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exploring the potential of copper in design world

issue 86 October 2016www.copperindesign.org

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Holocaust Memorialobjects

Tango Collection

Glass Labyrinth

Pussy Cats

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www.copperindesign.org is a meeting space for contemporary designers and their followers. This international platform provides a comprehensive source of information on the crafting of the red metal: copper creations, first-hand accounts from designers, exhibitions, competitions and many others. The website is aimed at creators, design professionals, journalists and all copper-loving netsurfers, offering them an invitation to (re)discover this material whose natural properties have established it over the past few years as an essential feature of the design scene.Sponsor: European Copper Institute www.copperalliance.eu

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For What It’s Worth

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Indian design studio Paul Matter has recently released its debut collection of lighting, including lamps with rounded shades made from beaten brass. The Tango lighting hangs on a central stem, which terminates in a hinged elbow that can be used to adjust the lamp’s direction. The collection includes both globe shaped lights, as well as lamps with reflective shades that resemble satellite dishes.For the lamps he was looking at geometric forms, sculptures, floating in space. He thinks that’s what satellites are - a sculptural object when light isn’t present, and its function begins with its transformation towards delivering light. The brass shades are hand beaten and patinated – a traditional finishing technique from India. According to the designer, this means the lamps emit “soft pools of light”.The range is named after the Latin ballroom dance, and draws its low-hanging elbow fixtures from the Tango’s distinguishing “marked rhythms, postures and abrupt pauses”. Matter also thinks that these materials can be used in their truest form while revealing its layers – brass showed them beauty in a mirror like perfection when buffed and aged imperfection when patinated.

Link: www.paulmatter.com

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This outdoor memorial designed by Polish architect Daniel Libekind was conceived to keep alive the memory of the millions who lost their lives in the Holocaust and the American soldiers who liberated those in concentration camps. Approaching from the Statehouse, the visitor walks on a limestone walkway between inclined, graduated stone walls and two stone benches towards a pair of large 18-ft-high bronze panels. Embossed with a story told by a survivor of Auschwitz, the panels are also irregularly angled at their inner edges. The planes meet in the center, the jagged edges forming a cutout in the shape of a six-pointed star.The Ohio Holocaust and Liberators Memorial is a welcome place for reflection on public ground. Upon one of its stone walls, this line honoring the camp liberators is engraved: “If you save one life, it is as if you saved the world.”The bronze book achieves an incredible sense of dynamism as each surface twists and turns, leaving no two surfaces parallel.

Link: www.libeskind.com

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Daniel LibeskindHolocaust memorial

American artist and sculptor Robert Morris designed the outdoor labyrinth as a six-month-long interactive installation in the Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Built on a base of concrete paving stones, the seven-foot-tall glass structure weighs more than 400 tonnes and took more than 80 crew workers to build on the site. The inch-thick plates of glass are capped with bronze rails around the top. Access to the maze is via a paved red brick pathway on one side of the structure.Unlike traditional mazes that obscure the views around, visitors manoeuvre their way through this completely transparent installation to reach the end point: a small triangular section at the centre. The idea of a labyrinth as a place in which we lose ourselves in order to find ourselves is intriguing. The installation encompasses many things: engagement, participation, a spirit of theatricality, and also pushes boundaries between an art object and personal experience.

Link: www.robertmorris.com

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Robert MorrisGlass Labyrinth

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Belgian artists Studio Job have designed a collection of feline bronze pieces with lights instead of eyes for London’s Carpenters Workshop Gallery. Studio Job based the Pussy Cats series of five pieces on their pets Paula and Jambe Blanche. The black cats are made from brass, which is pattinated across the bodies and polished to form shiny teeth, paw pads and claws. Black electrical cords extend out of from their bottoms to connect the lights in their eyes to a power source. Cat Fight depicts one feline pouncing on another, with claws and teeth bared as they stare at each other with illuminated eyes.Cat Attack, Cat Swipe and Cat Hiss are created in the same style, each depicting a single male cat in a different aggressive pose. The final sculpture is simply titled Black Cat, in which the animal is stood on all fours with its back arched and tail in the air. This feline has the same polished bronze testicles that have to be pressed to illuminate the yellow lights in the eyes of all the cats.

