Fabrica Features

Frou Frou

fabricafeatures — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:25:17 +0000

Eight huge chandeliers created for Sisley lighted up the Sisley store windows on Piazza San Babila during the Milan Design Week.
Frou Frou chandelier-sculptures were inspired by the 2011 spring-summer collection by Sisley, a brand consistently in keeping with modern trends and movements. They embody a perfect blend of fashion and design as they combine the sophistication of fabrics like broderie anglaise, satin and lace with the elegance of ceramic. Sisley is not new to creative synergies. With great versatility, it has embraced diverse collaborative efforts with international designers and artists, and has been a regular feature at the Milan Furniture Show for several years. Ornament, a new range of porcelain tableware, creates the backdrop for this seductive profusion of draping, pleats and fluid volumes. Ornament was designed by Sam Baron for Vista Alegre and was inspired by the stucco work and circular medallions which decorate the ceilings of Portuguese mansions.

2011

Commissioned by: Sisley

Nivea

fabricafeatures — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:53:17 +0000

On the occasion of Venice 53rd International Art Exhibition, Fabrica has designed a limited edition line of T-shirts for NIVEA, cult brand of Personal & Beauty Care.
Four designer T-shirts created by the lively imagination of Fabrica’s young artist-experimenters. Drawing inspiration from the iconic and timeless shape of the celebrated NIVEA tin they have expressed their own personal vision of Beauty as pure form. The vivacious creativity of the graphic motifs enlivening the T-shirts thus responds to the rigour of tradition: an imagination without boundaries or distinctions, democratic and available to everybody, just like NIVEA Cream. Democracy of consumption and democracy of affections, a common heritage, mnemonic anchor, a shared memory of perfumes and emotions that make everyone feel at home.

2009

Commissioned by: Nivea

Strange Garden

fabricafeatures — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:02:29 +0000

A family of hybrid vegetables crystallized in pottery and created through the invention of an exceptional designer, Nature. And so a Romanesco cauliflower becomes a strange salad bowl, and a bunch of bananas turns into an unusual bonbonnière.

2008

Candelabra

fabricafeatures — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:55:12 +0000

For this event Granville Gallery invited designers to create pieces unique and exceptional rethinking the concept of the lamp in order to develop new environments and produce contemporary works in charge of history.

2009

Designers: Valentina Carretta, Jaeun Park

Comissioned by: Granville Gallery

Casamania

fabricafeatures — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:50:46 +0000

A collection of furnishings for the garden designed for Casamania by Frezza with an eye for detail to make outdoor living more comfortable and practical.
The distinguishing characteristic of the collection, which is made using plastic, a light, simple material, lies in the combination of concept and function—to produce objects that both meet a practical need and make the external environments we live in more esthetically pleasing.
And so the wires of a simple laundry line are held up by stylized trees and the decorations on a wind breaker are created by the light that shines through it, while little birds shelter in towers that can stand alone without a tree. Not to mention a “portable” shower complete with a colored tub that collects water and becomes something for children to play with. Or a bicycle stand, a colored disc with a slit cut into it that can be half-buried, or a rocking bench for two.
Seen in its entirety the collection, which is the end result of the work of a group of international designers coming from different backgrounds, is a little reminiscent of the 60’s because of the energy and carefree spirit that the shapes and colors evoke – blues, warm yellows, oranges.

2008

Designers: Elena Arribas, Pedro Ferreira, Rita João, Meric Kara, Alejandro Mingarro, Massimo Parolin, Gabriele Schiavon and Matteo Zorzenoni

Corbeille

fabricafeatures — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:08:27 +0000

“For me, the most important element to live whenever and wherever outside is Fire. I wanted an inside object able to go outside to give us fire. Corbeille is a bin for papers that you can reverse outside. It becomes a fireplace. All your accumulated papers makes it easier to start a fire at night, enjoy the silence and admire the milky way. To build it, you don’t use any screws, only wooden sticks, after bruning it, everything has disappeared.”
Amaury Poudray

2011

Commissioned by: ATCASA

Venetian Mirror

fabricafeatures — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:13:39 +0000

Venetian Mirror is a large scale interactive installation blending contemporary digital technology with traditional Venetian glass. When the visitor walks up to the installation, their image doesn’t immediately appear in the mirror. Only if they keep very still, will the reflection slowly appear, like a photograph being developed. It is an interactive piece which engages the sense of proprioceptivity – the sense of oneself and one’s body, in the here-and-now. Exquisite Clock is a clock made of numbers taken from everyday life – seen, captured and uploaded by people from all over the world. Built around an online database, the clock exists as a web 2.0 website, an iPhone application and as a series of site specific installations.

2009

Presented in: V&A

Interactive design by: Andy Cameron and João Wilbert

Secret Box

fabricafeatures — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:42:34 +0000

Analogue Box by Dean Brown, is concerned with varying degrees of privacy. Small precious objects are placed inside and covered over by placing building blocks over the entry way. The box is never simply open or closed, instead there is a sense of the analogue in the way it slowly closes over, through incremental intervals of openness and secrecy. This impression of highlighting closedness is continued by the presence of an LED light, positioned inside the box, spotlighting the cherished contents.

2011

Lighting Design by: David Penuela

Commissioned by: Granville Gallery

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

Who is Peggy

fabricafeatures — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:54:12 +0000

A new collection of items for the Venice based Peggy Guggenheim Collection, celebrating its 60th anniversary.
Who is Peggy is a mini collection of objects and accessories inspired by Peggy Guggenheim, a definitive figure in the history of 20th Century art with a unique vision and passionate love for art. Underlining Peggy’s desire to explore new forms of art are a series of colored notebooks with figures which seem to move and bags silk-screened with black and white photographed moments from her life, such as a man on the gondola, a detail from a shot that portrays the collector in her beloved Venice. An elegant ceramic typewriter and secret container symbolize Peggy’s passion for letter-writing, while two amusing ceramic bowls represent her love for lapdogs, her inseparable life companions.

2008

Commissioned by: Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice