Jean-Paul Gaultier´s collaboration with Roche Bobois has resulted in a collection featuring a transformable, mah-jong-like sofa, a bed, a paravent, a floor mat, and many cushions, all in typical Gaultier prints, including his nautical stripes.
to read more go to : Roche Bobois
(images & text taken from:http://mocoloco.com/fresh2/2010/09/17/jean-paul-gaultier-for-roche-bobois.php)
Marie Thurnauer lives in France, and graduated from Ecole Nationale de Creation Industrielle in 1989. She runs her own design company Petites Productions “People appreciating my work ask if I’m a Swedish designer, and I do feel related, I like the very simple straight forms and the functionality of Scandinavian design, it’s an obvious reference for my work.” Marie’s designs are honestly straightforward and direct with a minimalist simplicity, offering clever solutions for the everyday. But not always. Some years ago she made the blogosphere with quite a contrary design, her Noose lamp shaped as a Hangman’s knot made from optical fibers. “Lots of prototypes are presented at the design fairs, and when there is no company picking it up, people will say it’s great anyway, and suddenly call it a piece of art instead of design. So I thought, I can do that too, as a provocation of course!”
agenda 365
miso lamp
Chair skis
moose valet
Noose Hanging Lamp
to read more go to : petites-productions
(images taken from:http://www.petites-productions.com/text: http://www.designhousestockholm.com/designers/marie_thurnauer.html)
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