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Mondrianesque Metal Shelving By Andrea Branzi Incorporates Real Birch Trees.



above: Tree 4, 2011, Anodized aluminium, Birch wood, Edition of 12, H 110 / L 250 / W 27 (cm), H 43.31 / L 98.43 / W 10.63 (inches)

UPDATE: Andrea Branzi's first US Show is now on at New York's Friedman Benda Gallery
Andrea Branzi: Trees & Stones
September 11 - October 13, 2012
Friedman Benda, New York, NY

“When birch tree forests are pruned or agricultural cultivations of fruit trees are picked, they are dispersed or burned. I have always been fascinated by these parts of nature, that continue to give off a grand expressive force, more powerful when they are combined with modern, perfect and industrial materials. They become mysterious, always diverse, unique, unrepeatable and somewhat sacred presences. Trees, trunks and branches are part of our ancient culture but also of actual culture, because in the age of globalization, design searches to trace recognizable ‘anthropological’ platforms. The collection, ‘Trees’ consists to place simple, everyday objects, books, and images next to the strange presence of branches and trunks, like in the reality of the world.” - Andrea Branzi


Italian architect and designer Andrea Branzi melds metal and nature in his latest series of shelving, Trees. On exhibit now through May 16th at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris, the seven functional art pieces are sold in editions of 12.


above: artist, designer and architect Andrea Branzi

press release: In a short time, Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris has already treated us to a regular and rich demonstration of Design Art: in March Andrea Branzi was given space to express himself as a free and committed thinker with this new collection, « Trees ».


above: Tree 1, 2010, Anodized aluminium, Birch wood, Edition of 12, H 100 / L 120 / W 27 (cm), H 39.37 / L 47.24 / W 10.63 (inches)

above: Tree 8, 2010, Anodized aluminium, Birch wood, Edition of 12, H 205 / L 140 / W 35 (cm), H 80.71 / L 55.12 / W 13.78 (inches)

In a space that was once the Galerie de France, a place where contemporary art flourished, Catherine Thieck will come back to pose a few objects from her own collection on the shelves of Andrea Branzi. Works by Marcel Duchamp, Constantin Brancusi, Méret Oppenheim and Rebecca Horn will fill the shelves of an artist whose personality and preoccupations have remained consistently at the avant-garde of the architecture and design world.


above: Tree 3, 2010, Anodized aluminium, Birch wood, Edition of 12, H 80 / L 165 / W 27 (cm), H 31.5 / L 64.96 / W 10.63 (inches)

The Italian architect and designer Andrea Branzi, born in 1938, was ahead of his time in Florence in 1966 when he set up Archizoom associati, the first, internationally renowned avant-garde group. In order to define this remarkable character, one must use the vocabulary of projects: theoretical research, new design, experimental laboratory, leeway, mass creativity, new organisation… He also knows how to share his battles, he coordinates and curates exhibitions, he regularly exhibits his personal work, publishes manifestos, teaches generations of students and participates in conferences all over the world. In fact, multiple spaces would be needed to cover all angles of the man: a screening room, an auditorium, a museum and more than a few metres of shelf space.



above: Tree 9 (closed and open), 2010, Anodized aluminium, Birch wood, Edition of 12, H 252 / L 140 / W 35 (cm), H 99.21 / L 55.12 / W 13.78 (inches)

Andrea Branzi is passionate about the morphology of urban space; he breaks down the accepted codes and vigorously shakes the foundations of the ever-present conventions. Today more than ever, this insatiable troublemaker continues to disrupt the status quo and places humans and nature at the centre of his thinking.


above: Tree 2, 2010, Anodized aluminium, Birch wood, Edition of 12, H 100 / L 120 / W 27 (cm), H 39.37 / L 47.24 / W 10.63 (inches)

« Trees » represents a continuation of his thinking on architecture. He creates a minimalist space of shelves, veritable pieces of micro-architecture made from aluminium that spread out in neo-plastic bursts like a Mondrian. However, through the splits in the frame, Andrea Branzi introduces trunks and twigs gathered in the wild. This strange encounter that began in the eighties with « Animali domestici », questions the duality of the nature-culture relationship.


above: Tree 5, 2010, Brilliant polished aluminium, Birch wood, Edition of 12, H 300 / L 200 / W 27 (cm), H 118.11 / L 78.74 / W 10.63 (inches)


above: Tree 6, 2010, Brilliant polished aluminium, Birch wood

With « Trees », he adds a dimension, an extra slice of soul, as nature becomes art, a contemporary icon, an emotional window linked to the knowledge of the vital importance of this precious, common heritage.



Pieces on show:
Seven shelves, in different shapes and formats, in aluminium (annodized and polished) and birch wood.


ANDREA BRANZI / TREES
PARIS / SATURDAY 10 MARCH - 16 MAY 2012
OPENING/ SATURDAY 10 MARCH / 4 - 9 PM
carpentersworkshopgallery.com
54 rue de la Verrerie Paris 75004


above: installation view of Tree 6 and Tree 7 at the Friedman Benda Gallery in New York (photo by Jon Lam)

Trees and Stones at the Friedman Benda Gallery

Mondrian Madness: In Furniture, Shoes, Home Decor & More.





