The Nose Bag
The Nose Bag, designed by Concrete Editions and produced by Maiko Dawson, is a voluminous bag that moves away from a generic tote, to create an elegant but highly versatile and functional unisex bag.
Maiko who studied in Tokyo and at Cordwainers, London, has brought her knowledge and expertise of cutting and finish to produce a luxurious and beautifully crafted leather bag.
The Nose Bag is made from a single piece of full grain, butter soft calf leather sourced from Veneto, Italy. The handle is vegetable tanned shoulder leather, also from Italy. The tablet pouch, which comes with The Nose Bag, is made from the same leather and a durable YKK VISLON® zip.
In this collaboration the symbiosis of aesthetic and design impulses combined with Maiko’s skill as a maker have produced a durable, high quality, timeless piece.
Price on application, made to order
info@maikodawson.com
Thanks to the De La Warr Pavilion for the location shoot
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Thursday 19 February 2015
Concrete Collaborations: The Nose Bag
Wednesday 18 February 2015
Concrete Collaborations: The Love Monolith
The Love Monolith
The Love Monolith
collaboration with Gary Breeze originates from a desire to create a stone
carving on a domestic scale. It is inspired by the idea of entwining two names
as a love token – highly personal and individual.
Gary studied at
Norwich School of Art followed by an apprenticeship with letter carver and
sculptor David Holgate and then as an assistant to Richard Kindersley, before
setting up his own workshop in 1993. Gary has completed numerous major public
works and commissions, including lettering at the New Scottish Parliament and
the Bali Bombing Memorial, London.
The Love Monolith
has been carved from Caen limestone, quarried in northwestern France - the same
material that the Norman’s brought over to build Norwich Cathedral in the eleventh
century.
Gary modestly describes
the material as easy to work – he has cut the entwined letters with a handsaw,
mallet and chisels. Using these traditional techniques he has produced a
beautifully eloquent and poignant work with a contemporary resonance.
Price on application, made to order
info@garybreeze.co.uk
info@garybreeze.co.uk
Thanks to the De La Warr Pavilion for the location shoot
Concrete Collaborations: The Diamond Bench
The Diamond Bench
The design for the Diamond Bench has been developed from a rustic prototype produced in Sicily by Concrete Editions and now fully realised as an heirloom piece, made by master joiner Sean O'Callaghan.
Sean served a five year apprenticeship with the long established Bedford firm, Watling & Darlow before setting up The Joinery in 1995. He specialises in bespoke joinery, for domestic and ecclesiastical clients, as well as making one-off pieces to commission.
The Diamond Bench has been made from English Elm - three 50mm thick planks - cut, glued and jointed to produce a highly resolved and elegant object, demonstrating Sean's attention to detail and skills as a master craftsman.
Price on application, made to order
the.joinery@ntlworld.com
Thanks to De La Warr Pavilion for the location shoot
Concrete Collaborations: The Dolly
The Dolly
The Dolly is a collaboration
that started from the idea of avant-garde artists at play. Concrete Editions
challenged Sally Dyer to produce a doll that would counter the whimsical
perception of the artistic value of toys and dolls. The result is a maquette in
sculptural terms.
Sally studied at
Maidstone School of Art and has lived and worked as a costume designer in the
Netherlands for the past 30 years. She has produced a highly personal,
autobiographical piece. Sally’s inspiration lies in her own eclectic collection
of trimmings, textiles and ephemera.
The result is a nuanced bricolage, a
haberdashery hotchpotch and a collector’s curiosities embodied in a doll.
Saturday 14 February 2015
Resolve: An intimate survey of work
RESOLVE: An
intimate survey of work
A photo book by Edward Barber & Danielle Inga
Resolve: An intimate survey of work is a photographic study of a
wider, burgeoning, social movement, acknowledging and celebrating a highly
significant yet almost invisible workforce - the small businesses, freelancers,
contractors, consultants, artists and artisans. Individuals are linked through their own
personal sense of resolve to persist and remain tenacious in their chosen
field.
This
is not a set of famous faces or media personalities, nor a freak show
collection of socially marginalised people. It is not an exhaustive survey, but
an opportunity to start a dialogue about the nature of work in the twenty first
century.
Resolve sends a clear
message, an intent beyond words captured through a highly engaged and focused
gaze. Forty intimate portraits, taken in carefully selected locations with
staging, performance and styling interventions kept to an absolute minimum. A
low-impact and respectful approach, using colour film and available light. Sitters
have dressed to suit themselves, dressed for work – presenting themselves as
they want to be seen.
Softcover with dust jacket
96pp 210mm x 270mm
40 colour plates plus two essays
Edition of 500
Friday 11 January 2013
LA CARRETTA - FOLK ART OR DESIGN ICON?
Fiat 500 Selenunte, Sicily © Visual Athletics Club 2009
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La Carretta © Visual Athletics Club 2011
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La Carretta pan holders © Visual Athletics Club 2011
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La Carretta section © Visual Athletics Club 2010
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Gio Ponti in a 1964 interview in Domus relates his design inspiration for the floors (pictured below) of the Parco dei Principi Hotel in Sorrento.
"I wanted each of the 100 rooms to have a different floor...The one reproduced here is one of those that I got a lot of pleasure out of inventing. (And I always think of these infinite possibilities of art: given a 20 x 20 cm square, even though everyone throughout the centuries has run riot with infinite designs, there is always a place for a new one, for your design. A facetious friend asked me what would happen after the last designer had made the last design, after all the designs had been made. Well, nothing will happen because there never will be the last design, and there never will be the last designer)."*
The artist in a reflective mode and making a claim for the continual reinvention of design. Design tropes from the Carretta have found their way into other artists work - adopted and adapted into new forms, a decorative minimalism possibly but nonetheless a nod to the splendour of this ebullient style.
Gio Ponti's Parco dei Principi Hotel, Sorrento, Italy © Edward Barber 2002
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Gio Ponti's Parco Dei Principi Hotel, Sorrento, Italy © Edward Barber 2002
* Gio Ponti, ed. Ugo La Pietra, Rizzoli International Publications Inc.,
2009, p.363
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Saturday 28 July 2012
VISUAL AGITATION: PENNY BEARMAN MURALS IN DEAL, KENT
Penny Bearman Mural, Deal, Kent. Photo Visual Athletics Club 2012 |
Penny Bearman Mural, Deal, Kent. Photo © Visual Athletics Club 2012 |
Penny Bearman Mural, Deal, Kent. Photo © Visual Athletics Club 2012 |
Penny Bearman Mural, Deal, Kent. Photo © Visual Athletics Club 2012 |
Penny Bearman Mural, Deal, Kent. Photo © Visual Athletics Club 2012 |
Penny Bearman Mural, Deal, Kent. Photo © Visual Athletics Club 2012 |
Penny Bearman Mural, Deal, Kent. Photo © Visual Athletics Club 2012 |
Penny Bearman Mural, Deal, Kent. Photo © Visual Athletics Club 2012 |
Penny Bearman Mural, Deal, Kent. Photo © Visual Athletics Club 2012
Visual Athletics Club has been recording the murals of
Penny Bearman in Deal, Kent. Here, the seafront and high
street have fallen victim to the blight of closed down and
boarded up shops, cinemas and bars.
Whilst property developers wait for the right moment to
capitalise on their investment by demolition, refurbishment
or makeover, Penny has been busy providing the citizens
and visitors of Deal with thought provoking murals.
Her narrative is drawn from the locus of the particular
building and is executed in situ. The paintings are
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