designjunction presents 'A Child's Dream' in partnership with vitra
Read more ...A herd of customised elephants have been painted, patterned, and accessorised by 21
world-renowned designers and architects who have added their personal touch to
the iconic Eames Elephants – kindly donated by Vitra. The unique designs will
appear as an installation at designjunction2015 entitled A Child’s
Dream – to raise funds and awareness for Teddy’s Wish charity.
Participating designers
include: Matthew Hilton, Aukett Swanke, Lee Broom, CKR, Fredrikson Stallard, Industrial
Facility, Sir Kenneth Grange, Gensler, Eley Kishimoto, André Klauser, Max Lamb,
Philippe Malouin, Michael Marriott, Kit Miles, Neri&Hu, Patternity,
Russell Pinch, Raw Edges, Zandra Rhodes and Terence Woodgate.
Why this matters
In the UK, more than 300 babies die
suddenly and unexpectedly every year. The UK has one of the highest rates of
unexplained infant mortality in the developed western world. We can change
this.
Teddy’s Wish was
set up in August 2014 to honour the memory of Edward Louis Reid, who died
from Sudden Infant Death Syndrom four months earlier. Funds raised support
potentially life-saving research into SIDS, Stillborn and Neonatal Death
Syndrome and helps provide support services for grieving families.
Auction closes on Sunday 4th October at midday.
They say ‘elephants never forget’. Nor do bereaved parents.
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Philippe Malouin / vitra
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We wanted to bring attention to an extinct species and consider this elephant homage to its predecessor, the wooly mammoth. Using carefully woven 100% pure wool that is then hand brushed, the natural material and texture invites contact with a mammal that no longer exists.
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Canadian Philippe Malouin holds a bachelor’s degree in Design from the Design
Academy Eindhoven. He has also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris and University of Montreal. He lives and works in London. He set up his studio in 2009 after working for English designer Tom Dixon. He is also the director of POST-OFFICE, the architectural and interiors design practice. His diverse portfolio includes tables, rugs, chairs, lights, art objects and installations.
http://www.philippemalouin.com/
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We wanted to bring attention to an extinct species and consider this elephant homage to its predecessor, the wooly mammoth. Using carefully woven 100% pure wool that is then hand brushed, the natural material and texture invites contact with a mammal that no longer exists.
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Canadian Philippe Malouin holds a bachelor’s degree in Design from the Design
Academy Eindhoven. He has also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris and University of Montreal. He lives and works in London. He set up his studio in 2009 after working for English designer Tom Dixon. He is also the director of POST-OFFICE, the architectural and interiors design practice. His diverse portfolio includes tables, rugs, chairs, lights, art objects and installations.
http://www.philippemalouin.com/
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PATTERNITY / vitra
PATTERNITY / vitra
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Inspiration
Combining interactive play and bold black and white pattern – proven to increase brain stimulation in children and babies – the PATTERNITY Elephant invites children to unleash their creativity by creating their own unique pattern using everyone’s childhood favourite – stickers!
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Established in 2009 by ‘cult pattern pioneers’ art director Anna Murray and surface designer Grace Winteringham, PATTERNITY was born from a drive to give pattern a powerful and positive voice. Starting out as the world’s only dedicated digital pattern archive, PATTERNITY quickly became an essential source of inspiration for design companies and brands around the globe. Today, PATTERNITY is an international brand in its own right with a community of over 1.5 million.
From its unrivalled position as the go-to authority pattern exploration and innovation, PATTERNITY has designed product ranges that continue to sell in major museums and select retailers internationally. It has also branched into specialist pattern research, design and consultancy, and produced hands-on educational events for both individuals and iconic organisations. This range of diverse projects and services is connected by PATTERNITY’s unique insight into the power of pattern to positively change the world around us.
http://patternity.org/
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Combining interactive play and bold black and white pattern – proven to increase brain stimulation in children and babies – the PATTERNITY Elephant invites children to unleash their creativity by creating their own unique pattern using everyone’s childhood favourite – stickers!
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Established in 2009 by ‘cult pattern pioneers’ art director Anna Murray and surface designer Grace Winteringham, PATTERNITY was born from a drive to give pattern a powerful and positive voice. Starting out as the world’s only dedicated digital pattern archive, PATTERNITY quickly became an essential source of inspiration for design companies and brands around the globe. Today, PATTERNITY is an international brand in its own right with a community of over 1.5 million.
From its unrivalled position as the go-to authority pattern exploration and innovation, PATTERNITY has designed product ranges that continue to sell in major museums and select retailers internationally. It has also branched into specialist pattern research, design and consultancy, and produced hands-on educational events for both individuals and iconic organisations. This range of diverse projects and services is connected by PATTERNITY’s unique insight into the power of pattern to positively change the world around us.
http://patternity.org/
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Matthew Hilton / vitra
Matthew Hilton / vitra
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"The mouse and the elephant"
The elephant the largest mammal on land, the mouse one of the smallest.
The Elephant has powerful symbolism and a white elephant even greater. There are numerous fables inspired by the great strength of the elephant and the vulnerability of the mouse in comparison.
This gold mouse is guiding the white elephant through the jungle of meanings and interpretations of a dream containing an elephant.
The mother of buddha was said to have dreamed of a white elephant presenting her with a lotus flower, a symbol of wisdom and purity, on the eve of giving birth.
In general use a “white elephant” usually refers to an item that’s not useful (decorative) but may be expensive and odd.
Product photography Ruth Ward.
About:
Born in 1957, Hilton studied at Portsmouth College of Art and then at Kingston Polytechnic. After graduating he worked for Capa as an industrial designer and model maker. He then set up his own design studio/workshop in 1984. SCP was the first manufacturer to produce Hilton’s work, launching Hilton’s Bow shelves at Milan Furniture Fair in 1986.
Nineteen years on, SCP and Matthew Hilton continue to collaborate, producing seminal furniture such as the Balzac armchair, Orford sofa and Flipper coffee table to name but a few. While continuing his relationship with SCP, Hilton has gone on to work with many well respected international manufacturers including CASE, Driade, Disform, Sawaya and Moroni, XO, Montis, Perobell, Authentics, Montina, Livit and Ycami. 2007 saw the launch of Matthew Hilton’s own brand of furniture and he is now launching new designs with both CASE and SCP.
