Designing from a single gesture: Vaselli’s latest collection
The Hoop series translates a morphological gesture into a family of travertine bathroom furnishings, where the poetry of the material meets the rigor of form.
EUG imbue their work with a vast range of influences; from philosophy, sociology, art, popular culture, designed products to food and science. Viewing design as a vehicle, a way to make complex ideas tangible, El Ultimo Grito inject abstract concepts into design products with the aim to create new objects that are typologically autonomous from the learnt conventions of the past and thus offer alternative ways to live, work and communicate.
El Ultimo Grito's tables are created to work on multiple axes. The Hanging Table is a monolithic form vertically, re-assembled horizontally it returns to conventional form. The table structures use cardboard as the base construction material to form non-geometric, organic-like furniture and are heavily coated (as if dipped) in fibreglass. Their resin finish creates an immediate contradiction between the throw away, biodegradable cardboard interiors, and their durable high-finish outer shell. These works instill the presence of both sculpture and functionality, and are set in motion with a variety of corporeal attitudes and tactile responses. They are made to be responded to, both physically and psychologically, posing questions about our social experience to objects.
9 September to 18 October 2011
Escape into The Upper Air
Spring Projects
10 Spring Place, Spring House, London
El Ultimo Grito (EUG) comprises London-based Spanish designers Rosario Hurtado and Roberto Feo. Founded in 1997, EUG are self-proclaimed 'post-disciplinarians', whose work aims to question and research the nature of human relationships with objects and culture. They work across disciplines using a wide variety of media from installations, objects, interiors, to graphics.
How many forms can an idea take? Fantin has the answer
One material, metal; thirty-five colors; and endless possible configurations for modern, versatile, and functional furniture: design according to Fantin.