Douglas In Addition To Bec Launch The Arch Collection
Friday, June 23, 2017
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Last nighttime I attended the Douglas in addition to Bec Showroom inwards Auckland to run into the launch of their beautiful novel collection, Arch. Described past times the New Zealand studio equally their close ambitious yet, the novel slice of furniture in addition to lighting collection marks an impressive 10 years inwards design. Over the final decade manlike mortal bring upwards in addition to immature lady team, Douglas Snelling in addition to Bec Dowie pick out created a world-class build epitomised by immaculately beautiful craftsmanship. Striking a perfect residue betwixt tactility in addition to poetry, their work explores the contrast of natural hand-crafted materials alongside elegant linear forms. To celebrate the exciting 10 twelvemonth milestone, Douglas in addition to Bec have inwards add-on to launching Arch, undergone a build refresh in addition to volition last opening a novel showroom infinite inwards Melbourne designed past times renowned interior designer Rufus Knight.
Arch Pendant 03, Arch Chair in addition to Arch Side Table
The novel collection casts a expect dorsum to the belatedly 1920s in addition to ‘30s, a fourth dimension when fundamental items of slice of furniture were at the pump of daily rituals of living – starting or ending the 24-hour interval at a dressing table, reading inwards a chair past times the low-cal of a lamp, or gathering inwards the lounge for cocktails. Designer Bec Dowie says she was inspired past times the agency her grandparents’ generation invested fourth dimension in addition to appreciation inwards the slice of furniture they used daily.“As much equally this collection is born out of historical personal narrative, it has a modern feel,” she says. “I wanted to utilisation negative detailing in addition to reflections to pick out a playful chemical component into the work.”
Arch Vanity Table & Mirror, Arch Side Table in addition to Arch Floor Lamp
The collection draws influence from the curvilinear Parisian pattern of the time, alongside echoes of French designer Charlotte Perriand’s build clean yet feminine aesthetic apparent. A centrepiece grouping is the Arch Vanity Table, Arch Vanity Mirror in addition to Arch Vanity Chair. The generously sized, tiered three-piece mirror features rattan side- panels, in addition to seems to float similar a cloud higher upwards the slim-legged vanity table. The companion chair, inwards muted duck-egg bluish or buttery gilt velvet, has a sense of solidity fifty-fifty equally it glides on rolling caster feet.
“With the table, I wanted to celebrate the beauty of the natural grain of the wood,” says Dowie, “as good equally my dad Douglas’ skills of hand-turning.”
Arch Pendant 01 in addition to Arch Vanity Chair Those skills are also evident inwards the graceful Arch Cane Chair, alongside its steam-bent American Ash frame in addition to rattan lining, which telephone phone to heed the classic Thonet Chairs that were a pop characteristic of Parisian brasseries inwards the 30s.
In the lighting collection, Dowie has reached farther than e'er before, experimenting alongside reinventions of the classic pendant, in addition to using custom tooling for every business office of the designs. The tripartite pattern of the pendant shades in addition to tabular array in addition to flooring light bases evolved from a idea experiment or in addition to thus folding, in addition to the agency shadow in addition to negative detailing could last used to emphasise the linear aspects of the design. The lighting tubes utilisation state-of-the-art custom LED bulbs.
Completing the collection, the Arch Side Tables characteristic the same tripartite pattern equally the lamps, finished alongside a double drinking glass overstep that sandwiches brass money detailing.
Dowie says that the sense of weightiness inwards the collection compared to her before lighter in addition to finer operate is deliberate. Taking a longer-than-usual 8 months to operate on it, she aimed to juxtapose heavy forms alongside the utilisation of negative infinite to give a linear lineament to the pieces. From a conceptual viewpoint, she enjoys the agency that the laborious, technical procedure behind the collection has resulted inwards finished shapes that are all the same tardily in addition to graceful.
The cloth palette of the collection stays truthful to the Douglas in addition to Bec signature of pure natural materials played off against build clean lines: American Ash, rattan, brass, reflective glass, powder-coated steel in addition to velvet. Likewise, the color palette of duck-egg blue, gold, off-white in addition to natural wood, sharpened upwards alongside the judicious utilisation of black, was inspired past times a seascape epitome past times Dowie’s great-aunt, Helen Brown, a renowned New Zealand artist.
The Arch Collection is at in ane lawsuit available inwards store.
In early on September, Douglas in addition to Bec will motion their electrical current Melbourne showroom to fifteen Bedford St, Collingwood. As mentioned at the showtime of the post, the novel infinite volition last designed past times Rufus Knight whose incredible operate has been featured hither on TDC before. I can't hold off to run into the lawsuit of this novel collaboration!
Images courtesy of Douglas in addition to Bec