Matthew Hilton doesn't believe in design movements, and he really doesn't like the concept of design as a fashion. Rather, he thinks the design process is part of the evolution of any object through history. Designing with the end user in mind, and whether that means a household of ten or one, he takes pleasure in finding the fluid, easily adaptable solution to fit today's domestic spaces.
matthewhilton.com
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"The mouse and the elephant"
The elephant the largest mammal on land, the mouse one of the smallest.
The Elephant has powerful symbolism and a white elephant even greater. There are numerous fables inspired by the great strength of the elephant and the vulnerability of the mouse in comparison.
This gold mouse is guiding the white elephant through the jungle of meanings and interpretations of a dream containing an elephant.
The mother of buddha was said to have dreamed of a white elephant presenting her with a lotus flower, a symbol of wisdom and purity, on the eve of giving birth.
In general use a “white elephant” usually refers to an item that’s not useful (decorative) but may be expensive and odd.
Product photography Ruth Ward.
About:
Born in 1957, Hilton studied at Portsmouth College of Art and then at Kingston Polytechnic. After graduating he worked for Capa as an industrial designer and model maker. He then set up his own design studio/workshop in 1984. SCP was the first manufacturer to produce Hilton’s work, launching Hilton’s Bow shelves at Milan Furniture Fair in 1986.
Nineteen years on, SCP and Matthew Hilton continue to collaborate, producing seminal furniture such as the Balzac armchair, Orford sofa and Flipper coffee table to name but a few. While continuing his relationship with SCP, Hilton has gone on to work with many well respected international manufacturers including CASE, Driade, Disform, Sawaya and Moroni, XO, Montis, Perobell, Authentics, Montina, Livit and Ycami. 2007 saw the launch of Matthew Hilton’s own brand of furniture and he is now launching new designs with both CASE and SCP.
Matthew Hilton doesn't believe in design movements, and he really doesn't like the concept of design as a fashion. Rather, he thinks the design process is part of the evolution of any object through history. Designing with the end user in mind, and whether that means a household of ten or one, he takes pleasure in finding the fluid, easily adaptable solution to fit today's domestic spaces.
matthewhilton.com
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Pinch / vitra
Pinch / vitra
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It wasn't at all difficult to put ourselves in the mind of a child and their interaction with this piece. The monolithic scale and magical presence of elephants speaks at once of power, gentle strength and adventure. Our designed evolved as we dreamt up our own experience – we wanted to shrink ourselves small and to create a little on board world that offered sanctury and protection, whilst below a huge world would open up as the elephant travelled into exciting new worlds and towards unfamiliar horizons. The need for a look out tower with a parasol and googles for shade was instinctive, as was the rope ladder to afford an easy decent when new lands invited closer up inspection.
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Pinch is an established British design studio, celebrated for its consistently high quality and genre defining furniture.
For more than a decade Pinch has studiously created desirable, extraordinary furniture and lighting designs. The studio’s coveted products are characterised by a quiet and elegant aesthetic, the result of tireless refinement and an intense dedication to craft and process.
Pinch is led by husband and wife partnership, Russell Pinch and Oona Bannon. Although Pinch make exceptional works, there is a personal and modest ambition behind the brand; to make furniture and lighting to live with. Russell and Oona’s design process is all about beauty found in simplicity and the indulgence of well-crafted detail. They describe their work as ‘authentic’ and ‘thoughtful’.
http://pinchdesign.com/
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It wasn't at all difficult to put ourselves in the mind of a child and their interaction with this piece. The monolithic scale and magical presence of elephants speaks at once of power, gentle strength and adventure. Our designed evolved as we dreamt up our own experience – we wanted to shrink ourselves small and to create a little on board world that offered sanctury and protection, whilst below a huge world would open up as the elephant travelled into exciting new worlds and towards unfamiliar horizons. The need for a look out tower with a parasol and googles for shade was instinctive, as was the rope ladder to afford an easy decent when new lands invited closer up inspection.
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Pinch is an established British design studio, celebrated for its consistently high quality and genre defining furniture.
For more than a decade Pinch has studiously created desirable, extraordinary furniture and lighting designs. The studio’s coveted products are characterised by a quiet and elegant aesthetic, the result of tireless refinement and an intense dedication to craft and process.
Pinch is led by husband and wife partnership, Russell Pinch and Oona Bannon. Although Pinch make exceptional works, there is a personal and modest ambition behind the brand; to make furniture and lighting to live with. Russell and Oona’s design process is all about beauty found in simplicity and the indulgence of well-crafted detail. They describe their work as ‘authentic’ and ‘thoughtful’.
http://pinchdesign.com/
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Zandra Rhodes / vitra
Zandra Rhodes / vitra
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Took inspiration from Indian decorated state elephants of the Maharajas. I adore India and often find direction for bold colours and motifs from my travels there. I have channeled one of my iconic past prints ‘Kaleidoscope Turnaround’, which is almost thrown over like a cloak or exotic rug over the elephant’s back.
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Zandra Rhodes was born in Chatham, Kent in 1940 and was introduced to the world of fashion by her mother, who was a fitter for the Paris fashion house Worth and a teacher at Medway College of Art. Zandra studied at Medway and then at The Royal College of Art in London. Her major area of study was printed textile design. Her early textile designs were considered too outrageous by the traditional British manufacturers. Undaunted she decided to make dresses from her own fabrics so learnt how to cut patterns herself. She then established, in 1967, her own retail outlet in the fashionable Fulham Road in South West London with Sylvia Ayton. In 1969 she set up on her own and took her collection to New York where she was featured in American Vogue then started selling to American shops and was given her own area in Fortnum and Mason, London. The venture paid off because by 1972 she received the Designer of the Year Award by the English Fashion Trade and in 1974 the Royal Designer for Industry. The rich, famous and fashionable, wore her clothes. In 1975 she founded her own shop off Bond Street in London.
She was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1997 in recognition of her contributions to fashion and textiles and this year has been made a Dame in the Queen’s latest Honours list.
http://www.zandrarhodes.com/
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Took inspiration from Indian decorated state elephants of the Maharajas. I adore India and often find direction for bold colours and motifs from my travels there. I have channeled one of my iconic past prints ‘Kaleidoscope Turnaround’, which is almost thrown over like a cloak or exotic rug over the elephant’s back.
