Tag: Metalwork

For The “Setting The Table” Collection, Sophie Lou Jacobsen Expands Her Whimsy to Metalware

An ethos to spark joy informs the designer's evolving visual language

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French American industrial designer Sophie Lou Jacobsen makes people feel good. It’s why her collection of whimsically curved and bright glassware (like the Ripple Cup and Piano Cocktail Glasses) feels ubiquitous in all the buzzy home goods stores. The designer—who studied at Central Saint Martins before working at Ladies and Gentlemen Studio—wasn’t expecting the almost immediate success she found when launching her eponymous brand in …

Ron Arad’s Crushed Cars in “CUBA Working Title” at Over The Influence

Exploring the undoing and redoing of objects in the London-based artist's new show

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At LA’s Over The Influence, artist and designer Ron Arad is showcasing his knack for working with metals. His show CUBA Working Title (on now through 28 October) centers on cars crushed like pressed flowers—hulking machines reduced to 12-centimeter-thick sheets of metal. The concept was inspired by American cars in Cuba and the intertwining of their histories, from geographic and design (and even political) perspectives. Fantastically maintaining the integrity of …

Milan Design Week 2015: Mixed Metals

From chairs to tape dispensers to lamps, the best in metallics at this year's event

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by Jill Singer In recent years at Milan Design Week, it’s almost become a game to guess which metallic might be deemed in vogue that particular season. The pendulum has swung from brass to copper and back again many times, occasionally alighting on a more rarefied metal, like rose gold. But this year, designers and manufacturers seemed to throw up their hands at the idea …