Talent Zone; Zaza chair, Omri Barzeev
The Talent Zone at Tent London design show featured the work of ten graduates from universities and colleges in Europe and beyond. The ten were chosen by Tent London and the online store mydeco and given space at the event. The three lucky winners, chosen on October 7, get the opportunity to showcase their work to Terence Conran and Philippe Starck from the mydeco design board.
Omri Barzeev graduated from Shenkar College, Tel Aviv and was in the Talent Zone with his Zaza chair. The chair seat is created from a laser-cut plastic sheet layered with felt that is folded into shape; the wooden legs clamping the chair into position.
Jaebeom Jeong from Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea showcased his Grid Chair. Made from stainless steel, the chair is a reinterpretation of a traditional chair produced by welding fine wire. It is made by hand but creates the effect of being created by computer.
Grid Chair, Jaebeom Jeong; Cozy Furniture, Hannes Grebin
Hannes Grebin’s Cozy Furniture is a play on the traditional decorative German furniture of the 70s- all florals and lace doillies, but with a geometric modernist twist. Hannes is a graduate from the Bauhaus University, Weimar.
To become one, Erwin Zwiers; Drop Series, Olivia Decaris
Erwin Zwiers, a graduate from HKU Utrecht brought To become one; a table and stools collection with squashy mouldable tops in skaii fabric designed to resemble the comforting sensation of walking and sitting on sand. Olivia Decaris, a Royal College of Art graduate showed her Drop Series; overscaled lights with circular benches that allow either one person or two or more to have private space anywhere.
It's not what you think it is, Mikaela Johansson; The Clock Clock, Bastian Bischoff & Per Emanuelsson
Mikaela Johansson from the University of Cumbria, showed allover floral print which was not all it seemed – with tiny guns poking out of the flower heads as stamens, while Bastian Bischoff & Per Emanuelsson came to London with The Clock Clock – a bank of black and white clocks that periodically rotate to create geometric patterns.
Images at Tent London: Joyce Thornton
Tent London
Omri Barzeev
Jaebeom Jeong
Hannes Grebin
Erwin Zwiers
Olivia Decaris
Mikaela Johansson
Bastian Bischoff & Per Emanuelsson
