| Maarten De Ceulaer: Salone Del Mobile 2012, Milan, Italy
Mutation Series
The pieces in this series look like they weren’t made by hands, but have grown to their present form organically. They might be the result of a mutation in cells, or the result of a chemical or nuclear reaction. Perhaps it’s a virus or bacteria that has grown dramatically out of scale. The Mutation pieces make you look at furniture in a different way. Maybe one day we would be able to grow a piece of furniture like we breed or clone an animal, and manipulate it’s shape like a bonsai tree.
The project can be seen as an experimental review of classic furniture upholstery. It reminds us of the famous and iconic deep buttoned (Chesterfield) sofa's, interpreted in a highly contemporary and sculptural way. Instead of upholstering springs and foam with leather or textile, these pieces are created by carefully composing patterns with cut-offs of foam spheres of various sizes, and applying them onto a structure. In the end the entire piece gets coated, with a durable rubber or tactile velvet-like finish. It is hardly impossible to ever recreate such a specific pattern, so every piece is completely unique.
 1060 Brussels
Belgium
Maarten De Ceulaer is exhibiting at 3 locations during the Salone del Mobile 2012: |
| Twenty-five established and emerging Belgian designers & companies
present their design visions on today’s tomorrows. Prototype of the Mutation Series on show!
Location
Triennale di Milano
Viale Alemagna 6
20121 Milano
www.triennale.org
Open
Press preview
16 April
11am-6pm
Opening event (invitation)
17 April
5pm-7pm
Milan Design Week 2012
17-22 April 2012
every day, 10.30am-10pm |
| Prototypes of the Mutation Series will be shown at Rossana Orlandi
Location
Via Matteo Bandello 14/16
20123 Milano
Tel: +39 02 46 74 47-1
Fax:+39 02 48 00 83 87
Opening event
17-22 April 2012
April at 20.00
every day, 09.00am-20.00pm |
| IN RESIDENCE presents
TOMÁS ALONSO, BCXSY, PIEKE BERGMANS, JULIEN CARRETERO, MAARTEN DE CEULAER, FORMAFANTASMA, TOMÁŠ GABZDIL LIBERTINY, PEPE HEYKOOP, LANZAVECCHIA + WAI, PHILIPPE MALOUIN, JO MEESTERS, MINALE-MAEDA, MISCHER’TRAXLER, LILIANA OVALLE, RAW-EDGES DESIGN STUDIO, STUDIO BESAU MARGUERRE, ANKE WEISS
Location
Ventura Lambrate 2012
via ventura 6
Opening hours:
17-22 April 2012
every day, 10am-20pm
Opening event
18 April 2012,
20pm-22pm
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We are very proud to announce that the Balloon Bowls are now on show and for sale at
-Phillips de Pury in London & New York
-Victor Hunt Designart Dealer in Brussels
-Bensimon gallery in Paris
-Mint gallery in London
-Highlight Store in San Francisco
-Galleria Luisa Della Piane in Milan
-START/stuff&art in Mindelo, Cape Verde
-Times Concept Store in Zurich
If you are interested in distributing the Balloon Bowls in your gallery/store, please contact me.
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The Balloon Bowls have been on show at the Atomium and the Brxl Pop-Up Store during Design September (Brussels), Maison & Objet in Paris (september), Mint Gallery during Design Festival London, C-Mine in Genk, Veerle Wenes gallery in Antwerp, and the I-Lunga Pop Up Store in Antwerp.
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The Balloon Bowls will be on show and for sale during the Salone del Mobile! Brussels based Victor Hunt gallery will become distributor for this project, retailers are very welcome. Click here to watch a VIDEO of the process
IMPORTANT NOTE:
opening hours of the exhibition have been changed;
daily from Tuesday 12th- Sunday 17th : 14.00pm – 18.00pm
Cocktail party (sponsored by Duvel & Vedett): Tuesday 12th at
19.00pm - ?
Adress:
9 via Laghetto,
I-20122 Milan
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read the recently appeared article in Kwintessens, the magazine of Design Vlaanderen by clicking here |
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The Desk of Briefcases is on show at Oeverture, a design festival all over the city of Ghent, from 3-5 september. You can find the Desk at the exhibition of Design Vlaanderen, click here for the brochure. |
Nilufar and Art & Rapy present "Scénographie d' Eté" at the Art & Rapy gallery in Monaco, a show that displays vintage works of Italian masters combined with works by contemporary designers. The Chest of Suitcases is included, to have see more pictures of the exhibition, click here. The show lasts untill 2nd of October (11, Avenue Princesse Grace - 98000 MONACO) |
This brand new, still-in-development project, the Balloon Bowls, was exhibited at the design event at 'Imaginez-Maintenant', the 4th of July, organised at the new Centre Pompidou in Metz. More info & pictures on the project coming soon |
Some snapshots of the new pieces of the Leather Collection for Nilufar, on show here at Design Miami/Basel 2010  Low Chest of Suitcases (Low Chest of Suitcases together with Blueware by Studio Glithero) Wall Installation of Suitcases |
The exhibition 'De Nieuwe Oogst' or 'The New Harvest', organised by Design Vlaanderen, is showing 'a Desk of Briefcases' and 'a Pile of Suitcases', and selected the last one to be the image on all advertising of the show. |
Sneak Preview! This bedroom closet installation will be shown at Design Basel in June, together with another new piece for the Leather Collection. . Don't hesitate to contact me or gallery Nilufar (agira@nilufar.com) for inquiries about this kind of customised pieces. Thanks to Steven Van Leeuw for the photography! |
The first prototypes of the Colour Lights, a new lighting series, will be presented at Spazio Rossana Orlandi during
the Salone del Mobile in Milano. More pictures and info under 'projects'
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A few weeks ago Barbara Glasner sent me a copy of this beautiful book of hers which deals with color in architecture, art and design, and which is showing the Pile of Suitcases |
I was invited to present at the Belgian Design Platform exhibition, organised during the Modefabriek |
a Pile of Suitcases will be part of the Design Tales exhibition at the Lodz Design Festival (Poland), curated by Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka
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Since the beginning of the London Design Festival, the Rubber Iron Book Ends are on show at Mint
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 The Pile of Suitcases is nominated for the Best New Product section of the Blueprint Award at the 100% Design exhibition during the London Design Festival, September 24-27th
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 I will participate at the YDMI 2009 as part of the Abitare il Tempo fair in Verona, Italy from September 17-21st
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A Pile of Suitcases is exhibited at the exhibition Repeat Please in the Stedelijk Museum 's Hertogenbosch (NL), untill September 13
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Nilufar will present The Leather Collection at Design Basel, June 9-13 |
 New pictures of the "Leather Collection" for Nilufar Gallery have arrived, see more under the "Projects" section. |
 We will be presenting at the ICFF fair in New York, from 16th to 19th of May, with the collective of "101% Designed In Brussels", a promotional program of Brussels Export and Designed In Brussels, that sponsors selected Brussels-based designers every year to go to the most prominent international fairs.
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 New images of the Nomad Light Fire, check out PROJECTS to see all of them |
Sneak Preview: The Rubber Iron Book ends will be shown at the Salone Satellite in Milano next week |
