Xavier Lust – DesignApplause

made in brazil. icff 2014.

May 14, 2014

above> booth #1572

Brazilian Furniture Organization will present Made in Brazil at this year’s ICFF. Ornare, A Lot Of and Saccaro will debut collections at ICFF by the following iconic and emerging designers: Alessandro Mendini, Karim Rashid, Guto Indio da Costa, Vico Magistretti, Fabio Novembre, Xavier Lust, Borek Sipek, Pedro Franco, Roque Frizzo, Emerson Borges and Nika Zupanc. Combined, these furniture companies represent some of the best design practices in Brazil. Each are focused on new technologies and materials, sustainability, and originality in design.

air cabinets | guto indio da costa | ornare

Ornare, will exhibit the Air Cabinets Line of custom-built closets by Guto Indio da Costa designed exclusively for the High Line Collection. Known for creating innovative solutions for urban furniture in cities like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Indio da Costa incorporated a polyester mesh into the Air Cabinets Line. This mesh ensures natural ventilation and provides light protection to contents inside the closet.

air cabinets | guto indio da costa | ornare

arraia | guto indio da costa

Saccaro, founded in 1946, primarily works with Brazilian designers and incorporates proprietary processes and unique materials into its collections. Saccaro will present Callas, an upholstered seating collection with mid-century modern connotations and angular lines designed by Emerson Borges and Noronha, a colorful outdoor furniture collection inspired by Fernando de Noronha archipelago, the Brazilian national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site, designed by Roque Frizzo. Also on view will be the limited-edition Mangue table, also designed by Frizzo; the Arraia chair by renowned designer Guto Indio da Costa, handcrafted in high quality Malacca and stainless steel and inspired by the form and motion of a Stingray; and a collection of Cowhide Rugs in a wide variety of unique and exquisite patterns from a simple checker to a Morrocan tile.

k2 sofa | alessandro mendini

A Lot Of, founded by award-winning Brazilian designer Pedro Franco, will present 20 pieces by a roster including Alessandro Mendini, Vico Magistretti, Fabio Novembre, Xavier Lust, Karim Rashid, Borek Sipek, Pedro Venzon and Nika Zupanc, among others. Highlights will include the K2 colored sofa designed by Mendini as an evolution of his Kandissi sofa, introduced in 1979; the Golem Chair designed by Magistretti and re-issued with the permission of the Magistretti Foundation; the Skeleton Chair, Crocodile Chair and Underconstruction Armchair by Pedro Franco; Karim Rashid’s Siamese Chair and Vida Table; Fabio Novembre’s RPH Sofa and Xavier Lust’s Cone Chair.
cadeira timida | pedro venzon

mesa vida | karim rashid

[ brazilian furniture organization ] is a partnership between The Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil), and the Brazilian Furniture Association (Abimovel). Their goal is to promote Brazilian Furniture Exports around the world. They currently represent 72 industries that manufacture a wide range of products, including furniture for home, office and outdoors.

A brusselicious food truck. Milan 2012.

Apr 29, 2012

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In the context of ‘Belgium is Design’ and the exhibition Perspectives, Brussels Invest & Export is also organizing Insalata Belga: an event that highlights Brusselicious, the year-long gastronomy celebration that takes place in the Belgian capital throughout 2012. Bringing together the talents of Xavier Lust, renowned Belgian designer and Eric Boschman, sommelier and gastronomic writer, the project promises to be tasty.
From 16 –20 April a caravan customized by Lust and belonging to Visitbrussels, one of the partners of the project, will be permanently parked outside the entrance to the Triennale di Milano. After a long day on their stands, professional and public visitors to Design Week can enjoy an animated gastronomic experience, as each evening Boschman serves up a mix of Belgian local produce, organic ingredients and black-yellow-red delicacies. Moments of relaxation under the trees of the Viale Alemagna, with Brussels’ gastronomy and design on the same menu.

Lust is also responsible for logo ‘Insalta belga’, which is the Italian translation of ‘chicory’. The vegetable is a national Belgian dish and chicory forms the basis of all the appetizers on the daily evening menu. The food will be accompanied by a selection of Belgian alcoholic drinks (4cl) and served in Lust’s special take frozen shot glasses.

The color-of-the-day it seems is grey. You’re encouraged to throw the shot glass. Hence the wet sidewalk surrounding the truck.

As we are rushing to be somewhere else I’m sorry I couldn’t find out more about the truck itself. If anyone knows… [ insalata braga ]

Carpenters workshop gallery. New paris gallery opening.

Sep 1, 2011

Loïc Le Gaillard and Julien Lombrail, the partners of Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London, will inaugurate a new gallery in Paris. Carpenters Workshop Gallery Paris is located in the prominent neighborhood of the 4th arrondissement, on the border between the Marais and the Beaubourg plateau. The gallery is in a historically stimulating location for the art world as it formerly housed the Galerie de France for many decades. The monumental space covers 600 m² on three floors, with over 350 m² of exhibition space operating on two floors. The renovation of the gallery was carried out by the decorator Jean de Piepape. The Gallery founders were both born into the core of the Parisian art-world, Le Gaillard the son of an eminent gallerist; Lombrail the son of the renowned auctioneer. Prior to meeting, each was already independently intending to open a gallery promoting contemporary art, design and the place where the two overlap. They quickly progressed setting up the Carpenters Workshop Gallery together, on the premise that sculpture can bring depth, narrative and emotion to contemporary design. The Gallery began life in a former carpenter’s workshop in 2004, an old industrial space amid Chelsea Gas Works. In 2008 the Carpenters Workshop opened a second gallery in Albemarle Street, Mayfair. Always following the instinct of its founders without compromise, the Gallery’s exhibitions attracted much acclaim and quickly amassed a reputation for presenting works of deep contemporary significance. As the number of artists grew, so did the diversity of their backgrounds and practices. With a light touch, the Gallery brought a refreshing playfulness to the debate between art and design. The works exhibited often reflect a sense of humor crucial to the Gallery’s identity. This unconventional approach to hybrid practice was then contextualized within the traditional home of fine art in London. The field of Design Art is at the dawn of its potential, it proposes a sensitive, intellectual and innovative approach to the object. The pieces are true, functional sculptures, incorporating the paradox of the unique and the mass produced, of art and function. The Carpenters Workshop Gallery collection introduces the public to the latest design aesthetics, enriching and enlightening the contemporary design landscape and discourse. This Parisian location confirms Julien Lombrail’s and Loïc Le Gaillard’s commitment to the international promotion of their artists and designers, as well as their international spectrum of esteemed collectors. Together, Julien Lombrail and Loïc Le Gaillard guide the designers toward art and the artist toward design. Carpenters Workshop Gallery represents: Atelier Van Lieshout . Sebastian Brajkovic . Wendell Castle . Ingrid Donat . Vincent Dubourg . Lonneke Gordijn & Ralph Nauta . Johanna Grawunder . Matthieu Lehanneur . Nendo . Marc Quinn . Xavier Lust . Random International . Pablo Reinoso . Robert Stadler . Studio Job . Charles Trevelyan [cwg official release]

private opening date: 22 september 2011
public opening date: 24 september 2011
address: marais 54 rue de la verrerie 75003
phone: +33 (0)1 7712 0612
[ carpenters workshop gallery ]