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.
Designed for the Tropique house, Potence, a swivelling wall light is considered one of Jean Prouvé’s purist masterpieces. In particular, it is its sparing use of materials and austere design that make the luminaire fascinating.
It’s in production at Vitra, but I think I’m going to make one myself …
When artist Julien Berthier goes out for a boat ride is his boat people often try to rescue him. He has cut an old boat in half and restored it in a quite non conventional way. U might have seen it before since it is a work from 2007, but just in case u missed it u can see the whole project at read more.
Not a new project, but I recently found this in ‘the independent design guide’ and I just love to share great things!
Clamp-a-book, clamp-a-hook, clamp-a cable… Design solutions derived from the clamp typology: a family of informal objects, each with a specific function.
Be sure to check his website, this guy has some realy nice, simple projects.
Parfois payed a visit to the new home of Pieterjan, Berlin! One of the first things we did over there was the Daimler Contemporary. A small gallery that’s a bit hidden, but worth the search.
The ‘Minimalism and Applied II’ exhibition is intended as a series of arrangements of art, architecture and design objects ‘in dialogue’.
Some of the artists: Eileen Gray (IRL), Charlotte Perriand (F), Jean Prouvé (F), Gerrit Rietveld (NL)
If you can, go and have a look. The exhibition runs from October 29, 2010 until March 27, 2011
Haus Huth
Alte Potsdamer Straße 5
10785 Berlin, Germany >> Read more
The Crumpled City Maps; are soft, extremely light but very strong, perfectly waterproof, designed to bequickly put away in their bag, without having to be folded but just scrunched up, rolled upinto a ball. Crumpled City, indeed. At the core of the design is this ‘playing’ with gestures: this allowing people to dosomething that is usually “forbidden”, that is to simply scrunch up a document. It is aliberating, fun act, especially if you do it with something that you are not going to throwaway, but which is actually made to be kept and reused. >> Read more
A friend of parfois (Valentina Cangiamila) who we met while she was working at demakersvan, has sended us her latest project, MOLLI, made together with Cristina D’Apollonio. The simple concept and design allows great fun for young and old, more info u can find on their website www.lefilomene.it.
The Dutch designer and graduate from Design Academy EindhovenAnique Noordman realised this series of delicate, “subcutaneously” patterned textiles as her final project. Due to geometric pieces of rubber and vinyl which are mounted behind the fabric the curtain recieves in a certain stiffness and the drapery appears according to the grid of the inlays. >> Read more
If you like this project, and your rich, please support Saikat Biswas in the production of Holga D. This way we can all buy this great looking product.
Holga D is a digital camera inspired from the extremely popular cult Holga and other toy cameras of its kind. Even though it is a digital camera, it retains the qualities and simplicity of the original Holga camera and brings back the joy and delayed gratification associated with good old analog photography. >> Read more
Don’t like all the things shown in this movie, but some are really worth watching. The cloud-machine by Daniel Schulze ‘takes my breath away’.
Young talented designers and students were the focus of this years DMY Youngsters exhibition. Many of the works were quite experimental or research driven resulting in interesting ideas and shapes for these new makers.
Not a new project, but I recently found this in ‘the independent design guide’ and I just love to share great things!
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