Comments on: Around the Corner by Amanda Levete

By: Tyson

Tyson — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:49:46 +0000

I’d love to see links to all the critics own work on this forum. I bet its not as good…Also, alittle tired of the constant comparison of everybody to Zaha Hadid…People have been doing this work for years, Zaha Hadid happens to be one firm doing similar work. West is a pretty amazing cleanly modeled geometry.

By: zuy

zuy — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:43:16 +0000

beautiful BrodieNeillZaraHadid what else?

By: AK

AK — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:54:23 +0000

Beautifully made things.
Have to agree regarding the bench - I think Brodie Neill might have got there first.

By: tiffany

tiffany — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:45:26 +0000

let’s all start making these speedy shapes with some flat sides (so we can call them functional). Who can tell the difference between these and the ones by hadid, lovegrove and the rest?

By: Fabio

Fabio — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:23:03 +0000

Hmmmmm “west” also looks abit like the chandelier designed by Amanda Levete/Future systems some years ago……….
check it out here please
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/black-lite-by-future-systems.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dezeen.com/2007/04/20/swarovski-crystal-palace/&h=337&w=449&sz=46&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=sjENFk8vBWv0YM:&tbnh=95&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dswarovski%2Bchandelier%2Bfuture%2Bsystems%2Blevete%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26hs%3DK78%26sa%3DN

By: Jodi

Jodi — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:14:25 +0000

‘West’ does look a lot like ‘E-turn’ by Brodie Neill…

Brodie has been nominated for the Young Designer of the Year Award (Homes & Gardens / V&A Classic Design Awards) for the E-Turn design.. Let’s hope he wins on March 6th for creating such and innovative and contemporary design…

http://www.brodieneill.com/products.html

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:22:46 +0000

pure sculptural forms, its very sensual and inviting, shame I don’t have a huge loft to enjoy it.

By: eyeontheworld

eyeontheworld — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:16:06 +0000

I agree, technically its not a Mobius Loop, however the design(s) seems heavily influenced by it. And, sadly a little repetitious on that theme, don’t you think??

By: Arch

Arch — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:24:26 +0000

Actually, I’m not sure if it can be considered as the Mobius Loop. As far as I know, you can trace both surfaces of the Mobius Loop from the inside going outside or vice versa. But this one, you can only trace one surface, it doesn’t lead you to the other surface.

By: AK

AK — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:33:38 +0000

It’s strange the emphasis that is put on Amanda Levete as the designer of these works - as opposed to Future Systems. It’s plain obvious that she had someone in her office knock these out.
The whole issue of authorship leaves me rather uncomfortable, even embarrased.

Having said this, I like the work and the premise it is built upon, but I agree with Steamboat: Brodie Neill’s bench for Kundalini got there first!