Danish rock chic supermodel-of-the-moment Freja Beha Erichsen looks hot in the Georg Jensen 2011 Global Brand Campaign. The campaign was shot in New York by Sebastian Faena.
‘Georg Jensen is a Danish brand, I’m a Danish model and there are not too many of us. Therefore doing the campaign for Georg Jensen was something really special to me. Georg Jensen is such a unique brand and being part of this iconic design company is an honour – and great fun’, says Freja Beha Erichsen.
The Jury for this year’s World Architecture Festival have revealed the winning projects from around the globe during the 3 day event in Barcelona, Spain.
The ‘In Between House’ designed by Koji Tsutsui & Associates, winner of the ‘World’s Best Villa’ has particularly caught our eye!
Surrounded by Japanese larch trees in a mountainous region of Japan, this house seamlessly blends into the natural surrounding. The architects designed this house as a cluster of small mountain cottages using local materials.
There is a simple clarity in the interior & exterior detailing, the spacial configuration, integration on the site and craftsmanship of construction.
We have always absolutely loved the work of Japanese Artist/Designer Tokujin Yoshioka, so were overjoyed to hear he was having a major solo exhibition in Sydney presented by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF).
The exhibition titled Waterfall explores Tokujin Yoshioka endlessly inventive work. Known for the simplicity and ingenuity of his concepts and holistic approach to design, Tokujin’s interdisciplinary practice has garnered him much attention since founding his studio in Tokyo in 2000. Tokujin experiments with a sophisticated play of materials and shapes using his art as a means of communicating something fascinating, surprising, joyful and unexpected. SCAF has invited Tokujin to create an extraordinary installation transforming the gallery space and giving Australian audiences a rare opportunity , over three months, to view the work of this influential designer.
Born in Japan in 1967, Tokujin’s professional career started whilst working in collaboration with Shiro Kuramata and Issey Miyake. The ten year association with the famous fashion designer has produced numerous important projects including Issey Miyake Making Things at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (1998). Tokujin has collaborated with various companies inside and outside Japan including Hermès, BMW, Toyota and Swarovski. His works are held in permanent collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Broached Commissions, founded by creative director Lou Weis, are annual international design collaborations that use an event in Australian history as inspiration for each new collection. All commissions result in made to order or limited edition furniture and objects for commercial sale.
The inaugural commission for 2011 is ‘Broached Colonial’ which references the period of 1788-1840, when the industrial revolution was transplanted from Britain to Australia. The Australian frontier mentality is a strong part of many design practices and the Australian psyche: a ‘makedo’ sensibility that results in a determinedly simple and rustic, repurposed aesthetic, a persistent trend from the colonial period.
The three founding and permanent designers: Trent Jansen, Adam Goodrum and Charles Wilson began their dialogue with Broached Colonial curator John McPhee, who lead the group on a fascinating journey into the human and industrial stories of the applied arts of the colonial period. This set the historical context for a two-year research and development process.
The selection of guest designers Max Lamb, Lucy McRae and Chen Lu have added a wealth of diversity in their design responses to the period.
Exhibition Dates:
Melbourne: 27 October—5 November 2011. 21 Bouverie St, Melbourne
Sydney: 10—17 November 2011. Former Paramount Pictures Building, 80 Commonwealth St, Surry Hills
For Chanel Spring Summer 2012 Karl Lagerfeld has created a magical underwater world. The Grand Palais was transformed by huge, blinding white sea shapes—corals, shells, sea horses, stingrays—and Florence Welch arose like Botticelli’s Venus on the half shell to sing “What the Water Gave Me.”
Karl created a dazzling collection based on the set’s modern forms of the ocean designed by Architect, Zaha Hadid.
There was an impressive, graphic modernity in the outfits. Lagerfeld used new fabrics that brought an iridescent mother-of-pearl shimmer to the collection—the lightness literally shone through. That was also why Lagerfeld strung pearls, instead of belts, around waists andSam McKnight dotted pearls through the models’ slicked-back hair.
It was enthralling to watch the way he translated his underwater theme into the traditional Chanel vocabulary.
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