If it's summer time the place you’re and also you want some ice aid, discover out Zen assortment by Pricey & Aurela multidisciplinary studio based by Draga Obradovic and Aurel Okay. Basedow. Once we final met with the designers, they’d simply launched the Flare sequence, which introduced the idea of sunshine refraction into furnishings. Their newest assortment, offered by Galeria Rossana Orlandi throughout Milan Design Week, expands on this concept, capturing multicolored mild refractions in what seem like blocks of ice.
Photograph: Riccardo Gasperoni
Photograph: Riccardo Gasperoni
These ice sculptures are literally three espresso tables and a eating desk made solely of Lucite and handcrafted by artisans in Como, Italy. The frosted impact is a floor remedy that offers tables their cool (no pun supposed) look. In every desk, sheets of Lucite in pastel shades reproduce the phenomenon of playful refractions of sunshine which were frozen in place. Every desk is exclusive, reinforcing the concept the sequence is actually a murals.
Photograph: Riccardo Gasperoni
It’s crystal clear that Draga & Aurel have a deep fascination for mild and the way we understand it on the earth round us. To study extra about their curiosities, we chat with the studio and get the lowdown on what's subsequent for coaching:
The interaction between colour and light-weight is a recurring theme in your work. Are you able to inform us extra about why you’re drawn to this supply of inspiration?
Our fascination with colour and consequently our curiosity in mild as an activator of colour via matter is one thing that has at all times us as artists and craftspeople. We’ve investigated and are nonetheless exploring this ever-changing interplay, and for that motive it’s difficult. I discovered in resin the very best materials to play with colour and light-weight. What we now have achieved is the results of years of experimentation and research. Within the design course of, we use samples of supplies, placing them along with totally different colours, shapes and thicknesses. We observe the response of sunshine passing via totally different layers and solely then can we see the proper interconnection between colour, mild, matter and type.
Your work usually blends artwork and practical design, as seen in these sculptural tables. How do you strategy the steadiness between creating items which might be each visually putting and sensible for on a regular basis use?
Performance and aesthetics are sometimes seen as two troublesome ideas to reconcile, believing that it’s essential to sacrifice one in favor of the opposite. We don't contemplate this to be the case: our items are collectible design objects as a result of experimentation and craftsmanship behind them, however they at all times serve a operate, this facet makes them real-life objects.
We wish to go deep into researching and choosing supplies (however, we've made acrylic resin our stylistic signature); in the identical manner, we should deliver the fabric again right into a context, make it, so to talk, “practical” in relation to the article itself.
As your studio continues to evolve, what new initiatives or instructions are you excited to discover subsequent? Are you able to give us a glimpse of what's on the horizon for Draga & Aurel?
The trail we now have constructed and want to observe strikes in three parallel however interconnected instructions. Our artwork design venture, with the Transparency issues assortment particularly, sees us more and more energetic within the gallery world: we’re working arduous to strengthen our presence within the sector and we’re grateful to have discovered necessary companions, from Rossana. Orlandi to Nina Yashar to Todd Merrill, with whom we additionally develop unique initiatives.
Likewise, we’re concerned in new initiatives for design firms: this yr through the Milan Design Week we debuted with Poltrona Frau and Giorgetti, two historic furnishings firms with which we discovered nice affinities. Additionally from this viewpoint, our dedication is to create invaluable collaborations that may be significant for us and for the corporate.
Final however not least, our purely creative aspect, which is expressed within the manufacturing of Aurel's work: a consistently rising venture, a lot in order that we now have enlarged our workshop to have the ability to supply the suitable area for creative manufacturing.
Draga Obradovic and Aurel Okay. Basedow Photograph: Anne Timmer
To study extra about design or Draga & Aurel, go to draga-aurel.com.
