September 2008
Following the success of New Designers earlier this year awarded with 100% Design Award and selected for New Designers Selection, James Plant will be exhibiting at Earls Court as part of 100% Futures, Stand O71 and at The Village Underground Shoreditch.
At 100% Futures,‘Private Dining’ (the award winning piece from New Designers) will be seen in its new guise. Developed to be more manufacture friendly and accompanied with new variations for compact living moving away from dining. There will also be a sample of the series Pronto-fabbricato.
The Village Underground will be exhibiting New Designers selection
“For the fifth year running New Designers SELECTION brings together an outstanding group of 50 young designers who have been selected from across the New Designers event in July 2008 at the Business Design Centre and from its design directory; newdesignersonline.co.uk.”
Within this collection James Plant’s Arco-rod and Clamp Lamp will be on display at this years event in the great setting of the Village Underground.
Gaining a First Class honours degree, Winning the 100% Design Award and selected for New Designers Selection, has proved to be a busy but rewarding few months and first steps into the design world.
“I keep a fun light-hearted side to my work, with the world around us becoming an ever more serious place I feel design has a part to play emotively as well as functionally. Whilst function should not suffer to aesthetics, I try to find graceful solutions in playful design that allows the user to interact with the piece.”
PRIVATE DINING provides a complete dining room experience in just 17 cm depth. Inspired from pop-up books the unsuspecting doors draw open to entirely transform the environment and provide a strong sturdy table and chairs.
Pronto-fabbricato, a series of ready-mades that utilise everyday objects to create products using the unexpected.
“I find it fun when people are made to stop and realise a form, when they question the integrity of the design. Within this series of ready-mades I use relatively cheap materials to produce something of greater value. Using archetypal components we can relate to, we hold fond memories of its origin, strengthening our connection with the piece.”
CLAMP LAMP uses ‘the’ bright red Solo speed clamp. Its well-known form used as the base, allows it to be attached to almost any surface, the shade? A stainless steel flowerpot.
Reminiscent of a turned angle-poise lamp, these mundane individual objects offer cheeky alternatives to their original counterparts.
ARCO-ROD, as part of the series Pronto-fabbricato, is an adjustable pendant lamp that lowers from ceiling height, to a reading lamp.
Constructed from a fishing rod, winch and breezeblock its ambiguous design came from individual component analysis and the unique properties inherent in each. Arco-rod plays with tension and flex, providing a fun versatile solution to lighting.
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