-D tions for a working Stratasys buys up
Chuck Hull better access to the source project six-cubic-metre Iris van Herpen’s printer, hits the 3-D printable gun competitor MakerBot
devises the technology. Patrick that allows people D-Shape with the Crystallization line marketplace, ignite a media fire- (and its massive trove of
first rapid Jouin and Arik Levy are to build their aim of printing an marks the first retailing for storm and a legal downloadable designs)
prototyping among their clients own printers entire house (not appearance of 3-D $1,300 U.S. nightmare in a $403-million U.S. deal
machine yet achieved) printing on the catwalk
1986: U.S. 2000: 2009: U.S. 2011: CANADA 2013 2013

Hull’s 3D NETHERLANDS A 3-D printed Urbee, the greenest June: Amazon July: Swiss designers
Systems begins Freedom of prosthetic leg car on earth, with and Staples Michael Hansmeyer and
producing the Creation becomes by Bespoke a 3-D-printed body, start selling Benjamin Dillenburger
first selective the first design Innovations takes its first 3-D printers to unveil Digital Grotesque,
laser sintering studio dedicated to takes its first successful test run home hobbyists an entire room crafted
(SLS) machines for concepts for additive step from sandstone using
industrial uses manufacturing 3-D modelling software
of multiples

←↑ only sand and sun
German designer Markus Kayser has
applied the basic mechanics of 3-D printing
to create objects made from desert sand
using the sun’s rays.
↗ made only for you

Based on individual foot scans, designer
Earl Stewart’s XYZ shoes are like a second
skin, with extra support to improve stability,
comfort and alignment.
→ one-material glasses
Ron Arad’s hinge-free Pq eyewear is digitally
crafted using nylon powder and selective
laser sintering (SLS) technology.
S‑shaped seat designed by Foster + Partners that shows how the concrete is suspended dome‑like scaffold that houses 6,500 silkworms, each excreting
built up, layer by layer. “We can now print flat or double‑curved elements silk with a free‑form motion that resembles a figure eight. “We found that
for the same cost,” notes Buswell. “We can also print forms that are impos‑ if a silkworm has no access to vertical axis, it will typically spin a flat patch,”
sible to make using conventional methods.” He predicts a day when we will rather than individual cocoons, explains Oxman. The implications of this
see the commercial manufacture of 3‑D building components: “It won’t be discovery are multi‑layered and profound, since her team is essentially
due to mass production; we can already do that. It will happen if the tech‑ controlling the architecture of the cocoon. Translate this to the built world
nology can add value to an existing product, or if a client wants a landmark and Oxman foresees many multi‑axis printers working collectively to build
design like nothing else.” structures on a massive scale. She refers to these futuristic machines as
While Freeform pushes the limits of a conventional material, another “swarm bots,” where printers communicate and build like silkworms.
growing field of exploration is more attuned to how biomimicry might Mediated Matter Group may be light years ahead of the industry, but a
inform the next phases of 3‑D printing. Alex Newson is the curator of The key factor in how 3‑D printing has evolved so rapidly is the Internet, where
Future Is Here: A New Industrial Revolution, currently on view at London’s designers can simply buy a printer and operate independently of manufac‑
Design Museum. The exhibit features a factory where technicians demon‑ turers, or share ideas and files. One project that is tapping this potential of
strate 3‑D printing, and another area where the public can watch emerging open‑source creation comes from Tom Dixon, along with 3‑D manufacturing
designers work on special digital projects. He believes materials must specialist Dassault Systèmes of France. During Milan Design Week in April,
evolve beyond the current list of polycarbonates, epoxy resins and metals. the London designer launched Disrupt Dixon’s Design in 3D, an interna‑
Concrete, for instance, is uniform in terms of how it behaves. “We’re coming tional competition that asks designers to download files for a series of parts
to the limit of what’s possible with the current palette of ‘dumb’ materials.” and joints that have no real purpose, yet. The idea is for contestants to build
His viewpoint is backed up by such projects as that bone‑tissue‑inspired something with the joints – a sculpture, furniture, anything. The winning
house by Softkill Design. Neri Oxman is heading up the Mediated Matter concept will be exhibited this fall at Maison&Objet in Paris.
Group, a laboratory at MIT that is on the cutting edge of 3‑D printing tech‑ The rationale behind the competition is to encourage designers not to
nology. With access to a multi‑material Connex 500 3‑D printer her team get too bogged down in the technology but to use it creatively. According to
can output from extremely high‑resolution images. The magnified detail Frédéric Vacher, strategy market director at Dassault Systèmes, a major
enables them to create continuous variations in material properties limitation of 3‑D printing is the lack of imagination from users. “We need
comparable to bone or plant tissues. They have also repurposed a robotic to find out what can really be done, which is what this competition aims to
arm to operate as a 3‑D printer capable of printing in six different axes. do. Where the Industrial Revolution left artisans in the cold, now they will
Printers on the market today only output in three directions – up and reconnect with technology that enables them to transform their ideas via
down, side to side, and back and forth – and they do so by simply layering, truly advanced methods.” Alex Newson agrees. What he has found after
like squeezing out toothpaste row upon row. The ability to print or build researching his London exhibition is that the technology is forcing creative
something with technology that moves in any direction could transform types to re‑evaluate their methods. “It’s not the end of the factory as we
how buildings are constructed. know it,” he adds, “but 3‑D printing will enable diversification of manufac‑
To give this abstract idea form, the lab produced Silk Pavilion, a turing. It is a new tool in the designer tool kit.”
sept 2013 73
frugal innovation
100% mine
kafon
ingenuity afghanistan
Designer:
massoud Hassani
When design is driven by need, beautiful things can Production
happen. These four outstanding designs demonstrate cost: $50
that innovative ideas are priceless By Kimberlie Birks

Mine Kafon, made of cast iron, plastic
and bamboo sticks, can safely detonate
up to four land mines before expiring.
necessity may be the mother of invention, but detonate any mine in its path. Called Mine Kafon
play is definitely the father. Massoud Hassani’s (“mine explorer”), the device is made of protrud-
career was born of both. “I began designing when ing bamboo sticks affixed to a cast iron core; each
I was a kid,” explains the 20-year-old Afghani. radiating leg is capped with a plastic disc that
“We used to make our own wind toys out of paper helps contain the explosion when it hits a target.
we found on the street.” He spent his childhood A GPS chip tracks its progress, and one Mine
near Kabul, where his toys would scuttle over Kafon can absorb up to four explosions.
stretches of desert. These open spaces were per- Its ingeniousness has attracted international
fect for playing in, except that they were covered media attention, along with expert opinions,
in land mines, and anything that blew past safe which tend to determine its validity in being
perimeters was considered irretrievable. “There more poetic than perfect. (How, for instance, can
are about 10 million land mines in Afghanistan. you ensure that every mine is detonated if the
It’s a big problem,” Hassani explains. Years later, route is random?) Nevertheless, with its simple
as a student at Design Academy Eindhoven, he construction and modest price of $50, Mine
decided to revisit his childhood interests and Kafon presents a far more affordable option than
think about alternatives for clearing mines. traditional safe removal methods, which cost
His solution is a self-propelling structure light anywhere between $300 and $1,000 per mine.
enough to blow in the wind but heavy enough to minekafon.blogspot.ca
sept 2013 75
frugal innovation
Pet
lamPs
Colombia
Designers:
alvaro Catalán
de ocón with
local artisans
Product
material: used
water bottles
76 sept 2013
“Visually, it’s Very powerful, like a party – full of
colours and happiness,” enthuses Alvaro Catalán de
Ocón while describing his latest project, PET Lamps,
which transforms plastic water bottles into vibrant
pendant lights, each handcrafted by Colombian tex-
tile artists. After several research trips to the region,
the Spanish designer and his team spent time in
Bogotá, establishing workshops for artisans displaced
to cities due to guerilla warfare. The bottle’s neck
acts as a joint to contain the electrical components,
and the plastic body is cut into strips and used as a
warp through which the designers weave traditional
palm fibres. A creative type himself, Catalán de Ocón
understands that artists are most engaged when
given freedom for self-expression, so he sees his role
as more catalyst than controller. With nine different
models and endless colour combinations, each
lamp is unique.
The project has already generated a viable
financial base. Coca-Cola is on board as a sponsor,
and venerable retailers such as Conran (London)
and Merci (Paris) are selling the lamps as individual
pendants or in clusters that form eye-catching
umbrellas of colour. A dramatic installation of 35
lights was recently on display during Milan Design
Week, hanging over tables at Spazio Rossana
Orlandi’s outdoor café.
With pieces collected every two weeks, the
initiative has given a growing number of families
a secure income, and Catalán de Ocón hopes to
introduce similar projects in Mexico and Chile. “We
know we’re not going to solve the universal problem
of plastic waste with this idea,” he says. “It’s more
about giving artisans work and creating a new con-
sciousness around the PET bottle, for both maker
and consumer.” petlamp.org
An umbrella of PET Lamps hung above
the tables at Spazio Rossana Orlandi’s
outdoor café during Milan Design Week.
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frugal innovation
at a congested intersection in downtown Mexico

