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Landscape series 01 by Patricia Urquiola for Rosenthal Studio-Line, 2008. |
Landscape Vases by Patricia Urquiola for Rosenthal Studio-Line, 2008.
Landscape 02 by Patricia Urquiola for Rosenthal Studio-Line, 2008.
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Design Museum Patricia Urquiola, one of the most active and exciting designers working today, will exhibit Landscape, her recent porcelain series for the ceramic manufacturers Rosenthal at the Design Museum this Autumn. From dinner wares to tea-sets, cutlery to glass, this exquisitely designed collection, which took over two years to develop, combines smooth simplicity with richly textured surface decoration. Spanish born Urquiola is known for her love of decoration and with Landscape she has produced exceptionally fine, translucent porcelain forms, creating ceramic surfaces with a variety of intricate decorations and patterns “The pattern is erratic” explains Urquiola “sometimes filling the form and at other times escaping”. Responding to today’s visual mood, Urquiola has created “a sensual compendium”. Landscape is a unique service which combines smooth and textured surfaces, solidity and translucency as well as Western and Oriental ceramic styles resulting in a truly inspiring collection. Patricia Urquiola – Purely Porcelain presents the entire design process, tracing the idea from design concept through prototype to finished product and invites us to see the complex, experimental and collaborative stages that transform a vision into a finished usable product. This collaboration with Rosenthal is the first time Urquiola has worked with porcelain. A challenge she has enjoyed, “ceramics are less about problem solving and more about our aesthetic and emotional response to them” says Urquiola. Born in Oviedo, Spain in 1961 Urquiola now lives and works in Milan, Italy. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Madrid Polytechnic in 1989 and then studied at Milan Polytechnic. On leaving she worked for Achille Castiglioni in Milan and then in 1990 at De Padova where she was responsible for new product development and by 1996 was head of the Pierre Lissoni Associati design group. She opened her own studio in 2001 focusing on product design, architecture, installation and concept creation. She has designed for manufacturers Moroso, Driade, Kartell and B&B. |
Landscape series by Patricia Urquiola for Rosenthal Studio-Line, 2008. |
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Design Cities: Tokyo 1987, How High The Moon, Shiro Kuramata, 1986 Lacquered wire mesh, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein. |
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Design Museum Design Cities tells the story of contemporary design through the milieu of seven key cities, in each case looking at their most creative moments. While focusing on how specific periods have contributed to the evolution of design, the exhibition also investigates ways in which design has shaped contemporary culture. Beginning in London at the time of the Great Exhibition in 1851, and moving to the Vienna of Adolf Loos in 1908, to the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1928, to the Paris of Le Corbusier in1936. In the post-war period, the exhibition moves to the Los Angeles of Charles and Ray Eames in 1949, then to Milan in 1957 and Tokyo’s creative flowering in1987. Finally, returning to present day London which is once again the world’s leading centre for design, the base for Ron Arad and Ross Lovegrove, Jasper Morrison and many other leading contemporary designers. The exhibition features a full range of objects from textiles and fashion to industrial pieces, furniture and prints. It will include design classics such as chairs by Charles and Ray Eames, as well as work by a spectrum of designers that together evoke an impactful impression of their era. Key exhibits includes work by William Morris, Christopher Dresser, Adolf Loos, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray, Achille Castiglioni, Issey Miyake and Ron Arad. Design Cities investigates the tangible link between design and the city and celebrates the key achievements of this relationship. Exhibition Curator and Design Museum Director Deyan Sudjic says “One fruitful way to understand the development of design is to look at how certain cities, at specific moments in their histories has moved the practice of design on. That is the thesis of this exhibition. It looks at what it was that made a sequence of cities, at various moments shift the direction taken by design.” Design Cities was organised by the Design Museum, London in association with Istanbul Museum of Modern Art and is curated by Deyan Sudjic. |
Design Cities: London 2008, 2003 Ceramic, David Chipperfield, Alessi Museo, Tea and Coffee Towers.
Design Cities: Los Angeles 1949, Regal Storage Unit, Charles and Ray Eames, 1949-50 Lacquered steel, laminated plywood, wood, plywood, fibreglass, lacquered masonite, rubber , Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein. |
Design Cities: Vienna 1908, Sitzmachine No.670, Adjustable Armchair, Josef Hoffman, 1904-05 Bent beechwood, plywood, turned wood, brass, leather cushions, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein. |
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