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copperindesign
exploring the potential of copper in design world
www.copperindesign.org issue 115 March 2019
furniture Objects of Desire 3
interiors Lievito 3
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furniture 5
Clothes Rack 5
interiors Pasta Maria 6
furniture Band Collection 7
interiors Et Cetera 8
lighting nh1217 Lamp 9
objects Brass Stands 10
lighting Paràbola 11
art Close Parity 12
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furniture 3
Nabil Issa
Objects of Desire
Lebanese-American designer Nabil Issa has launched his
debut line of furniture, which includes a throne-like golden
chair made from brass.
The collection of furniture, called Objects of Desire, includes
storage, seating, dining tables and bed frames made in
Portugal from high-quality materials such as wood, brass,
copper and various marbles.
With a discerning eye and acute attention to the smallest
details, Issa plays with form and proportions. Minimalism
meets maximal impact through unexpected shapes and
materials in pieces that are functional and eye-catching.
Showcased during last Maison&Objet in Paris, Issa’s launch
collection is pure in its simplicity, bold in its design, while
still exuding sophistication and elegance.
Link: www.nabilissa.com
interiors 4
MDDM Studio
Lievito
Subtle stepped levels and intersecting volumes of grey
terrazzo break up this Beijing pizza-restaurant interior,
designed by Italian-German architectural practice MDDM
Studio.
Lievito is designed as a place to meet, to share and to
taste. A new restaurant for socializing while sharing slices
of gourmet pizza and enjoying a glass of wine in a space
defined by grey stone volumes and brass details.
The big, fully operable folding window in the north is
inviting guests to the restaurant’s bar and aperitivo area.
This space is dominated by a free standing stone bar
counter enlightened by the insertion of a brass screen. The
bar area is lightly furnished to offer space for any form of
socialisation. A step up, armchairs creating a lounge area
next to the window, which can be easily extended to the
terraces due to the fully operable folding window.
Small elements in brass enrich the space without breaking
the grey palette: a long ribbon runs the entire west wall, a
custom linear lamp floats under the open ceiling, a counter
faces the open pizza kitchen and a golden box separates the
dining bench from the bar: each seat enjoys a glimpse of
brass that create a vibrant exception in the neutral tone of
the stone volumes and the ragged cement of the wall finish.
Link: www.mddm-studio.com
furniture 5
Meike Langer
Clothes Rack
The clothes rack created by German designer Meike
Langer features a copper arc with a hinged timber frame,
allowing it to slot into the corner of a room.
German designer Meike Langer created the Blanche clothes
stand as a flexible alternative to traditional garment rails.
The structure can fold in on itself, allowing it to be
manoeuvred into the corner of a room and take up less
space. An ash wood frame, made from locally sourced
timber, swings out from the main structure to help the
stand to balance.
Clothes can be draped over the wooden arm without the
need for hangers, while the polished copper arc affixes to
the frame via two metal pins in the side and acts as a stand
for blazers.
Link: www.meikelanger.com
interiors 6
Thomas Kröger
Pasta Maria
Pasta Maria, a venue conceived from a to z by Berlin
studio Thomas Kröger Architekt, has now opened in the
heart of Renzo Piano-designed Potsdamer Platz.
The space and its subdivision, the furniture, lighting,
accessories and décor all spring from the designer’s own
ideas: his vision for this novel environment is both surprising
and instantly captivating.
Copper-clad extraction fans and lighting hang from the
ceiling of Pasta Maria, their forms echoed in the travertine
stone and glass open kitchen below.
The idea was to make the open kitchen the most important
place within the restaurant, like a grand fireplace in an old
castle. The architects tried to have as many reflections in
the copper as possible to play with form and light.
To further the distinction, the ceiling was painted black,
making the copper stand out. The technical shaft and
pipe work was also painted black, escaping the need for
a suspended ceiling.
The built-in benches are upholstered in natural untanned
cowhide, which will age and redden over time to
complement the bright-red lacquered Thonet chairs.
Link: www.thomaskroeger.net
furniture 7
Bethan Gray
Band Collection
British designer Bethan Gray has created a collection of
tables with marble tops wrapped in bands of brass.
The Band tables are made from polished and lacquered
marbles in a range of colours, including green, white,
pink and black. The furniture is available with single colour
tabletops, or as two-tone versions featuring contrasting
marble halves.