City, the bright orange cladding of the Asadero café
can be seen tucked underneath a bridge. At noon,
the place hums with workers seated on bar stools,
munching on tacos. A year ago, there was nothing
here but debris and the occasional vagrant – a virtual
no man’s land in the heart of the city. This unexpected
haven’s transformation is part of an initiative run
by the urban development department, which aims
to find cost-effective ways of altering some of the
city’s scrappiest streets in small but impactful ways.
The Under Bridges program (“Bajo Puentes” in
Spanish) is among its most successful initiatives so
far. By leasing spaces beneath freeways to investors,
the city has hatched a new micro-commerce model
through which vendors can set up shop permanently.
The only criterion is that half of the site be carved
off for public space: playgrounds, gardens or outdoor
under exercise areas. The remaining land is split between
parking and revenue-generating ventures.
bridges City official Eduardo Aguilar, who helped spear-

head the plan, says the model is based on schemes
found in other urban centres. What makes Under
Mexico City Bridges unique, however, is that it hasn’t cost the
By leasing out derelict spaces beneath city a cent. The investors do the initial cleanup,
its many freeways, Mexico City has secure the site, install essential utilities and find
Project: enabled a new micro-commerce initiative city-approved vendors.
urban rezoning to take hold. “These places are well lit at night,” says Aguilar,
“and they attract a lot of people,” which improves
initiative
safety. Without the need for financial output at the
city level, the project has mushroomed. According
City budget: $0 to Aguilar, five more Under Bridges locations are
under construction, and 30 more have been identi-
fied as ideal candidates. By Catherine Osborne

NaNoleaf
Toronto
engineers:
Gimmy Chu, Tom
Rodinger and
Christian Yan
Purchase
price: $50
savour the next time you change a light bulb,

because you might not have to do it again for
another 25 years – that is, if you use a NanoLeaf.
The origami-like bulb is considered the world’s most
energy-efficient LED. Using just 12 watts of power,
it generates the same amount of light as a 100-watt
incandescent and burns 30 times longer.
The fixture was engineered by Gimmy Chu, Tom
Rodinger and Christian Yan, three University of
Toronto graduates who met in 2004 while looking
to get some hands-on experience in electronics
design. In 2011, they came up with a key innovation:
by replacing the traditional bulb with a multi-folded
circuit board form, they managed to eliminate the
Thirty-three diodes
usual hardware and glass encasement. The resulting
are embedded into
light spreads a speckled warm hue through 33
the circuit board
embedded diodes.
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casing of NanoLeaf,
A Kickstarter campaign launched in January gen-
the world’s most
erated $287,000 from 5,746 backers, surpassing the
energy-efficient
initial start-up goal by tenfold. “That success
LED bulb.
has opened up many opportunities,” says Chu. “We’ve
top photo BY alessandro CanCian
just finished manufacturing our first 1,500 lights,

and the numbers will keep going up.” (The bulbs
retail for $50, from thenanoleaf.com.)
Chu says the light also fuels a personal challenge
the team is firmly committed to: “We’re planning
to reverse our combined carbon footprint. If we could
at least make it net zero, that would be a success.”
NanoLeaf is an impressive start. thenanoleaf.com
sept 2013 79
Responsive design
it’s alive
it’s alive
From buildings that breathe to blankets that read the body’s
vital signs, sensor-embedded architecture and design open up
a world of interactive possibilities By susan Walker
.35pt
↑ Natural humidifier
Shown in a glass case at Paris’s Centre Pompidou in 2012, hygroscope,
by achim menges, with Steffen reichert, at the university of Stuttgart,
exploits wood’s intrinsic responsiveness to moisture. the model’s eye-
like apertures were fabricated in shapes and directed fibres that make
them open and close in response to humid air. icd.uni-stuttgart.de

.35pt
.35pt
↑ a blanket that calls the doctor for you
engineered by the responsive architecture at daniels lab, at the university
of toronto, IM blanky is covered in circles that conceal lilyPad arduino
microcontrollers and sensors. these might one day register changes in the
wearer’s body temperature and heart rhythms, and upload the data for
nurses to access. rad.daniels.utoronto.ca
↓ a Mask that unfurls to block gerMs

