London Design Festival 2015: United kingdom design studio Fredrikson Stallard has made a collection of sculptural furniture – including a sofa that seems to be like a chunk of rock – to mark its 10th anniversary .
Species sofa
Fredrikson Stallard’s Momentum collection includes ten new pieces that had been displayed at the studio’s headquarters in Holborn throughout the London Style Festival.
Species sofa
Patrik Fredrikson and Ian Stallard created their very first collection for an exhibition titled Gloves for an Armless Venus in New York ten years in the past.
Species sofa
The designers have given that developed tables made from crumpled sheets of metal and a series of crystal lamps resembling the human eye.
Species sofa
In celebration of the anniversary, they have developed a new assortment of objects “whose existence is derived purely from their core ideologies and vision”.
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“For us, Momentum is a celebration of the experimental and the rigorous, the distinctive versus the mass made, the importance of conceptual and inventive development underlining the artists’ aesthetics and beliefs,” mentioned the duo.
Parachute table
“Momentum is also an anniversary of 10 extraordinary engaging many years of working with visionary patrons and craftspeople who have aided facilitate the advancement of true creativity into extraordinary operates, and this present acts as a personalized interlude towards long term destinations,” stated Fredrikson Stallard.
Tokyo table
The performs contain a red sculpture named Species that seems to be like a chunk of Martian rock, but is created as a sofa.
Other pieces include the duo’s signature creased metal in numerous approaches. A pair of consoles have metallic fronts that seem to have be crushed, but with spaces filled in to make every of the other sides flat.
Tokyo table
Sheets of metal are scrunched up to fit into a glass box to type the minimal Parachute table, while the Tokyo table has dents in one particular corner that warp and ripple the shape slightly.
Crush console
Non-practical styles attribute similarly crumpled metal balls with golden edges, which sit on best of plain rectangular plinths.
The exhibition was supported by London’s David Gill Gallery, which represents the studio. Prior Fredrikson Stallard types that have been proven in the gallery include the King Bonk armchair and footstool.
Crush console
David Gill set up his Mayfair-based mostly gallery in 1987, and has also exhibited furniture pieces by Zaha Hadid and Mattia Bonetti.
Consequences sculpture
At present on demonstrate is a range of glass storage units made by David Chipperfield, which are supported by metal poles shaped to resemble Ionic columns.
Consequences sculpture
The Momentum exhibition took location as part of this year’s London Style Festival, which ran from 19 to 27 September 2015.