North
by sabine7 / February 18, 2008


Around the Corner is the name of an exhibition of four pieces of furniture by architect Amanda Levete of Future Systems for Established & Sons. These pieces focus on how to make use of the corner of a room and are sexy, intelligent designs that are very organic and fluid. Levete looks at the relationship between space and object, and each piece is named after a point on the compass. North is a fibreglass shelf and South is set of two Corian shelves. East is a marble table/desk and West a wooden bench.

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South.


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East.


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West.


flamboyant shape and tech, no meaningful content. A show off for rich people to buy in a design gallery. boring.

under cut / February 18, 2008 at 1:42 PM / Flag

under cut, my neighbor here at the office suggests that meaningful content is what you put on the shelf. ;)

Harry / February 18, 2008 at 5:09 PM / Flag

Amanda Levete is brilliant and her use of the corner and these forms is not just thinking outside the box, she is talking about different areas to place the box, I love her work, genius!

Jim Ferguson / February 18, 2008 at 9:29 PM / Flag

West looks very similar to Brodie Neill's E-turn

http://mocoloco.com/archives/004220.php

Simon / February 19, 2008 at 11:15 AM / Flag

I second the Brodie Neil comment, as brilliant as Amanda Levete may be, in this case, it's been done before.

James / February 20, 2008 at 7:24 AM / Flag

i believe this style/idea came from the chandelier done by future systems in 2006 for swarovski. probably during same time or earlier than brodie's stuff check it out here please

http://tinyurl.com/2qz7x6

fabio / February 21, 2008 at 6:02 AM / Flag

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