the duralex glasses exhibition catalogue
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Limited Edition made with the iconics Duralex Glasses. One off creations. Available only at Belleville Boutique. Made by talented international designers.TRANSCRIPT
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“DURALEX Glasses Exhibition”
The most copied glass in the world find a new life exclusive for Belleville
Featuring 12 international artists ⏐ Exhibition : July 15th ti 27th August 2011
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Belleville Boutique & Café is a French, independent concept store bringing French charm and style to shopping experience and a coffee. With a style boutique, an art gallery and a coffee, the venue is
located in the borders of the luxurious Notting Hill area and vibrant atmosphere of Portobello road in London. The front section of the boutique is a display space for creations through Belleville’s collaborations with artists. The Belleville team invites artists to create unique pieces according to a monthly theme. This area in the shop is the platform for these individual creations and Belleville has committed to producing limited edition runs of the products that are interesting to customers. The artists benefit from access to the raw materials, exposure of their work and income from the sales.
The first of these themed exhibitions starts in July. Belleville has invited twelve artists to create objects using the iconic French Duralex glasses. Future themes include cushions , vintage tapestries, and the Eiffel Tower . We carefuly selected bright young talents and collaborated with all kind of artists ; painters, designers, fashion, graphists, illustrators, ceramists, sculptors, photographers, fine arts, mixed media artists… Their challenge is to create an object usable but arty to be able to become fashionable as well as a hot item. In these turbulent times it is more challenging than ever to launch a career in art, design or fashion. Belleville gives the opportunity to show what you are worth. Our philosophy is to help artists to promote their art, to find a place in a market place overflowing with mass produced goods. The aim is also to build relationships with brands we work with, introduce their creations and inspire commissions.
“DURALEX Glasses Exhibition”
The most copied glass in the world find a new life exclusive for Belleville
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Valerie Von Bechtolsheim Alexandra Abraham Aurelie Bourguet Lakwena Suit Elena Ferrato Lisa Pettibone
Ceilidh Stapelkamp Melanie Stapelkamp Bridget Harvey Hervé Vincent Georgios Ignation Joshua Leeson
Elena Ferrato ⏐Product Designer and Artist Elena Ferrato is Italian. She just moved in London with a degree from the prestigious University of Venice. In Italy she worked with the famous Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola in Milan and for Giopato & Coombes in Treviso. She also assisted the Italian visual artist Nico Vascellari and is an active Artist with her metaphysical and disquieting collages.
‘Milky Way’ £480
‘Twigh Light’ £50 To £130
Hervé Vincent ⏐ Designer Hervé studied law but started his career in the glamorous fashion industry in Paris, working with some of the world’s most well known fashion designers, Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Lacroix. His creative mind has led him to redesign several flats and homes, redecorate Belleville and present his own work for the Boutique.
‘Upside Down’ £55 ‘Yoyo’ £45 ‘Cascade’ £120
For him any object can be reinvented and given a new usage or form by its owner and can be used as a vase, a plate candle holder…
Valerie von Bechtolsheim ⏐Product Designer
Born in Germany and now living in the UK for the last 28 years, Valerie von Bechtolsheim is a multidisciplinary designer based in London. Valerie worked in a series of leading design studios, including Ron Arad, Habitat and in recent years, in close collaboration with Rolf Sachs, creating limited edition and one-‐off conceptual art and design pieces in a range of mediums for exhibitions across the world. Valerie also works on international interior projects as part of her business collaboration with her architect Brother, creating design-‐led commercial and domestic interiors and architecture.
‘Primary Memories’ £40
This is a set of four glasses, each individually customised with fragments of illustrations from French children’s books, with each highlighting their unique mould number. Both adults and children can engage with the glass by searching for elements of stories they recognise, and each glass represents one of the key colours often used in the school art room….red, yellow, green and blue.
‘Age is only a number’ 25£
The mould numbers on Duralex glasses reminds me of days in the school canteen; little competitions with your friends to see who had the higher number and was therefore ‘older’. With this series of tea lights, I have transformed the glasses by frosting them, making them look and feel different, while keeping their iconic look. The individual numbers are then enlarged on the surface of the glass, creating numerical shapes for the candle light to pass through.
Josh Leeson ⏐Product Designer
Josh Leeson was born in Yorkshire and grew up in France. He graduated with distinction in Fine Art Photography at Newport in 2002. He has since been developing his design skills in domestic and commercial environments, most recently in making hand crafted objects. His aesthetic influences are informed by his direct surroundings; often incorporating found or discarded objects within the design.
