Shibui Partner and decorative arts historian, Jo Lauria examined the place of the human hand, where one would supposed it would begin lack relevance given the amount of amazing technological tools available.
The article, in American Craft Magazine, actually concludes the exact opposite. The tools of the digital age cohabitate with necessary hand skills nicely, in a collaboration of the technological as well as traditional to produce finished objects at the Otis College of Art and Design
We had a great time in Chinatown on the March 13th, thanks to our many wonderful speakers, guests and visitors. Pictures of the evening’s events, can be found on the events page of this website. Take a look and see if you can find yourself in the huddled crowd or corner of a reflection.
Even more thanks goes out to our speakers, Jason Burton, Brett Himmel, Tom Sandonato, Daniel Fletcher, Daniel Phillips, and Kim Karlsrud, who gave an enlightening talk moderated by Shibui Designs’ own Randall Wilson.
If you weren’t there, our gracious speakers covered a variety of concerns regarding design for outdoor spaces. Modern Outdoor’s Brett Himmel touched on competition in the outdoor field regarding well designed goods, the incorporation and integration of materials from other previously unexplored applications, and the implications of material awareness on local manufacturing, and environmental impact.
Tom Sandonato, of kitHAUS, talked a bit more about designing for a competitive marketplace, and breaking through by using the outdoors as a designable space to elevate and enhance lifestyle, expanding interior space to incorporate the surrounding exterior, and what it means to be in the garden and closer to God.
Jason Burton stressed material awareness as an approach to designing for new spaces, and how experience working with the land can yield inspiration for how one sustainably approaches the life cycle of a specific material.
Daniel Fletcher, Daniel Philips, and Kim Karlsrud closed the talk with a bit about urban reclamation and how human intervention can heal human decimated environments, using seed bombs (a compound of worm castings, clay and seeds) to easily plant unused and unpaved spaces..
Modern Outdoor Living + A Discussion with Makers About Outside Spaces
Shibui Designs Pop-Up Space at 945 Chung King Road in Los Angeles, in the Chung-King Plaza.
Chung-King Plaza is located on the west side of Hill Street, between College and Bernard Streets.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
5 – 6 pm Panel Discussion
6 – 9 pm “Modern Outdoor Living” open during the Chinatown Art Walk
Shibui Designs’s RANDALL WILSON, educator and designer, moderates a show-and-tell panel discussion celebrating fresh takes on outdoor living as realized by five Makers and their ingenious objects. Lean and clean, the pieces explore the garden as source concept by extending a home’s living space to the great outdoors.
Here’s a look at the panel participants:
TOM SANDONATO’s kitHAUS. Featured in Dwell, Metropolitan Home, and the New York Times, kitHAUS reinvents the traditional backyard room as an elegant, module flexible enough to become yoga studio, office or greenhouse. Modular in design, these pre-fab, aluminum-framed structures can be assembled in a matter of days to produce an elegant modernist addition or entire dwelling with minimal fuss.
Modern Outdoor Designs furniture maker BRET HIMMEL creates extraordinary pieces that transform backyards into al fresco living spaces. The brand is defined by its high style, clean-lined simplicity and use of environmentally conscious materials. Modern Outdoor is equally suited for residential as well as commercial spaces and has been used in several upscale installations such as Intercontinental Hotels, Penn State and Luma South Condominiums (one of the first LEED Gold multi-family housing projects in Los Angeles).
Environmental designer, JASON BURTON uses re-claimed wood as the foundation for his new garden bench, transforming lumber from ordinary shipping skids into unique pieces. His Repurposed Pallet Shelving transforms lumber from ordinary shipping skids into extraordinary wall-mounted pieces that serve simultaneously as sculptural objects and functional storage units.
Landscape architect DAVID FLETCHER and designer DANIEL PHILLIPS present Cone-ucopia. Their urban teaching tool enables kids to plant seeds into paper drinking cones and sell the resulting edibles to fund future classroom projects.
Also, see a sneak peek at decorative pavers, energy-efficient trellis systems and other garden-inspired pieces crafted by students and faculty from Otis College of Art and Design and Art Center College of Design.
“Modern Outdoor Living” is presented by Shibui Designs. Shibui Designs serves as a creative retail hub bringing together generations of makers, mentors, educators, curators and consumers.
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