ARTE: BOW DOWN

Lakwena takes over Shoreditch Boxpark with UP IN THE AIR and BIG UP!

UP IN THE AIR

The immersice installation continues Lakwena's expoliration into the use of decoration in worship and myth-making.  Here she juxtaposes a contemporary expression of the sacred with the intrinsically commercial and transient surroundings of BOXPARK re-appropriating a space synonymous with commerce and entertainment to create an intimate place of praise.

In her "box" unit #26 you can read the text "Throw your hands up in the air" painted across the walls and ceiling.  The phrase "bow down" in large silver vinyl letters is on the floor.  In the outdoor upstairs area of Box Park she has an outdoor installation with text that reads "Shout Out"

ARTE: PAPILLION KINGDOM FLOAT BY LAUREN HALSEY

What a weekend, a successful opening for Derek Fordjour & Yashua Klos and an incredible time on the Kingdom Float designed and built by Lauren Halsey for the Martin Luther King Day Parade.

ARTE: REM KOOLHAAS LAGOS WIDE AND CLOSE

Architect Rem Koolhaas explores one of the most densely populated cities in the world in - Lagos Wide and Close An Interactive Journey into an Exploding City 

http://lagos.submarinechannel.com/#sthash.eLYzHM0w

 

ARTE: Animated history of Architecture

LOVING THIS!

ARTE: Ifeanyi Oganwu

We are still recovering from Art Basel Miami Beach 2013...it was an amazing time at the fairs and the parties were never ending.  There will be a full follow up post coming but for now here is a bit about designer/architect Ifeanyi Ogunwa from London is the creator of Expand Design and showed at Miami Design.

From his website:

Founded by Ifeanyi Oganwu in 2008 and incorporated in 2009, Expand Design Ltd is a London-based studio engaging in architecture and furniture design by investigating the correlation between history, base materials and opportunities presented by state-of-the-art fabrication techniques. Through our projects, we unearth unidentified typologies that are inspired by the past, grounded in the present, and on a journey to a new aesthetic domain.

ARTE: I Remember Paradise

Lakwena's wall in Wynwood Arts District...and the pop up gallery Women on the Walls is up at Wynwood Walls for another month.

ARTE: Metamorphose x AD Interieurs x Paris 2013

The trip to Paris was for the opening of Metamorphose which is sponsored by Architectural Digest France.  It launchs design week in Paris and honors the top 10-15 architects and designers in Europe you should be working with.

Elliott Barnes is one of the designers picked for the top honor! He along with the others were invited to design a room in a classic old Parisian mansion.  Elliott commissioned 5 hand written drawings from Kenturah to display in his "Le Salon de Compagnie"  The exhibition is on view September 7 - 22, 2013 at 47 quai de la Tournelle 75005 Paris

Kenturah sharing a moment with Padma Lakshmi

A view of the room Elliott Barnes designed

ARTE: Dee & Rickys

Dee and Ricky now have a restaurant and the website for it is the coolest!

ARTE: Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson has a great exhibition on view in Chelsea at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery the best parts were the installations upstairs, the water sculptures and the obsidian.

"Your disappearing garden" 2011

"Object defined by activity, now" 2009"Object defined by activity, then" 2009"Object defined by activity, soon" 2009

Olafur's TED Talk: Playing with space and light

ARTE: C-STUNNERS

I discovered Cyrus Kabiru's C STUNNERS on Maker Faire Africa 2010 and instantly fell in love!

From Maker Faire Africa's site:

Maker Faire Africa is a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and creation. Here you will find the Makers who showed their work at the 2010 event in Nairobi Kenya. Work ranges from time saving devices for agriculture to alternative energy sources from design with recycled objects to social media applications for mobile phones. Per maker you will find a short synopsis of their work, their contacts details plus a possibliity to collaborate with them. Match your skills with one of the Makers.

Cyrus is a self taught painter and sculptor. This glasses series have no glass but are made with found objects. Each has its own story. The artistic series of once off pieces is inspired by his father who once broke his own glasses and refused to fix them.

Update on Monday, March 4, 2013 at 10:45AM by PAPILLION ART

Cyrus is a 2013 TED Fellow!!!

ARTE: Mabeo Designs

Peter Mabeo is the creator and owner of a brillant furniture company in Gaborone, Botswanna.  When you visit Mabeo Furniture's website you will find four basic principles that make the company; good design, use of sustainable materials, craftsmanship and people & community development.  Producing some of the highest quality and best furniture pieces in the world, Mabeo Furniture works with the top desingers and exports largely to clients in Europe and America.

mabeofurniture.com

Naledi Tables designed by Patricia Urquiola

Thuthu Stools designed by Patty Johnson

Kalahari Table designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune

ARTE: Architecture for Humanity LA

AFH:LA will be holding there 5th public meeting for 2012, May 22 @ 7PM in Santa Monica at O'breien's Irish Pub 2226 Wilshire Blvd.