Gerry Judah Sculpture for Porsche

DESIGNER GERRY JUDAH WAS COMMISSIONED BY PORSCHE GB TO CREATE A SCULPTURE CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE PORSCHE 911. Description Artist and designer Gerry Judah has created a gravity-defying sculpture that holds three iconic Porsche sports cars 35 metres high in the sky. The sculpture was the centrepiece at the recent Goodwood Festival of Speed in West Sussex, England. Judah was commissioned by Porsche GB to create the sculpture as a celebration of 50 years of the Porsche 911. The sculpture has three futuristic white, steel arrows that race upwards, each with an example of the 911 at its apex. The models incorporated in the sculpture are: the 1963 Original 911; the 1973 911 Carrera RS 2.7; and the 2013 911. Weighing over 22 tonnes, each leg of the sculpture is a monocoque made of steel plate welded together with no internal structure. It balances on points at the base that are extremely narrow. The sculpture is finished in a clean white coating, giving it an elegant simplicity. Gerry Judah said: “I had to create a sculpture that personifies the energy and excitement not only of these beautiful cars but also the Festival of Speed. The 911 is a fantastic shape that canÕt be deconstructed or embellished, so in this context, the sculpture had to provide the right platform for the car to soar up and shine in the sky.” “The concept was that each car is shooting into the sky, supporting one another, racing each other, captured in a perfect moment. Like the cars it displays, the sculpture is superbly engineered, lightweight and reflective of the Porsche 911 itself: simple, pure and built for the job.” Client: Porsche GB Design and Production:Gerry Judah Engineering: Capita Symonds Fabrication and Installation: Littlehampton Welding Photography: David Barbour

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Tititkaka Bench by Naoto Fukasawa

Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa has created the Titikaka bench for B&B Italia.

From B&B Italia:

The new Titikaka bench, in teak lathes with an aluminium frame, contradicts the rigid shape of traditional outdoor benches. Perhaps the waves of the bolivian lake inspired this ingenious piece where the surface of the seat seems to almost ripple with wonderful effect of wind over water. in fact, around the aluminium frame the lathes, which continue to the floor on both sides of the bench, have a wavy progression, creating curves that are sculptural yet truly practical for the ergonomics of the seat.

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Sculptural Lamp Designs of Great Aesthetic Value by John Procario

Designer John Procario creates striking lighting objects by bending strips of ash or white oak to the point of breaking. This results into creative irregular shapes that seem to pay more tribute to art than practicability: “The idea for the lamps began by thinking of wood as a metaphor for the body. Wood will bend comfortably to a point, then break; just like a bone or muscle, wood has its limit“, explained the designer.

Due to the “limits” in every material he employs, no two lamps are the same. The method used to create the final versions is steam bending, a process where thin strips of wood are placed into a steam box, making their fibers pliable. Then it is up to the designer to manipulate the strips and laminate them together to form a rigid object. A LED strip is further glued to the product and added Plexiglas to diffuse some of the light.  

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O 13 by Minas Kosmidis

Description The café bar –O13 (ocean thirteen) is located in one of the most advantageous position in the city of Thessaloniki. In the city center in Aristotelous Square, under the gallery which was designed by Ernest Hébrard is facing the coast. It is viewing the Thermaikos Gulf, the port, the Aegean Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and our thoughts to the “ocean”. Communicating vessels with the “water” being the basic element to this interaction, like the trends-the waves of art of the fashion of the design each season. There are strong influences from the latest 50’s and 60’s. There are references in the modernism of 50’s and Eames from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, and to the Italian finesse design of the 50’s-60’s and Gio Ponti, both in the forms and the use of the materials with the objective of affordable non pretentious luxury. Geometric shapes, with a strong presence of the rhombus both on wall-papers and fabric with the colors of passion, the blue sea, sky, and red intensity combined with wooden surfaces from walnut sometimes like constructed elements and sometimes taking shapes of intense symbolism like fish scales that consist elements-parts of the puzzle of this area. An important element is that the surfaces of oxidized bronze, like the rest time has left its mark up, to recall other times, gold and red sunsets that anyone can see the sea of Thessaloniki and sometimes the gold and silver reflections of fish in the water under the Mediterranean Sun. On the whole scene the shutters around the windows are coming to complete, the shading element of most houses, in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal beach in the Mediterranean and Atlantic in earthy tones like those of the floor walls and ceiling. Furniture and fixtures designed with influences from those decades. Items symbols design like fiat 500 and the Vespa complete the transfer in an atmosphere of refined carefree generation of that season, like being a part of Fellini’s film “Dolce vita”. Design: Minas Kosmidis (Architecture in Concept) Photography: StudioVD: N.Vavdinoudis – CH. Dimitriou

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