Il y a quelques temps, je vous ai proposé un article sur la conférence de Frédéric Rossi-Liegibel à propos des innovations packaging.
Aujourd’hui, je vous propose de nous arrêter plus longuement sur la Cooperative Design dont il est le créateur.

Logo de la Cooperative Design©

L’origine de la Cooperative Design est basée sur un constat : il existe à Paris un savoir-faire dans le domaine du design qui mérite d’être valorisé et qui peut répondre aux besoins des entreprises qui recherchent la souplesse et la réactivité de structures moins importantes, mais tout aussi efficaces, que les grandes agences.

Il s’agit d’accueillir créateurs, designers, typographes dans le dixième arrondissement de Paris, boulevard Magenta, pour leur offrir un lieu de création, de travail mais également une visibilité. Le principe d’être « ensemble mais libre » en quelque sorte.

La Cooperative Design, forte de son label « Paris, capitale de la Création » reçu en septembre dernier, veut défendre et promouvoir les métiers du design et notamment la spécificité parisienne. Protectionnisme ? Pas du tout. Plutôt la reconnaissance de ce savoir-faire dont nous parlions un peu plus haut. Ce petit « je ne sais quoi » de français qui nous permet d’être reconnu à l’étranger. Car on ne peut pas « bien créer » si on ne s’ouvre pas sur le monde.

Le collectif regroupe donc plusieurs noms, connus ou qui montent : Atelier 3D Couleur, BETC Design, Blend, Business Madame, Demoniak, Idoine, Jacob+MacFarlane, Karine Arabian, Matali Crasset, Nord, Nouvel œuvre.

Je trouve l’initiative intéressante et méritoire car certains métiers du design relèvent encore de l’artisanat, parfois de la confidentialité. D’autres (comme celui de typographe) sont en passe de disparaître. Il est donc nécessaire de les sauvegarder tout en les faisant évoluer et en leur donnant une utilité, un rôle social et économique. C’est le challenge que tente de relever Fréderic Rossi-Liegibel au travers de la Cooperative Design.

Pour en savoir plus, je vous invite à découvrir le site à cette adresse : http://www.cooperativedesign.fr/menu.html
Ainsi que le blog à cette adresse : http://cooperativedesign.wordpress.com/

Retrouvez l’article sur la conférence de Frédéric Rossi-Liegibel sur les innovations packaging à cette adresse :
http://ecrinsdesaveurs.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/conference-de-frederic-rossi-liegibel-de-la-cooperative-design/

French designer, Matali Crasset, has designed and created this 1,500 square-foot space, especially for little artists, with fun, creativity and discovery as the only goals.  The place is specifically for children six years of age and under, and is designed just for them!  There is no set program there, just specially designed toys and objects for the children to use.  This Maison des Petits (House of Little Ones) is very vibrant in color, and excitingly designed, encouraging a happy mood and bringing lots of life into the center.

Click the picture above to link to The Cool Hunter for more pics.

trabajó con el señor marketing Philippe Starck y con Denis Santachiara ( el que diseño la lampara que proyectaba ovejas saltando una valla )  , se tomó todos los Bombay Saphire de todas las barras de los bares parisinos para luego recrear los productos de esa gran marca, se sentó en todos los sofás para repensarlos y diseñarlos a su manera, y lo más rico para quien escribe , es su amor por los colores y el marketing, sus creaciones  son cuadros que rebosan de alegría.
Ella cree que el diseño es una actitud respecto a la vida, no tiene que ver con las formas o con los materiales, tiene que ver con las preguntas y con la vida cambiante, con la antropología del diseño.

un bloody bien rojo para Matali Crasset.

Le Carte da Parati di Domestic

Le Carte da Parati di Domestic

Le Carte da Parati di Domestic

Le Carte da Parati di Domestic

Le Carte da Parati di Domestic

Le Carte da Parati di Domestic

In questo post vi presento Domestic, azienda francese specializzata nella realizzazione di carte da parati dalle stampe originalissime e molto versatili, per decorare le pareti di casa con gusto e allegria.

Sull’onda del grande apprezzamento da parte del pubblico, Domestic ha deciso di stringere delle preziose collaborazioni con famosi designer, graphic artist e studi che hanno realizzato delle edizioni limitate davvero esclusive.

Matali Crasset, Ich&Kar, Geneviève Gauckler, Elisabeth Arkhipoff, Jeremyville, Pierre Marie, Tado, Coco Tassel, Studio Job, Rolito, Pandarosa, +41, Dylan Martorell, Klaus Haapaniemi, Kustaa Saksi, Jon Burgerman, Timorous Beasties, Ryan Cox e Mark Verhaagen sono i nomi scelti per interpretare il gusto eclettico e giocoso di Domestic.

Per maggiori info e nuovie realizzazioni andate a fare un salto sul loro sito.

French designer Matali Crasset has completed the interior of La Maison des Petits (House for the Little Ones) at arts centre 104 Centquatre in Paris, France. The venue aims to provide a public space where children can exercise their creativity. The space is divided into distinct areas for children of different ages and abilities and furnished with free-standing, mushroom-like structures. A circular seating and play area in the centre of the room features an inner, cushioned play-area for babies and toddlers and is surrounded by stools so parents can sit at the same level as their children.

