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The Aram Gallery is continuing its series of displays made up of prototypes and experiments sourced from designers’ studios. The displays form a long-term and ever-changing exhibition, with a new piece brought into the gallery each time another is sold or returned to its owner.
The Aram Gallery presents new work by established industrial designer Sebastian Bergne. Having worked in the past 18 years to briefs set by leading companies such as Authentics, Moulinex and Muji, Bergne has agreed to take on the challenge of designing and producing a range of speculative objects under his own name.
OKAY Studio is a collective of individual designers sharing a bit more then a workspace. Each has broken their own ground, with some also working for leading design studios while others work on consultancy projects. But they share the drive to generate self-initiated projects, produce work with their own clients and exhibit in galleries and museums internationally. This will be the first curated exhibition of the group.
The Aram Gallery has initiated a series of displays made up of prototypes and experiments sourced from designers’ studios. The displays will form a long-term and ever-changing exhibition, with a new piece brought into the gallery each time another is sold or returned to its owner.
The Aram Gallery has commissioned London-based designer Martino Gamper to create Total Trattoria - the ultimate expression of his Trattoria al Cappello concept.
Developing further his idea, Total Trattoria, which opened on 7 March 2008, completes the concept and puts it on show to the public for the first time.
In October 2007, The ‘Also’ space at the Aram Gallery presented the launch of brand new interactive displays that challenge the notion of multi-media and print as we know it.
New Moves was an exhibition at The Aram Gallery from 20 September to
3 November 2007 featuring 70 new task light prototypes designed by students from the Royal College of Art’s acclaimed Design Products department. The exhibition had as its starting point an exploration of the iconic task light - the Anglepoise and also offers the opportunity to compare new work with a selection of classics and best sellers from this uniquely independent form of lighting.
These collections are all a side activity of these advanced practitioners and serve as part of their inspirational sources. All the collections presented are of mundane utility objects that by being part of a collection have been dislocated from their intended use and turned into cultural products grouped for pleasure and observation…
Conversational Spanish includes the work of 15 creative designers, two photographers and a filmmaker. The exhibition is the second of a two-part collaboration between The Aram Gallery and the Spanish Embassy exploring new Spanish design. Conversational Spanish introduces a number of new faces together with more established designers from the increasingly vibrant contemporary design-scape that includes Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia.
One of the most exciting and increasingly significant figures in new Spanish design, Hayón has an exuberant energy and a striking personal style all of his own. Although he has been involved in a number of eclectic projects, Hayón is probably most celebrated for his exclusive furniture collections and theatrical installations.
Imagine an artwork purposely structured to produce random prints with no control over the way they look. Imagine the audience is expected to buy these random prints without knowing what they actually look like.
An exhibition of playful products from Austrian design studio, Walking-Chair will open at the Aram Gallery on the 2 June. Walking- Chair is a design studio and think tank based in the heart of Vienna. Founded by Karl Emilio Pircher and Fidel Peugeot in 2002, the studio recruited architect Silvia Sauermann in 2006 and now works internationally combining design fields such as products, graphics and architecture.
Posters are part of a city’s skin, like temporary tattoos they parade attitude as much as content. Whether advertising for commercial opportunities, cultural events or political protests, this medium has won its place as a new template for social engagement and sometimes even recognised as a new branch of art.
Established in 1996 Trico have been serious about creating an international circle of friends that share this philosophy of design. This is not a company of grand gestures or heroic acts of design but of small human endeavors and cross-cultural playfulness.
Designers of furniture and lighting, both Buxton and Ashuach’s work is directly inspired by their own drawing processes; Buxton uses lines to create meaningful surfaces that explore the human interaction with his designs, whilst Ashuach uses line to create dramatic rounded objects.
Darkness and light: the absence of one is the life of the other. Exhibiting 22 pieces of design, a painting, a jacket and a photography project, Darkness is a show about light. The exhibition includes experimental and new work by Ron Arad, Pieke Bergmans, Jordi Canudas, Gad Charny, Joel Degermark, Thomas Gardner, Stefano Giovannoni, Marti Guixe, Gitta Gschwendtner, Admir Jukanovic, Ronen Kadushin, Catherine Morland, Denis Santachiara, Jess Shaw, Kazuhiro Yamanka.
This one-off piece came to life in an attempt to break down the complete movement of liquid into an analytical grid, giving the appearance of solid objects moving individually yet as one. As liquid matter defies definition in numbers such as singles and multiples, the hard-edged objects work in unison to create the impression of fluidity and softness.
Rotational moulding is the process of forming material in a closed-shell custom constructed mould. The mould is turned in a tumbling action until the material adheres and coats the inner surface, creating a well-defined container. Be it plastic or chocolate the products are distinct hollow forms with a tendency to curved surfaces, like water tanks, roadside grit salt bins, floating marker buoys and Easter bunnies. Rotational moulding is attributed to Dutch chocolate makers from the 20s’ of the last century.
Step two presents recent graduates from 2003 Design Products and Textiles & Fashion courses and one artist from the Fine Art School exploring new ideas about efficiency, flexibility and presence of objects, through furniture, footwear, carpets, lighting and bookshelf products.
Chairfix breaks away from habitual definitions of discipline. It illustrates an open-ended approach towards furniture design that draws on fashion and art as much as it does on design, and results in pieces of furniture that may go into low cost development or keep and increase their value as unassembled unique panels.
Behind every object lies a story.
Behind these stories was an innovative, observant, experimental, ingenious, heart warming, playful, risk-taking, eloquent, attentive, charming, powerful, perceptive, influential master and educator of contemporary modern design.
This exhibition is a tribute and opportunity to see 20 lights and 16 pieces of furniture from the Castiglioni legacy, including the1957 Stella, 1960 Taraxcum, 1962 Arco, and 1970 Parentesi.
Small step exhibits work by young author designers that are at the start of their journey into the public realm. The Experimental or New Work Gallery is interested in their explorations and ideas as they are translated into new typologies and inventive uses of materials. At the core of each of the furniture, lighting, communication designs and photographic artwork is a unique point of view that lead to the development of playful, thought provoking designs.
