Design Miami 08: Dutch designer Pieke Bergmans has presented the latest incarnation of her Design Virus project, for the Al Sabah Art & Design Collection.
This time Bergmans has applied her technique of blowing molten glass vases directly onto a range of traditional Middle Eastern furniture items.
The collection is on show in the Miami Design District during Design Miami this week.
The Al Sabah Art & Design Collection is a new project by Sheikh Majed Al-Sabah, founder of the Villa Moda chain of fashion stores.
See our earlier stories about Jaime Hayon’s design for the Villa Moda store in Dubai and Marcel Wanders’ design for the Bahrain store.
More Dezeen stories about Pieke Bergmans:
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Melted Collection (Milan 2008)
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
December 5th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
this is awesome. bizarre stuff
December 5th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
I can’t tell you why I adore this… but, adore it, I do.
December 6th, 2008 at 1:42 am
Not design. Art to someone, but not design. Design requires an intended function of the item. These things whatever they are are not usable. Some idiot is supposed to buy it for a mint and then let it collect dust. Doesn’t belong on a design site.
December 6th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Keep the glass. I’ll take the furniture…
December 6th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
woauw. i like very much… the furniture !
December 6th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
beautiful furniture indeed… the glass is just.. pointless
December 7th, 2008 at 4:32 am
deja vu but still freaking lovely! i luv it all the way!
December 8th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Designers shouldn’t go to school to learn but maybe become designers from another area – like carpentry or engineering. This would avoid “artistic” types from creating useless junk like this. I agree with Joe.
December 12th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
you all are so jealous, non creative, and boring not to get this….