Voluminous Sculptural Design from Japan

Sculptural Design is a theme we are drawn to along with the idea of creating a world (interior) that evokes the aspirations and inspirations of the owner.

Oki Sato Nendo’s ‘Deep Sea’ table for Glas Italia presented at Salone di Mobile in Milan this week is a serene experience of expanding volume evoking warm, calm tropical waters (to our minds!), through a process of fusing multiple layers of blue film onto each surface to create varying degrees of saturation. The restricted overall form simultaneously imposes order while seemingly levitating. 

It brought to mind another object we’ve been coveting by another Japanese artist: Go Segawa. His ‘Cobalt’ presented last month at Design Days Dubai, is a meditative experience of floating volume evoking a relationship between sculpture and painting and challenging the viewers perceptions of form. On a practical level it is clear PVC ‘painted’ with ink and varnish but the experience is something quite ethereal and exciting! 

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A Million Times by Humans since 1982

This clock above, by Humans since 1982, was sold in the first few hours after the opening of Design Days Dubai. The hands move at different speeds - chaos, yet arrive at the properly arranged forms in to order display the time for several seconds each minute. A much larger version entitled A million times, can be seen here.  It is an experience with time - mesmerizing! The music in the video definitely helps transport the viewer.  Watch this video!  Love!

This desk version, might take a little getting used to but worth it!

Vincenzo de Cotiis at Design Days Dubai

This ‘Modular Element Assembled Lamp’ and ‘Irregular Shaped Coffee Table’ by Vincenzo de Cotiis was presented at the second edition of Design Days Dubai, a four day fair which ends today. 

The lamp is silvered brass tubing with inserted fluorescent lights and the table is a silvered brass top, which has been manually oxidized upon a translucent resin base.

Both are unique pieces and capture so many emotions and ideas and at the same time create a unique experience for those of us lucky enough to interact with them. 

In researching Vincenzo de Cotiis, I found the description of his work on his website to be incredibly enchanting and inspiring so instead of trying to write something new I've summarized it here:

Vincenzo de Cotiis marries the sense of space of an architect with the sensibility to materials of a plastic artist. He forges pure forms by following an organic process which allows the final product to retain traces of the process. Touch plays as important a role as sight in the generation of structures and solutions. Crystalline, pure lines are charged with a new energy in the counterpoint of textures and parts. Materials are precious, raw, sometimes salvaged, always with intense evocative power. Style results from the raw precision of the finishes, from the unexpected associations of parts, from a choice of faded colours that incorporate the signs and scratches of time. The De Cotiis esthetic is all about perfect imperfection.'