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.
Simple and poetic, well done !!!
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 )
i found it on web : there is ecological polystyrene now, so the clouds could be green….
very very beautiful imagery – as usual, a clever idea from this clever duo.
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!
but great with light colors!!!
http://www.voon-benson.com/newsletter/spacecloud.html
It’s sad that SPACE FURNITURE (au) could not find an Australian designer to launch their store, that might have been worth blogging.
why nor in malaysia or singapore?
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/
i hope the paper are already used ones.
talk about recycling, and making a statement.
paper cups
polystyrene cups i mean.
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#