Via & more: Dezeen

Ο χώρος La Maison des Petits είναι σχεδιασμένος από την Matali Crasset και προορίζεται ως τόπος χαλάρωσης παιδιών και γονιών μέσα στον Παρισινό πολυχώρο τέχνης 104 Centquatre. Πολύ μοντέρνο και χωρίς να καταφεύγει σε παραμυθιές στυλ Disney. Περισσότερο μοιάζει με σκηνικό του 2001 Space Odyssey. Eπειδή δεν έχω δικό μου παιδί να δικαιολογεί την παραμονή μου, να δανειστώ το δικό σας κυρία μου; Για δυο ωρίτσες μόνο.

French designer Matali Crasset has designed the Istant chair for new design house, Moustache.  (It’s the turquoise chair seen here at Milan design week.)

Moustache is a new French company debuting their contemporary home furnishings at Salone this year. The first collection features work by Matali Crasset, Big-Game, Francois Azambourg, Ana Mir and Emili Padros, and Inga Sempé. Sempé and I had emailed a few times before the fair and when we met in Milan she told me she was very surprised, as she’d imagined me as a very slight blonde man (I am, in fact, quite the opposite: A tall, brunette lady). After a laugh, I had a chance to chat with the lovely Ms. Sempé about her latest design venture.

Via & more: Dwell

Why a new home furnishings company?
The idea of a new French company of contemporary home furnishings might seem either odd or gutsy, considering how full the world is with furniture and objects. And if the company in question chooses to work with designers and producers who are close contacts (in every sense of the term—geography, affinity and tastes) whereas globalization seems to be the way of our times, isn’t this a little anachronistic? And if the company’s aim is to build a network based on both complicity and know-how, and if the company believes that between very upscale and standardization there should be a wide range of choices: is this utter madness? Announcing Moustache. Founded and run by Stéphane Arriubergé and Massimiliano Iorio, moreover partners in Domestic, Moustache’s aim is to bring together a group of like-minded designers to nurture the development of innovative and honest furnishings that will stand the test of time.

Moustache seeks to break away from pre-set market concepts and create innovative products by combining a variety of approaches and thought processes. To open new domestic horizons designers such as François Azambourg, Big-Game, Matali Crasset, Ana Mir + Emili Padros and Inga Sempé cohabit in Moustache. Rather than artificially developing the principle of novelty at any price, the products produced by Moustache will attempt to take advantage of passing time and to give them a little of the heritage value that furniture and objects held in the past. Far however from looking nostalgically at the contemporary production of the objects, the Moustache collection will try to anticipate and project the solutions for our scenarios for future life. At the scale of its market, Moustache will attempt to take up a position beside those which, rejecting some ideals of the society, are entrusted with substituting and inventing new ones.

Instant seat chauffeuse by Matali Crasset
With the Instant range, Matali Crasset has designed obvious articles starting with a simple tool: the trestle. While preserving its versatility, Matali associates it with a shell seat to create an armchair. The trestle shape follows the shell’s profile and, at the back, has a hook for a bag or anything else. The two are very easily separated so they can be put away or stacked. An article conspiring to make the Instant Seat armchair comfortable can at any time disappear to take advantage of the space it took up.

Armoire souple storage module by Inga Sempé
Inga Sempé has done substantial research on the pleat and, this time, uses its characteristics to create the façades of an amazing storage module… Made of a sycamore structure, its flexible cupboard can be accessed from the front or the back and, by stacking, enables storage space of variable dimensions to be created. Access to this flexible cupboard is by simply sliding and folding back a pleated textile surface along a rail. Precisely observed and studied, the mechanical qualities inherent in the pleat applied to the simple and recurring gesture of opening and closing. Available in 4 colours, a large number of combinations, horizontal, vertical with 2, 4, 6, 9 elements, are available. Its dual access and the possibility of stacking several also enables it to be used as an element partitioning the space.

Mètre shelf by François Azambourg
The Mètre shelf unit by François Azambourg takes over the mechanical principle of the mason’s yardstick to articulate a support all along the wall to take the shelves. Delivered folded. It is up to the user to unfold the Mètre to install his shelves.

Slastic coat rack by Ana Mir + Emili Padros
The Slastic coat rack goes back to the order that parent generally give to their children not to draw on the walls and, once adult, invites them to disobey it. Each deposit on the coat rack marks your having been there and participates in the collective achievement of a work very far from being just an accident.

Xtra room interior refuge by Matali Crasset
Matali Crasset has always been interested in the principle of building/unbuilding articles in the living space. Flexible, therefore her Interior Xtra room refuge, according to needs and wishes, can be unfolded or removed. Putting up a passing friend in the house, cutting oneself off to work, read, watch television, the Xtra room offers a bettermanagement of space by creating transient sub-spaces. From the simple principle of a trunk/posts, the Xtra room makes it possible to build a structure which, according to the number of elements assembled, becomes a screen, a private corner or a real refuge. Completed by a felt-lined skin, the hut becomes homely and welcoming, suitable to carrying out a large number of activities in a single open area. A tool for partitioning the area, the Xtra room refuge is a light alternative to building walls.