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Zandra Rhodes was born in Chatham, Kent in 1940 and was introduced to the world of fashion by her mother, who was a fitter for the Paris fashion house Worth and a teacher at Medway College of Art. Zandra studied at Medway and then at The Royal College of Art in London. Her major area of study was printed textile design. Her early textile designs were considered too outrageous by the traditional British manufacturers. Undaunted she decided to make dresses from her own fabrics so learnt how to cut patterns herself. She then established, in 1967, her own retail outlet in the fashionable Fulham Road in South West London with Sylvia Ayton. In 1969 she set up on her own and took her collection to New York where she was featured in American Vogue then started selling to American shops and was given her own area in Fortnum and Mason, London. The venture paid off because by 1972 she received the Designer of the Year Award by the English Fashion Trade and in 1974 the Royal Designer for Industry. The rich, famous and fashionable, wore her clothes. In 1975 she founded her own shop off Bond Street in London.
She was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1997 in recognition of her contributions to fashion and textiles and this year has been made a Dame in the Queen’s latest Honours list.
http://www.zandrarhodes.com/
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Gensler / vitra
Gensler / vitra
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Inspiration
Superheroes have inspired children and adults alike for many years, telling stories of courageous, powerful, and seemingly ordinary individuals who overcome impossible challenges. Featuring Corning® Fibrance™ Light-Diffusing Fiber, our Vitra Elephant has transformed into an icon of great deeds, taking children (and adults!) up, up and away from their troubles.
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Gensler is a global design firm grounded in the belief that great design optimises business performance and human potential. Our 4,800 practitioners networked across 46 offices use global perspective and local presence to innovate at every scale. Whether we are refreshing a retailer’s brand, planning a new urban district or designing a super tall building, we strive to make the everyday places people occupy more inspiring, more resilient, and more impactful.
http://www.gensler.com/
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Superheroes have inspired children and adults alike for many years, telling stories of courageous, powerful, and seemingly ordinary individuals who overcome impossible challenges. Featuring Corning® Fibrance™ Light-Diffusing Fiber, our Vitra Elephant has transformed into an icon of great deeds, taking children (and adults!) up, up and away from their troubles.
About
Gensler is a global design firm grounded in the belief that great design optimises business performance and human potential. Our 4,800 practitioners networked across 46 offices use global perspective and local presence to innovate at every scale. Whether we are refreshing a retailer’s brand, planning a new urban district or designing a super tall building, we strive to make the everyday places people occupy more inspiring, more resilient, and more impactful.
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Michael Marriott / vitra
Michael Marriott / vitra
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It was apparently immediately, when we got it out of it's box, that the addition of a handle would add functionality. So we cut a sausage‐shaped hole between the shoulder blades, making it balanced and easy to carry one handed.
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Michael Marriott has been working as a designer since leaving the Royal College of Art in 1993. Although trained as a furniture designer, his practice is particularly broad in scope, embracing the design of exhibitions and installations on one hand, furniture and products on the other. He is also often involved with many other peripheral activities: teaching, writing, curating, collating, etc. In all his varied practice there is a common core though, which is a search for the elemental nature of the thing in hand.
http://www.michaelmarriott.com/
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It was apparently immediately, when we got it out of it's box, that the addition of a handle would add functionality. So we cut a sausage‐shaped hole between the shoulder blades, making it balanced and easy to carry one handed.
Product photography: Ruth Ward
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Michael Marriott has been working as a designer since leaving the Royal College of Art in 1993. Although trained as a furniture designer, his practice is particularly broad in scope, embracing the design of exhibitions and installations on one hand, furniture and products on the other. He is also often involved with many other peripheral activities: teaching, writing, curating, collating, etc. In all his varied practice there is a common core though, which is a search for the elemental nature of the thing in hand.
http://www.michaelmarriott.com/
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Terence Woodgate / vitra
Terence Woodgate / vitra
Bidding starts on 22-09-2015 11:00
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We decided to make a fast elephant, so fitted a pair of skateboard trucks so that it run and turn. We then decide to confuse everyone by painting him as a tiger.
Product photography Ruth Ward.
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Lighting brand Terence Woodgate launched in 2014. Founded by industrial designer Terence Woodgate, the company designs and manufactures lighting collections that fully optimise the formidable benefits of LED technology.
The Terence Woodgate brand calls on his 25 years of lighting design, extensive knowledge of LED technology and a partnership with MEGAMAN®, one of the most innovative and competitive LED lamp manufacturers, to produce accessible, design-led lighting optimised for high performance, low-energy LEDs. As one of the UK’s most respected industrial designers, specialising in furniture and lighting, Terence Woodgate has become known for a stripped-down, elegant, modern approach to design with an obsessive attention to detail and manufacture, exemplified in products like the ethereal Surface Table for Established & Sons.
“I have always been considered obsessive in the way I design; now I have the opportunity to influence every single aspect of the final product right down to the instructions and the box. It is simply fueled by a desire to make the whole experience more pertinent and beautiful.”
http://www.terencewoodgate.com
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We decided to make a fast elephant, so fitted a pair of skateboard trucks so that it run and turn. We then decide to confuse everyone by painting him as a tiger.
Product photography Ruth Ward.
About:
Lighting brand Terence Woodgate launched in 2014. Founded by industrial designer Terence Woodgate, the company designs and manufactures lighting collections that fully optimise the formidable benefits of LED technology.
The Terence Woodgate brand calls on his 25 years of lighting design, extensive knowledge of LED technology and a partnership with MEGAMAN®, one of the most innovative and competitive LED lamp manufacturers, to produce accessible, design-led lighting optimised for high performance, low-energy LEDs. As one of the UK’s most respected industrial designers, specialising in furniture and lighting, Terence Woodgate has become known for a stripped-down, elegant, modern approach to design with an obsessive attention to detail and manufacture, exemplified in products like the ethereal Surface Table for Established & Sons.
“I have always been considered obsessive in the way I design; now I have the opportunity to influence every single aspect of the final product right down to the instructions and the box. It is simply fueled by a desire to make the whole experience more pertinent and beautiful.”
http://www.terencewoodgate.com
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Lee Broom / vitra
Lee Broom / vitra
Bidding starts on 21-09-2015 16:00
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Highest bidder: Krish Raman
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Inspiration
We used a process called Water Transfer Printing to customise the Vitra Eames Elephant and to give it the look of Carrara Marble. Marble is a signature material in many of my collections and I like to utilise it in ways that people wouldn’t usually expect. The effect is incredibly realistic and enhances the curvy shaped of the piece whilst giving it a surreal quality. By referencing this in my design for A Child’s Dream we have created something very unique for a very special cause.
