VERNISSAGE in Lausanne, Charlotte Talbot presents her product family "Les Grappes", wining of the Swiss IKEA Grant 2011. A nice exhibition, for which Charlotte has chosen to invite friends in order to collaborate, taking the grapes products as a center point to play with. Douglas Mandry is doing photographs illustrating quotidian gestures in which the subjects are overwhelmed by their own objects, creating some ordinary scenes with something of a imbalanced elegance. Laurence Kubski is doing hand drawings, framing what's the heart of Charlotte's design: the line coming from the cut of the machine saw; allowing endless possibilities of plugging all sizes of hanging bags. 

webiste of exhibition's space. 

www.charlottetalbot.com/Les-grappes

BRACO DI­MI­TRI­JE­VIC + Guest cu­ra­tor Ma­thieu Mer­cier
This could be a place of his­to­ri­cal im­por­tance
www.galerietorri.com

from swiss artists Fischli & Weiss
here the wikipedia

wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_balloon

AYZIT BOSTAN DEAD MOON from ayzit bostan on Vimeo.

Picture by Stefan Heinrichs for Ludwig Beck.

KRÉOSAURES Les tables de Konstantin Grcic présentés à la Galerie Kreo sont comme des animaux en marche, des structures portantes et qu'on pourrait presque imaginer mouvantes... Elles sont évidemment très empreintes d'un mouvement puisqu'elles sont inspirées avant tout par l'univers du tunning. K.Grcic arrive à se faire confronter subtilement les univers opposés des collectionneurs d'art et des bichonneurs de carrosseries.

"The graphics applied on the tables are fictional. They have no meaning other than creating an illusion which outgrows the objective reality of the product. The inspiration is obviously taken from sports (racing cars, bikes, skis etc.) which is a world in which the presumption of speed, performance, strength is heavily pushed. The project is not just about surface decoration. I am interested in the psychology of graphics in relation to products and more specifically, how the semantics of certain colours, words, symbols can change the perception of an object."
from Konstantin Grcic

Le site du peintre sans qui le projet n'aurait jamais pu être aussi bien réalisé: Walter Maurer, Art + Design Works

FACTORY VISIT

B&W Some analog pictures from my time in Reims, 5 years ago. Taken with the Minolta my father gave me as gift for school.

FILED UNDER / Martin Fengel · M06.

www.filedunder.net

Branca from Juriaan Booij on Vimeo.

I LIKE. branca chair by Sam Hecht, produced by mattiazzi
www.mattiazzi.eu

LAUSANNE'S CALLING Pictures taken while I was spending a week-end or two in Switzerland...

MUNICH'S CALLING Selection of few pictures made in munich the last months