Link: www.studiojob.be

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Studio JobPussy Cats

London’s Art & Design Gallery Fumi recently has presented a new patined bronze furniture collection designed by English designer Max Lamb.The collection is part of its exhibition for this year’s Design Miami/Basel fair. Gallery Fumi, which has an exhibition space in Shoreditch, has commissioned a series of designs especially for the event taking place in the Swiss city this week. These include the Metalware series by London designer Max Lamb – a range of furniture built from brass and copper tubes, assembled using a laser cutter and tin solder paint.

Link: www.maxlamb.org

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Max LambMetalware

American design studio Ladies & Gentlemen Studio has developed a series of lighting pendants with glass spheres that change colour once the light is turned on. The Equalizer lights are made up of customisable brass frameworks and LEDs encased within spherical frosted glass balls. The lamps originally featured grey-tinted glass, but artist John Hogan has hand blown a set of coloured versions tinted with a special glaze.All of the glass in the lamps are sand blasted and oiled to give the surface effect and to diffuse the LEDs. They involve a specialised, colour-changing glass. The colour is achieved by exposing the raw colorant to a rich flame right after application. The colorant is then coated and diluted with a layer of clear glass which creates the final density and fade in the lamp. The metal framework on both editions is available in three finishes: dusty blue, champagne bronze and dark bronze.

Link: www.ladiesandgentlemenstudio.com

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Ladies & GentlemenEqualizer

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has added bamboo-lined booths and green glass lampshades to a Shanghai bar that specialises in one drink – punch. Architects Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu used reclaimed timber, bottle-green glass and blackened bronze piping to recreate the feeling of a back-alley bar for Punch, a 155-square-metre space located in the Jing’an district of the city. The bar is housed inside an existing building, at the top of a flight of stairs. A narrow passageway leads from the entrance into the L-shaped space, which is divided into two areas – a bar with a 60-person capacity at the front on the left and a series of booths arranged along the right hand side of the passage for more intimate gatherings. The booths and toilets located on one side of the bar are lined in a mixture of stained grey brickwork, graphic wallpaper and lengths of split bamboo.

Link: www.neriandhu.com

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Claudio Silvestrin’s boutique design for Giada is an image of contemporary, yet timeless architecture, where the ancient and the modern embrace one another in a calm and elegant space, giving full expression to Giada fashion. Monolithic limestone totems and cast bronze pedestals punctuate the interior of this Milanese fashion boutique.Italian-born and London-based architect Claudio Silvestrin combined natural materials including leather and different types of stone to give the interior of the Giada store in Milan’s Montenapoleone fashion district a luxurious feel.Regimented rows of roughly-hewn limestone columns create a textural backdrop to the clothes, which are hung on geometric metal rails. The changing rooms feature walls and floors made from leather with handles given an antique bronze finish.

Link: www.claudiosilvestrin.eu

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Claudio SilvestrinGiada Milan Store

Whether they are active or long dormant, mines speak of a combination of sacrifice and gain. Their features are crude, unsightly scars on the landscape - unlikely feats of hard labour and specialised engineering, constructed to extract value from the earth but also exacting a price.These images, designed by South African designer Dillon Marsh combine photography and computer generated elements in an effort to visualise the output of a copper mine. The CGI objects represent a scale model of the materials removed from each mine, a solid copper mass occupying a scene showing the ground from which it was extracted. By doing so, the intention is to create a kind of visualisation of the merits and shortfalls of mining in South Africa, an industry that has shaped the history and economy of the country so radically.

Link: www.dillonmarsh.com

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Ginger & Jagger’s hand-crafted furniture draws influences from nature. The Portuguese brand draws on sculptural shapes, such as branches and stones, found in our surroundings to inform its contemporary collection of furniture objects; eternalized through artisanal techniques, and a unique blend of materials which include brass, copper, exotic woods and marble.Among their pieces are the Fig Tree console and Magnolia Sideboard whose vertical supports openly reference tree trunks and branches that have been cast in brass to add a touch of luxury to the domestic interior. Each storage unit pays tribute to the grace of nature, and features drawers and compartments in which to hideaway your precious items.

Link: www.gingerandjagger.com.

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