Design Spotlight: Favorite Female Designer Pieces From SCP
*Paula Arntzen “Grand Trianon” large chandelier made out of post-consumer coated Tyvek
I just got word from one of my favorite stores, SCP, that they will be at the New York International Gift Fair. SCP is one of the best of British design companies and has featured designs from luminaries such as Tom Dixon, Established & Sons, Jasper Morrison and sculptress Rachel Whitread.
Here are some female-led designs of SCP that I particularly love:
Rose Trivet / hot pad by Anouk Jansen (withstands heat of up to 220 C / 428 F)
and her teapot. I love this use of color against gray. It feels like a Goddard movie.
Then there’s this “Fold Unfold” tablecloth made with color creases by Margrethe Odgaard
an Anna Castelli Ferrieri’s Componibili round (which we happen to have in our apartment full of pots and pans in our pretty but small apartment)
and last but not least, a creation from Spanish design pride Patricia Urquiola here with Eliana Gerotto, a Cabochhe suspension light. The clear version is available through SCP, this gold one is available through Foscarini (Not 100% sure of this. Please check with both stores for details.)
photo via StyleCrave
You can see their 2011 collection at
Booth 3858 in ‘Accent On Design’
From the press release: We have some new designs by Donna Wilson; Bora Da, a range of throws and cushions, the Eadie armchair and the lovely Frank, Ernest and Henry pouffes in a new colourway, Treecloud Blue. Also on show are Lee Kirkbride‘s Calvo side table in walnut and Pelutho low table, as well as Kay+Stemmer ‘s Otto side table and Maude low shelves. And last but by no means least, paper-cut artist Rob Ryan has designed a charming height ruler. It measures up to 7 foot so suitable for adults and children alike.
SCP was founded in 1985 by Sheridan Coakley as a manufacturer and retailer of modern furniture. Inspired by the designs of the Modern Movement, Coakley decided to start selling classic and hard to find pieces and also try his hand a producing new designs in the same spirit. Over two decades from its inception, SCP is firmly established as one of the UK’s most innovative and internationally respected manufacturers and suppliers of contemporary design. SCP is also an acclaimed and award winning retailer, regularly voted as one of London’s finest design shops.
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Aura Luz Melis, Lighting Designer
A favorite pick shared with the website Jotta as part of Droog’s guest post this week. We like it too: The Slow Glow lamp by Aura Luz Melis & NEXT architects for Droog. The light source is immersed in fat that melts to create a warm fatty glow. It reminds me of a really really updated lava lamp.
via Next Architects, Amsterdam
I’m imaging it’s not a coincidence that her name is ‘aura’ ‘light’. This must be her designer name? Anyone know?
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She Lights Up Your Life: 10 Great Lighting Designs From Bright Young Women
The Solo Pendant Light by Donna Brady, a.k.a. Re-Surface
Light Reading Lamp Chandelier By Lucy Norman a.k.a. Lulu Dot
Linda Allen’s Live Anywhere lamp via YankoDesign, DesignMilk and many others.These lamps are cordless and can go anywhere indoor or out. They are weather resistant and rechargeable. “She re-designed the LED bulb to 7 watts, which emulates the power of a 50-watt bulb”, reports Design Milk.
Highlights from Milan Design Week 2011: Baccarat
In the La Brera design district during Milan Design Week, Baccarat housed an exhibit of star designers who lent their vision to this beacon of iconic elegance and fractured light. The shifting soundscapes and the cascading rooms were like a beautiful haunted house, shadows on the wall conjuring dreams instead of nightmares.
The first lamp pictured is called Sora created by award-winning Kyoto born designer and craftsperson Eriko Horiki. She applies her skills and love of traditional Japanese Washi paper to her Senritsu (meaning melody or shiver) lantern in an east meets west glowing orb.
Baccarat - Sora - Eriko Horiki
The second is a highly conceptual candelabra chandelier by Phillippe Starck called the “Marie Coquine” which is topped by an umbrella and ends in a wooden handle. The structure itself rests on a tripod on wheels balanced by way of a punching bag. Not your run-of-the-mill construction. In the backdrop in this room, you could hear the sound of rain and thunder in the near darkness.
Marie Coquine by Phillippe Starck for Baccarat (Photo Credit: Chauncey Zalkin, What Women Make 2011)
In the third, shadows on the wall undulate like diamonds in a cave. These are the lamps of whimsical Italian designer Michele de Lucchi who through his long career where night has been his inspiration has designed for Memphis, Artemide, Olivetti, Deutsch Bank, Mandarina Duck and others.
at Baccarat, Milan 2011: Sfera - Michele de Lucchi - 'like diamonds' - (photo credit: Chauncey Zalkin, What Women Make 2011)
The light forest at the end imbued with the soft sound of crickets is the Jardin de Cristal by Yann Kersalé, a French lighting designer who has lent his hand to projects as diverse as Museé Quai Branley to the Lyon Opera House to Barcelona’s Agbar Tower, as well as countless other prestigious buildings around the world from Japan to Quatar.
at Baccarat, a forest of lights, Milan 2011 (photo credit: Chauncey Zalkin, What Women Make, 2011)
Other designers creating for Baccarat in the exhibit but not pictured here were Jaime Hayon, Arik Levy, Alain Moatti, and Henri Rivière.
- by Chauncey Zalkin, founder What Women Make, first published on BecauseLondon.com, the new website by Tank Magazine.
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Ivanka Beton’s Hübler Applied Literature project inserting out of print, outdated political books a project in conjunction with Hungarian concrete artist and designer János Hübler is part of the Hidden Heroes 2010 exhibit at Salone del Mobile 2010 (www.hublerjanos.com). Reminds me of a grown up version of the fairytale like work of recent grad Holly Palmer shown at LDF last year and featured on this site.
