15/08/2010

    

Solid Surface for free shapes

        

Laure Carsalade

                       

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1. Galerie BSL, Paris. Design, Noé Duchaufour Lawrance. Courtesy: Corian, Dupont de Nemours.

2. ALV showroom. Design, Fabio Novembre – Courtesy: Hi-Macs, LG Hausys

3 & 4. L’Archivolto Events. Design : Simone Micheli – Courtesy: Staron, Samsung

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Three realizations of microarchitecture in an organic mode, give an example of the formal possibilities of Solid Surface material. Mold to obtain great curves, its touch is soft and smooth, and the junction of the pieces makes it almost invisible. A trend likes it in white color as if in a laboratory, to keep the idea of its hygienical properties. Noé Duchaufour Lawrance imagined for BSL gallery a sort of tongue in Corian, not only path but also to the works of art and design, a material from Dupont de Nemours. Fabio Novembre created a structure based on the atom skeleton, completed by furniture in the ALV show room in Milano, made of Hi-Macs edited by LG Hausys. The Italian industrial capital also shelters the Publisher L'Archivolto, which hosts cultural events. Simone Micheli revisited the space inspired by a spaceship. The room is entirely covered with Staron, by Samsung, proposing in the underground a very futuristic universe.

           

        

      

08/04/2010

Lighting programmation

  

Madeleine Sounder

                    

Zumtobel, the light specialist company, is involved in a particularly comfortable way of using power. As far as offices are concerned, it proposes a programmation system that is adapting the lux to the variations of natural light in a daytime, offering both an economy of energy and a biorythmical support for desk workers. A revolution coming?

Photos courtesy Zumtobel Human Energy Balance.

www.zumtobel.com/humanergybalance