for the age of super-viruses, rad came up with Micro-environment gear,
a shirt with a collar/mask sewn with shape-memory wire and impregnated
with silver nanoparticles. It senses the wearer’s biophysical reactions
to airborne germs, and then activates the mask, which expands to cover
the face and filter the incoming air.
Architect cArol moukheiber is wiring sensors into a grey felt blanket with With the miniaturization of technology, small, easily programmed com-
round modules, which resemble the lily pads that adorn the green taffeta puters can be embedded in our buildings and objects so they adapt to our
hanging on the wall, an earlier iteration of this thinking, responsive device needs and those of the environment. This growing realm is fulfilling the
with its own IP address. A co-director of the Responsive Architecture at predictions of the ’60s cybernetic scientist Gordon Pask that humans
Daniels Lab, at the University of Toronto, she is both the designer and maker would eventually interact with technology in a mutually constructive way.
of IM Blanky 2.0, a project in development with the university’s department The flourishing of experiments in responsive design is a direct result of
of occupational therapy. Now in the testing phase, the blanket is designed designers and architects taking the means of production into their own
for people confined to bed; when you place it over yourself, it measures your hands, as technology becomes more accessible to them. For instance,
breathing patterns, and possibly your heart rate, and relays those signals many interactive devices employ Arduino microcontrollers, tiny circuit
back to a clinic for analysis. boards designers can program to read and respond to sensors. With these
“It’s not that the blanket is a replacement for more precise clinical moni- and other technologies, they are developing smart textiles that playfully
toring. Its value is in being able to record vital signs over time and provide change colour and pattern with the application of heat, or release fragrance
data to give better diagnoses,” says Moukheiber. It is easy to see its applicabil- or lotion with the use of chemical actuators; and bodysuits equipped with
ity as an aging population faces health problems later in life and society looks sensors to measure vital signs. For the home, we are already seeing more
for ways to care for ailing and disabled citizens in their own homes. user-friendly appliances and systems that respond to touch or a wave of the
Moukheiber, her RAD colleagues Rodolphe el-Khoury and Christos hand; and in the future, morphable furnishings, such as those envisioned
Marcopoulos and their students are pioneers in this rapidly evolving field. by Neri Oxman at MIT’s Media Lab, will change shape to ergonomically
sept 2013 81
.35pt
.35pt
↑A building with A fAcAde thAt breAthes ↓ instAllAtions thAt light up to enviro-stiMuli
in barcelona, the Media ict building, by enric ruiz-geli’s cloud 9 by late 2013, ecopark (left) will illuminate pier 35 along new York’s
architecture firm, features a dynamic facade made up of triangular east river. the project consists of “digital seaweed” that “sings” in
etfe cushions. these are Arduino programmed to contract response to mussel activity. it was conceived by the living, a local stu-
and expand, filtering sunlight. the opposite side is clad in long, dio run by david benjamin and soo-in Yang, with shop Architects and
rectangular pillows that fill with heat-blocking nitrogen. natalie Jeremijenko. living light (right) is a map of seoul that glows to
e-cloud9.com indicate the city’s air quality in real time. thelivingnewyork.com
Responsive design
.35pt
.35pt
↑ a motorized panel system that blocks heat ↓ a highway that illuminates road conditions
For the kaFd spas in riyadh, architect chuck hoberman collaborated now under construction in the dutch province of brabant, the smart
with buro happold and metal panel manufacturer zahner to devise highway, by studio roosegaarde and heijmans infrastructure,
motorized facade panels. they consist of three titanium layers comes alive thanks to temperature-responsive paint that reflects
programmed to slide over each other, aligning the perforations to road conditions, and street lamps that turn on when vehicles
admit light, or blocking them to mitigate the desert heat. approach and then go dim afterward.
tessellatesurface.com studioroosegaarde.net
accommodate the user. Houses will respond to environmental needs: along aimed at improving energy efficiency. Chuck Hoberman, the New York
with the now ubiquitous planted walls and ceilings that filter air and absorb designer who invented his eponymous shape-shifting spheres in the ’90s, is
carbon dioxide, there will be surfaces that literally breathe, expanding and applying biomimicry in a concept for a facade that could change and react
contracting to mitigate humidity. We can now talk about buildings having a to sunlight and temperature. For the KAFD spas in Riyadh, starting construc-
nervous system, and having a dynamic relationship with their surroundings tion next year, his firm worked with British architecture firm Buro Happold
and inhabitants. at their joint Adaptive Building Initiative to develop Tessellate surface
Among the visionaries in the field is Toronto artist and architect Philip modules composed from three layers of perforated titanium, two of which
Beesley, who represented Canada at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale are motorized. Responding to the sun’s intensity, the way heliotropic plants
with his Hylozoic Ground installation. “Could architecture of the future be, such as sunflowers do, the screens move so that their perforated patterns
in some ways, alive?” he asks. “Might it care about us; might it know about overlap to regulate light and heat, ventilate and create privacy in a continual
us?” He composed his Radiant Soil installation, recently on exhibit in Paris reaction to external conditions. Manufactured by the metal panel experts
at the Espace Fondation EDF, from tens of thousands of digitally fabricated at Zahner, they can reduce the cost of cooling a building by 15 to 20 per cent.
feathers fitted with microprocessors, and active liquid cells in suspended A new highway system by Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde and
glassflasks. Shape-memory alloy actuators (microscopic wires) stimulate Heijmans Infrastructure will similarly employ responsive design to curb
growth and chemical processes, so the components respond to light and energy consumption, and could inspire many more projects that embed
scent, and mimic metabolism to filter the air. “Working with nature and with these technologies into the urban fabric. The highway incorporates inter-
artificial technologies, digital fabrication and computation, we are trying to active street lamps that come on as vehicles approach them and dim after
make something sensitive, something that might approach a living system.” they pass. “Wind lights” employ updrafts from passing cars to generate
Indeed, biomimicry lies at the core of many responsive design concepts energy for illumination. Temperature-responsive paint on the road
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Responsive design
.35pt
↑ A light thAt’s
moved by sound
the Fiet glowing light
.35pt
piece, by studio toer

of eindhoven, the
netherlands, is made up
of hundreds of plastic
cones. the tips respond
to atmospheric sounds:
a sharp noise triggers
a sudden tensing up,
while a peaceful setting
allows them to expand
and contract in a calming
manner. studiotoer.com
→ living mAchines
toronto architect Philip
beesley’s Radiant soil
installation was recently
on display at the Alive
exhibition at the espace
Fondation edF in Paris. its
clusters of feathery fronds
are fitted with shape-
memory alloy mechanisms
that react to viewers as

they approach, stimulating
protocells and scent emit-
ters in the glass vessels.
philipbeesleyarchitect.com

← a textile that
ruffles its feathers
When you wave your arms
in front of emotional
dialogue – or touch it,
clap your hands near it or
engage it otherwise –
the textile piece flutters
.35pt
.35pt
and ripples in response.
While it’s more of a playful
design than a practical
one, it explores the
emotional connection
between people and
objects. the project is by
Germany’s svenja Keune,
a designer fascinated
with responsive surfaces.
svenja‑keune.de
↓ hands-free home appliances ↑ plaYful objects that react to everYthinG

open mirror, with parts that slide away to reveal an ipod charger, communicative organisms, another whimsical project by svenja
represents the open-source evolution of interactive devices for Keune, are embedded with arduino circuit boards, leds, motors,
the home. italy’s digital habits offers the product as a diY design, sensors and touch screens. the net-encased objects react to light,
supplying the digital files for building the physical components wind, touch – or even morse code tapped out on a touch screen.
and arduino circuits, as well as the software. digitalhabits.it svenja‑keune.de
surface displays snowflakes, alerting drivers to icy conditions. Painted present obstacles on the way to commercial production.
lines indicating the lanes absorb the sun’s energy during the day so they However, going by the example of Enric Ruiz-Geli’s Media ICT building
can light up at night. And in a bold gesture toward driving without fossil in Barcelona – named World Building of the Year in 2011 by the World
fuels, the highway has induction coils embedded under the tarmac to Architecture Festival – enormous savings and huge reductions in a project’s
recharge electric cars as they proceed over it. A 150-metre trial strip of carbon footprint can be realized in the embrace of relatively simple
the road is under construction in the Dutch province of Brabant. technology. “Performative buildings can be [constructed] at low cost. You
All of these innovations represent a paradigm shift from static to put the money into engineering,” he has said. The main innovation in his
dynamic architecture and urban design, which requires a certain bravery Barcelona building is a pneumatic facade of ETFE cushions. The triangular
from architects, planners and city officials as they confront the new pillows on the southeast side inhale and exhale like lungs to provide
realities of climate change. “There’s a kind of stasis of architecture deeply sensor-controlled sun shading. The long cushions on the southwest fill with
ingrained in us,” says Vera Parlac, architect and assistant professor at the nitrogen to block heat and filter light; in 30 minutes, a beautiful, cascading
University of Calgary’s faculty of environmental design. “You have to be nitrogen cloud responds to the rising temperature outside, replacing a
ready to give up the notion of constant stability. There is equilibrium in conventional air conditioning system, which can account for 80 per cent
motion, too, but as architects we don’t deal well with that. Embracing that of a building’s energy consumption.
concept has the capacity to slowly change the nature of the design process.” Ruiz-Geli is now at work on the equally imaginative El Bulli Foundation,
Parlac leads the University of Calgary’s SKiN (Soft Kinetic Network) a cultural and gastronomic centre on the Catalonian coast that will resemble
Project, which is developing a building material with embedded “muscle” an organism and aim for carbon neutrality. He envisions a future where
wires that activate surfaces to follow people’s movements and activities, structures contain thousands of embedded computers, are built with recy-
harvesting warmth and creating localized heated zones for greater comfort cled materials, and increasingly adopt the designs and processes of the
and energy savings. As with much research in the field of responsive natural world – and he is just one of the ingenious designers who dare to
design, the need for rigorous testing and the technology’s associated costs make that future happen.
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the
farthest
shore
Responding to the local

vernacular of building on
stilts, Fogo Island Inn’s
volumes are supported
by steel columns drilled
into the bedrock.
86 sept 2013
Architect Todd Saunders builds the ultimate
escape on Fogo Island, an inn that celebrates
Newfoundland’s raw beauty
By Lisa Moore
Photography by Alex Fradkin
sept 2013 87
↑ as well as the usual
hotel amenities, the four-
storey inn has a library,
an art gallery, a cinema,
and a rooftop sauna.
← Views of the land and

