Evoluzione Light

The Evoluzione Light gives you the possibility to spend your evenings creating and refining your table light. Using the Evoluzione kit you can challenge your friends to create the best table light design, or vary your light form to suite your mood and changing décor desires.
 

This light is incredibly addictive, allowing you to interact with it at your leisure - sculpting your own light to your hearts content. However even in it’s basic stacked form the light retains its design value of contrasts between geometric and organic.
 

The light very much a game of shape, light and shadows. Where you can play at being ‘Bucky’ in your home. Create small compact lights or large structures simply by joining the wood triangles with rubber links or by slotting the triangles directly into one and another. The structures can be built upon the inner Perspex LED light, or forms can be created independently as stand alone pieces.
 

The Evoluzione Light is a collaboration between Furniture Designer/Maker Andrea Felice, and Architect and friend Angelo Grasso. Initially wanting to create a game for children, Angelo and Andrea started to play with
interlocking geometric shapes. Both Angelo and Andrea are fans of Buckminster Fuller (Bucky), and this lead to the creation of the interlocking triangular shapes. While ‘playing’ around with it one evening they then decided to ‘put a light in it’ – and the Evoluzione Light was born.

Evoluzione Light – constructional details:
• Constructed from plywood triangular pieces, Perspex core, and LED light.
• The internal light ‘core’ 240mm high when ‘stacked’ into a tower with 100mm triangular sides.
• When the light is constructed it can form much larger shapes (size depends on the users creation)
• The triangular wooden shapes can be attached to the Perspex core and each other either by slotting into each other, or by the use of rubber links.

The Evoluzione Light will be launched at TENT London (part of the London Design Festival) Old Truman Brewery London E1 September 20-23, AF Designs Stand G21.

 
At TENT we will be offering visitors to our stand the opportunity to play with the light and create their own structures. We will photograph these and post on our Twitter and Facebook and the favourites on our Blog.

Download a full press release here.

Download images here.

Craftfinder

There's a new way to find craft designer-makers out there, and we're proud to be one of those listed!

Craftfinder's mission is to help contemporary craft lovers satisfy their passion, and to help makers focus on their skills and creativity, by easing the burden of promotion.

Wherever you are in the UK, Craftfinder will connect you with makers and places where you can enjoy the best in contemporary craft. Craftfinder will help you stay in touch with makers' news and activities and enrich your appreciation of their work.


Craftfinder has everything from furniture to stunning jewellery it's definitely worth having a browse.  And we really like the create your own gallery function, where you can save all the things you like to browse at a later date.

See our listing on Craftfinder here.

Belsize Park Refurbishment

We have recently completed a refurbishment in Belsize Park.  Providing all the bespoke furniture for the rooms as well as managing replacement flooring, painting and decorating.

What our client said about the work:

"It's not very often that one can say that they have enjoyed working with a contractor/designer, but we can!  We have been very happy with the service you have provided and we really like the end product.  Thank you to you and your team for all your work on our project.  We would certainly recommend you to others."

Caught Light now on show at Decoratum Gallery London

Today we've been busy installing Caught Light in the beautifully refurnished Decoratum Gallery.   It's been hung amongst some famous faces and surrounded by many a design classic.

If you didn't get a chance to see out catch of fish at Tent London (part of the London Design Festival) last September, now is your chance.  We are very proud to have our Fishy LED Chandelier on display in Decoratum's window over February. 

Both Decoratum's Galleries are on Church St, Marylebone.  And if you're visiting you can also see our Rovi in the Decoratums Alfies Market Gallery at the same time.

You can read more about the making of Caught Light here.

Decoratum 31-33 Church Street London NW8 8ES

Decoratum Alfies Antique Market 13-25 Church Street London NW8 8DT
Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 6pm

Copper patternated custom Elementi sideboard

Based on our limited edition Elementi Cabinet, this sideboard is much wider and a little lower.  But still using out much loved process of patternating copper plate.

The sideboard was made on commission for our wonderful clients in Primrose Hill and provides a focal point in their stunning living room.

Elementi was first created by Andrea Felice to been exhibited at TENT London 2009 part of the London Design Festival.

IDFX Magazine selected the Elementi cabinet as one of the standout products from the 2009 show and it has received lots of wonderful press.

Loft style living in a small Kings Road flat

Making the most of small spaces is important - white is often a great way, and open plan clever design a must. This small Kings Road, London flat now feels deceivingly large now - like a mini New York loft!