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Lee Broom is an award-winning British lighting, furniture and interiors designer. After winning a fashion design competition at the age of 17, Broom began his career in fashion working for Vivienne Westwood and studying Womenswear Fashion at Central St Martins. In 2002 he moved into interior design and started his eponymous studio in 2008. Fashion is still a great source of inspiration for Broom and after his haute couture inspired ‘Salon’ upholstery collection in 2011, The Guardian commented “Lee Broom is to furniture what Marc Jacobs or Tom Ford are to fashion”
http://www.leebroom.com/
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We used a process called Water Transfer Printing to customise the Vitra Eames Elephant and to give it the look of Carrara Marble. Marble is a signature material in many of my collections and I like to utilise it in ways that people wouldn’t usually expect. The effect is incredibly realistic and enhances the curvy shaped of the piece whilst giving it a surreal quality. By referencing this in my design for A Child’s Dream we have created something very unique for a very special cause.
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Lee Broom is an award-winning British lighting, furniture and interiors designer. After winning a fashion design competition at the age of 17, Broom began his career in fashion working for Vivienne Westwood and studying Womenswear Fashion at Central St Martins. In 2002 he moved into interior design and started his eponymous studio in 2008. Fashion is still a great source of inspiration for Broom and after his haute couture inspired ‘Salon’ upholstery collection in 2011, The Guardian commented “Lee Broom is to furniture what Marc Jacobs or Tom Ford are to fashion”
http://www.leebroom.com/
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Sir Kenneth Grange / vitra - White
Sir Kenneth Grange / vitra - White
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Inspiration
Charles Eames was one of the truly significant peers in our trade. He produced elegant, entirely original interpretations of the common chair and alongside, with his wife, he also enjoyed exploring the lighter side of design. Among these was his idea of a toy - in the form of an elephant. Here in Europe it was left, rather surprisingly, to a cutlery making firm named Alessi to find a novel and light-hearted market with their versions of the commonplace. I find it interesting that, using some extremely witty designers, their interpretation of toys makes me smile, while the Eames elephant I admire, but in truth don’t completely warm to. It reveals the different cultures in which each were born.
So my little game with his elephant is only intended to make it more friendly, more chuckle-making and more of a lady. Nothing more - like drawing moustaches on judges. And her name is Jumbolina…….
Product photography: Ruth Ward
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Since the 1950s the British industrial designer Sir Kenneth Grange - founding partner of Pentagram, one of the first multi-disciplinary design consultancies in London, has designed useful, everyday products from small-scale cameras, disposable razors and ball point pens; to medium-scale products such as food mixers, toasters, kettles and sewing machines, as well as large-scale products including a taxi, bus stop and a high speed train. Few British people have not eaten a cake mixed by his Kenwood Chef food mixer designed in 1960, boarded the high speed train launched in 1978 or jumped into the back of his TX1 black taxi designed in 1997. Grange has designed modern, accessible, successful and easy to use products for over 60 years.
This bid is for the white elephant only.
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Charles Eames was one of the truly significant peers in our trade. He produced elegant, entirely original interpretations of the common chair and alongside, with his wife, he also enjoyed exploring the lighter side of design. Among these was his idea of a toy - in the form of an elephant. Here in Europe it was left, rather surprisingly, to a cutlery making firm named Alessi to find a novel and light-hearted market with their versions of the commonplace. I find it interesting that, using some extremely witty designers, their interpretation of toys makes me smile, while the Eames elephant I admire, but in truth don’t completely warm to. It reveals the different cultures in which each were born.
So my little game with his elephant is only intended to make it more friendly, more chuckle-making and more of a lady. Nothing more - like drawing moustaches on judges. And her name is Jumbolina…….
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Since the 1950s the British industrial designer Sir Kenneth Grange - founding partner of Pentagram, one of the first multi-disciplinary design consultancies in London, has designed useful, everyday products from small-scale cameras, disposable razors and ball point pens; to medium-scale products such as food mixers, toasters, kettles and sewing machines, as well as large-scale products including a taxi, bus stop and a high speed train. Few British people have not eaten a cake mixed by his Kenwood Chef food mixer designed in 1960, boarded the high speed train launched in 1978 or jumped into the back of his TX1 black taxi designed in 1997. Grange has designed modern, accessible, successful and easy to use products for over 60 years.
This bid is for the white elephant only.
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Aukett Swanke / vitra
Aukett Swanke / vitra
Bidding starts on 21-09-2015 16:00
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Highest bidder: Annie Stevens
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Inspiration
Is an interpretation of the Trunk carried by the lovable Pink Elephant, Nellie, who is on a quest to return home after escaping the circus. Recognisable from the 90s British children television programme, and the 1956 original song of the same name by Ralph Butler and Peter Hart, our Vitra Eames Elephant encapsulates the adventurous and curious nature of its bequeathed owner. It’s fabric envelope, which encases and protects the Eames Elephant, provokes a familiarity with the inside cushioned upholstery of a trunk. Riddled with new and exciting childhood thoughts and play time games, the trunk’s upholstery becomes the safe keeper of childhood adventures, escapades and dreams…
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Aukett Swanke is an international practice of architects and interior design specialists who design and deliver commercial projects throughout Europe, the Middle East, Russia and South America. Our experience profile within the studios includes master planning, architecture and interior design in the mixed-use, commercial offi ce, hospitality, residential, retail, education and healthcare sectors as well as workplace consulting.
