Milan 09: Finnish designer Sebastian Jansson will present a new collection at the Salone Satellite in Milan next week.
The exhibition comprises three objects: a bar stool, a lamp and a set of kitchen utensils.
Habitus is a bar stool with a geometric shape inspired by “studying the formation of coffee leaves”. The stool is made from laser cut steel, folded and then welded.
The modular Cumulus light, (above) is comprised of both reflective and semi-transparent materials.
The skeletal structure of the light is joined using Velcro and can be arranged in a number of ways.
Tempus (below) are a set of kitchen utensils made from folded pieces of stainless steel.
Here’s more information from Sebastian Jansson:
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HABITUS is a bar stool inspired by the coffee leaf, constructed form geometric shapes. With its sculptural appearance, Habitus gives character to a space and environment, inviting the eye to glance over its anthropomorphic structure. By studying the formation of coffee leafs, Jansson was able to re-create the stool through this intricate arrangement of geometric forms, whilst maintaining its aesthetic qualities and comfort.
The stool is made from is laser cut 1mm steel, folded and welded. Habitus has been developed and manufactured during Jansson’s time in Milan in 2008-09. It was originally designed to feature in café and coffee shop of Kaffa Roastery based in Helsinki, but is now represented internationally. Jansson has also created the brand identity and communication for this boutique coffee roaster.
TEMPUS are a set of kitchen utensils, incorporating a sense of multi-functionalism through their simplistic style. Their resting place was initially specific to the kitchen, but their discreetness and cleaver consideration of detail, forces a sense of ambiguity, and invites the user to handle with these tools as they please. They are made from a folded piece of stainless steel.
These utensils were one of the first products Jansson presented at University of Art and Design Helsinki. Whilst under the tuition professor Martin Relander, Jansson’s creations were said to be very ‘fast and dirty’, as time was not on his side. In the workshop, Jansson’s creations emerged in minutes, as he worked under pressure to submit his work on time. With his creative juices flowing, Jansson was able to complete the task by using only necessary details to fulfill the requirements. Following the assessment of professor Relander, the objects were considered to be the “peak of minimalism”.
CUMULUS This modular lamp is contemporary study of two materials- both placed in a foreign context. The reflective and semitransparent material delivered by the Philippine company Stavellan Inc. uses this material as never before. The light is deflected in six directions within a sphere, and diffuses the light in a spectacular manner, creating an optical illusion. The use of Velcro® Ultramate® as a joining mechanism, creates an extremely rigid framework as together it forms the skeletal structure for light diffusion. The aesthetic of the light has been inspired by clouds, as there is no limit to how this system can be arranged. Yet again, Cumulus is a reflection of Jansson’s geometric interpritation of the organic environment.
HABITUS is a bar stool inspired by the coffee leaf, constructed form geometric shapes. With its sculptural appearance, Habitus gives character to a space and environment, inviting the eye to glance over its anthropomorphic structure. By studying the formation of coffee leafs, Jansson was able to re-create the stool through this intricate arrangement of geometric forms, whilst maintaining its aesthetic qualities and comfort.
The stool is made from is laser cut 1mm steel, folded and welded. Habitus has been developed and manufactured during Jansson’s time in Milan in 2008-09. It was originally designed to feature in café and coffee shop of Kaffa Roastery based in Helsinki, but is now represented internationally. Jansson has also created the brand identity and communication for this boutique coffee roaster.
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Posted by Rachel Blunstone
April 16th, 2009 at 8:39 am
really nice bar stool!
April 16th, 2009 at 8:41 am
that coffee leave is named Konstantin Grcic, isn’t it?
April 16th, 2009 at 8:58 am
for real?
April 16th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Cumulus – what a copy!
http://www.innermost.co.uk/products/products_lamps_asteroid.html
April 16th, 2009 at 9:38 am
… they even showed it as a cloud cluster in Milan 2008!!
http://www.innermost.co.uk/news/news_designplus.html
is this what we have to expect for Milan these days – old ideas rehashed?! If so I think I will not go!
April 16th, 2009 at 9:45 am
The stool reminded me of the work from artist Xavier Veilhan. I like it but not sure about where the inspiration comes from. They just sound so pretencious! Formation of coffee leaves? What’s that?
April 16th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Just when I thought designers in the last 5 years had been late adopters of the Facette/chair one trend this really is hammering the very last nail into the coffin.