the ocean are highlighted
throughout, so guests
continually confront the
beautiful though inhospi-
table terrain.
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the restaurant serves new
Newfoundland cuisine, based
on fresh-caught fish and
locally foraged vegetables
and berries prepared by chef
Murray McDonald.
the cantilevered wings that make UP Fogo Island Inn, a cruciform structure economy. It is a project of the Shorefast Foundation, a charitable organiza-
clad in indigenous spruce, are set at peculiar angles, appearing to be held tion whose president, Zita Cobb, grew up on the remote island, a 45-minute
up by slightly off-kilter stilts. This careful detail embodies a particular ferry ride from the mainland. Her vision includes bringing visitors to Fogo
brand of Newfoundland humour – equal parts sly wit and bravado, born of Island to take in its great stretches of barren coastline and its sublime
ingenuity and necessity. The angles suggest that the 29-room hotel is so terrain, which are swathed in weather of all sorts. In turn, hotel profits go
cleverly designed, you could remove all of the supports and it would remain toward future community development.
standing, despite the snow, sea spray and occasional gales from the wild The best view of the inn arrives without warning, along the drive from
North Atlantic pounding at its doorstep. the community of Tilting, near Tina’s Convenience Store in Joe Batt’s Arm.
The stilts also recall the quaint decay of vernacular architecture, the The white cladding shimmers in the sun-crimped, wavering ocean haze,
fishing flakes and stages that have fallen out of use with the demise of resembling a seagull about to alight.
the cod fishery. In this reference lies the seed of the hotel itself, which The building looks so delicately placed on the landscape because it has
was envisioned as part of a revitalization scheme for the declining island been. Architect Todd Saunders explains that when he and his client chose
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↑ as with traditional
newfoundland houses, the
hotel’s main entrance is at
the back.
← The 29 guest rooms,
which occupy each of the
four floors, are arranged
along a single-load corridor
with windows facing north
to the ocean.
→ most of the rooms are
heated by a cast iron wood-
burning stove.
the site, they took readings of the terrain every 10 centimetres or so, to avoid
disturbing the rock and the vegetation with excessive blasting. Rather, they
created a plan that allowed for the irregularities of the rocky surface, and they
built a temporary boardwalk to protect the ecology during construction. “In
more temperate climates, where the vegetation would grow back in a season
or two, those kinds of precautions wouldn’t be necessary,” says Saunders,
who grew up in Newfoundland and now lives and works in Norway. “On Fogo
Island, regrowth might take years, and we wanted to preserve it.”
According to Saunders, plans for the hotel involved thousands of drawings
and many conference calls with the owner from all over the world. The build-
ing’s footprint was even rotated a few times, to achieve the perfect orientation
for a view of the sunset from every table in the dining room. During my stay
in June, I ate juniper-smoked turbot, caught hours before by local fishermen,
and a dessert of goat’s cheese ice cream and bakeapples, while a boiling red
sun tinted the white dining room in pink and gold hues.
From a distance, the inn almost seems to float above the landscape, yet
it is a dramatic structure, as minimalist and modern as a spacecraft. “This
isn’t the kind of building we wanted to hide, or sweep under the carpet,” says
Saunders. “We wanted it to appear as though it were raising its head, full of
pride, to look out at the sea.”
At first Saunders, still in his 30s when he received the commission, felt
slightly intimidated by the prospect. He had been designing single-family
homes and had already exhibited a definite flair, but a hotel was on a mark-
edly different scale. “I was fine as soon as I started to think about it as a
home. I wanted a structure that I believed my grandmother (if she could
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←↑ all of the interior accents, including
the hand-stitched quilts, hooked rugs and
furniture, were crafted by local artisans.
pop out of the grave) would find very comfortable.”

The entrance is at the back of the building, which is typical of many tradi-
tional Newfoundland homes. Two large red wooden doorknobs provide the
only accent of colour on the facade, and the only indication of an entrance.
“Like big red buttons,” Saunders says. “I wanted the very first thing a visitor
touches to be handcrafted.”
The interior was conceived in collaboration with a team of international
architects and interior designers who conducted a five-week workshop
with local craftspeople. Together, they created all of the interior accents:
wallpaper, furniture, light fixtures, quilts, hooked rugs with murals of island
life, even the wooden baskets that arrive at guests’ doors in the early morn-
ing with fresh pastries and coffee.
The cylindrical hanging light fixtures in the dining room were fashioned
from ordinary rope, and they form an elaborate, airy pattern that brings to
mind the making of fishing nets or sailing knots. “There was an imperative
to avoid anything mass produced,” Cobb explains. “The last thing we wanted
was a boutique hotel like every other boutique hotel around the world.”
The amenities include a cinema, a restaurant, a library, an art gallery
and a bar, and guests are encouraged to stay for up to three days. An exercise
facility, saunas, and hot tubs on the roof overlook the sea, and each room
provides an expansive view of the ocean and other islands in the distance.
“You know those first three or four seconds when you wake up in a hotel
room and you don’t know where you are?” Saunders asks. “We wanted
every bed to face the ocean, so that as soon as a guest opens her eyes she
knows exactly where she is. She’s in Fogo.” fogoislandinn.ca
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Designers Suzanne
Tick and Jeffrey
Bernett are heading
up two new brands
for Canadian
manufacturer Teknion.

not
your fAther’s
offiCe
With the launch of two new product lines and a

freshly minted alliance with B&B Italia, teknion is poised to
become a giant in the contract furniture industry
By Alison Garwood-Jones
Portrait photography by Chris Chapman
By all reports, neocon, held each spring in Chicago, had a palpable sense America to a more competitive six- to eight-week time frame.
of excitement that hasn’t been felt in a while. The upbeat mood at North Meanwhile, Teknion president and CEO David Feldberg was busy
America’s largest contract furniture expo was no doubt the culmination of attending two other major launches at the fair that could very well propel
numerous factors, among them news that Herman Miller had bought up his mid-size, privately owned company closer to the ranks of such industry
Maharam, and a string of intriguing furniture debuts by such big-draw giants as Haworth, Knoll and Steelcase. A few months earlier, Teknion’s
names as Jean-Marie Massaud and Alain Gilles. But the most newsworthy Toronto head office sent out press releases announcing two new brands, to
announcements to hit the Merchandise Mart trade floor came from the be headed up by New York designers Jeffrey Bernett and Suzanne Tick,
Teknion showroom, where a landscape of minimalist sofa sectionals and two of the biggest names in the contract furniture business.
chrome-based Tulip chairs were elegantly set against an all-white back- On view at NeoCon, the inaugural prototypes for Teknion Studio and
drop. The furnishings were part of B&B Italia’s Project Collection, and their Teknion Textiles included a wide-seated, three-legged tub chair called
presence at Teknion signalled a new alliance that will see the illustrious Fractals, which groups easily into a circle of three or six, nesting together
Italian company’s contract line produced at Teknion’s North Carolina plant, like flower petals. The Spectrum sofa sits low to the ground on slim metal
a development that will speed up production and cut delivery time in North legs, while the Keel lounge chair’s gentle backward lean invites users to sit
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back and stay awhile. Each piece was upholstered in one of 10 new fabrics the North Carolina plant. That’s when the phone rang.
that officially launch Teknion Textiles. Bernett happened to be in Toronto around the same time, and on a
Judging by the collection’s relaxed air, the Studio brand is targeting whim he gave Feldberg a call. What was intended to be a visit to catch up
non-cubical office environments: the nooks, hallways, lobbies and reception with an old acquaintance led to several dinners, and before long Bernett
areas where creative collisions and breakout sessions tend to occur. “If had agreed to oversee Feldberg’s new divisions. “The funny thing is,” reflects
your client is Google, which has gone on record saying collaboration is the Bernett, “I wouldn’t have called David if I hadn’t made that trip to Toronto.
key to its success,” notes Bernett, “you want your furniture to reflect con- I had a big program on the go, and I had no reason to start something new.”
temporary culture – not your father’s office.” Based on the positive reception Back at his CDS studio in New York, he and his long-time collaborator,
received in Chicago (both the furniture and fabrics earned Best of NeoCon Nicholas Dodziuk, had assembled an impressive list of regular clients over
gold awards), Teknion’s latest ventures are getting it right. the years, producing popular designs for such lines as B&B Italia, Boffi,
It’s easy to imagine such game-changing initiatives taking years to evolve. Knoll and Design Within Reach. Their Canvas Office Landscape furniture
Yet most of the key elements fell into place in less than a year. In 2012, system, introduced almost three years ago, remains one of Herman Miller’s
Feldberg purchased a plant in Clayton, North Carolina, with the intention bestselling and most profitable collections.
of expanding his American base, although at the time he wasn’t clear how. During a tour of the Toronto plant with Feldberg, Bernett had noticed
“We looked at different companies,” says the CEO, now in his mid-fifties, “and that the facilities were set up with the same finishing equipment used by
we thought about acquiring other businesses in the sector.” The following B&B Italia. “I could see that David had already invested in quality and capa-
summer, he decided to start fresh with his own line and manufacture it at bility levels,” he says, noting that many manufacturers routinely outsource