With an established pedigree of over 90 years, the practice has a network of over 340 staff in 14 offi ces in 8 countries: The UK, Germany, Russia, Turkey, UAE, Czech Republic, Brazil and Colombia. Historically comprised of a diverse cross section of international architects and designers, the firm has at least 20 languages spoken in the London Studios alone. Our collegiate design culture enables our talented teams to explore design with a bold yet evaluated creativity, capturing and enhancing the design sparks of research and debate into inspiring ideas with a robust realism.
http://www.aukettswanke.com/
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Is an interpretation of the Trunk carried by the lovable Pink Elephant, Nellie, who is on a quest to return home after escaping the circus. Recognisable from the 90s British children television programme, and the 1956 original song of the same name by Ralph Butler and Peter Hart, our Vitra Eames Elephant encapsulates the adventurous and curious nature of its bequeathed owner. It’s fabric envelope, which encases and protects the Eames Elephant, provokes a familiarity with the inside cushioned upholstery of a trunk. Riddled with new and exciting childhood thoughts and play time games, the trunk’s upholstery becomes the safe keeper of childhood adventures, escapades and dreams…
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Aukett Swanke is an international practice of architects and interior design specialists who design and deliver commercial projects throughout Europe, the Middle East, Russia and South America. Our experience profile within the studios includes master planning, architecture and interior design in the mixed-use, commercial offi ce, hospitality, residential, retail, education and healthcare sectors as well as workplace consulting.
With an established pedigree of over 90 years, the practice has a network of over 340 staff in 14 offi ces in 8 countries: The UK, Germany, Russia, Turkey, UAE, Czech Republic, Brazil and Colombia. Historically comprised of a diverse cross section of international architects and designers, the firm has at least 20 languages spoken in the London Studios alone. Our collegiate design culture enables our talented teams to explore design with a bold yet evaluated creativity, capturing and enhancing the design sparks of research and debate into inspiring ideas with a robust realism.
http://www.aukettswanke.com/
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Aukett Swanke / vitra
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Fredrikson Stallard / vitra
Fredrikson Stallard / vitra
Bidding starts on 21-09-2015 16:00
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Highest bidder: Anonymous
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Inspiration
Fredrikson Stallard’s elephant has been inspired by the Jaipur Festival of Elephants in India. During the festival's celebrations the elephants are lovingly groom, painted and decorated with elaborate jewels and headdresses. In keeping with Fredrikson Stallard’s abstract forms our elephant has received is own touch of glamour and is decorated in 24ct Gold Leaf and has its very own the iconic gold crush headdress.
About
Patrik Fredrikson and Ian Stallard began their collaboration in 1995 and have since become internationally recognized as leading exponents of British avant-garde design. They are well known for their ability to translate their creativity into simple yet emotionally engaging furniture and product design. Their cutting edge, conceptually rigorous work has been regularly discussed and praised in the design press and is sought after by both collectors and furniture producers.
Product photography: Ruth Ward
http://www.fredriksonstallard.com/
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Fredrikson Stallard’s elephant has been inspired by the Jaipur Festival of Elephants in India. During the festival's celebrations the elephants are lovingly groom, painted and decorated with elaborate jewels and headdresses. In keeping with Fredrikson Stallard’s abstract forms our elephant has received is own touch of glamour and is decorated in 24ct Gold Leaf and has its very own the iconic gold crush headdress.
About
Patrik Fredrikson and Ian Stallard began their collaboration in 1995 and have since become internationally recognized as leading exponents of British avant-garde design. They are well known for their ability to translate their creativity into simple yet emotionally engaging furniture and product design. Their cutting edge, conceptually rigorous work has been regularly discussed and praised in the design press and is sought after by both collectors and furniture producers.
Product photography: Ruth Ward
http://www.fredriksonstallard.com/
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Fredrikson Stallard / vitra
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Max Lamb / vitra
Max Lamb / vitra
Bidding starts on 21-09-2015 16:00
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Highest bidder: alex mcguffie
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Inspiration
One elephant + three wooden dowels = Elephant Chair
(With a clear intention for their elephant to be used as a seat for children but without ever saying so, I have added an archetypal chair back to Eames' elephant transforming the ambiguous into the obvious)
About
A modern day artificer, Max Lamb is a product and furniture designer whose design sensibility is informed by his extensive knowledge of manufacturing techniques, respect for materials, and skill as a maker.
A native of Cornwall, Max has been tinkering with objects and engaging with the physical landscape since he was a small boy; a curiosity that led to an MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art and subsequently the foundation of his workshop-based design practice. Max explores both traditional and unconventional materials and processes, blending experimentation and rationale to create furniture and products that are both honest and intelligible.
Max teaches Design Products at the Royal College of Art and runs regular design workshops for companies and institutions around the world.
http://maxlamb.org/
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One elephant + three wooden dowels = Elephant Chair
(With a clear intention for their elephant to be used as a seat for children but without ever saying so, I have added an archetypal chair back to Eames' elephant transforming the ambiguous into the obvious)
About
A modern day artificer, Max Lamb is a product and furniture designer whose design sensibility is informed by his extensive knowledge of manufacturing techniques, respect for materials, and skill as a maker.
A native of Cornwall, Max has been tinkering with objects and engaging with the physical landscape since he was a small boy; a curiosity that led to an MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art and subsequently the foundation of his workshop-based design practice. Max explores both traditional and unconventional materials and processes, blending experimentation and rationale to create furniture and products that are both honest and intelligible.
Max teaches Design Products at the Royal College of Art and runs regular design workshops for companies and institutions around the world.
http://maxlamb.org/
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Kit Miles / vitra
Kit Miles / vitra
Bidding starts on 21-09-2015 16:00
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4
Highest bidder: Anonymous
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Inspiration
I started by looking at the overall form and thought how my design could take advantage of the planes, curves and lines which make up the Eames elephant seat. It was a great process of hand and computer, back and forth until the balance was right. In effect we squashed the form in order to apply the surface pattern, crafting the motif to sing across the sinuous curves and to re-define the relationship between the simple shapes both within the print and the elephant.
I wanted to divide the shape into segments through our design, finding interesting ways to disturb the silhouette. In the end I chose one of our latest wallpaper designs entitled - “Ecclesiastical Botanica’ . This was launched just last month at Clerkenwell Design Week and is a huge scale design with plants, jewellery and animals drawn to perfection and coloured in a very surreal palette of peach, yellows indigoes and muted greys and pink red magenta. This had a strong connection with the elephant form but also felt the less obvious choice to work with given our repertoire of dynamic prints.
The piece was finished off using an optic white binding to follow the edge. This really helped to highlight the genius of the original design by Charles and Rey Eames, and the sensitivity to the curves and overall reduced form. It was fascinating to understand how Eames managed to reduce a fairly complex object like an elephant into essentially two continues lines without loosing any meaning.