“Sucking the sweat of a dead trend’s balls”
April 16th, 2009 at 10:02 am
I’m sorry but how could someone have the nerve to present such blatant copied unoriginal work. The image with the girl on the barstool is also very very cheap looking. This is shameful.
April 16th, 2009 at 10:13 am
lol at this. This smells ripoff from one image to another. Plus, it has that Grcic flavour plus Starck ideas on the images (check the chick).
It’s kinda sad.
April 16th, 2009 at 10:19 am
what’s with the nude girl?
Is this the 50s?
April 16th, 2009 at 11:00 am
5 years earlier and it could have been cool !
April 16th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
storytelling is better with real coffee leaves “Habitus is a bar stool with a geometric shape inspired by “studying the formation of coffee leaves” ‘
Really nice bar stool for…. coffee bar or may be night club with gogo dancing. or also munchen bar : inspiration Konstantin G.?
April 16th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
is modular Cumulus light links to cumulus association?
April 16th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Either tha stool is HUGE.. (the proportions are a bit odd) or that lady & her thong are tiny !!!
@ Incredible: I actually… much… prefer sebastians lamps… the velcro thingy is fun… copy or not…
April 16th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Ok…so check it out.,,
While the out come is similar to a variety of pieces we’ve all seen before, it is entirely possible to start from scratch with new inspiration, and ultimately arrive at these results. Particularly, the stool is striking in how it presents its surfaces.
Kudos.
I must add…a note on presentation. Some of the facets are so complex, that even the photographer does a poor job capturing the magic. Also, the girl was very poorly handled. The art direction and photography kills the potential for this work to stand out. It’s unimaginative and references what we’ve all seen time and time again. If you need some ideas, Sebastian…let me know.
Cheers.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
beautiful bum.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
I am absolutely perplexed by the image of the girl on the stool. It looks like a trailer park with the dirty hair, thong and feet. Surely there was another way to present the stool’s complexity – I find this distraction a bit sad.
April 16th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
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whats with the footrest on the stool, it just looks all wrong
whats with gratuitous butt crammed into a g-string, it just looks all wrong
“does my bum look big in this barstool?”
Uh yeah, huge”
April 16th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Interesting. More so in that a set of stools almost identical to these popped on the scene last year in Tokyo and Australia > http://www.nicholls-scott.com
April 17th, 2009 at 8:51 am
OK with “royal creme Beatnyc =>The art direction and photography kills the potential for this work”
Facet design, diamond cut were everywhere in Amsterdam (Wanders) Milan( Urquiola),in Paris (Levy,Jouin) London aso since Konstantin Grcic’s chair for Magis …K.G. is now again a Morris son…see the last magis chair from both…
April 17th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
MP it’s better with a direct link to a product photo…
It’s quite different but but both products needs more “differential design” …
http://www.nicholls-scott.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/Shell-range-Silver.jpg
April 17th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
I have a brain leak that needs plugging
April 17th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
they couldn’t brush her feet off????
April 18th, 2009 at 2:39 am
uh oh…
April 18th, 2009 at 4:21 am
I am sure that it is not copy by purpose, if you design lamp that it is having a round shape you can find thousands of lamps that has a same shape, right. This kind of shape is different and the “real catch” is the new material used, Stavellab Glo-Flex reflective material, when you have seen the lamp and material live please judge after that.It is really wonderful and the material will make design revolution….for sure.
Incredible Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Cumulus – what a copy!
http://www.innermost.co.uk/products/products_lamps_asteroid.html
Incredible Says:
April 18th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Feed back
1/ Thanks Luxury for the link to France
I saw this french artist Xavier Veilhan’s sculpture in Bordeaux / France
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/13578852
2/ As kasorp, I’m quite sure about where the inspiration comes from: it’s a coffee leaves (could be a good strory telling) on a Magis Chair.
3/ Thanks MP for the link to Australia
The Nicholls Scott’s stool is quite dangerous for clothes and legs…
http://www.nicholls-scott.com
April 18th, 2009 at 11:29 am
@ toco
they couldn’t brush his feet off!!!
April 19th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Konstantin G. will like it!
Must be a pleasure to copied by students…
April 20th, 2009 at 11:08 am
It’s the main problem for konstantin G. and marcel W. too much followers…Philippe S mister Ubik found THE solution : follows several main roads…
April 21st, 2009 at 8:55 am
she does look a little small compared to the stool, looks like they needed the foot rest so she could climb aboard
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Ey guys – everything triangular is not Grcic I guess!
May 5th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
did you smoke the same leaf that smoke kostantin grcic ? and polydesign is almost dead..