Under The Spotlight
Belgian designer Anna Torfs studied interior design at the Sint-Lukas School for Architecture in Brussels.
In 2002 she began designing her own glass collections. A signature of Anna’s work is her use vibrant colours and the deconstructed way she reveals the layers of each form, showing how an object is built through unconventional cutting techniques. Every vessel she makes explores the contrast between inside and outside, the vibrant centre and the sober skin.
Posted by Michelle Lesser at 27 December, 2011
Won as the Best British Product Design at the British Design Awards 2011 by Elle Decoration. This young designer uses mismatched drawers – taken from a 1960s dressing table and a 1950s science lab desk, say to create striking hybrid chests. Rupert Blanchard’s furniture creates recycled art from old, often wooden objects.
The furniture available from Elemental in London’s Spitalfields.
He is currently working on a new range to be sold through Objects for Use, the shop he plans to open with friend Momoko Mizutani in his Shoreditch workshop later this year.
Posted by Michelle Lesser at 18 November, 2011
ChicTip was invited to a briefing by Kelly Hoppen at the QVC UK studios. After a quick tour of the lovely studios we sat down with Kelly to discuss her new TV show and latest line of affordable design products recently launched at QVC.
Sitting next to Kelly you can’t stop admiring this self-made woman who, after starting her business at the age of 16, is now acknowledged as one of Britain’s most influential style gurus.
Kelly Hoppen MBE is best known as the Interior Designer whose calm, elegant aesthetic has permeated our consciousness and achieved an iconic and much imitated status.
At her celebrated interior design studio, which employs 35 members of staff, Kelly has created stunning interiors for houses, apartments, yachts, private jets, ski chalets, a sport center, hotels and numerous corporate spaces, for an ever expanding, international, high profile client base from the world of business, sports, film and fashion. The most well known being the British Airways first class cabins, the Royal Mougins Golf Club in the south of France, Rhodes W1 Restaurant in London and boutique hotel Murmuri in Barcelona.
The Hoppen Style fuses together the eastern principles of simplicity and balance with the western tastes for sumptuous textures and luxurious finishes. When designing for a specific space Kelly not only trusts her intuition and emotional intelligence; she is also rigorous in using a grid system to analyze space, delineate vistas, impose structure and establish order.
I am a big fan of her new TV show on the UK’s Channel 5 television “Superior Interiors with Kelly Hoppen” where Kelly’s inimitable style and flair help transform disaster areas in homes across the country.
I am looking forward to see what is coming next from this interior design’s own Superwoman.
Posted by Michelle Lesser at 30 September, 2011
On my trip to designersblock during the London Design Festival I met this lovely designer Ana Tevsic, she exhibited her “Twister” lamps and “Crooked” stools at “The House of Detention”. I also love her “Chew on This” hanger that I just spotted on her website.
Posted by Michelle Lesser at 26 September, 2011
Philip Karlberg is a Swedish talented and prominent still life and interior photographers. Over the years, he has gained extensive business experience, and he shares his time equally between editorial and commercial assignments.
Posted by Michelle Lesser at 18 July, 2011
With some respect, collage is an underappreciated art form – yet every time you see a beautifully composed one, you don’t forget it. It takes the perfect eye to pair multiple colors and patterns together, in a modern and clean way, yet Valerie Roybal has the design approach perfected.
Posted by Dana Pruskowski at 18 May, 2011
Olivier Dollé is an architect and designer born in the Alpes region in the South of France and who studied at the prestigious art institute École Boulle in Paris. Combining his appreciation for traditional handcraftsmanship and his love of contemporary design, Dollé has created interiors as well as furniture and accessories that are made from the highest quality woods and other materials using the latest technology.
Posted by Sebastien D. at 25 February, 2011
Design as we know it is changing. Chairs no longer require four legs and tables have become sculptures of innovation. MC2 is part of this revolution. Their industrial designs make jumps in our conception of everyday objects, balancing new ideas with the household items that fill our lives everywhere.
Posted by Lauren Proctor at 18 January, 2011
Designer under the spotlight is definitely one that I’ve shared with friends, I do believe I just emailed my friend who has a toddler, “Look! Get this adorable wallpaper and then you won’t have to worry about your baby coloring on your walls! Not if she’s MEANT to color on them!” And the wallpaper is just one of many playful and cool designs by Aze.
Posted by Chelsea Latimer at 10 January, 2011
It is quite possible, that the modern design community has officially received the memo that Jihoon Ha is a future designer in furniture and woodworking to keep an eye on. Born in Seoul, Korea and graduate of both Hong-ik University and Denmark Design School, this already internationally known designer has a profound understanding toward both art and design. Pulling from both Scandinavian culture and the historical prominence and detail of the Orient, he has managed to create both attractive yet fun pieces that cross the sometimes serious side of art.
Posted by Dana Pruskowski at 9 December, 2010
