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exploring the potential of copper in design world

issue 59 July 2014www.copperindesign.org

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www.copperindesign.org is a meeting space for contemporary designers and their followers. This international platform provides a comprehensive source of information on the crafting of the red metal: copper creations, first-hand accounts from designers, exhibitions, competitions and many others. The website is aimed at creators, design professionals, journalists and all copper-loving netsurfers, offering them an invitation to (re)discover this material whose natural properties have established it over the past few years as an essential feature of the design scene.Sponsor: European Copper Institute www.copperalliance.eu

Ketel One Vodka

Pitcher & Piano

Ocean Thirteen

Natural Chaos

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The founders of Till The Cows Come Home (TTCCH), a vegetarian slow food kitchen in Berlin, came across a compact and efficient space for their idea – the interior of a redeveloped shipping container – and placed it in the middle of the lively Mitte Quarter of the city.Founded by creative director Natalie Viaux (concept and design) and Christiane Cordes (health consultant), TTCCH’s focus is vegetarian and vegan food, to go, to stay and take-away.The exterior of the high-cube container is pearl green, the wall and ceiling surfaces are faced with Norwegian birch while copper details softly accentuate the bar area. The view from the large, panoramic windows shows the outdoor area: a wooden terrace and a 4.8 m long timber panel with stools, where themed supper clubs are planned. The dining table, seats and terrace – made of steel, copper and wood – were designed by product designer Alexander Spilopoulos for TTCCH and manufactured by hand. As for the food, “In Till The Cows Come Home, they take their time: from the selection of products, most of them sourced from regional, sustainable and biological farming, to the concept of the recipes,” say the founders. Mostly though, “Healthy food has to taste good to make you happy”. Link: www.ttcch.de

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Argand Lamp Quentin de Coster’s Argand is a contemporary table lamp that revisits the “wick-lift” mechanism common in oil lamps from the eighteenth century.Composed of a pink gold-plated brass base, an LED module and a borosilicate glass cylinder, one can turn the knob and a rack reveals or hides the mobile tube incorporating the light source: three LED strips.“The name Argand refers to the Swiss physicist Ami Argand who invented the burner with double airflow and cylindrical wick in 1783,” says de Coster, a young Brussels-based designer. Link: www.quentindecoster.com

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Woods Bagot Pony Restaurant The first Pony restaurant outside Sydney has opened on Brisbane’s Eagle Street Pier, with Woods Bagot’s interiors centring around the sight and smell of an authentic charcoal grill.Drawing from the texture and forms of pony stables, Australian Woods Bagot’s design team created a two-metre steel ribbon that winds through the space, implying soft copper that can be forged and shaped, reminiscent of a horse shoe, or the curved line of a lasso loop.The stables were also evoked through the choice of raw materials – exposed brick, raw steel, rough-sawn timber, wash troughs and exposed roughneck copper pipework – combined with comfortable leather upholstered furniture like a horse saddle.The food was also a major inspiration for the design of the restaurant, with the layout of the space centring around the theatre of the open rotisserie and grill, which allows patrons to view the spirited chefs, led by Brisbane-born Damian Heads.

Link: www.woodsbagot.com

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Sheets of translucent black bronze separate areas of the new Aesop skincare store in Kyoto designed by Japanese studio Simplicity. The designers took different elements from Japanese artistic principles through the ages and applied them to the Aesop shop interior.“The design draws inspiration from Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows, the aesthetics of fourteenth-century actor and playwright Zeami Motokiyo, Kyoto’s machiya townhouses and the vertical alignment of Japanese text,” said the designers.Bottles of the skin and haircare products are hung in columns against the sheer fabric to reference vertical Japanese calligraphy. An antique water pump installed in an alcove can be spotted through the large glazed section of wall facing the street. On entering the store, shoppers walk up a ramp and past a shelf displaying a selection of Aesop products before emerging into the main space behind the veils.Past the blinds, the floor changes from dark polished concrete to a clean white surface. Copper plumbing runs down from the ceiling and branches into taps, which are positioned over sinks set into white islands. Lamps hang off the pipes like climbing plants and the cashier’s desk is also clad in copper.

Link: www.simplicity.co.jp

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DivisualPlanet-O Lamp Planet-O, by Italian design team Divisual, is composed of about 250 disks of brass, expertly welded by hand, through a process of brazing.Planet-O is a body that enlightens itself and illuminates the environment through the interplay of light and shadow.Its main feature is that every lamp, coming from the expert hand of the workman and not through a digital model, is not easily reproducible. This peculiarity makes each product unique.

