Tomorrow's Design Stars: Part 2
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Though Eugene, Oregon-based Studio Gorm (aka John Arndt and Wonhee Jeong Arndt) is best known for their Peg series—modular furniture with swappable legs and table bases—they work at smaller scales, too. Witness their new and simple wallet and key holder, made of vegetable tanned leather and elastic. -
Studio Gorm's Peg light has a wooden base and porcelain shade and is reminiscent of an old library lamp. -
Cape Town-based designer Renée Rossouw created this set of ceramic tableware, called Pattern Diary, in 2010. She spent the year pursuing her Masters of European Design Labs in Madrid, studying with Jaime Hayon, and then produced these ceramic pieces as a visual travelogue of her year abroad. -
Last year, Robin Sprong, owner of a Cape Town wallpaper company, saw Rossouw's drawings at the Design Indaba conference and invited her to design a collection of wallpaper. This pattern is called Stripy Birds Yellow. -
This pattern is called Earth Sunset. -
Rossouw has also dipped her feet into making designs for children. This set of painted wooden figurines is called The Colours. -
Jonas R. Stokke and Øystein Austad, who work in Oslo, Norway, under the name StokkeAustad, created this Dayboard calendar in order to give people more freedom to arrange the year as they see fit. Each individual date is affixed to the steel base with magnets, allowing users to move the days around. -
We love the silhouette of this Lobby Chair, which StokkeAustad says "derived from experiments on how an objects relates to its spatial surroundings. We looked at how a product can mark off an area and so create its own zone the user steps into. The extruded armrests and hanging seat is a result of this." -
This lacquered aluminum pendant lamp is basically a cube with three sides removed. There's a stretch fabric inside that spans the outer edges of the lamp and obscures the bulb. -
Line Depping, who is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, says she finds inspiration in corralling disorder. Witness her "Stilllife" installation, displayed at Galerie Maria Wettergren in 2010, which contains an array of handmade abstract wooden implements. -
Depping's simple and elegant wooden Splejs chair dates form 2010. -
THINKK Studio, based in Bangkok, Thailand, created the Foldo lamp out of powder-coated folded steel and a wooden base. It looks great on a desk. Bonus: you can attach photos and notes to the shade with magnets. -
The duo's Miti stool can double as a side table. Its form was inspired by tetrahedron structures, which are lightweight but strong. It's made of powder-coated steel with an optional wooden top.
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The New Guard
In our tireless search for what’s modern now, we’ve combed the globe for fresh talent, seeking out design stars in the making—our next generation of Bouroullecs, Jasper Morrisons, and Patricia Urquiolas. These 27 up-and-comers (who we’ve numbered separately from their collections in the pages that follow) are shaping the future of design, creating objects that make our world and our homes more functional, beautiful, and inspiring. We think you’ll see a lot more of them in the years to come.
Studio Gorm
John Arndt and Wonhee Jeong Arndt named their studio after the made-up word “gorm,” an invented antonym to the real word “gormless” (meaning stupid or dull).
StokkeAustad
Jonas R. Stokke and Øystein Austad met in a portfolio review at the Oslo School of Architecture in 2004 and have worked together ever since.
Milk Bottle Lamp
A favorite find from ICFF was Studio Gorm's Milk Bottle lamps. The Eugene, Oregon-based studio creates the hand-blown pendants with either one shade, or a unique shade-within-a-shade design, some of which have a subtle white 'twisted cane' pattern. We particularly like the pieces with the small wooden accent at their base.
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