About Parfois
If it was up to us, all the best design in the world would be posted within the Parfois Portfolio. But it's not up to us. Stumbling the web we often bump into things worth sharing. The world wide web is so full off great things that will never end up in our portfolio, but which we want the world to see. For this we created our blog. At this moment there are 4 of us blogging on a regular basis. Work, studies and social life makes that there are weeks with a lot of posts, and weeks without. But we'll do our best in bringing you the nicest shit on a acceptable basis.
07.12.09
Henderson Waves was designed by RSP architects planners & engineers together with IJP corporation, it is Singapore’s highest pedestrian bridge and was awarded this year’s ‘design of the year’ for the President’s Design Award. The bridges stands 36 meters above the ground and looks just stunning. Read on for more!
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24.11.09
Rotterdam, today. The mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb and city councilor Hamit Karakus have officially started the construction of the new Rotterdam Market Hall. The arched building located in the centre of Rotterdam, developed by Provast and designed by MVRDV is a hybrid of public market and apartment building. Completion is set for 2014. Total investment is 175 milion Euro with a total surface of 100.000 m2. Read on for more information about MVRDV and the Rotterdam Market Hall.
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06.11.09
The Practice of Everyday Design is a new partnership founded in 2009 with a focus on installation art, product design, and architecture. The Practice is committed to the merging of seemingly irreconcilable ideas to form new design opportunities.
This photo series were made for the launch of “The Practice of Everyday Design.” ¬†The cardboard Tiger head was made by Antoine Morris as a sculptural piece. >> Read more
27.10.09
In 2007 Luca Bassani of the luxury yacht brand Wally is in a meeting with Pierre-Alexis Dumas, scion of the Herm√©s dynasty and creative director of his family’s luxury goods brand. “I wan’t us to build the ultimate luxury boat, one as big as an island”, tells Bassani. Dumas answers: ” If the boat can run on sustainable energy, we’re in business.”
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14.10.09
Dagmar Schmidt represents a profound memory of German Plattenbau architecture. She decided to remove five residential floors of a classic Plattenbau building. Most of the walls remained, some were demolished to create entrances to the rooms. After the structural transformation of the building, the rooms were filled with furniture made of recycled concrete, such as stools, beds, couches, and sinks. What rested was a concrete floor plan of an old Plattenbau flat with preserved traces of use.Plattenbau refers to the great numbers of mostly public housing buildings constructed of large, prefabricated concrete slabs. Prefabrication was pioneered in the Netherlands after World War I, based on construction methods developed in the United States. >> Read more
13.09.09
Doris Salcedo makes sculptures and installations that function as political and mental archaeology, using domestic materials charged with significance and suffused with meanings accumulated over years of use in everyday life. Salcedo often takes specific historical events as her point of departure, conveying burdens and conflicts with precise and economical means. >> Read more
07.09.09
Jan Vormann once again indulged his passion for Plastic! This time, in Berlin, he “dispatched” mostly holes that remained from the World War II. At some very touristic hot-spots, (Kupfergraben corner with Dorotheenstraße) a whole lot of people of all ages spontaneously started “helping” him with the dispachwork project and plastic construction pieces in all colors, between old stones,  gave an interesting new twist in Berlin. >> Read more
07.09.09
Design Flow
Photo/Concept: Zajc & Zündel
The Vienna Design Week is an annual eleven-day design festival in October showcasing a whole range of product, furniture, industrial, graphic and experimental design events in collaboration with local partners and institutions as well as upcoming international designers.
31.08.09
Almost everyone knows the Freitag bags, made of the old sail of trucks. The bags are strong and waterproof. And maybe even more important in these days, they are made of recycled material. So there totally eco-friendly. There store in Zürich is a bit of the same. It is made out of 17 old unused containers.
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