Vapeur lamps and suspension by Inga Sempé
Weightless in our interiors. The Inga Sempé Vapeur collection uses the mechanical and structuring qualities of the pleat to create strange and large lighting volumes.

La belle et le clochard table by François Azambourg
A previously unknown association of two materials with opposing qualities, La belle et le clochard table by François Azambourg invites the use of fused precious wood and polyurethane foam to create an extremely light table (12 kg) with astonishing acoustic qualities. A table-top sandwich in maple or brazilian ironwood plywood and polyether foam. The base in solid maple or solid maple veneered with brazilian ironwood.

Instant table by Matali Crasset
With the Instant range, Matali Crasset has designed obvious articles starting with a simple tool: the trestle. While retaining it, Matali completes the trestle principle so that only one is needed to support the table-top. To be unfolded according to requirements, the Instant Table table is economic in materials: its top is made of all the wood chips left over from the cutting of its own base. In plywood beech and brass.

Box table by Big-Game
Taking inspiration from and applying the pleating techniques used in the cardboard and aluminium industry, very light, the Box coffee table is easily moved by means of the handles drilled into its sides.

Bold chair by Big-Game
Made up of two tubular parts in metal embedded in each other, the Bold chair is an updated version of the tradition of a chair in tubular steel. Inflated with a thin polyurethane foam, the line drawn by the Bold successfully plays the role of foot, seat then back and gives it an amazing level of comfort. With a single stroke, in the manner of the Osvaldo Cavandoli Linea, and thickened similarly to the font which is made bold, the Bold chair succeeds in doing away with the seat and back. Covered with a removable textile coating, the Bold chair can change colour in a few seconds.

Box stool by Big-Game
Taking inspiration from and applying the pleating techniques used in the cardboard and aluminium industry, very light and versatile, the Box stool can be folded away like a cardboard box. A hole is pierced in the centre of the seat so that it is easy to carry, it brings to mind certain mass seating in the last century.

The Moustache first collection will be on view during the Design Week / Via Tortona 19

MOUSTACHE
C/O DROGHERIA
VIA TORTONA 19
MILANO

Press preview 21 April 16.00 – 19.00
Cocktail 23 April 19.00-24.00

French company Moustache will launch their new collection of furniture at the Milan Design Week 09. For their collection, Moustache called on designers Matali Crasset, Big-game, Ana Mir and Emili padros, Ich & Kar, François Azambourg and Inga Sempé and entrusted them with creating one or more objects with distinct uses to try to cover the main household.

Via & more: designboom

          Si vous aimeriez initier vos élèves à l’architecture, ou si vous souhaitez approfondir un questionnement évoquer en cours autour de ce sujet, sachez que la Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine propose des ateliers aussi originaux qu’ingénieux adaptés à tous les âges.

        Au travers d’outils variés comme le jeu multimédia « Dessine-moi une architecture », ou encore les installations de la designer déjantée Matali Crasset, les enfants expérimentent les méthodes de constructions au fil du temps, les problèmes rencontrés par les architectes, et quelles réponses ils ont trouvé à l’époque pour y remédier.

"Dessine-moi une architecture" - Matali Crasset - source:Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine

          Mais la Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine propose aussi une ouverture sur l’architecture de demain en proposant un atelier autour des matériaux écologiques… Autant de choses à découvrir, qui valent le déplacement ! Avec en prime l’assurance d’un très bon accueil !

Cécile Paska et Delphine Maugendre

“La Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine présente du 16 octobre 2008 au 9 mars 2009 une exposition-atelier pour les tout-petits (dès 4 ans), conçue sous la forme d’une carte blanche à la designer Matali Crasset.

Maison furtive, maison frange ou feu… Autant d’architectures ouvertes qui permettent aux tout-petits de construire des habitats en toute liberté, au gré de leur imaginaire. La cabane de notre enfance …”

A la Cité de l’architecture et du Patrimoine : 1 place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre dans le 16e

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Merci à Paris Art pour les informations, et le reste sur le site internet : http://www.paris-art.com/agenda/expos/d_annonce/Matali-Crasset-Permis-de-construire-12521.html

“Il design dovrebbe rendere la vita più piacevole”. Con queste parole, la francese Matali Crasset realizza progetti concettuali e giocosi come il vassoio per gatti, il portafrutta che funge da centrotavola e gli sticker Bubble Line Rose.
In vendita nello shop online.

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These images are stills from the collaborative music video between the band, Liquid Architecture and artist, Matali Crasset. To see the entire video click here.

The work of Parisian product designer, Crasset, creates the atmosphere for the band’s first music video.  It was filmed in Chicago and tells the story of a man and woman who spread  their musical laboratory experiments throughout the city in order to share their new sound with others.  Crasset’s works range from collaborations with artists like this piece to innovative glasses.  Her work has been described as encouraging “us to question the way we go about our daily lives.”  Examples of her works are below:

-quote from http://designmuseum.org/design/matali-crasset