It felt right to line the head of the elephant with a gold material. I like the way you could see through the gaps in the form through to the underside and really wanted to utilise that opportunity through the use of something glimmering. A lot of my work is about re-looking so I wanted to ask the viewer to somehow look again. Gold has has a remarkably history, I wanted the historical narrative of gold to mingle with idea of value and the iconic silhouette of an elephant.
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Classically trained at the Royal College of Art, gaining his MA in printed textiles Kit Miles went on to establish a studio whose values are steeped in quality and a futuristic, often surprising use of scale, colour and imagery.
After two landmark shows, The studio quickly gained international press attention from the likes of World of Interiors, the Financial Times, Elle Decor Italia, Frame and The Independent all hailing Miles’ aptitude for designing striking and original fabrics and wallpapers as ‘vivid’ and ‘ground-breaking’.
The studio is regularly invited by leading architects and interior designers the world over to bring there unique understanding and craft across projects both large and small. The studio’s breadth and skill in executing fine product is continually developing, highlighting there restless drive and commitment in exploring what print design is now and what it can be next.
http://www.kitmiles.co.uk/
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I started by looking at the overall form and thought how my design could take advantage of the planes, curves and lines which make up the Eames elephant seat. It was a great process of hand and computer, back and forth until the balance was right. In effect we squashed the form in order to apply the surface pattern, crafting the motif to sing across the sinuous curves and to re-define the relationship between the simple shapes both within the print and the elephant.
I wanted to divide the shape into segments through our design, finding interesting ways to disturb the silhouette. In the end I chose one of our latest wallpaper designs entitled - “Ecclesiastical Botanica’ . This was launched just last month at Clerkenwell Design Week and is a huge scale design with plants, jewellery and animals drawn to perfection and coloured in a very surreal palette of peach, yellows indigoes and muted greys and pink red magenta. This had a strong connection with the elephant form but also felt the less obvious choice to work with given our repertoire of dynamic prints.
The piece was finished off using an optic white binding to follow the edge. This really helped to highlight the genius of the original design by Charles and Rey Eames, and the sensitivity to the curves and overall reduced form. It was fascinating to understand how Eames managed to reduce a fairly complex object like an elephant into essentially two continues lines without loosing any meaning.
It felt right to line the head of the elephant with a gold material. I like the way you could see through the gaps in the form through to the underside and really wanted to utilise that opportunity through the use of something glimmering. A lot of my work is about re-looking so I wanted to ask the viewer to somehow look again. Gold has has a remarkably history, I wanted the historical narrative of gold to mingle with idea of value and the iconic silhouette of an elephant.
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Classically trained at the Royal College of Art, gaining his MA in printed textiles Kit Miles went on to establish a studio whose values are steeped in quality and a futuristic, often surprising use of scale, colour and imagery.
After two landmark shows, The studio quickly gained international press attention from the likes of World of Interiors, the Financial Times, Elle Decor Italia, Frame and The Independent all hailing Miles’ aptitude for designing striking and original fabrics and wallpapers as ‘vivid’ and ‘ground-breaking’.
The studio is regularly invited by leading architects and interior designers the world over to bring there unique understanding and craft across projects both large and small. The studio’s breadth and skill in executing fine product is continually developing, highlighting there restless drive and commitment in exploring what print design is now and what it can be next.
http://www.kitmiles.co.uk/
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Kindly donated by
Kit Miles / vitra
Kit Miles / vitra
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Claesson Koivisto Rune / vitra
Claesson Koivisto Rune / vitra
Bidding starts on 21-09-2015 16:00
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Highest bidder: Neil Davis
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Inspiration
The toy elephant that Charles and Ray Eames developed in 1945 is really the perfectly designed abstraction of an animal. Abstraction is our path too, but in this case we made a U-turn, making the elephant one step more naturalistic.
With grey Tärnsjö leather, vegetable tanned and certified 100 % organic, the elephant has now got its skin back, colour and touch.
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Claesson Koivisto Rune is a Swedish architectural partnership, founded in Stockholm, in 1995, by Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune. It started as an architectural firm, but has since become an internationally-acclaimed, multi-disciplinary office with an equal emphasis on both architecture and design. Project categories include buildings, hotels, homes, shops, offices, exhibitions, kitchens, sanitary ware, tableware, glassware, furniture, textiles, tiles, lighting, electronics.
http://www.claessonkoivistorune.se/
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The toy elephant that Charles and Ray Eames developed in 1945 is really the perfectly designed abstraction of an animal. Abstraction is our path too, but in this case we made a U-turn, making the elephant one step more naturalistic.
With grey Tärnsjö leather, vegetable tanned and certified 100 % organic, the elephant has now got its skin back, colour and touch.
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Claesson Koivisto Rune is a Swedish architectural partnership, founded in Stockholm, in 1995, by Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune. It started as an architectural firm, but has since become an internationally-acclaimed, multi-disciplinary office with an equal emphasis on both architecture and design. Project categories include buildings, hotels, homes, shops, offices, exhibitions, kitchens, sanitary ware, tableware, glassware, furniture, textiles, tiles, lighting, electronics.
http://www.claessonkoivistorune.se/
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Claesson Koivisto Rune / vitra
Claesson Koivisto Rune / vitra
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neri&hu / vitra
neri&hu / vitra
Bidding starts on 21-09-2015 16:00
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Highest bidder: Anonymous
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Inspiration
With this elephant, we send the child rocking, to chase his/her dream, to cherish life and its beautiful treasures
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. - Edgar Allan Poe
A child dreams of becoming...
Becoming older, stronger, wiser,
Becoming like mommy, like daddy,
Like the elephant who rocks him to places he may never dream of.
An elephant dreams of rocking...
Rocking quietly, happily, timidly,
Rocking like a horse, a spaceship,
Like the child who dreams of becoming someone he never could.
Neri&Hu gave the Eames elephant the ability to rock, as we hope to see the rocking rhythmic movement as a positive energy that takes children to dream big and becoming big people. We gave the elephant a leather seat-pad with pockets that will carry their professional tools. We created our version to carry architectural drafting tools, but it could be for anything that the child wishes to become. We send the child rocking, to chase his/her dream, to cherish life and its beautiful treasures.
Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ssGtX-HBA&feature=youtu.be
Product photography: Dirk Weiblen
About
Founded in 2004 by partners Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, Neri&Hu Design and Research Office is an inter-disciplinary architectural design practice based in Shanghai, China with an additional office in London, UK. Neri&Hu works internationally providing architecture, interior, master planning, graphic, and product design services
http://enthepractice.neriandhu.com/
*Please note, a delivery charge of £20 will be added to the final bid. International delivery costs may vary.
With this elephant, we send the child rocking, to chase his/her dream, to cherish life and its beautiful treasures
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. - Edgar Allan Poe
A child dreams of becoming...
Becoming older, stronger, wiser,
Becoming like mommy, like daddy,
Like the elephant who rocks him to places he may never dream of.
An elephant dreams of rocking...
Rocking quietly, happily, timidly,
Rocking like a horse, a spaceship,
Like the child who dreams of becoming someone he never could.
Neri&Hu gave the Eames elephant the ability to rock, as we hope to see the rocking rhythmic movement as a positive energy that takes children to dream big and becoming big people. We gave the elephant a leather seat-pad with pockets that will carry their professional tools. We created our version to carry architectural drafting tools, but it could be for anything that the child wishes to become. We send the child rocking, to chase his/her dream, to cherish life and its beautiful treasures.
Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ssGtX-HBA&feature=youtu.be
Product photography: Dirk Weiblen
About
Founded in 2004 by partners Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, Neri&Hu Design and Research Office is an inter-disciplinary architectural design practice based in Shanghai, China with an additional office in London, UK. Neri&Hu works internationally providing architecture, interior, master planning, graphic, and product design services
http://enthepractice.neriandhu.com/
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neri&hu / vitra
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Industrial Facility / vitra
Industrial Facility / vitra
Bidding starts on 21-09-2015 16:00
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Highest bidder: Stephen Anderson
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Inspiration
"An elephant could always do with some tusks"
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Sam Hecht and Kim Colin are partners and founders of the design office Industrial Facility in London. Their designs reflect both a meticulous attention to detail and a thoughtful consideration of its context. Hecht is from London; Colin is from Los Angeles. They have developed production projects for companies ranging from Yamaha and Issey Miyake to Herman Miller and Mattiazzi. They are probably best known for their work with Muji Japan, as world designers and advisors since 2002. Their belief is in the importance of design as a means of simplifying our lives in an inspirational manner.
http://www.industrialfacility.co.uk/
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"An elephant could always do with some tusks"
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Sam Hecht and Kim Colin are partners and founders of the design office Industrial Facility in London. Their designs reflect both a meticulous attention to detail and a thoughtful consideration of its context. Hecht is from London; Colin is from Los Angeles. They have developed production projects for companies ranging from Yamaha and Issey Miyake to Herman Miller and Mattiazzi. They are probably best known for their work with Muji Japan, as world designers and advisors since 2002. Their belief is in the importance of design as a means of simplifying our lives in an inspirational manner.
http://www.industrialfacility.co.uk/
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Sir Kenneth Grange / vitra - Grey
Sir Kenneth Grange / vitra - Grey
Bidding starts on 21-09-2015 16:00
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Highest bidder: Anonymous
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Inspiration
Charles Eames was one of the truly significant peers in our trade. He produced elegant, entirely original interpretations of the common chair and alongside, with his wife, he also enjoyed exploring the lighter side of design. Among these was his idea of a toy - in the form of an elephant. Here in Europe it was left, rather surprisingly, to a cutlery making firm named Alessi to find a novel and light-hearted market with their versions of the commonplace. I find it interesting that, using some extremely witty designers, their interpretation of toys makes me smile, while the Eames elephant I admire, but in truth don’t completely warm to. It reveals the different cultures in which each were born.
So my little game with his elephant is only intended to make it more friendly, more chuckle-making and more of a lady. Nothing more - like drawing moustaches on judges. And her name is Jumbolina…….
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Since the 1950s the British industrial designer Sir Kenneth Grange - founding partner of Pentagram, one of the first multi-disciplinary design consultancies in London, has designed useful, everyday products from small-scale cameras, disposable razors and ball point pens; to medium-scale products such as food mixers, toasters, kettles and sewing machines, as well as large-scale products including a taxi, bus stop and a high speed train. Few British people have not eaten a cake mixed by his Kenwood Chef food mixer designed in 1960, boarded the high speed train launched in 1978 or jumped into the back of his TX1 black taxi designed in 1997. Grange has designed modern, accessible, successful and easy to use products for over 60 years.
This bid is for the blue elephant only.
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Charles Eames was one of the truly significant peers in our trade. He produced elegant, entirely original interpretations of the common chair and alongside, with his wife, he also enjoyed exploring the lighter side of design. Among these was his idea of a toy - in the form of an elephant. Here in Europe it was left, rather surprisingly, to a cutlery making firm named Alessi to find a novel and light-hearted market with their versions of the commonplace. I find it interesting that, using some extremely witty designers, their interpretation of toys makes me smile, while the Eames elephant I admire, but in truth don’t completely warm to. It reveals the different cultures in which each were born.
So my little game with his elephant is only intended to make it more friendly, more chuckle-making and more of a lady. Nothing more - like drawing moustaches on judges. And her name is Jumbolina…….
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Since the 1950s the British industrial designer Sir Kenneth Grange - founding partner of Pentagram, one of the first multi-disciplinary design consultancies in London, has designed useful, everyday products from small-scale cameras, disposable razors and ball point pens; to medium-scale products such as food mixers, toasters, kettles and sewing machines, as well as large-scale products including a taxi, bus stop and a high speed train. Few British people have not eaten a cake mixed by his Kenwood Chef food mixer designed in 1960, boarded the high speed train launched in 1978 or jumped into the back of his TX1 black taxi designed in 1997. Grange has designed modern, accessible, successful and easy to use products for over 60 years.
This bid is for the blue elephant only.
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Kenneth Grange / vitra
Kenneth Grange / vitra
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André Klauser / vitra
André Klauser / vitra
Bidding starts on 21-09-2015 16:00
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Inspiration
This idea came easy, almost instantaneously. This lovely elephant obviously wants rockers. We didn't have to look far for those, we just borrowed them from another now iconic design by the Eames' - their RAR armchair. They turned out a perfect fit, just as if Ray and Charles had planned to...
