Design Parade – villa Noailles

We are proud to announce that Benjamin Graindorge, a former Design Parade contestant (DP 01 and 03), is featured in an exhibition at Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Entitled ” Dessiner le design”, it questions the role played by drawing in the design process in our computer age.

Aquarium rose, © Benjamin Graindorge

From Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec to Pierre Charpin, from Mathieu Lehanneur to Marc Newson, the exhibit offered a view of various design pratices and highlighted the importance of preparatory drawing in the genesis of a design project.

Aquarium blanc, © Benjamin Graindorge

Dessin de Recherche, © Benjamin Graindorge

Only a few days left… the exhibition ends January 10.

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Dessiner le design, curated by Constance Rubini

Les Arts Décoratifs

107 rue de Rivoli

75001 Paris

visit : www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr for more information

Design Parade 04 contestant Oscar Diaz was shown at the London Design Festival in September as part of an exhibition called Eyes on Spanish Design at 100% Design.

Oscar designed a set of glass vases for a project named RGB Vases.

The project brings together a century old technique: glass blowing, with our contemporary culture in which screens (and their Red Green and Blue color combination system) play a leading role.

Each vase is made using a specific value of red, green and blue.

Once these 3 hues are combined, the 3 vases placed inside one another, a specific purple appears: P242.

This P242 purple is obtained by carefully choosing and balancing, by computer, the values of red, green and blue.

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To learn more about Oscar Diaz and follow his new projects go to www.oscar-diaz.net

In 2010, the Villa Noailles will open a permanant display : this will be the long waited for opportunity to  dive into the building’s unique history. Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles, as two of the twentieth century’s most influent patrons of the art were surrounded by many great personnalities and works of art.

©David Dubois

The display’s ambition is to go beyond a traditionnal museographic project and to share with visitors the Count and Countess of Noailles’ attitude and choices in a time where many of the Modern era’s estheatical questions were debated.

©David Dubois

This summer a preview of the permanant display will be visible in three rooms of the Villa’s initial part.

This project is the work of Stéphane Boudin Lestienne, historian of the Villa, alongside David Dubois, designer.

They are accompanied by Raphaëlle Billé, researcher, Frédéric Teschner, graphic design and Christophe Ponceau, landscape.

We are proud to announce that the professionnal opening of the festival will preview LOGORAMA, an animation movie by french graphic designers H5.

As Ludovic Hulpain, founder of the label, explains, LOGORAMA is based on the following observation: everything surrounding us can be represented by a logo. How does this reflects our environment? How does it translate into our vision of our world ? What heritage does it build ? When the beauty and grace of a good logo meets visual abundancy …

A three year project, LOGORAMA will be shown in Cannes this spring and at the Pompidou Center later this year. In Hyères, the screening will be followed by a debate lead by Walter Bettens, editor in chief of DAMn° magazine. (reservations required)

This summer Design PARADE 04 will show the work of french architect Christian Biecher who has been invited to work with the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres. 

This collaboration lead to the manufacturing of LACE, a vase thought through Biecher’s own personnal architectural poitn of view mixed with the fench institution century-old know-how.

Each year, the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres and Design PARADE come together to present the work of designers inside the french institution: from Ettore Sottsass’ collaboration in 1993 and 2005 to the new shapes designed by Pierre Charpin to complete the Manufacture’s repertoire in 2008.

Design PARADE and the Manufacture de Sèvres also collaborate on the Young Designer Competition, the Grand Prix winner having the opportunity to produce a piece with the Manufacture’s century-old workshops. In 2008, Franck Fontana and Sébastien Cordoléani designed a series of mirrors shown in their personnal exhibition in Hyères in July 2008.

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These three projects are shown in Cologne, during the PASSAGEN 2009 Festival, from January 19 to January 31, 2009.

Jerszy Seymour will show his work at the villa Noailles for Design PARADE 04. The Berlin based designer, a member of the DP03 jury is involved in design in two specific directions: mass market products with Magis and Moulinex, for example, and very radical research projects on the other side. 

In July 2009, Jerszy will show the third and last part of a project started this october at the MAK in Vienna. The designer explores the idea of coalition, the idea of a group of people, of different personalities working together on a common project.  In Vienna it took the shape of a great gathering for a diner. At the MUDAM later this year, the participants will build furniture together. 

What will it be at the villa ? Find out on July 3, 4 and 5 of 2009 in Hyères !

Michel Charlot, the winner of the Design Parade 03 Grand Prix is showing his work at the parisian department store, Le Bon Marché. The department store choose him as their first guest to exhibit in the newly re-opened design department.

You can discover an impressive display of his Mold Lamps alongside his stool and metal boxes which seduced the DP03 jury.

On thursday november 13th, from 6:30 PM, Michel will be present to share a moment with us … 

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Le Bon Marché

24 rue de Sèvres

75007 Paris

// 2nd Floor, Design department //

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