↗↗ Envita, by Mario
Ruiz of Spain, is also
part of the Teknion
Studio brand, which
includes complemen-
tary occasional tables.
↗ The gentle back-

ward angle of the
Keel lounge chair
invites users to sit
and stay awhile.
→ For Teknion Textiles’

debut at NeoCon,
Suzanne Tick intro-
duced Surface
Tension, a collection
with 10 fabric styles.
← The high backrests

and arms of Teknion
Studio’s Fractal
Seating Group, by
Jeffrey Bernett and
Nicholas Dodziuk,
buffer sound and add
a little privacy.
production. “Teknion in‑sources, which allows it to control quality, and the

company is flexible enough to accommodate custom orders.” Teknion
Bernett also sensed a possible synergy between the two organizations president and
and their second‑generation family lineage. Feldberg’s father, Saul, started CEO David
Teknion’s parent company, Global, in 1966, the same year Piero Busnelli Feldberg.
began his luxury goods business in Novedrate, Italy. Busnelli’s sons, Giorgio
and Emanuele, now run the business. “Jeffrey was the catalyst for introdu‑
cing me to Teknion,” says Giorgio who is president of B&B Italia, “and I
instantly had a good feeling about David. He’s dynamic, open and honest.”
While the first item on their agenda is to start manufacturing B&B Italia’s
existing contract line, Project Collection, both presidents are keen to
see where the alliance will take them. It’s a win‑win situation, says Bernett
enthusiastically: Teknion stands to benefit from B&B’s reputation for
craftsmanship, and it can also venture into furniture for hotel lobbies, for
instance – another popular touchdown workspace for wireless executives.
“From there, we could even bridge into residential,” adds Feldberg.
The final addition to the Teknion expansion was to develop a textile
↑↓ b&b italia’s Project
collection is now being
B&B Italia manufactured by
president teknion at its north
Giorgio carolina plant. the line
Busnelli. includes cloud, a
minimalist sectional by
naoto Fukasawa.
and Bernett suggested his long-time friend Suzanne Tick, a 20-year veteran
in the upholstery business who is well known for her heather felts, chunky
weaves, polyester velvets and metallic vinyls, crafted for such clients as
Knoll and Tandus Flooring. “I called Jeffrey on another matter,” she recalls,
“and he started talking about Teknion. He kept saying, ‘This is it, Ticker!’
We’re building a new brand, and the one missing link is textiles.” Feldberg
followed up the next day with an offer.
The fabrics will cover all of Teknion Studio’s seating products, as well as
B&B Italia’s Project pieces. Called Surface Tension, the first iteration is
a range of 10 styles that Tick describes as “juxtapositions”: warm and cool
neutrals with saturated colours, plushness with slickness, and handcrafted
aesthetics with super-technical action structures. The 110-swatch palette
includes a semi-reflective quilted polyurethane, and a line of felt with a
visible honeycomb stitch.
Another first for Teknion will be bringing the new fabrics to the open
market, a move that once again sends Teknion into uncharted areas. “This
is the fantastic part of building a collection in a holistic way,” says Tick.
“I see areas that could easily grow from here, including drapery and wrap
wall fabrics.” Bernett reiterates that most furniture giants are big public
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companies, and Teknion by contrast is still very entrepreneurial. “What

that means in its wholeness,” he observes, “is the ability to embrace change
and move quickly.” Tick agrees: “This is the first time in both our careers
that we aren’t referring extensively to a company archive. We’re only looking
forward.” teknion.com
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the
big dig
Montreal’s Jean-Maxime Labrecque
adds volume to an ordinary duplex by
when most post-war duplexes in montreal undergo renovation,
they rarely survive demolition; their boxy shapes and flat roofs
are so utilitarian that little nostalgia is attached to ensure their
survival. One local architect, though, has revealed the potential of
these everyday modernist cubes. For Jean-Maxime Labrecque’s
revamp of a two-storey red-brick duplex in the Rosemont–
La Petite-Patrie neighbourhood, he kept the monolithic structure
intact, turning his attention to the interior instead. Where rooms
and hallways once defined the main floor, a 2.6-by-3.3-metre
excavating the crawl space incision now opens up to the basement level.
“A primary reason the owners bought this property was the
By austin macdonald house’s volumetric qualities,” says Labrecque, sole principal of
photography by Frédéric Bouchard INPHO Architectures Physiques et d’Information. He has run

↑ On the main level, glass panels surround
a large incision in the floor that opens to the
living area below.
↗ the all-white kitchen runs along one wall,

and a full-height window overlooks the
backyard. On the floors is natural Russian
plywood with an anti-slip finish.
→ Rather than a traditional railing for the

double-height stairwell, Labrecque devised
a curtain made from Dramex expanded
metal framed in exposed timber.
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↑ part of the original foundation wall ↓ new cladding and windows
was left exposed, to contrast the dry- give the original ’60s duplex a
wall and the poured concrete floor. contemporary look.
the firm for the past 13 years, and it has garnered an impressive
reputation for its ultra-minimalist design; one recently completed
condo project was defined by seamless aluminum cabinetry and
built-ins that made separate pieces of furniture superfluous.
The Avenue d’Orléans home, owned by a couple with three
small children, is not quite as rigorously abstracted, though it also
shows off Labrecque’s talent for carving out space. “Architecture
is about the importance of volume,” he says, and when you privilege
that over square footage, “you approach architecture that’s richer,
more inspiring.”
To turn the basement into a living area with radiant-heated
concrete flooring, the architect excavated the original crawl
space, digging down an additional 60 centimetres. He then
worked with a structural engineer to underpin the foundation.
An exposed I-beam now spans the main-floor ceiling, welded to

a steel framework concealed within the perimeter walls. The
gesture eliminates the need for load-bearing columns, making
the two floors completely open.
Thick glass panels act as railings around the central opening;
and instead of a handrail for the stairway, Labrecque installed a
chain-link curtain with wooden beam supports that double as

↗ The dishwasher and
the fridge are concealed
behind custom cabinetry.
BASEMENT MAIN FLOOR
1 4 5
2 6
7
SECOND FLOOR FLOOR PLAN
1 Storage 8 Master bedroom

