Lukas & Robertson

Lukas & Robertson

Body & Soul

… is a new brand of designer furniture founded by Robert Dvořák & Lukáš Walter. It was born out of a need, the need to return nobility to forlorn furniture, to give its forgotten soul a new body, to revitalise it in a different context and in a modern form. Lukas & Robertson combine traditional techniques with classical and modern materials. They can be conventional or revolutionary but the result is always a unique item of furniture, a one‐of‐a‐kind. With an emphasis on originality and detail, they use only the highest quality materials and fine craftsmanship. All our products are designed by the Lukas & Robertson and created in their workshop. The aim of the company is to give quality, old furniture the chance to return to our interiors and reclaim its role as a dignified companion in our lives. Besides their own free work, the designer duo also creates bespoke pieces. The clients bring them old pieces of furniture and give them either some directions, or a free hand to prepare a proposal for its revival. Whether it’s a chair, a table, chest of drawers or cupboard, Lukas & Robertson find a solution where the clients’ ideas and their vision meet to join the piece’s original soul with a new body.

www.lukasandrobertson.cz

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GRAF SEIBERT

GRAF SEIBERT

Graf and Seibert were instant best friends when they met for the first time after their studies at the Art Academy in Maastricht in 2004. Since then it has been a mutual and deeply felt urge of Graf Seibert to reflect the absurdities in our wealthy western society and translate them into art performances and interventions and now furniture pieces. For this they use an approach of citing archetypes and forms that the industrialized brain understands instinctively, this can be understood as ‘designing’ art, but add irritation as a final ingredient, not with a raised finger but a grin.

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Patricia Yasmine Graf & Fabian Seibert Designer Aachen designmetropole Aachen

Hyper Active Chair steel, 5D-cut wood, coating 55 x 55 x 76 cm, photo: Bartosz Plodovski 7.800 €

Split Personality Dresser coated MDF, coated steel, metal fittings, industrial rollers, 105 x 55 x 80 cm, photo: Bartosz Plodovski, 8.400 €

Borderline Chair steel, 5D-cut wood, coating, 55 x 86 x 76 cm, photo: Bartosz Plodovski, 8.400 €

Hyper Active Chair steel, 5D-cut wood, coating, 55 x 55 x 76 cm, photo: Bartosz Plodovski, 7.800 €

Split Personality Dresser, coated MDF, coated steel, metal fittings, industrial rollers, 105 x 55 x 80 cm, photo: Bartosz Plodovski, 9.000 €

Depressed Lamp, concrete, steel, electrics, 250 x 60 x 160 cm, photo: Bartosz Plodovski, 3.800 €

Anorexic Bed, steel, foam, fabrics, 210 x 40 x 70cm, photo: Bartosz Plodovski, 4.600 €

Split Personality Closet, coated MDF, coated steel, metal fittings, industrial rollers, 55 x 55 x 185 cm, photo: Bartosz Plodovski, 8.400 €

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PSYCHO FURNITURE

Despite living in one of the wealthiest and most stable countries in the world, recent studies show a staggering increase of 76% in the diagnosis of mental illnesses over the last 10 years. Almost 40% of high school students in the USA are on Retalin prescritions. More and more members of our performance-oriented society have a difficult time coping with the pressures of having to keep up. In many places mental disorders are still considered a topic that is taboo. Having a mental disorder is viewed with the same stigma as a facial tattoo. More than a few people visibly display their pain through self-inflicted injury. Even though the wounds may heal, the scars remain. These pains are not unfamiliar to both Graf and Seibert, as you can imagine. Imagine walking across the world’s biggest furniture fair: tons of design pieces in endless variations totally overwhelm you. Smartness and prettiness. What would happen if Graf Seibert’s furniture pieces could not withstand the pressure and develop mental problems of their own? Does a depressive lamp give light or does it symbolise the dark side of our meritocratic society? Is an anorexic bed still of some practical use?

ART LUMINARI

A special kind of light art

Unusual forms, fascinating combinations of colours and a unique play of light and shadow – ART LUMINARI stands for a shining connection of sculpture, painting and light design. Herbert Stecher’s creative light objects make rooms shine. As a qualified photo designer, specialised in architectural and industrial photography, he uses light as a design medium. “Light is the basis of all life on earth and of existential importance for all of us. It influences our moods more than we can imagine. Feelings like security, warmth but also coldness and loneliness can be supported and even evoked by light” Stecher explains.

By combining pigmented concrete, raw iron and pictorially designed colourful surfaces, he develops an expressive balance between playful effortlessness and solid materiality. Integrated energy-saving LED lights atmospherically illuminate his objects. This, in combination with relief-like surfaces of concrete, iron, gypsum, structure paste, leaf gold, pigmented textile hardener, synthetic resin or acrylic paint, produces an exceptional effect.

“I believe that in times of industrial mass production, sustainable and individually manufactured objects have a special significance,” Stecher says. Currently his portfolio of unusual light objects, which by the way can be placed within rooms but also outdoors, amounts up to 50 types – all of them unique specimens. In his atelier in Burscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Stecher checks his artworks for technical feasibility and carries out experimental developments. “While dealing with the topic of light, I have inevitably come across fascinating space images by modern telescopes, probes and satellites. The infinite diversity of colour compositions and representations of structures influenced many of my objects, such as Hellos, Cehris, Jalos or Ekka.” Another inspiring factor is the ornamentation of classical labyrinths.

www.art-luminari.de

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Height: between 0,40 und 2,40 m (can be changed by colored coated struts)

Weight: between 3 und 120 kg

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Whether in the private sphere of life, or in the business rooms – ART LUMINARI art objects can also be integrated in the exterior as well as in the outer space. Here some examples:

EASTLONDON

Fashion and art have always been crossing fingers, and for years, we can recognise that the tendencies of the pieces we wear have a direct relationship together with our home environment. External factors influence and help evolve personal taste through life, together with the big designers that emerge everyday. Even so, we acquire, sense and estimate that certain pieces deserve a special love and care, and which we choose to accompany us all our life, and those before and after us.
Eastlondon is a new glamorous brand that wants to accompany you along your life and those around you. It associates art, fashion, past, present and future, having as an aim creating timeless pieces, as clothes or decoration items, which you will never want to leave. All clothing is created based upon original artwork of selected artists in order to provide a feeling of being “wrapped with art”. Together with clothes, every piece of furniture is original hand-made and unique.

https://www.eastlondon.land/

Ballet Dancer - Acrylic paint on cow leather, Detail

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Patrick Rapp

GOSSAMER WOOD-POETRY

Wood and craft are Patrick Rapp’s passion. All of his pieces are handcrafted from thin sheets of fresh wood. Completely unique forms develop in the drying process. Cracks or “defects” emphasize the unique character of each piece and tell a story that we do not know, but that we can see.
http://www.holzart-drechseln.ch/

Photo: Miriam Künzli