Ivanka Beton
Sarah Turner hits the big time with her debut at Salone Del Mobile. Her decorative lighting made from used plastic beverage bottles feel more elegant than most recycled design items I come across. They don’t have a trace of rough edge or a gritty statement sensibility which feels like a nice change of pace.
I especially like this – Sarah visits schools and teaches kids. Most creative people find ways to provide additional services using their creativity, which is great and as it should be, but this is the absolute best way. I wonder what percentage of total emotional reward comes from days like these for the young designer? Is it the press and accolades that makes her most satisfied or traveling home after a morning teaching kids to make a lampshade?
Love these ‘bow bins’ by Cordula Kehrer
Eva Marguerre makes baskets of elastic yarn in her MOA Basket Series
Wooden Carpet by Elisa Strozyk. Earlier this year the German Design Council awarded her the German Design Award for Newcomers. She graduated from Central Saint Martens.
Joanna Grawunder‘s mirror for Glass Italia – colored glass and a reflecting glass (a mirror). Simple but very bright and very inventive. A piece that makes you wonder why it didn’t already exist. I think it would look great in a white room with black accent pieces and no other color, acting as the focal point.”]
Jessica Carnevale‘s (RISD 2004) Stretch Chairs debut at Salone del Mobile this year.
Wonderful photo taken at the Salone del Mobile going on now in Milan, from the “Kris’s Color Stripes” blog by Kristina Klarin. She has one of the best blogs I’ve ever seen for color inspiration. The photographs are as good as the palettes. She’s a designer with one hell of an eye and sensitivity.”
What Women Bring to the Table: Designers, Artists, Thinkers, & Inventors to Start the Week
Ideas and Design on my radar right now. An eclectic bunch.
Cutaway vase by Polish designer Edyta Cieloch
Dr. Afsaneh Rabiei of Iran, awarded a CAREER award in 2003 by the National Science Foundation, is the inventor of a new tough metal foam material that will have a huge impact on life saving devices such as car bumpers. “inserting two pieces of her composite metal foam behind the bumper of a car traveling 28 mph, the impact would feel the same to passengers as impact traveling at only 5 mph”-LiveScience.com
Swedish designers Sofia Lagerkvist, Anna Lindgren and Charlotte von der Lancken make up “Front Design” on StylePark.com (and everywhere else!)
Capsters: Dutch designer Cindy Van Den Bremen invented an elastic flexible sports hijab that guards against harsh noises. The product, approved by an Imam and now with worldwide sales, addresses complex aesthetic, social, and religious issues where they intersect in the real world.
Lynn Jackson’s art on Mocoloco
Yin Xiuzhen. Portable City: Melbourne, 2009 from her “Portable Cities” series on Space & Culture.org
Frog Design’s blog posting on how James Cameron and Steve Jobs vision of the future might not be the best or most cutting edge citing articles by Annalee Newitz (below)
Dr. Annalee Newitz of Technosploitation and now of Gawker Media’s io9.com. An academic-cum-journalist, she writes kick ass cultural criticism like “When Are White People Going to Stop Making Movies Like Avatar” quoted on the Frog Design blog.
Frozen Lamp from Frozen series by Wieki Somers of Rotterdam. Also love her “mattress stone.”
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Review of 100% Design London and Designersblock
Recent design school grad Freya Godwin-Brown clutches one of her resin and fabric sculptures after we chatted for thirty minutes about everything from her upcoming move to Australia to the skies of Shanghai which inspired this body of work.
Eleanor Young, textile designer, shows an exciting juxtaposition with her dainty vintage furniture pieces that she’s upholstered with her bold asymmetric geometric patterns, creating something entirely feminine out of shapes ordinarily associated with masculinity or 80s pop ‘topshop’ style youth wear. What she’s created here feels fresh and sophisticated at the same time. She also tries out digital printing for the first time as seen on the pillow on top of the small bench which worked really well with the embroidery. The way she matched her dress to her collection was also a nice touch.
Camilla Meijer is not a recent grad. I didn’t even get a chance to stop and talk to her – but I love her patterns (see Abigail Borg, a rising star as well).
Eadadin Dempsey sits in her final project after she talked excitedly about her first show. Simple construction, nothing extraneous, inspired by thatched roofs in her native Ireland. She’s a graduate from Dublin Institute of Technology.
Aimee Louise Hartshorn who came from Dublin with Eadadin sits on her twelve-legged rocking stool.
Yura Kim from South Korea made these resin light fixtures by hand but don’t ask her how she did it because she won’t tell you. She said, “sorry, I took a long time to figure out how to do it.” Fair enough and she’s done a beautiful job. They are even more impressive in person. The one behind her in pink looks like a fragile shell or a birds nest.
These three women make up Rooms Design, an interior and product design company from Georgia (the country, not the state). Quite an interesting trio. The woman in the middle is the business side and the two women on the ends are the designers. They also worked in collaboration with a fashion designer who dressed chairs in military uniforms. This collection was a inspired by the recent Russian invasion and communist occupation of Georgia during the cold war. The fear is that ‘things will become drab again if freedom is threatened;. The lamp in metal represents the Soviet Union and the wooden lamp is modeled after an American 50s desk lamp, a bold expression of designs potential to communicate political sentiments, something you might not expect from a commodity.
Holly Palmer creates whimsical furniture that doesn’t overpower. I want that table and the teacup behind her. More Alice in Wonderland charming than boutique hotel showy, these struck me as great for small spaces.
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