‘Duralux-Lamp’ £1520 ‘Verre à pied’ £25
Alexandra Abraham ⏐Jewel Designer and PainterAfter finishing her degree in woven textile design Alexandra sailed the Caribbean for a year on a 75ft schooner, collecting shells and memories. Back in London she studied specialist decorative painting techniques, worked to commission and taught courses at local art schools. Her work was exhibited regularly in London, selected for the Discerning Eye exhibition and shown in New York, Salt Lake City and ten Japanese cities including Tokyo and Osaka.
Alexandra has also created an exciting range of dramatic, embellished and completely unique bangles, brooches, chargers and napkin rings which are attracting clients from Istanbul, Shanghai and across America from Santa Barbara to Rhode Islands.
Tall £80 – Small £50
For these glasses, the process, combining non precious gilding metals with the corrosive power of vinegar. The decoration varies each glass was treated individually. The small glasses can be illuminated with tea lights and the large ones also work well with larger candles, or as vases.
Aurelie Bourguet ⏐Illustrator Aurélie Bourguet was born in Nice in 1984. She spent her youth under the sun of the French Riviera surrounded by Franquin's comics and cans of paint. In 2008, after five years at l'Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Marseille and a degree under her belt, she left France and relocated to London. For Aurélie, an ideal image should mix the nonchalant elegance of Marcello Mastroianni, the clumsiness of a Monty Python sketch and the rough sex-‐appeal of Jack White.
‘Shine a light’ £150
The drawing is a reflex and an instrument. A magnifying glass that allows for closer image by focussing on reasons or elements. Find the 'good' image is similar to a strategy. I did not choose it for what it is but in terms of what it could become. The fragments that compose each have their own value and form a whole that may be changing. No statements or generalizations, or even fixed meanings: rather random leaps and a motif on the wrong track. Do It Yourself -‐Let's do pop-‐corn with the simplest things. I get eye-‐catching shapes that make your head spin, confined lines in mannerist entrenchments and modular parts as kits. Images borrow the thickness to the sculpture while maintaining the malleability of drawing.
Bridget Harvey | Designer Bridget Harvey trained in textile design and has gone on to be a maker of objects. She mainly works in wood, textiles and silver using traditional and modern techniques.
‘Trailers’ £110
For this project Bridget Harvey decided not to alter the glasses themselves but to enhance them.
The hand carved and dyed maple-‐wood knives and spoons accompany the glasses in utility for eating. She has also created cuffs from cotton rope to protect the user when having hot drinks and a maple tray to house the glass and food.
Lakwena Suit | Graphic Artist Trained in illustration and printing at the University of the Arts London, works as a graphic artist, applying a variety of techniques and media to a wide range of projects, undertaking commissions from painting barbershop walls to leather jackets. She is particularly interested in incorporating typography and pattern into exciting visual statements, often expressing lyrics and poetry through her work.
'Wedding bells' £50
The familiar bridal tradition of 'Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue' is visualised in Lakwena's 'wedding bells', a reminder of the appropriated, re-‐invented and playful nature of the pieces. Inspired by the French school game of taking the age defined by the number in the base of your Duralex glass, in the same way these bells for Belleville Boutique symbolise a rite of passage and a passing of time.
Georgiosi Ignation | Designer
Georgiosi is a lighting design studio based in North London. Established in 2005. Early works from 2002 include large scale event lighting performances with wind surfer light objects for some of London's largest raving venues. Later works from 2005 include the OWL -‐ Objects With Light variety designed and hand-‐made by Georgiosi.
‘Lanterns’ £50
Ceilidh Stapelkamp | Designer
Ceilidh has a scientist and an artist inside her. They fight all the time but both came out to play with the duralex glasses. Ceilidh and her mum have already created exclusive products like cushions, candles and chairs under the Crab & Fish Design label.
‘Oddities’ ‘This is where I put my pen’ £60
‘Dog days’ £45
Melanie Stapelkamp | Designer Melanie is an interior designer. The Duralex project was a chance to step away from the task of making other people's homes beautiful and try to make something imaginative out of everyday objects.
Melanie and her daughter have already created exclusive products like cushions, candles and chairs under the Crab & Fish Design label.
‘Elegant wine glass’ £60 ‘Candle holder’ £80