Alusion is a stabilized aluminium foam that is made of recycled aluminium. The shiny silver skin is removed through a special blasting process to expose the cells underneath. This creates the open cell structure which also can be described as an aluminium sponge. The panels are available in a maximum size of 1220 mm x 4000 mm. The material is suitable for both indoor and outdoor use.
September 9th, 2011 by retail design blog
Omarno Palm Panel Flex are 100% hand made using coconut shell which is an unutilised industry by product and requires no trees to be cut down, ensuring you are not contributing to the destruction of forests around the world.This is a new generation of Architectural surface material. The innovation of this beautiful material combines the best of modern technology and nature, giving an opportunity to make a quality sustainable choice that has an E ZERO formaldehyde emissions rating.Omarno’s Palm Panels are beautiful, extremely durable and strong. So the applications are numerous, even in the most demanding of environments.
Advantages: Flexibility is clearly an advantage, especially when working with curved or waved surfaces. With a flexible mesh backing, or a bendable cork backing, Omarno Palm Panels Flex opens doors to many new applications.
Durable and light in weight, Palm Panel Flex can be applied to both flat surfaces and curved surfaces where other panels can’t be applied. The invisible seam is a “visible” feature of Palm Panels Flex. The seamless feature provides a continuous flow of texture, making it impossible to see where one panel stops and next starts.
November 3rd, 2011 by retail design blog
Holcim Awards Acknowledgement prize 2011 Africa Middle East
This materials development project succeeded in processing agricultural waste into low-cost construction panels bonded with tannin-based adhesive. Plant-based agricultural wastes from the cultivation of rice, maize and cassava crops provide natural fibers that are a sustainable resource for the production of building materials to achieve a reduction in construction costs, reducing dependence on imported, higher-cost alternatives.
The panels are an affordable building material for housing economically disadvantaged communities and help to improve rudimentary living conditions. Diverting crop byproducts from the waste stream produces positive environmental side effects since waste incineration and considerable air pollution are avoided. The building material provides a tangible contribution to reducing the estimated deficit of 17 million low-cost dwellings in Nigeria alone.
W&W is a recessed ceiling light, flexible for large public spaces dropped ceiling : offices, open spaces, entrance hall, hospital… Bi-material, metal and PMMA, it gives relief to the technical ceilings often gloomy, to create a mineral landscape on the ceiling. Materials : metal & PMMA Dimensions : 60x60cm modules, 5 different models.
Design by Pool
Manufactured & edited by ALTER
February 6th, 2012 by retail design blog
Concrete Lace, designed by Doreen Westphal, is made from ultra high performance concrete (fabricated by G.tecz) and different suspension materials like ribbon or 1mm steal cable. During the making process the suspensions are casted inside the lace-shaped concrete tiles.
Applications include gauzes for hotels, auditoriums and public buildings, window treatment or room dividers for private homes, decorative interior and exterior wall coverings, visual dividers for large spaces like restaurants, parking garages or urban gardens.
Designed by Doreen Westphal Studio
April 3rd, 2012 by retail design blog
An acoustic partition system, formed out of recycled PET bottle fibre. The assembly is by the integrated high-performance magnets, which allows easy modification and unlimited extensibility of the system.
Photo: Chikako Harada
Designed by Arihiro Miyake
November 13th, 2012 by retail design blog
A timber version of our ceramic Alexander tile, this small hexagonal tile is laid on a surface pivoted at varied angles to show differing shades and create subtle imagery and graphics.
Designed by Giles Miller
December 28th, 2012 by retail design blog
Following the Design Miami/ Basel edition in June with Craftica by FormaFantasma, Fendi has invited Belgian designerMaarten de Ceulaer to develop for the December 2012 program a project that responds to its visual identity and its legacy of Modernist-inspired patterns and emblems. Maarten was selected for this project because he has demonstrated a remarkable affinity for crafting sophisticated furniture and objects imbued with lyrical, whimsical narrative.
The designer found particular inspiration in Fendi’s signature Pequin motif, creating “Transformations” in celebration of Fendi’s long heritage of abstract rectilinear and geometric imagery. Throughout the decades, Fendi designers have drawn from the beautiful, groundbreaking work of pioneering design movements such as the Wiener Werkstätte, De Stijl, Futurism, the Bauhaus and Art Deco.
Since 1983, Fendi has incorporated striped Pequin materials into many accessory lines, from handbags to luggage. Numerous designs for Fendi furs also feature patterns that evoke the feel of vanguard graphic designs from the 1910s to the 1930s.
For Design Miami/ 2012, Maarten has transformed this repertoire of two-dimensional expression into a three-dimensional installation, exploring the boundaries between hard and soft, natural and man-made, organic and geometric, luxurious and mundane.
Converting the idea of a stripe into a physical module based on a piece of lumber, “Transformations” juxtaposes lacquered wood boards and tree stumps with exquisitely handmade leather planks arranged in a variety of eye-catching, multicolored compositions. The result is a total environment that, as whole, becomes a living pattern reminiscent of design work from the early years of Modernism.
The “soft planks” that Maarten developed for this project can be applied wherever additional comfort is desired: the gesture of applying them is as simple as nailing a board to a tree.
AN EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK AT A CONCRETE STRUCTURE UNLIKE ANY IN THE WORLD TODAY
Inlaid Fantasies by Andreea Mandrescu
Recent MA Textile Futures graduate Andreea Mandrescu aims to push material innovation by juxaposing unexpected materials, such as wood, fur, rubber and acrylic, whilst revamping and modernising the use of traditional inlay and marquetry techniques.
The combination of such unusual materials has reinvented the notion of ‘traditional craft’ and created some truly surprising aesthetics. Mandrescu is definately one to watch out for in the near future!
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