2 Utility box 9 Walk-in closet
PHOTO BY LOREM IPSUM DOLORE
8 9 3 Back entrance 10 Bedroom

4 Bathroom 11 Wet room
5 Kitchen 12 Water closet
10 6 Front entrance 13 Vanity
12 7 Dining area
13 11 14 Laundry
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↑↑ the eight-metre-square master bedroom
is separated from the bathroom by space-
saving pocket doors.
↑ natural plywood covers the children’s room,

including the built-in bunk beds, cupboards
and closet.
← ↙ Black tiles define a walk-in wet room that

leads to a bathtub at one end and an extended
vanity with a plywood counter at the other.
stringers for the white lacquered steps. At the back, a full-height

window runs the width of the house. It opens onto a deck and
yard, letting natural light spill into the basement.
For the main-floor kitchen, a bank of custom cabinetry conceals
the fridge, the dishwasher, and a guest washroom at one end.
Labrecque insisted on parking a built-in oven on top of the marble
countertop, for the sake of visual continuity. “The client thought
I was going a bit too far, but it makes all the difference in the
world,” he says.
Upstairs, a large window compensates for the master bed-
room’s limited size – just enough space for a queen-size bed with
a walk-in closet down the hall. “The idea was for it to be an empty
room where the only artwork is the view,” muses Labrecque. The
second bedroom, for the children, is clad in plywood, with a
ribbon window overlooking the backyard. With the toilet relegated
to a separate closet, the second-floor bathroom contains a plywood
counter that spans two windows. “It was the biggest gesture I could
possibly make,” notes Labrecque, and it has turned out be an ideal
place for folding laundry. A wet room finished with black tiles and
matching grout contains two shower heads and a white tub.
“Ultimately, I only want to do projects with completely custom
interiors, like tailored pieces of spatial clothing,” says Labrecque,
“the only true building materials being natural light, volume and
a space’s occupants.” inpho.ws

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EurolucE
milan
touch
options galore ruled at euroluce, where
1
ethereal forms and technical prowess

reigned supreme By nina Boccia
EurolucE had thE usual mesmerizing displays one flickering diodes. A number of manufacturers broke 1 Grand Gesture
expects from a 450-exhibitor event devoted entirely to from the usual glass encasements. At the Foscarini
For these elegant pendants, never
lighting. No question, the biannual event is a shimmering booth, Anderssen & Voll of Norway used transparent
ending Glory for Lasvit, Jan plechac
spectacle. But if you scratch beyond the dazzle, you thermoplastic for a bubble-inspired diffuser; while
and Henry Wielgus used traditional
start to see that the standout luminaries shared a few Sweden’s Form Us with Love devised a pendant–
glassblowing techniques to replicate
things in common, in particular a passion for integrating cum–table lamp with a polypropylene foam body for
the silhouettes of chandeliers that
multiple functions with a single light, and a devotion FontanaArte. And from Atelier Oï came Stelle Filanti,
hang in some of the world’s most
to material and technical innovation. The latter was a sculptural light whose encased glass forms appear
renowned venues, including la scala
exemplified by the growing use of organic light-emitting to swell beyond their leather harness straps.
in milan. lasvit.com
devices. Tech giant Philips unveiled LivingShapes, a A multitude of built-in diffuser options – most
motion sensor wall of 1,152 of the eco-friendly diodes, notably by Bocci, Lasvit and Fabbian – rivalled the more
2 swinG it, shake it, move it
which can be programmed to display text, providing an delicate luminaires. For Luceplan, Daniel Rybakken
ideal surface to enliven public environments. Blackbody, placed an aluminum shade over a thin stem that slides From Philips, livingshapes panels
the first brand to devote its entire business to OLED to adjust the light intensity. Jean Nouvel’s Objective are fitted with 16 superthin OleDs,
technology, showcased pendants by Thierry Gaugain. for Artemide consists of a black tube with three distinct arranged to create a large interactive
The arrangement, customized to display up to 137 lights light sources. Its slimness and versatility spoke to the surface. When a camera concealed
at varying heights, was a knockout. show’s overall vibe. Euroluce looked slimmer, too, with at the centre senses passersby, it
Illumination aficionados also ogled Ingo Maurer fewer launches (due to the flailing economy, no doubt), transmits impulses to specific diodes.
and LED visionary Moritz Waldemeyer’s candle-like but what we saw was more refined, more creative, more lighting.philips.com
pendant, which uses a circuit board outfitted with 128 resolved and, ultimately, stronger.
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3
3 Light with bite 8 night Light
Crocco, from Italy’s Slamp, takes Belladinotte, an in-ground lamp from

its form from the contours of a the poet of light, Davide groppi, is
crocodile’s tail. It features a colourful stripped of extraneous elements, with
shade made from Lentiflex, a faceted a single source fixed to the back of 6
plastic polymer, and can be mounted a square mirrored surface. Because
on a wall or ceiling. slamp.it it’s so reflective, the technical
elements seem to disappear within
4 Power PLay the surroundings. davidegroppi.com
For Vibia, J. Ll. Xuclà designed set,

9 hot wireS
a series of modular wall pieces that
emit and reflect light. the versatile Arik Levy showed off several great
fixtures can be positioned in various pieces, among them the Wireflow
configurations for an eye-catching pendant, for Vibia, made up of black
display. vibia.com rods and dimmable LeDs that
resemble line drawings suspended
5 tight griP in mid-air. vibia.com
Atelier Oï ’s hand-blown glass

10 cryStaL caStLeS
stelle Filanti lamp, for Venini, is sus-
pended in a webbed leather harness. stephen Burks’ wondrous Lightsky
the effect is twofold: the netting sends a beam through a single
casts bold geometric shadows, and Swarovski crystal, which hangs in
the bulbous diffuser creates a spec- the centre of a razor-thin powder-
tacular visual. venini.it coated black frame dotted with 7
smaller crystals. Available in two
6 three timeS a charm sizes. swarovski.com
Jean Nouvel’s telescopic table lamp

Objective, for artemide, incorporates
three light sources. A glass segment
emits ambient light, while another
source above the aluminum shaft
rotates outward to accommodate
work surfaces; a third point casts a
dramatic upward glow. artemide.com
7 grow oP
twig-like elements make up Ferruccio

Laviani’s tuareg, for Foscarini. It
features three tubes that branch off
to shorter LeD-equipped poles. each
one rotates fully and can be turned
on independently. foscarini.com
8
108 sept 2013
9
11 PICK IT UP
For FontanaArte, Swedish design

darlings Form Us with Love fitted
a portable lamp with a polypropylene
foam body in grey and black. Via
a five-metre power cable, the Yupik
fixture can be strung up, laid on its
side, or propped up on one end like
a flashlight. fontanaarte.com 10
12 LIGHT SHOWER
For French manufacturer Blackbody,

Thierry Gaugain (a Philippe Starck
protegé) designed the I.Rain pendant,
which can be customized to display a
cascade of up to 137 OLED plates in
varying heights. blackbody-oled.com
13 ETERNAL FLAME
12
11
Drawing inspiration from antique
oil lamps, Rotterdam’s Studio WM
anchors the Gradient borosilicate
glass diffuser with a pint-sized
porcelain pedestal that houses a
light. The diffuser comes in such
on-trend colours as grapefruit and
14 mint green. studiowm.com
14 THE AIR IN THERE
For its first Foscarini collaboration,

Anderssen & Voll designed Yoko,
13 a light that merges minimalism with
opulence. The diffuser, made from
thermoplastic (an alternative to glass),
rests atop a body shaped like a giant
15
bubble. foscarini.com
15 THE ASCENSION
For Luceplan, Daniel Rybakken

made Ascent with an ultra-functional
dimming feature. The user slides the
aluminum shade along a stem to
adjust the light’s intensity, eventually
turning it off as it reaches the
surface. luceplan.com
16 THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT
Cellulae, for Danese, accumulates

and distributes energy locally. The
contents of each module range from
LEDs and photovoltaic film to an
16 17 algae-based bioreactor that absorbs
light and carbon dioxide. The cubic
parcels can be configured into
a totem of light or even a bench.
danesemilano.com
17 OUT TO SEA
FontanaArte’s touch-switch Koho

outdoor lamp is rechargeable, with a
seven-hour battery life, and a body
made of milky white opalescent poly-
ethylene. fontanaarte.com
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18
19
22 hanging By a thread
inspired by street lighting, London

