New + Noted | Simon James Pattern
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
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2018 has been a busy twelvemonth for Simon James Design with novel production releases, projects together with a popular upwardly inwards NYC by Resident. Founded inwards New Zealand yesteryear Simon James together with Scott Bridgens, Resident is a globally focused pattern company, managing its manufacturing together with distribution inwards 3 locations - Auckland, London together with Los Angeles. The popular up, Travelling Without Bags, is an experiential retail goal located inwards the pump of New York City. Open through till cease of May, the bold installation presents the best of Resident’s celebrated slice of furniture together with lighting gain equally good equally the worldwide launch of its 2018 collection.
Since its launch inwards 2011, Resident has struck a chord with design-conscious people who are passionate most the means they live. Every object showcases the highest flat of refinement, patch also belongings the unique fingerprint of the designer. By balancing a wishing for novel ideas together with progression with an appreciation for unproblematic forms, the designs make got a unique means of either harmonising with a room or acting equally a deliberate contrast. This ethos has been beautifully applied to the popular upwardly space, where the elegant together with refined lines of the Resident pieces are juxtaposed against the rawness of the exposed bricks together with concrete floors. The vibrant Nodi rugs together with soft curtains add together farther texture to the striking space.
Travelling Without Bags is located at 39 Spring Street, New York City together with is opened upwardly until 31st May.
Here's a closer await at some of the novel production launches for 2018.
Having admired the Bloom Pendant since its launch lastly year, I was excited to require heed intelligence of the novel tabular array version. Designed yesteryear Tim Rundle, the Bloom Table light's super-elliptical shape is inspired yesteryear the gentle dynamic catamenia of newspaper lanterns. Its glorious lit resultant is the resultant of lite passing through a finely perforated network nitty-gritty together with onto the within of the frosted blown drinking glass shade, so creating a distinctive pattern. An resultant that lends itself beautifully to the tabular array light version, it sits proudly atop a plated stainless steel base, together with projects a warm consistent hue upwards into a space. Available inwards White or Black, Bloom is a genuinely striking together with versatile tabular array lamp.
The Carousel Sofa designed yesteryear Cameron Fogo of Nonn blurs the barriers betwixt residential together with commercial slice of furniture with multifunctional low, mid together with high-back options. Though sturdy inwards appearance, the sofa is softened yesteryear generously sized cushions together with sits upon a refined dark steel frame. With an elegant shape together with build clean lines, this is genuinely a timeless design.
Alongside the Carousel Sofa is the novel Buster Table Light designed for Resident yesteryear Chris Martin of Massproductions. A distinguished together with noble desk light available inwards Stainless Steel together with Brass, Buster is ideal for both the domicile together with office. It uses elegantly machined levers together with ball joints which piece of employment together inwards harmony to gift the user flexibility together with directional adjustment, patch the soft-touch switch allows on/ off together with dimming of a warm LED lite source.
Carousel Sofa (low- back) together with Buster Table Light with the Offset Coffee Table
Resident Studio make got expanded their stunning Circus Light collection for 2018 with the introduction of a novel size, the Circus 250. The beautiful lite features a remarkable organisation of interconnected rings that projection an elegantly diffused warm LED lite source outwards roughly a 360 flat plane. Designed to live arranged inwards sequence to make a strikingly theatrical vertical decoration, the lights suit spaces of diverse shapes together with sizes. The introduction of the Circus Floor Lamp showcases the unique presentation of the interlinking rings inwards a shape inspired yesteryear the aesthetic of a jewellery stand.
Circus Floor Lamp
The novel Parison Table Light is a collision of technology together with craft. Its faceted, digitally forged shape is manifested through the warmth of a frosted drinking glass shade, together with anchored at the base of operations yesteryear a fragile slither of brass. The lastly resultant is a milky tabular array sculpture which emanates light, resembling a lather bubble resting on a tabletop. As a piece, the Parison Table lite quietly anchors a room, subtly together with deliberately imperfect, glowing softly together with belongings its own. I dear how it looks placed on the floor!
All of the novel slice of furniture together with lighting designs volition live available presently from the Simon James Showroom. For global stockists for Resident, make got a await here.
The Simon James Concept Stores make got also welcomed some exciting novel arrivals, including beautiful homeware pieces from Menu together with Tom Dixon, together with exquisite novel jewellery from Jessica McCormack together with Sophie Buhai.
Images courtesy of Simon James Design