ArtTickles

Renowned car giant Porsche has unveiled the new sculpture celebrating the 911 on the roundabout outside the company’s museum at Zuffenhausen in Stuttgart, Germany. The sculpture features a brand-new 911 Carrera flanked by 911 SC Coupé and 911 2.2 Coupé classics, each restored to showroom condition. Designed by Gerry Judah, with structural engineering by Capita and fabrication by Littlehampton Welding, the sculpture was fabricated in the UK before being shipped to Germany for assembly on site. 25 meters (82 feet) high, the sculpture is a lightweight steel monocoque shell, similar to the original Porsche sculpture for the Goodwood Festival of Speed, 2013.

Client: Porsche Design: Gerry Judah Engineering: Capita Logistics: Fichtner Bauconsulting Fabrication and Installation: Littlehampton Welding Photography: David Barbour

The L242 speaker designed by Estragon for Vonschloo uses composite cement to frame the home speakers. This is a visual and material statement largely inspired by the Folle, an archaic sound object which has been used in the Swiss Alps for centuries.  The basic cone shape allows the sound object to be placed in a variety of environments while the combination of composite cement, wood, metal and fabric creates an intriguing finish.

Home is where this living is. In a two-storey dwelling in São Paulo designed as a secluded retreat within the city’s dense urban fabric by CR2 arquitetura.

The first collection of designer Neta Tesler’s Knots Studio extends on her distinct aesthetics and practices inspired by the nautical world. Research and experimentation led her to discover a special tying technique, which eventually became the backbone for the studio’s first product line.

Seaboard Rise - a universally accessible MIDI controller created by Roli that empowers musicians to do more with a programmable keyboard. The controller builds on patented interface technology, remodelling the keyboard as a pressure sensitive continuous surface that responds to even the sensitive gestures. Playing on its special ‘key waves’, musicians shape notes with expressiveness, modulating the character of sound in real time with movements of the finger.

The Boiler Lamp Collection designed by Willem Heeffer has identified and made use of various residual items gathered from factories around the Helsinki area in Finland. His aim was to develop a series of interior objects and create an extensive catalogue of information about industrial waste materials, including specific properties and production methods.

SOHN creates the One Liner Series chair, a piece that explores the relationship between objects and space, the flat and stereoscopic. The result is a seating object influenced by a line drawing made by Picasso that looks like a chair, but is functionally designed as a stool.

The Floating Flower Garden created by Japanese studio Teamlab is a serene installation engrossed with a vivid and dense canopy of orchids imported from Holland. 

Industrial designer Peter Otto Vosding creates a seating collection for small-to-midsize rooms. The modular chairs have vertical legs placed opposite to tilted legs. By placing the slanted elements between the straight angled base of another, a bench is created.

Reconsidered version of the Tabu chair designed by Eugeni Quitllet for Alias attempts a synthesis of nature and industry by combining different materials and elements in solid ash wood, all produced using a numeric control system and joined to one another.

BeoPlay A6 wireless speaker by Bang & Olufsen features a unique design that gives listeners a signature sound wherever the speaker is placed. The intuitive touch interface makes it possible to control the speaker without the need to pick up the smartphone.

Bulbing lamp designed by Studio Cheha creates big and bright optical illusions as the 3D appearance is achieved via detailed etching of the 2D acrylic.

Francis Bitonti Studio, United Nude and 3D Systems release the “Mutatio” collection, a wearable project that considers the future of customisation in its relation to technology. Each shoe in the edition is completely unique, generated by an algorithm developed by the designer. “Mutatio” mixes both new and traditional crafting techniques — the heel of the shoe is 3D printed, allowing for individual results, are plated with gold and finished with a leather upper.

The “Vitis” chair designed by Rodrigo Ohtake features a structure that appears like branches of a climbing tree to support its seat. The chair is designed with a handmade approach, with steel tubes interlaced in a way that seems to defy gravity. Each conduit is extruded from a machine with unique geometry in just 15 seconds. h125 x w55 x d75 cm.