London-based architecture and design studio Voon Wong & Benson Saw have created a cloud-like installation using polystyrene cups for the opening of a design store in Malaysia.
The structure is mounted on the exterior of the new Space Furniture showroom in Kuala Lumpur.
The following information is from the designers:
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Space Furniture Showroom opening Kuala Lumpur
voonwong&bensonsaw have created an extraordinary cloud-like installation for the opening of the new Space Furniture showroom in Kuala Lumpur, the latest venture for this prestigious design retailer. The striking sculptural canopy has been created from a simple everyday object, the polystyrene cup, and plays with ideas that are the current interests of this practice, such as modularity, light and materiality.
The installation will act as a backdrop to the collection of bone china tableware, SETCAST, originally launched at the Yard Gallery, home to the Architecture Foundation in London. The collection is the result of a close collaboration between voonwong&bensonsaw and one of China’s most distinguished manufacturers of bone china, Asianera, based in Tangshan, northern China.
Together, the companies have developed a collection that makes the best use of bone china’s excellent light-reflective properties and also moves away from traditional decorative tableware to focus on striking new typologies that make a bold statement.
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Posted by Rose Etherington
March 20th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Simple and poetic, well done !!!
March 20th, 2008 at 10:47 am
i’m agree with roberto….
here it’s an installation by accumulation as Arman did in art
question: how a canopy of polystyrene cups could be green? (see canopy of pp leaves by richard Hutten )
March 20th, 2008 at 10:53 am
i found it on web : there is ecological polystyrene now, so the clouds could be green….
March 21st, 2008 at 4:01 pm
very very beautiful imagery – as usual, a clever idea from this clever duo.
March 22nd, 2008 at 12:10 pm
it’s cheaper than bouroullec clouds, Hutten leaves canopy …. but for a collection of bone china tableware, it’s may be too cheap, too funny!
March 22nd, 2008 at 12:14 pm
but great with light colors!!!
http://www.voon-benson.com/newsletter/spacecloud.html
March 22nd, 2008 at 1:39 pm
It’s sad that SPACE FURNITURE (au) could not find an Australian designer to launch their store, that might have been worth blogging.
March 22nd, 2008 at 5:45 pm
why nor in malaysia or singapore?
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
architectural association inter 3 students already build a paper cup structure in 2005 , in my opinion, much more sensual more sophisticated assembly technique.
photo http://aainter3-net.fromform.net/060629-configuring.jpg
web http://aainter3-net.fromform.net/
March 24th, 2008 at 8:19 am
i hope the paper are already used ones.
talk about recycling, and making a statement.
March 24th, 2008 at 8:20 am
paper cups
March 24th, 2008 at 8:21 am
polystyrene cups i mean.
July 21st, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Tara Donovan did this waaaaaaaaay better in 2003.
Photo:
http://www.acegallery.net/artists/donovan/TD-UntCups.jpg
Gallery website:
http://www.acegallery.net/artistmenu.php?Artist=8#