Link: www.divisual.it

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Jenner Studio has designed the first Ketel One Vodka bar, which has been built into London pan-Asian restaurant Gilgamesh.Dutch vodka brand Ketel One is named after the copper distillery kettle it was first produced in, in 1691, ‘Distilleerketel One’. Jenner Studio founder Christopher Jenner has taken this story and fed it into the design concept, trying to capture the relationship between the craft of vodka-making and that of a master copper craftsman.The branded bar communicates the shape of the distillery kettle and has been constructed by heating vertical copper strips individually, which are made malleable and riveted to a wood and metal skeleton. Copper sheets are then riveted and finally a seamless copper surface with no edges is overlaid.The bar has been formed in an ergonomic tear drop, which is a difficult architectural shape. More than 1,000 kg of copper and 10,000 rivets have been used on the bar and stalls, which have taken craftsmen six weeks to build.The Gilgamesh design throughout the restaurant space features Indian wood carvings based around the story of Gilgamesh – the first king of Babylon.

Link: www.christopher-jenner.com

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The Nottingham-based interior design agency Macaulay Sinclair has recently worked to create a new interior for the Pitcher & Piano bar in the Deansgate Locks area of Manchester.The concept of separateness and contrast underpinned the agency’s approach to a building which houses three stunning internal floors amid two 15-metre high Grade II-listed canal-side Victorian arches.The architects wanted to take that industrial splendour, that hard, utilitarian solidity and contrast it with floors of modern insertions. Macaulay Sinclair did that by ensuring much of their design work appeared not to touch the existing building fabric. They wanted newly-introduced elements to work in tandem with the site while having character enough to work alone. The ground floor bar counter, for example, is a bottom-lit green monolith, which they wanted to give the feeling of floating within the space, while copper arches are up-lit to maintain the separation between the building and its offering. The approach preserves the building’s impressive heritage while creating an exciting, immersive leisure experience.

Link: www.macaulaysinclair.com

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Meike LangerClothes Stand

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This clothes rack by German designer Meike Langer features a copper arc with a hinged timber frame, allowing it to slot into the corner of a room. Langer created the Blanche clothes stand as a flexible alternative to traditional garment rails.The structure can fold in on itself, allowing it to be manoeuvred into the corner of a room and take up less space.The system of the two arcs remains flexible and can be placed in the bathroom, bedroom, or in-between, to store and arrange clothes. An ash wood frame, made from locally sourced timber, swings out from the main structure to help the stand to balance. Clothes can be draped over the wooden arm without the need for hangers, while the polished copper arc affixes to the frame via two metal pins in the side and acts as a stand for blazers.Both elements are simply fitted together, which allows easy assembly.

Link: www.meikelanger.com

Greek architect Minas Kosmidis has recently created a cafe-bar referred to as O 13 (Ocean Thirteen) located in one of the most advantageous position in the city of Thessaloniki: in the city centre, in Aristotelous Square, beneath the gallery designed by Ernest Hébrard and facing the coast. There are robust influences from the 50s and 60s, with references to 50s modernism and Eames from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, and the Italian finesse design of the 50s and 60s as well as Gio Ponti, each in the forms and the use of the supplies, with the objective of cost-effective, non-pretentious luxury.The bar features geometric shapes, brass walls and copper hanging lamps, with a robust presence of the rhombus in wallpapers and fabric. It boasts the colours of passion: the blue sea and sky, and red intensity taking on shapes of intense symbolism like fish scales.An important element is that the surfaces are oxidised bronze, recalling gold and red sunsets over Thessaloniki’s sea, and the gold and silver reflections of fish in the water below the Mediterranean sun.

Link: www.minaskosmidis.com

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Natural Chaos is Arne Quinze’s latest development of art pieces. In conjunction with earlier works like the Chaos Box self-portrait – where Belgian designer and artist Quinze investigates the multitude of thoughts and inspiration inside his own head – he now returns to more compositional work, researching chaos in time. For Quinze, the existence of chaos is null. Often quoted as saying “there’s no chaos, only structure”, to him, all is structured. With Natural Chaos, he challenged himself to capture and create so-called chaos.At first sight, this art seems a chaotic mixture of bronze rods and coloured glass parts. Yet, on closer inspection, one will notice all is put in a specific place, with a precise function. Seeming to constantly seek equilibrium, these structures never lose their balance. One can almost see them moving. By capturing and researching the right curves, Quinze studies the dimension of movement.Natural Chaos represent a symbolic and physical connection between people and tries to provoke reactions.

Link: www.arnequinze.com

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