article thumbnail

"If you have a style you can do anything you want" says Jaime Hayon

Deezen

With a major retrospective now on show at MAD Brussels, Spanish designer Jaime Hayon tells Dezeen how his "serious fun" style has helped him jump between fine art and industrial design in this interview. The show includes cactus-inspired totems first shown by David Gill Galleries Hayon set up his studio in 2001.

Art 97
article thumbnail

Competition: win Universal Design Studio's new book

Deezen

The book includes photography of finished buildings and interiors alongside process and archival imagery such as sketches, renders, references, detail shots and drawings. The studio has completed projects for Ace Hotel , Fortnum & Mason, At Six Stockholm, British Land, Rimowa, the Victoria & Albert Museum , IBM and Frieze Art Fair. "If

Design 80
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Glenn Murcutt: Touch the Earth Lightly

Habitus Living

Alvar Aalto Medal (1992) Richard Neuta Award for Teaching (1998) Green Pin from the Royal Danish Academy of Architects (1999) Thomas Jefferson Medal for Architecture (2001) Kenneth F. Initial Sketch. Initial Sketch. Initial Sketch. Initial Sketch. Some of his other most notable awards include. Philosophy and Media.

article thumbnail

Ando and Le Corbusier

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Ando and Le Corbusier, Volume 1: Tadao Ando provides a historical overview of Ando’s work for major art institutions in the United States after 2000. REVIEW : Japanese architect Tadao Ando's first project in the United States was completed in 1992, the year after he received a monographic exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

article thumbnail

KING BEE RULES

Shades of Grey

In 2001 I had a little three piece blues band in Zimbabwe. Seen here at the Art Cafe in Avondale. I was gathering quotes to this effect from architects of note and illustrating them with enigmatic sketches using a mirror as metaphor. Kudos to Neville for laying down a solid rhythm guitar plus operating the dreaded drum machine.

article thumbnail

How One of the World’s Best Engineering and Fabrication Firms Designs With Architects

Architizer

From developing the design assist construction method to “demystify” the construction of complex curves in architecture to designing details for everything from interiors, art, sculpture, product design and residences. Zahner has developed advanced metal surfaces and systems for both functional and ornamental architectural forms.

article thumbnail

R for Repair London exhibition features "sympathetic" repairs to sentimental objects

Deezen

Suggett Stephens discovered that the chest contained previously unseen sketches and watercolour paintings by her grandmother, who wanted to be an artist but never achieved her dream. In response, the multidisciplinary studio took visual cues from Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey, which Andrew Birkin worked on early in his career.