Dutch painter Piet Mondrian has been inspiring designers for many years with his later paintings from his De Stijl genre and it doesn't seem to be slowing down. He painted a lot more than his most famous compositions of geometric grids incorporating primary colors red, blue and yellow (with white and black) but today I want to show you the incredible number of items that play off those particular pieces.

First, two of his most famous paintings shown below for context:

above: Piet Mondrian, Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930


above: Piet Mondrian, Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red, 1921, Tate Gallery. London.

And now the homage to those paintings by designers of all types, with products of all sorts.


above: Yves Saint Laurent's famous 'Mondrian' dress, 1965, residing in Victoria and Albert Museum


above: Kara Ross Mondrian-style clutch bag. (no longer available)



above: Christian Louboutin's Mondrian Wedge (no longer available for purchase)


above: Mondrian tumblers from MoMA
buy them here.


above: Mondrian Wool Area Rug
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above: Piet cabinet by Al & Jo


above: Acrylic and wood wall cabinet designed by Athene Galiciadis and Cédric Carles of www.atelier2ce.org


above: Roger Schamay of Atelier Schamay designed this wonderful display cabinet for his Vitra miniature chair collection


above: Foscarini's Teorema floor lamp by Ferruccio Laviani
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above: Nike just released these Piet Mondrian SB Dunks last May.
buy them here.


above: Mondrian T-shirt
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above: Glass vases by PO
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above: the Piet Bowl
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above: stunning lacquer boxes (actually authorized by the Piet Mondrian Hotlzman Trust)
Buy them here.


above: Mondrian style tile coasters
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above: Mondrian inspired glass wall clock
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above: The Chromifocus wall mounted fireplace
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above: the Piet bathroom cabinet by rqr.estudio was a finalist in the 2004 Cevisama show, but unfortunately has not been mass-produced.



above: Naef Modulon Blocks are clearly inspired by Piet.
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above: The Mondrianum is a tabletop storage box designed as a project by Dmitry Grigoriev for Art.lebedev studios.
Read about it here.

Even technology has gone Mondrian-a. Korean Media Systems has released the ARO, a 1.8-inch portable hard drive. Best known for its mobility and low power consumption, it features a built in Mondrian design, plug-and-play operation, SF-coating stability and LED indicator, USB 2.0 (480 Mbps). Available in 60g, 80g or 100g.

buy it here.

Love Mondrian and you want a Mondrian styled cake? Then contact cake artist Stephanie McLoughlin who made this adorable Mondrian cake:

Stephanie's Cakes.


above: There's even Mondrian Cheese, see it here.

About Piet Mondrian:

b. 1872, Amersfoort, The Netherlands; d. 1944, New York City

Piet Mondrian was born Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Jr., on March 7, 1872, in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. He studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, from 1892 to 1897. Until 1908, when he began to take annual trips to Domburg in Zeeland, Mondrian’s work was naturalistic—incorporating successive on influences of academic landscape and still-life painting, Dutch Impressionism [more], and Symbolism [more]. In 1909 a major exhibition of his work (with that of Jan Sluijters and Cornelis Spoor) was held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and that same year he joined the Theosophic Society. In 1909 and 1910 he experimented with Pointillism and by 1911 had begun to work in a Cubist mode. After seeing original Cubist works by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso at the first Moderne Kunstkring exhibition in 1911 in Amsterdam, Mondrian decided to move to Paris. There, from 1912 to 1914, he began to develop an independent abstract style.

Mondrian was visiting the Netherlands when World War I broke out and prevented his return to Paris. During the war years in Holland, he further reduced his colors and geometric shapes and formulated his nonobjective Neoplastic style. In 1917 Mondrian became one of the founders of De Stijl [more]. This group, which included Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leck, and Georges Vantongerloo, extended its principles of abstraction and simplification beyond painting and sculpture to architecture and graphic and industrial design. Mondrian’s essays on abstract art were published in the periodical De Stijl. In July 1919 he returned to Paris; there he exhibited with De Stijl in 1923, but withdrew from the group after van Doesburg reintroduced diagonal elements into his work around 1925. In 1930, Mondrian showed with Cercle et Carré (Circle and Square) and in 1931 joined Abstraction-Création.

World War II forced Mondrian to move to London in 1938 and then to settle in New York in October 1940. In New York he joined American Abstract Artists and continued to publish texts on Neoplasticism. His late style evolved significantly in response to the city. In 1942 his first solo show took place at the Valentine Dudensing Gallery, New York. Mondrian died February 1, 1944, in New York.


Related links:
Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian Trust
Mondrian Computer Wallpaper
Piet Mondrian prints and posters
Piet Mondrian on Artcyclopedia
A site where there's a large collection of Mondrian artifacts, works of art and more.


Books

above left: published by Taschen. Above right, published by Phaidon


Buy Mondrian Books, gifts and more here.



 

I continually add to my list of Mondrian inspired items here, it ill be more recently updated than this post, so be sure to check it out!

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