Fabrica Features » Exhibitions

Mobile Museum

fabricafeatures — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:05:48 +0000

The MOBILE MUSEUM is a travelling museum, with contents contributed by people from all over the world (thats you). We welcome contributions from different backgrounds. Whether you are an artist, designer, illustrator, photographer or other practitioner, we want to hear from you.
Unlike a conventional Museum the collection is always changing, evolving depending on its location, with the location itself dictating the theme.
The first Mobile Museum exhibition took place during the Milan Furniture Fair 2011, under the curratorial Theme of “Family”. The second MM exhibition was staged at the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the Friday Late Summer Camp programme. Most recently it was hosted in Brussels as part of Design September 2011.

Created and curated by: Dean Brown & Philip Bone

Mobile Museum website

Home Entertainment

fabricafeatures — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:36:11 +0000

Home Entertainment is an installation proposed by Fabrica, constructed out of industrial storage shelving and stacks of obsolete technologies from the 1980s – dial telephones, VHS tapes and old school ghetto blasters, recreated in perfect detail in flawless white ceramic. The effect is that of a mausoleum of defunct consumer electronics from the recent past, the place where old technologies go to die.
Home Entertainment is both a work of interactive art and a design piece. It raises questions about the relationships between technology, innovation, nostalgia and the uncanny. At the same time it articulates an approach to interactive art, which stresses a transactional or relational form of audience engagement whereby passers by in the street are invited to take an active part in the ongoing construction of the show. This approach derives equally from video game culture and the critical art theory of relational aesthetics.

2006

Concept by: Sam Baron (France) & Andy Cameron (United Kingdom)

Interactive design by: Andy Cameron (United Kingdom), Ross Phillips (United Kingdom), Daniel Hirschman (South Africa), Oriol Ferrer (Spain)

Assemblage

fabricafeatures — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:55:37 +0000

Created by Fabrica for Plusdesign, this exhibition is an assemblage of Fabrica selected works that are re-interpreted in a new and unexpected way. Starting from an existing library of shapes, “Assemblage” is a visual journey through a landscape of compositions, stories and crafts where wood meets glass, metal and paper. Fabrica presents a limited edition collection of pieces of furniture that unfold into structural vases, picture frames, wall graphics and exquisite lamps. An inventive work of balance and an ongoing dialogue between different textures, materials and modules that create a unique visual collage.

15 September – 12 November 2011

Plusdesign
Via Ventura 6, Lambrate
Milano
Tuesday-Saturday / 15.00 – 19.00

www.plusdesigngallery.com

EXD’11: Lisboa, The Useful Guide

fabricafeatures — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:27:50 +0000

One of Experimenta Design Biennale’s “Tangenciais” projects is the exhibition by Mariana Fernandes “Lisboa, The Useful Guide of Useless Places”, showcased in the Fabrica Features Lisbon gallery. The city of Lisbon is gracefully deconstructed—all the museums, monuments, buildings and tours of obvious interest are removed—in a way to be reorganized through some delightful useless details. Details that somehow are maps made by those who live daily in the city and love it. It outlines an alternative route in the form of postcards, where some peculiarities might be discovered.

2011

Fabrica Features Lisboa
Megastore United Colors of Benetton
Rua Garrett n.83, 4º andar
1200 203 Lisbon

Objet Préféré

fabricafeatures — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:01:13 +0000

A knife, train journeys, a jewel, a beer glass and books are just some of the revealing objects that have inspired Objet Préféré, a unique collection of 15 pieces of furniture created following a workshop between young Fabrica designers and personnel – craftsmen, technicians, office staff – of the Grand-Hornu Images cultural centre in Belgium. An intense and rewarding week of exchanges, brainstorming, interviews and photographic sessions on the theme “Favourite Object”, which led to the creation of 15 pieces of furniture that represent a perfect fusion between the creative and design talent of young artist-researchers from the Benetton Group’s communication research centre, and the expert skills of Grand-Hornu technicians.

2011

Comissioned by: Grand Hornu

Grand Hornu
Rue Sainte-Louise 82
BE 7301 Hornu
Belgium

Next Cabane

fabricafeatures — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:52:51 +0000

Small, temporary spaces where we can set our boundaries, seek shelter or simply live a different life rediscovering the quality and simplicity of things. Personal, intimate havens in harmony with their surroundings; they reflect on subjects like work, pop-up culture, loneliness, games. Alternative settings were one can live in a better way with more awareness, where design is at the service of research into materials, forms and structures.

2011 — Salone Del Mobile

Designed by: Valentina Carretta, Gustavo Millon, Sam Baron, Dean Brown, Philip Bone, Catarina Carreiras, Marie Dessuant, Margaux Keller and Amaury Poudray

Elliott Burford Is Spam

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 08:12:35 +0000

Elliott Burford is a graphic designer and art director who also works in visual art. The way Elliott Burford looks around him is special. Details permit, little by little, the construction of his particular attitude and regard, nourishing his way of understanding and dealing with the world, in order to re-write “The Story”. In this exhibition, you will find unique simple stories, initiated with the absurd words taken from the spam object sentences, juxtaposed and augmented with his drawings, creating a narrative dialogue and reflecting Elliott Burford’s recipes for observing and foreseeing the everyday world.

2010

Downside Up

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:32:48 +0000

Down Side Up, a change-inspired collection of wood furniture. Down Side Up is an encounter between experimentation and functionality, where carefully dimensioned volumes of wood can have many uses, a consequence of their direction and interpretation. By adding a few essential elements such as legs, handles, or hooks, and by choosing a particular orientation, a basic unit is transformed into something new and personal.

2010 — Salone del Mobile

Designed by: Isabel Abreu, Sam Baron, Philip Bone, Dean Brown, Elliot Burford, Valentina Carretta, Catarina Carreiras, Marta Celso, Yukihiro Kaneuchi, Myriam B. Maguire, Gustavo Millon and Jaeun Park

Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:07:17 +0000

Fabrica has been invited by the Parisian department store Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche to inaugurate La Maison d’Édition (The Publishing House). Meant as a dialogue between different realms and a celebration of multicultural creation, this unique journey designed by Sam Baron and the young Fabrica’s designers follows the principles of a treasure hunt.
Sheltered below 7 renovated glass canopies and nestled within 7 distinctive universes, the 7 products, designed exclusively for the show, thread a graphic and poetic path of identities at the heart of the Maison d’Édition.

2010

Designed by: Philip Bone, Dean Brown, Elliot Burford, Catarina Carreiras, Jaeun Park, Valentina Carretta, Sam Baron, Yukihiri Kaneuchi, Myriam B. Maguire,

Commissioned by: Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche

Toolsgalerie 2009

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:27:26 +0000

Through Fabrica’s imaginative vision, design blends with a landscape made of craft ceramics, glass domes and electric systems. This exhibition embraces the fusion of different materials and production processes, approaching beauty and the way we absorb it, from the most singular details to surreal natural landscapes.