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
German born André Klauser lives and works in London. He received his MA in Design Products at the RCA in 2002, setting up his design studio in the same year. Klauser works in the field of furniture, product, interiors and exhibition design, often collaborating with Ed Carpenter under the name Klauser & Carpenter. His clients include Brooks England, Meta and Established & Sons. Klauser is a partner in the design and production company Very Good and Proper. Since 2007 he teaches at the Royal College of Art.
http://www.klauserandcarpenter.com/
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This idea came easy, almost instantaneously. This lovely elephant obviously wants rockers. We didn't have to look far for those, we just borrowed them from another now iconic design by the Eames' - their RAR armchair. They turned out a perfect fit, just as if Ray and Charles had planned to...
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
German born André Klauser lives and works in London. He received his MA in Design Products at the RCA in 2002, setting up his design studio in the same year. Klauser works in the field of furniture, product, interiors and exhibition design, often collaborating with Ed Carpenter under the name Klauser & Carpenter. His clients include Brooks England, Meta and Established & Sons. Klauser is a partner in the design and production company Very Good and Proper. Since 2007 he teaches at the Royal College of Art.
http://www.klauserandcarpenter.com/
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André Klauser / vitra
André Klauser / vitra
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Raw Edges / vitra
Raw Edges / vitra
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Highest bidder: Annie Stevens
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Inspiration
The Eames Elephant is such an iconic piece, for us it made sense to simply add something to the form rather than change it too much. We wanted to make the addition something which was significant to us as designers and as a studio. Elephant tusks represent such a precious thing so we gave the Elephant two tusks made from our most precious creation – Endgrain wood.
Endgrain is a unique technique developed in the Raw Edges studio which harnesses the grain of the wood to carry dye right the way through sections of timber. Blocks dyed in different pigments are then glued together with the grains facing vertically to create three-dimensional patterns, and then shaped with a computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine. "We do the blocks and then it goes to CNC cutting," said the designers. "So in the beginning it is very crafty and at the end it is quite industrial."
About
After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2007, and after not finding ‘proper’ jobs, Yael and Shay set up a design studio where their imaginations could take flight: furniture, installations, and products began to develop with a strong accent on playfulness and childlike wonder. The studio became a place where curiosity would be a prevalent factor in the creation of their designs, a place where they could embark on a continuous journey of discovery, turning the world upside down and inside out, cracking things open and studying their structure, always striving for surprise, wonder, humour.
Product photography: Ruth Ward
http://www.raw-edges.com/
*Please note, a delivery charge of £20 will be added to the final bid. International delivery costs may vary.
The Eames Elephant is such an iconic piece, for us it made sense to simply add something to the form rather than change it too much. We wanted to make the addition something which was significant to us as designers and as a studio. Elephant tusks represent such a precious thing so we gave the Elephant two tusks made from our most precious creation – Endgrain wood.
Endgrain is a unique technique developed in the Raw Edges studio which harnesses the grain of the wood to carry dye right the way through sections of timber. Blocks dyed in different pigments are then glued together with the grains facing vertically to create three-dimensional patterns, and then shaped with a computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine. "We do the blocks and then it goes to CNC cutting," said the designers. "So in the beginning it is very crafty and at the end it is quite industrial."
About
After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2007, and after not finding ‘proper’ jobs, Yael and Shay set up a design studio where their imaginations could take flight: furniture, installations, and products began to develop with a strong accent on playfulness and childlike wonder. The studio became a place where curiosity would be a prevalent factor in the creation of their designs, a place where they could embark on a continuous journey of discovery, turning the world upside down and inside out, cracking things open and studying their structure, always striving for surprise, wonder, humour.
Product photography: Ruth Ward
http://www.raw-edges.com/
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Raw Edges / vitra
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Eley Kishimoto / vitra
Eley Kishimoto / vitra
Bidding starts on 21-09-2015 16:00
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Highest bidder: Adam Lewis
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Inspiration
Following the launch of Eley Kishimoto's wallpaper collection and to accompany their Autumn/ Winter 2015 fashion collection "A Wallflower’s House Party" , total coordination of wall-to-toe to elephant is now possible in their Fishbone Borders print. Cover the walls and wrap yourself and your elephant in your favourite pattern! Words from Wakako: Jazzed up elephant in a Fishbone Borders quilted jacket for the special occasion. Who said elephants are always plain and grey?
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Living by the maxim “Print The World”, Eley Kishimoto have always strived to create work that is executed simply, clear in intention exhibiting a unique creative flair, that rejects passing trends and fads. From a partnership forged in the early 90’s, Eley Kishimoto quickly gained a reputation for incisive and intelligent print design with their work being displayed on the catwalks of the world through work with Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, Alber Elbaz and Jil Sander, to name but a few. In the mid 90’s the partnership moved into the fashion world with the launch of their first womenswear collection; this proved to be such a success that the company has produced collections ever since. Although initially earned as a result of these vibrant fashion collections the company’s renown has always been very much associated with their freedom to decorate anything and everything. It is this print design aesthetic that is key to their works’ identity.
http://www.eleykishimoto.com/
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Following the launch of Eley Kishimoto's wallpaper collection and to accompany their Autumn/ Winter 2015 fashion collection "A Wallflower’s House Party" , total coordination of wall-to-toe to elephant is now possible in their Fishbone Borders print. Cover the walls and wrap yourself and your elephant in your favourite pattern! Words from Wakako: Jazzed up elephant in a Fishbone Borders quilted jacket for the special occasion. Who said elephants are always plain and grey?
Product photography: Ruth Ward
About
Living by the maxim “Print The World”, Eley Kishimoto have always strived to create work that is executed simply, clear in intention exhibiting a unique creative flair, that rejects passing trends and fads. From a partnership forged in the early 90’s, Eley Kishimoto quickly gained a reputation for incisive and intelligent print design with their work being displayed on the catwalks of the world through work with Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, Alber Elbaz and Jil Sander, to name but a few. In the mid 90’s the partnership moved into the fashion world with the launch of their first womenswear collection; this proved to be such a success that the company has produced collections ever since. Although initially earned as a result of these vibrant fashion collections the company’s renown has always been very much associated with their freedom to decorate anything and everything. It is this print design aesthetic that is key to their works’ identity.
http://www.eleykishimoto.com/
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Eley Kishimoto / vitra
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