20 designer michael anastassiades’
outstanding string, for Flos, hangs
delicately from thin black electrical
cord, arranged as though drawn
in the air. available in spherical or
conical forms. flos.com
23 twist and shout
For martinelli luce’s mini orbita

table lamp, ideal for the bedside, the
intensity of light from the LeD tube
can be adjusted by swivelling the
reflector on the base. martinelliluce.it
24 now in technicolor
For her cmYK light, young Dutch

designer dennis parren affixed cyan,
magenta and yellow LeDs to the base
of a circular platform. the colours
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project downward through a thin
white metal frame that splits the
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light to cast shadows on the walls,
floor and ceiling. dennisparren.nl
18 Ball player 20 heart oF glass
Vancouver’s Bocci presents the carlotta de Bevilacqua designed 24

latest addition to its numbered empatia, a mushrooming luminaire
collection of glass orbs. this time with a blown glass diffuser, for
around, fixture 57 introduces a burnt artemide. at its heart is a light
umber globe with caramel-hued air source directed through a transparent
pockets trapped inside. bocci.ca pipe with a very low absorption rate.
the effect lends a striking, ambient
19 over the rainBow atmosphere. artemide.com
inspired by fluffy clouds after the

21 modern classic
rain, designer mathieu Lehanneur
created cloudy, a gradient white this three-legged fixture displays
blown glass and die-cast aluminum a familiar and elegant simplicity.
fixture, for Fabbian. powered by perched on tall walnut legs, trepai,
LeDs, it is available as a pendant or vistosi’s newest floor lamp, is
a ceiling fixture. fabbian.com crowned with a glossy glass shade
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american talents stakeD new territory
by elizabeth pagliacolo
2
1 CirCle of life
this delightfully orb-like planter,

framed in a circular copper hanger,
is part of Panoramica’s Materiality
collection. the Mexican collective
elevates such ubiquitous materials
as terrazzo, basalt and glass in their
housewares. wearepanoramica.com
At wAnteddesign, the most inspiring design show outside of the
International Contemporary Furniture Fair, a group exhibit called 2 Come together
Carrot Concept abounded with graphic textiles, brightly hued out-
the Carrot Concept refers to a
door furnishings and vibrantly lacquered home accessories, some of
physical place, a creative centre in
the strongest pieces seen during New York Design Week. In bringing
san salvador where designers go
together established Salvadoran designers, including Harry and
to share ideas and work on projects.
Claudia Washington, with lesser-knowns, like the studio Cinco Patas
Bernhardt Design brought this
al Gato, it also exemplified a theme that ran through the week; whether
motley collective to WantedDesign,
you were from El Salvador, Norway or Mexico, participating in a
where they displayed their vibrant
group show got you noticed in New York.
pieces. Cinco patas al Gato presented
Besides coming together under their national flags, designers are
the Canasto wire basket lights.
getting their work out there by collaborating directly with the city’s
thecarrotconcept.com
hottest retailers. A few illustrious showrooms presented the results
of their in-house manufacturing endeavours at ICFF, albeit with
3 giant droPlets
mixed results. MatterMade debuted a collection by New York interior
designers Roman and Williams that was all solid wood – bold and trove loves to play with found and
impeccably crafted, yet at times heavy handed. And Future Perfect original images to create its inimitable
launched sumptuous sofas by Jason Miller and Lindsey Adelman that wall coverings. For Heze, the studio
were on trend but did not exactly explore new frontiers. Yet these treated photographic paper with
custom lines show designers and retailers probing new ways of getting exposure from flashlights and fibre
collections made and marketed – a lesson for New York and beyond. 3 optic toys. troveline.com
sept 2013 113

4 LIGHT ENGINEERING 7 SOFA AS LANDSCAPE
Castor brought a rock ’n’ roll vibe Bernhardt Design teamed up with
to the Intro NY show. One of the Lievore Altherr Molina to create
Toronto design studio’s offbeat yet the Mirador modular seating line,
impeccably detailed pieces, Fresnel based on the natural topography
is an aluminum drum light (in small, of Catalonia. Defined by its saddle
medium and large) suspended from stitching, the collection comes in
a cord wrapped around a brass fabric, leather or custom textiles.
T-bar. The rolling crane is not part of bernhardtdesign.com
the design, but it makes for a great
display piece. castordesign.ca 8 MODERN SONNET
Shakespeare in Africa stopped

5 SPOT ON THE WALL
many showgoers in their tracks. The
Amid a small line of well-resolved Bard’s likeness is the only portrait in
products, New York’s Rich Brilliant graphic design guru Milton Glaser’s
Willing debuted the adorable Monocle rug collection for Nanimarquina.
sconce, with a milled aluminum casing The other carpets only feature the
and a flat or dome lens. It rotates base motif of tufted wool stripes
to beam its LEDs in any direction. and striations. nanimarquina.com
richbrilliantwilling.com
9 FOUND TREASURE
6 BUCKET SIT
While roaming the factory warehouse
A modern nod to the classic club of 500-year-old French crystal manu-
chair, U Turn by Bensen has a sliced- facturer Saint-Louis, Kiki van Eijk
off front that provides greater foot ran across the vintage moulds that
space underneath and makes it easier inspired the Matrice LED fixture (in 4
to get out of. The seat rotates on a copper or nickel plate), which opens
hidden metal base. bensen.ca up to diffuse light. saint-louis.com
5
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10 warm front in oslo 13 throne fit for hayón
Young Norwegians got to strut their Crafted by fritz hansen, Ro, Jaime
stuff at the Inside Norway exhibit at Hayón’s luxurious wingback on
ICFF. Among the eye-catching tex- aluminum legs plays up the contrast
tiles on display, the pure wool Benkt in the textured upholstery of its shell
blanket, by günzler.polmar with and cushions. the fabrics come in
textile mill Røros tweed, measures various tones and hues, including
2.2 by 1.5 metres. gunzlerpolmar.no black, yellow and light pink.
fritzhansen.com
11 Barrels of fun
14 14 shape of things to come
the Woodrum chandelier exemplifies
Roman and Williams’s Americana- shown at ICFF studio, a platform
inspired line for mattermade. Made for young designers, carlo aiello’s
of solid wood with brass hardware, polished stainless steel parabola
the six shades are constructed using chair impressed with its high-tech
barrel stave techniques, with CNC- feel. It consists of curved elements
lathed details. mattermatters.com brought together into a single
basket-like structure of seat, arm-
12 uncorking creativity rest and backrest. carloaiello.com
As part of its new designer collab-

15 dressed for success
orations, design within reach
debuted kitchen accessories by Yabu pushelberg’s Regent street
Brooklyn’s Fort standard. Dry Goods was one of many mirrors shown
Vessels have cork stoppers topped during the week. But none matched
with turned hardwood handles, and the elegance of this full-length
cast brass bottle openers nod to piece with a polished nickel support, 15
art deco. dwr.com available through avenue road.
avenue-road.com
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Up-and-coming Chinese design and

