Creating precious and inspiring design pieces from simple material
Sunday 9 September —
12:00
- 12:45
The Talks
Description
Create valuable and inspiring design pieces from simple materials.
To make waste an object of desire? Two designers did it: The polish Marcin Ruzak and the Catalan Andreu Carulla. How and why such a singular choice? Which questions as well our desires of creation as of decrease.
Nos partenaires : Mini
Participants
Andreu CarullaDesigner
Marcin RusakDesigner
Guy-Claude AgbotonJournalist, Head of design section - IDEAT Magazine
Andreu Carulla
Designer
With materiality, craftsmanship and sustainability as goals, Andreu Carulla creates beautiful, lively objects with timeless appeal. Following his childhood dream of becoming an inventor, in 2006 Catalan-born Andreu Carulla founded the product design studio that carries his name, becoming one of the most versitle design firms working in Spain today. Constant exploration of materials, old-school techniques and contemporary processes hallmarks the studio’s projects, of which include furniture, tableware, lighting, fashion, interiors and more. Surrounded by an idyllic lake and an hour from Barcelona, a repurposed mill houses the designer’s studio and workshop, reflecting its Mediterranean approach to design.
Marcin Rusak
Designer
Marcin Rusak was born in 1987 Warsaw, Poland. He now lives and works in London. Marcin situates his work at the intersection of value, ephemerality and aesthetics. He studies contemporary patterns of consumption, industry methods of manipulation, and the complicated systems we support. In his pursuit of authenticity, Marcin creates work that asks questions, references history and proposes possible future scenarios. Utilising the power of materials, volume and form he moves fluid- ly from decorative art objects to sculptures, two dimensional work and back again each time with a story as his guide. Marcin has a background in both humanities (BA from European Studies from University of Warsaw) and art programmes such as Man and Living at the conceptual Eindhoven Design Academy, Netherlands as well as receiving an MA in Design Products from London’s Royal College of Arts. In 2015 Marcin has been awarded the Perrier-Jouët Arts Salon Prize for emerging artists. He has exhibited at group shows including “What is Luxury?” at the V&A, Design Miami/Basel, London, Milan and Dubai design fairs. Recently Flora was presented for the first time in Paris, France at M&O as a result of a “Rising Talent Award” for which Marcin was nominated by Ilse Crawford. He had his first solo show at the Contemporary Applied Arts gallery in London and more recently in the United States at the Twenty First Gallery in New York entitled Flora Noir in which eleven unique pieces from his Flora series were presented.
Guy-Claude Agboton
Journalist, Head of design section - IDEAT Magazine