Posts Tagged ‘innovation’
The betonvorhang Concrete Textile
April 22nd, 2010 | Author: admin
No other building material has shaped the contemporary architecture more than concrete. With its often rough-looking surfaces, concrete image is ubiquitous in everyday life and everyone knows the forms it may take it. Design gets interesting when it questioned such as these, in our daily lives with new sensory perceptions.
The betonvorhang is an object that defies the senses. It represents the concrete material in a new context and thus lends new and interesting properties. Designed he is only two components: concrete cushions are steppdeckenartig by a solid fabric together. Since the carrier material is flexible, it creates a curtain, which lies in folds, like a fabric curtain can be pushed to the side. Read the rest of this entry »
Suspension of Scandinavian design by Poul Henningsen
January 27th, 2010 | Author: admin
Splendid suspension design, this masterpiece by Poul Henningsen Louis Poulsen is published by itself a symbol of Scandinavian designs.
Here the model PH 4 ½. This suspension Scandinavian design has very balanced proportions, since it uses a 3:2:1 ratio
The lampshades reduce very gradually light that is projected.
Poul Henningsen has created a series of lamp design PH3 in 1925 in Copenhagen, said that true visionary innovation of this series of fixtures was due to the fact that the suspension not dazzled, but it was also economical in terms management of energy.
So Hats off to this designer Scandinavian genius who already anticipated the problematic of the coming millennium.