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TREND REPORT 2015
WORKPL ACE AND LIFESPACE DESIGN
FOR THE DIVERSE DECADE
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015
A MAGAZINE ON CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
Minding the mindful
workspace
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Taking a stand
for a longer life
OFFICE BIOLOGY
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Creating the ultimate
workplace/homelife balance
Marcello Morandini /
Tatiana Trouvé /
Ugo La Pietra /
Peter Doig /
Paolo dell’Elce /
François Schuiten
& Benoît Peeters /
Richard Estes /
Neri&Hu /
Floors and Walls
DAMN°48 magazine / FLOORS AND WALLS
WA L L PA P E R
Walls venture out of bounds. They go 3D, they sport
digital macro patterns, they flaunt screen-printed
embroideries or aged mirror surfaces. Graphics
are flooded with warm colours, utilising mysterious
patterns of light and shade.
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LEIGH OSBORNE & GRAHAM VOCE
Property owners
Leigh Osborne and Graham Voce are the owners
of an amazing residence, which they spent several
months designing, constructing, and ultimately trans
forming from its original state as an old water tower.
Located in central London, the tower was an architec
tural remnant of the 19th century that had been left
untouched until 2014. It took only eight months to
meet the ambitious goal of constructing a home that
offers its own jaw-dropping views. “Crowning the
massive tower from the beginning was a water tank
that we decided to keep, and the addition of six win
dows, to offer a 360° view of London like no other.” The owners used Mosa tiles for the bathrooms,
kitchen with a view, and the terrace. “We chose the
mid-grey colour from the Terra Maestricht collection
for its light, bright, distinctive appearance. It enhances
the calm atmosphere and lets the building and interior
stand out.” The same tiles are used on the terrace as
well, to create a spacious feeling.
MOSA
Mosa Solids is a specially designed collection by dutch brand Mosa that
balances practicality and strength with high quality and a natural look. The
tiles are designed in a variety of sizes, including a generous and versatile
60 x 60cm version, which highlights their versatility, cost-efficiency, and
toughness. This robust and dynamic range can be applied to a great variety
of public spaces, such as shops, stations, hospitals, schools, and the contemporary home, due to its hard-wearing, practical nature.
www.mosa.nl
SANT AGOSTINO
Blendart, the new porcelain stoneware collection by Ceramica Sant’Agostino, is a surface recreating woodgrain: time
seams to have left an indelible mark on the original nature of
the gnarled wood. Craft is a single plate of 30 x 120cm, with
strips of various sizes that can be composed as a random
set. It thus becomes a system whereby the graphic and
chromatic appeal of Blendart is emphasised. Applicable to
both floors and walls, an almost endless array of combinations and pictorial effects can be created..
ceramicasantagostino.it
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ALICE PILASTRE
Textile designer and artist
Alice Pilastre’s work is all about textile tradition, and
unravels, via sculptural pieces, a whole new aspect of tex
tile identity. With a fine dialogue between the conscious
and unconscious, using repetitive gestures and motifs,
she interrogates the technique and explores the poetry
of patterns. Every fabric is a trace, a passage, a transmission through which our relation to intimacy is revealed
by touch, sight, scent, sound. She works with minutia
and extreme precision, laser-cutting wallpaper threadby-thread, like a neurosurgeon, evoking time passing by.
“The spaces we live in and leave, the people who occupy
these spaces, and the memories that superpose them
selves, confront each other in the same dimension. For
me, it is mandatory to decompose, unthread, reassem
ble, and fix, in order to better understand the fabrics and
try to make sense of them in my own personal way.”
In the project Rorschach (2012) (1), the artist fixed thousands of detached threads and projected them from one
wall to the wall opposite, creating an immaterial space.
“In 2013 I realised Art 26 (2), a monumental piece extracting portraits of workers from the walls of a factory
in northern France; workers who were demanding fair
wages for their labour.Fire Lance Pattern (3) is one of
the latestcreations, a tapestry variation on my Fire Station work (2014).”
The exhibition, designed in collaboration with Ritter Studio, a Sablon dealer
specialised in 20th century Design, can be seen in Brussels at LKFF Art &
Sculpture Projects until 31 January. lkff-sculptures.com
INKIOSTRO BIANCO
The idea of Toile de Jouy and ancient textiles as research,
and the experimentation of textures, is reflected in the imagery that Italian brand Inkiostro Bianco has transferred onto
wallpaper, thanks to the company’s state-of-the-art digital
printing technology. These canvases confront viewers and
force them to observe the exotic, ambiguous, and mysterious images filling the room.
inkiostrobianco.com
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