Rubber never looked so good

Christiane Diehl creates these extraordianry jewellery and wearable pieces. In her “kollection’” series Christiane uses recycled inner tubes and rubber bands. It takes a specially trained eye to see the potential offered by these materials transforming them into something with particular aesthetic appeal and practicallity.

Worn with attitude these pieces make a bold statement.

Here are some more

Melbourne Design Guide

For those of you who may be interested Melbourne group Propeller have developed a new Melbourne Design Guide

I have come across similar in Toronto and think it’s high time Sydney develops one as well - Who’s up for the job?

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Lisa Jones and Symbiosis

Sculpture using the Jacobsens chair

I couldn’t help including this image as well

Currently on exhibition until February 28 at Multiple Box in Danks street is the work of Lisa Jones. Inspired by da Vinci’s anatomical drawings and using Jacobsonens’s Series 7 chair she has created five sculptures.

In her words

Within my sculptural objects a language of internal opposition exists that informs the whole. This apparently conflicting exchange defines the work through the tension between order and chaos; the organic and the refined; repetition and divergence; progress and reversal.

See more of her work at her website

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Ku-ture

Le Marais top and Metro Trousers by Ampersander

Now live is a new Australian fashion wholesasle portal, the brainchild of Caroline Turner, Ku-ture. This new fashion marketing and wholesale agency will promote the work of local and up coming designers and will keep you up to date with the latest collection ranges.

Currently they represent Papershaker, Meet Tyrone and Ampersander and their on-line shop will open soon so stay posted.

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Zaha Hadid: the perfect home

View footage of Zaha Hadid’s concept of the perfect house and extracts of interview at at IMM Cologne here

The two-story structure has no roof, the walls and furniture appear to grow directly out of a floor that in some cases is totally uneven, and the ceiling is an arched sky. The inside and outside, the top and the bottom - everything blends together fluently.” (PR IMM)

Via Vernissage

Antlitz update

Antlitz is is offering a Valentine’s Day special at Yoshi Jones.

Head on down to Newtown to see this fabulous product along with many more offerings from the team.

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Antlitz: a local countenance

The jewellery of Dorte Bundt and Ke Wu, otherwise known as Antlitz, German for countenance, comes to town and is now available through Yoshi Jones where I am currently working sourcing designers and and doing a range of other things.

What makes our jewellery unique is the modular thinking behind the design concept: for the imagine series, the arrangement is divided into a triptych form, meaning the earrings and the pendant make up the three parts of the a full image, not only is this play of unity and division visually interesting but it’s also very functional. Antliz jewellery can be worn as set, individually or mix and matched with other jewellery.

More information can be found on their website or come down to Yoshi Jones’s to see the pieces first hand. The finish is quite remarkably luminous, lightweight with a specially treated scratch resistant surface with UV protection to avoid fading and discolouration. Each piece will retain it’s original appearance well into it’s lifespan.

Thanks Dorte for the images and the Imagine series. Stay tuned for more work from this couple in the coming month - word has it there is a new design to be released.

+ Australian design stuff

+ Modamuse - its always nice to see an new Australian Blog and on-line shop appear on the net. This is the work of two sisters Nancy and Jessica Lim who also co-own Wild Garden- a design label and online shop offering limited edition t-shirts and clothing.

+ check out the Powerhouse Museum acquisitions online. The information can vary from object to object depending on the amount of information on hand about each object as can the quality and detail of the photographs. This is an invaluable resource for historians and the anyone that is interested after an intriguing museum visit.

+ an on-line directory of independent Australian designers at Made it for those of you searching for all things new and beautiful made here. The directory is still growing so you will find new designers each time you visit.

+ another store, gallery and on-line shop based in Darlinghurst Sydney - Via Alley represent a range of Australian and nternational artists and designers. Check out their flicker account.

Co[ ]ect

Stand II by Vito Bila; hand raised silver and copper

And now for some unabashed family promotion. The younger of the siblings work will soon be venturing off to other shores to promote his work through the initiatives of the Australia Council and JamFactory International Craft. His work has been very well received both in Australia and overseas with work currently in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia. To his list of exhibitions are shows in both Rome and Amsterdam with more in the planning.

Collect is the only International art fair in Europe that showcases the work of contemporary craft and design from around the world.

Artists on show at Collect in London this February include Vito Bila (of course), Sally Larsland, Kirsten Coelho and Scott Chaseling exposing them to new market opportunities.

More information about these organisations, images of work, articles and reviews can be found via the links at DesignHub.