The tables are wrapped in a brushed brass rim, and their
tripod-style legs also appear to have been dipped in the
metal. The collection includes circular tables in various
heights, as well as an oblong version, and have either black
or white painted legs.
The band collection brings the natural beauty of coloured
marble together with warm brushed brass to create a
pairing of materials that elegantly enhance each other.
Link: www.bethangray.com
interiors 8
Jeonghwa Seo
Et Cetera Restaurant
Seoul-based designer Jeonghwa Seo has furnished a
cafe and wine bar with furniture that celebrates the qualities
of raw materials.
The furniture was custom made for Et Cetera in Seoul, a
space that features a raw concrete interior. To complement
this, Seo chose to make pieces with an unfinished quality,
using brass, cast aluminium and oak.
The most important aspect of this project was to show the
pure quality of the materials: Seo wanted to create a space
where people can experience them.
Brass is mainly used for the lighting creating a set of floor
and table lamps while oak was selected for the seats and
finishes on the chairs and tables.
The larger pieces stand on bases made of cast aluminium,
welded into elongated elliptical shapes. The welding join-
lines were not ground down, in order to show off the
making process.
Link: www.jeonghwaseo.com
lighting 9
Neri&Hu
nh1217 Lamp
Chinese studio Neri&Hu has created a versatile, spherical
glass lamp for Italian lighting brand Artemide that can be
used as a table lamp or suspended as a wall lamp.
The nh1217 is an elegant yet practical appliance, was
designed by the Shanghai-based firm to evoke traditional
Chinese lanterns.
The lamp’s spherical white blown-glass diffuser slides along
a brushed brass ring, which can be used to prop the lamp
up on a surface, or used as a hook to mount on a wall.
The diffuser can be freely adjusted to direct the light
according to the lamp’s position.
Link: www.neriandhu.com
objects 10
Nouvel Limited
Brass Stands
Blown glass lights that look like bubbles of magma and
blown glass vessels slumped over steel and brass stands
feature in Nouvel Limited’s latest collection.
Presented at Design Miami/Basel, the pieces were part of
the Mexican glass manufacturer’s inaugural showing at the
annual art and design fair in Switzerland.
The Magma wall light pieces are by Mexico City design
studio EWE while the Precarius glass collection is by Mexican
designers Héctor Esrawe and Emiliano Godoy, and Los
Angeles-based designer Brian Thoreen.
The brass plates were prepared by a local metalsmith, with
the objective of altering them as little as possible from their
steel mill origin.
The designers’ aim was to confront these materials with
glass to highlight the perfection and beauty of Nouvel
Limited’s materials and craftsmanship.
The selection includes pieces of unusual dimensions in the
field of glass design, some of them artistic in nature, while
others feature a usefulness hint that augments the tension
and drama of the designs
Link: www.nouvel.limitedlighting 11
Esrawe Studio
Parábola
Mexican design team Esrawe Studio has recently
designed Parabola, three lighting pieces using varying
reflections based on how the light travels through a solid
surface, the beginning and the end, the darkness, the
gloom to the dawn, on tension and flexion.
The path of the light in each of the versions, is conditioned
by the brass, in its scale, in its surface and in its expression,
also on its repetition, which conferees an architectonic
quality to each one of them. The poetry of the shadows,
the absence of light which is as relevant as its presence.
The starting points where the brass layer touches base,
establish the origin for every light element, meaning, the
number of brass layers indicate the amount of light elements
in each piece.
Parábola is represented by MASA Galería, which opened its
first exhibition ‘Collective/Collectible’ on the 7th of February
2019 in Mexico City. MASA blurs the line between art
and design and exhibits works by contemporary artists,
architects and designers, in parallel to contextual art works.
Link: www.esrawe.comart 12
Maarten Baas
Close Parity
An evolution of Baas’s signature aesthetic, Close Parity
is a collection of five cabinets unveiled at the 15th edition of
Dutch Design Week as part of an interdisciplinary exhibition
called ‘Maarten Baas Makes Time.’
The series continues to demonstrate the absurd mix
of childlike simplicity and complex craftsmanship that
distinguishes the Dutch designer.
Starting from a naive sketch, where gravity doesn’t play a
role, Close Parity is executed in bronze plates that are kept
in balance by counter weights.
Link: www.maartenbaas.comYou can also read