 



AF Design crafted everything from the kitchen, built in cupboards to the shelving. AF Designs working in partnership with building company Edilco and architect Angelo Grasso.

Custom shelf lighting system

AF Designs have recently finished working a lovely Barnes home with interior designer Wayne Maxwell. 

Here one of the projects involved integrating LED lights into the shelving system. Andrea worked out a clever way of getting the LEDs to literally shine through the glass shelves.

South Kensington Refurbishment

Bespoke single bed that expands to a double

Master bedroom wall unit

Bespoke Table Light

Entrance unit

Full refurbishment of Brompton Road Flat.  AF Designs working in partnership with building company Edilco and architect Angelo Grasso.

Super white office space

This week we finished creating this super white home office workspace.  Making use of all possible space in a practical way with white sprayed lacquer fitted furniture.

Interior Designer - Wayne Maxwell

Sapele and White American Oak Loop Console

This Sapele and White American Oak Console was commissioned for the space picture.  

Our client  wanted it to work in harmony with the stunning Vivienne Westwood Squiggle Orange rug, from wonderful The Rug Company.

Caught Light - as seen at TENT London

The Chandelier installation seen at TENT London contained 12 ‘fish’ suspended at different levels forming a ‘grape’.

The fish are clear resin castings of a form that was carved by Andrea. The fish have been cast by hand, and have a hand fashioned copper hook embedded inside them, which conceals a high power LED light. The LED highlights the organic and dynamic contours of the fish – representing a glow of life force – making them come alive. The hook is very visible – representing the brutal truth.

The fish are each nearly a foot long.

Tent London 2011 - Sequenza Credenza

Sequenza Credenza

Is an interpretation of an early /mid-century credenza with classic lines. The Sequenza legs flow, wrap and loop around it’s body, concealing its structure and providing handle details.

The body of the unit is patterned copper, with linear details of untreated copper. The legs are constructed from Wenge concealed are 2 drawers and 4 cupboards.

Catch me if you can ....

Catch me if you can at Tent London this week:

22-25 September 2011
Old Truman Brewery London E1
Stand G19

www.tentlondon.co.uk

Pargy Interview's Andrea

We are delighted with blogger Pargy's interview with Andrea in the lead up to London Design Week and Tent. 

Read the interview by clicking here

Tent London 2011 - We will be there once again

Once again we will be at Tent London !

22-25 September 2011   -  Old Truman Brewery London E1

www.tentlondon.co.uk

This year will see us bringing our new Sequenza Credenza and a very fishy chandelier.

Sequenza Credenza

Is an interpretation of an early /mid-century credenza with classic lines. The Sequenza legs flow, wrap and loop around it’s body, concealing its structure and providing handle details.

The body of the unit is patterned copper, with linear details of untreated copper. The legs are constructed from Wenge concealed are 2 drawers and 4 cupboards.

Caught Light 

The Chandelier contains approx 10 ‘fish’ suspended at different levels forming a ‘grape’. The grape like shape that fish are often seen hanging in, in a Mediterranean market.

The fish are clear resin castings of a form that was carved by Andrea. The fish have been cast by hand, and have a hand fashioned copper hook embedded inside them, which conceals a high power LED light. The LED highlights the organic and dynamic contours of the fish – representing a glow of life force – making them come alive. The hook is very visible – representing the brutal truth.

The fish are each nearly a foot long.

We hope to see you there!  Registration is now open.

La Biennale di Venezia - Venice Biennale

I always find it hard to capture the essence of a piece of furniture in a photo - and ever more challenging are the installations at the Venice Biennale.

Here are however a few "snaps" of some truly inspirational pieces of art, that I have managed to hopefully capture a little (perhaps a very little) of their 'being'.

If you are going to make it to Venice this year - then I suggest you don't look!

The following images are from the Arsenale and the New Arsenale (which is a short hop across the a canal by a new boat service) only.  We will be back later this year to catch the rest!

The Black Arch : Saudi Arabia -A Must See by Raja and Shadia Alem

There is a wonderful video of the Raja and Shadia Alem on the La Biennale website (click here to see)

Art is not the Cosa Nostra (Maffia)

Trieste - satellite show

We were also very excited to visit the newly refurbished Port Building in Trieste on our trip - the building itself is breath taking.