LE + INQUIÉTANT
MUTATION du Belge Marteen de Ceulaer.
À première vue, un staphylocoque qui aurait atteint une taille démesurée après quelque mutation cellulaire.
Observation faite, des sphères en mousse fixées sur une structure avant d’être recouvertes d’un textile fini velours.
Au final, un canapé annonciateur d’un futur probable où les meubles se développeront à partir de micro-organisme.
Texte revue Décormag. Juillet-août 2012. P. 44
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DESIGN - UN CANAPÉ MUTANT SIGNÉ MAARTEN DE CEULAER
ARTY WEBZINE
L'art sous un nouvel angle
Cette semaine focus sur "Mutation Series", une collection d’assises nuageuse.
Le designer belge Maarten de Ceulaer signe là des chaises, fauteuils et canapés
qui ne semblent pas avoir été créés de la main de l’homme.
Comme si ces oeuvres s’étaient développées de manière organique. À l’esprit nous vient l’idée d’une mutation cellulaire ou d’une réaction chimique ou nucléaire.
En réalité, les assises de la série "Mutation" sont le résultat de l’agglomération
de plusieurs boules de mousse emboîtées entre elles, le tout fixé sur un cadre enduit
de caoutchouc.
Pour les pattes de ces jolies bêtes, de l’inox.
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MAARTEN DE CEULAER. MUTATION SERIES
Belgium-based designer maarten de ceulaer presents his 'mutation series'
at this year's Milan Design Week 2012.
The pieces resemble the organic transformation of cells
that have grown out of scale due to a virus or nuclear reaction.
De ceulaer is taking an experimental review of classical furniture upholstery,
As each item is created by carefully composing patterns with cut-offs of foam spheres of various sizes, which are then applied to the structure. The entire object is then coated with durable rubber mirroring a tactile velvet-like finish,
Making each design completely different and unique.
The prototypes range in size from small ottomans and stools to large sofas and over-sized chairs.
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The pieces in this series look like they weren’t made by hands, but have grown to their present form organically.
They might be the result of a mutation in cells, or the result of a chemical or nuclear reaction.
Perhaps it’s a virus or bacteria that has grown dramatically out of scale.
The Mutation pieces make you look at furniture in a different way.
Maybe one day we would be able to grow a piece of furniture like we breed or clone an animal, and manipulate it’s shape like a bonsai tree.
On the other hand, the project can be seen as an experimental review of classic furniture upholstery.
It reminds us of the famous and iconic deep buttoned (Chesterfield) sofa's,
interpreted in a highly contemporary and sculptural way.
Instead of upholstering springs and foam with leather or textile, these pieces are created by carefully composing patterns with cut-offs of foam spheres of various sizes, and applying them onto a structure. In the end the entire piece gets coated, with a durable rubber or tactile velvet-like finish.
It is hardly impossible to ever recreate such a specific pattern, so every piece is completely unique.
All images photographed by Nico Neefs
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