Fabien Baron for Cappellini

The creative director Fabien Baron, under his full spectrum design agency Baron & Baron, has created a range of minimalist furnishings for the Milan based design firm, Cappellini.

The range of designs include a variety of sofas and chairs, one of which is a slender lounge chair, as well as storage units and tables. All of which result in an elegant combination of materials and sculptural quality.

Porcelain Lamp

Dutch designers Studio WM have created a series of porcelain pendant lamps that operate on a pulley system inspired by shipyards in Rotterdam. Keeping the available colors solid and the design of whole system minimal and clearly functional, this series has been exhibited in one of many Lightness in Lines presentations by the studio, including the Salone del Mobile of 2012.

Wrap Glassware

Product Designer Simon Hasan has an exquisite collection of laboratory-grade borosilicate glassware in the form of a bottle, carafe and decanter, all carefully hand crafted and wrapped in leather. I am drawn to the simplicity of the details of this set of Wrap Glassware. The brass pins complete the beautiful sequence of the design,  emphasizing the contrast of materials while the use of the leather softens normally sterile-looking objects.

Kami

Stockholm based studio Claesson Koivisto Rune was founded by designers Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto, and Ola Rune. The multi-disciplinary studio, which was originally an architectural office, have produced Kami (paper in Japanese).

The Kami table is entirely made in solid bamboo. Available in natural or black, it can be a living room table, a desk or a peculiar meeting table. The absence of screws, bolts and glues and the innovative interlock assembly underline its technical and aesthetic qualities.

Chip

All elements, of this analog clock named Chip, are precisely laser cut from recycled chipboard. That is where the name comes from. Hidden inside is a traditional clock mechanism which drives the hour and minute disks. On the front there are subtle visual references for 3,6,9, and 12 hours.

Minimal Vase

Minimal Vase by Ding 3000, designed for the brand Discipline, is an object, stripped to its function. The piece is nothing but a wooden base and a steel thread that supports the flowers. Any cup, glass, jar, cruet or even a test-tube can be used as a water receptacle.

Thalie

It was such a treat coming across industrial designer Julie Richoz’s project titled Thalie. The seductive forms, across industrial designer Julie Richoz’s project titled Thalie, were cut to resemble a plate, a fruit bowl and a bread basket. Only a piece of metal wire, each composed of a frame made of spring steel, secures each piece together.

Bulb Fiction

Bulb Fiction is a pendant lamp, created by the Danish studio KiBiSi. Designers Lars Larsen, Bjarke Ingels and Jens Martin Skibsted draw their inspiration from the shape of a incandescent light bulb. By refining the familiar object and turning it into an exquisite minimalist fixture, they gave it a new life.

D/A Clock

New York City based designer Alvin Aronson has created this digital wall clock. Measuring (h)500 x (w)1000 x (d)100 mm, the D/A Clock is made from DuPont Corian and steel mechanics.

Muriel Grateau Gallery

Muriel Grateau Gallery in Paris, France, part gallery, part boutique it is place where simplicity  in the most-tested form provides solid background for colorful objects in vivid tones Grateu is famous for. Visitors are welcome to absorb the display of extremely well-curated objects.