Salone Top 10 by Indesignlive – Magnetic Tube Lamp is part of it

Doreen — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:27:57 +0000

‘For my Salone Top 10 it is objects that surprise which make the cut – collections or singular pieces that make me think about ‘living’ in a different way’ – Gregory Anderson from Trigger Design. Thanks!

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Doreen — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:54:14 +0000

My submission for the Great Summer Exhibition in Oranienbaum Germany. I collected leaves from the orangery of the castle to create texture on the concrete vase. The fruit is a Citrus x Aurantium; also called a Pommeranze. This citrus tree was the first sort of of what became Europe’s largest orangery, selected by the Dutch prinecess 300 years ago. It is a crossing between a grape fruit and a mandarin and i specially like it because of the small hart at the beginning of the leave.
photo: Jeroen van der Wielen

Doreen Westphal Studio introduces “Concrete Textile Furniture” at Milan’s Salone di Mobile

Doreen — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:30:28 +0000

Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 11 April 2012 – Doreen Westphal Studio launches “Concrete Textile Furniture” at Milan’s Salone di Mobile, 17 – 22 April 2012. For example, concrete becomes fabric, and fabric becomes furniture, tying back to Westphal’s roots as a tailor and her fascination for traditional craftsmanship applied to innovative materials and processes.

A former tailor, Westphal has created two “Concrete Textile” objects from very thinly rolled sheets of textured concrete, treating this traditionally solid industrial material as though it were fabric. One of the furniture pieces can be used as a low coffee table while the smaller version can be used as a chair or side table. These hollow pieces appear deceptively airy and fine – but they are in fact extremely robust. The inside surfaces feature patterned white cement while the outside texture is rough, raw and grey-coloured.

A different yet equally exciting creation to see in Milan this year by Doreen Westphal Studio is the “Suspended Tube Lamp”, which has a sculptural base made of delicately textured poured concrete, and is embedded with magnets to support a tube with an eco-friendly 12cm halogen bulb at the end of it.

Doreen Westphal: “I create products that seem quite obvious, yet magic. So my designs might be completely comprehensible and transparent in how they are made; however, you also realise that what you are looking at normally can’t be done … and so it must be magic!”

German company, G.tecz, innovates concrete for architectural use, and Westphal has adapted these innovations and developed them further to make 3D objects over the past four years. Westphal’s concrete ‘fabric’ is the result of the very latest concrete innovations by G.tecz. Westphal adds: “You traditionally pour concrete; but now we found ways to embellish concrete with a relief pattern, roll it out thinly, stencil it with a beautiful fabric texture, alter its colour and even tried embedding it with magnets.”

About Doreen Westphal Studio

Doreen Westphal (Koethen, 1970) is challenged by material experimentation, driven by socio-political engagement and has a passion for design and manufacture. She sees the designer as the conductor of a product’s entire production process. In collaboration with leading international material developers and skilled craftspeople, Westphal creates timeless objects, which are fair, innovative and future-ready. Westphal is currently based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Doreen Westphal Studio products are available at http://shop.doreenwestphal.com/ and selected distributors worldwide. For further information please visit www.doreenwestphal.com.

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Doreen Westphal Studio introduces “Concrete Textile Furniture” at Milan’s Salone di Mobile