architecture firm Neri & Hu teamed
with De La Espada on a furniture
series that includes this lounger, Solo,
inspired by an Eames chair. It comes
in American black walnut, white oak
or European ash, and in a range of
20 fabrics. delaespada.com
21 ANIMAL ATTRACTION
16 OLD TIMES 18 MODULAR
Presented as part of the RISD alum
Beginning with a humble source of Besides taking part in the Carrot exhibit at WantedDesign, Tanya
inspiration, off-the-shelf lighting Concept at WantedDesign, designers Aguiniga’s Humpback Chair looks
components, the Modo chandelier is Claudia and Harry Washington were like something Moroso would love to
CNC milled from solid aluminum and busy with the Intro NY show, where manufacture. Its hand-carved form
fitted with a 14-globe arrangement. they introduced their Pila storage, a and patchwork upholstery recall
Jason Miller produces it through system of boxes atop a log base, for the animal puppets sewn by Mayan
his Roll & Hill label. rollandhill.com Council. councildesign.com women in Aguiniga’s native Chiapas,
Mexico. aguinigadesign.com
17 SECOND-HAND HANGER 19 ICON-O-GRAPHICS
22 FEEL OF A CLASSIC
Sometimes a hanger is more than For the 80th anniversary of Alvar
a hanger. In this case, it’s a twice- Aalto’s Stool 60, Artek called on a Norwegian designer Andreas
recycled by-product of Dirk Vander few notable talents – among them Engesvik is on the rise. At the Inside
Kooij’s furnishings, made from Tom Dixon and Comme des Garçons – Norway exhibit, he presented the
refrigerators melted and extruded by to refashion and refresh the iconic folksy Bunad blankets, as well as the
a rapid prototyping robot. At ICFF, piece. Nao Tamura gave it the cut log timeless Vang chair, produced by
the Dutch phenom was named best pattern shown. artek.fi Tonning Møbler in solid oak.
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Paris designer jean-marie massaud held court at the Coalesse showroom in Chicago’s Merchandise 1 in the hood
Mart during NeoCon. Demonstrating his “concept car,” a hooded swivel seat with the painterly name
Jean-Marie Massaud’s Work Lounge
Work Lounge with Canopy, he invited visitors to test-drive the chair, and to lower its felt-upholstered
with canopy, for Coalesse, combines
cap for maximum effect. The sanctuary offers respite from a chaotic office, and comes equipped with
an executive chair with a movable
Bluetooth capability, LED lighting and a canopy-mounted support for a tablet or smart phone.
hood made from recycled pet bottles.
Massaud wasn’t the only big-name designer who showed off a new product for the office. Many con-
it’s equipped with LeDs, Bluetooth
tract manufacturers debuted collections created in tandem with marquee talents more familiar to the
and a hands-free device support.
residential sector. At Maharam, Stefan Scholten introduced Scholten & Baijings’ two new wool-nylon
coalesse.com
blends for 2014, Grid and Blocks, which feature the Dutch duo’s signature linear and pastel aesthetic.
At Haworth, the Spanish dynamo Patricia Urquiola revamped the showroom, together with Perkins &
2 offiCe soCial
Will’s Chicago office, and launched a line of soft seating, pouffes and semi-privacy screens, also to
be produced in 2014. Herman Miller presented perhaps the most ambitious designer-made collec- to perfect its first office system for
tions: three highly customizable offices, by Industrial Facility’s Sam Hecht and Kim Colin, Berlin’s herman Miller, Fuseproject tested
Studio 7.5, and Yves Béhar. Based on research showing that 70 per cent of collaborations take place at evolving versions of public. While a
individual workstations, Béhar’s Public Office Landscape encourages casual interactions; its defining key piece is the side chair that
element is the Social Chair, a soft, low-backed seat that hooks onto the side of a desk. The line stood encourages impromptu meetings,
out as one of the show’s most successful launches – and a welcome addition to the evolution of the the desking line also includes semi-
collaborative office. private pods. hermanmiller.com
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3 FUTURE PERFECT 3
Haworth displayed prototypes from
Patricia Urquiola’s plush 2014 collec-
tion (unnamed for the moment) of
4
polyester soft seating, screens and
pouffes. haworth.com
4 HIGHS AND LOWS
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s

height-adjustable tables for Vitra
cater to the stand-up/sit-down
trend of working. Tyde incorporates
quiet electric motors for height
adjustment into double workstations
and conference tables equipped
with acoustic screens. vitra.com
5 LOBBYING ACT
The angular Manfred, Lievore Altherr 5

Molina’s latest for Andreu World, is
a padded seating line for reception
areas, with an FSC-certified solid
oak frame, and optional wood arms.
andreuworldamerica.com
6 OFFCUTS
Allsteel’s Create desking system,

6
with its trapezoidal surface, offers an
alternative approach to 120-degree
office planning by giving workers the
option to strike up conversations
with those in their tri-pod as well as
passers-by. allsteeloffice.com
7 TWICE AS NICE
Designtex debuted an upholstery

product made with twice-recycled
textile waste. The vibrant Loop to
Loop line is composed of Steelcase’s
7
post-consumer fabric, made of PET
water bottles reprocessed into new
polyester yarn. designtex.com

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Maharam’s Digital Projects launched Todd Bracher named his elegant and Eoos’s Juxta line for Keilhauer
the striking Creature wallcovering, ergonomic ASA seat and table line, caters to opposing styles of office
by New York photographer Andrew for HBF, after its A shaped stainless work: formal and informal, stand-
Zuckerman, who is renowned for steel base and the S curve of the ing and sitting, brief and lengthy.
his compositions of hyper-realistic, human spine. It comes in various Its 39 components (including the
life-sized animals set against a stark fabrics, including a wool-nylon blend stool/side table combo shown) can
white background. maharam.com called Satin Duet. hbf.com be assembled to create 74 unique
configurations of seats and tables.
9 STROKE OF GENIUS 11 DELICATE MATTERS keilhauer.com
Diffrient Smart offers a mechanism- Nienkämper has expanded its

13 SIMPLY PUT
free recline that conforms to body Sedan line with a trio of geometric
weight distribution, thanks to a pat- occasional tables in three heights Global’s Princeton table with metal
ented form-sensing mesh, while its and sizes, with wood veneer or legs comes in a variety of heights
non-stretch, tri-panel pivoting back- laminate tops, and bases in such (up to 1.06 metres) and lengths (two
rest provides instant lumbar support. finishes as nickel or glossy black. to 10 feet), to suit contract settings
Sadly, designer Niels Diffrient died nienkamper.com from boardrooms to hotels.
days before Humanscale launched globaltotaloffice.com
his task chair at NeoCon.
humanscale.com
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Maharam launched four wool-based

tartans as part of its original
contract Textiles, which reinterpret
patterns from the manufacturer’s
archives: Pressed Plaid and Wool
Striae (both woven in Scotland) have
defined checks and grids, while Soft
Tweed and Wool rib are more subtle
and abstract. maharam.com
15 roll with it
available as rolls, in over 500

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patterns, 3M’s Di-noc architectural
finishes enable designers to cover
almost any surface, from ceiling tiles
to drywall, thanks to a pre-applied
patented comply adhesive, which
results in a bubble-free, dry applica-
tion. solutions.3mcanada.ca
16 natural selection
Forms + surfaces launched

Vivigraphix elements: 13 nature-
inspired glass styles for such indoor
and outdoor applications as elevator
interiors, columns and railing
18 systems. forms-surfaces.com
17 back to basics
knoll’s anchor line of preassembled

storage units comes in open or closed
modules, with optional drawers and
doors. The clean aesthetic, in 15
neutral shades, suits both individual
and group storage needs. knoll.com
18 strong and silent
The mobile Vertical intelligent

architecture system, by steelcase,
provides acoustic privacy. its rigid
steel framework houses inter-
changeable glass frames, solid
skins and soundproof seals. made
with recycled content, Via is also
ScS indoor advantage certified to
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floral luminaires for swarovski and Artecnica, he is stepping
down to focus on his studio’s work.
Driade, a former heavyweight on the Italian furniture

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private finance company that has funnelled over $9 million
into rebuilding the brand. Founder enrico Astori has lisataylordesigns.com
been named honorary president of the manufacturer. His
daughter elisa will serve as creative director.
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Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher has been promoted to head of

architecture and design at the san Francisco Museum of
Modern Art. she formerly held the positions of assistant
curator and acting department head.
Caroline Baumann will replace the late Bill Moggridge as The UBC Margolese National Design for Living Prize was
director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. created by a generous estate gift made to the University of
she previously served as associate director, acting director
and deputy director under Moggridge. British Columbia by Leonard Herbert Margolese. The Prize
Susan Sellers, a partner and creative director at
will be awarded to a Canadian who has made outstanding
New York’s 2x4, has been named head of design at the contributions to the development or improvement of living
Metropolitan Museum of Art. In other Met news, the
museum has switched to a new paper ticket system that
environments for Canadians of all economic classes.
uses stickers, retiring the colourful tiny metal pins.
DEADLINE: October 1, 2013
in memoriam
DETAILS/FORM: sala.ubc.ca/margolese
Danish architect Henning Larsen died in Copenhagen on
June 22. He was 87. He established his architecture firm
in 1959, and has been the creative force behind such bold,
light-filled works as the Malmö City Library in sweden;
and the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, the recipient of
this year’s Mies van der Rohe Architecture prize.
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