2022 Decor + Design VIVID x Houzz People's Choice Award
See entries from emerging Australian designers in the 2022 VIVID design competition then vote for your favourite
See some of the best emerging design talent at VIVID, an exhibition that shines a light on exciting emerging Australian designers as part of the Decor + Design Show. Here, we present the VIVID finalists, and invite you to vote for your favourites here (simply click the ‘Like’ buttons below your preferred designs) or via the link at the end of the story. Voting for the 2022 VIVID x Houzz People’s Choice winner starts 27 June and runs until 17 July 2022. On 18 July 2022 at 5pm AEST, we will announce the 2022 VIVID x Houzz People’s Choice winner.
And the winner is…. Marlo Lyda’s Remnants Collection (see number 6 below). Congratulations Marlo!
*This competition is now closed.
And the winner is…. Marlo Lyda’s Remnants Collection (see number 6 below). Congratulations Marlo!
*This competition is now closed.
2. Chloe Henderson
OKAPI-I
Designer’s description
Okapi-I is a side table of contrasting maple and carbonised ash timber. The design is intentionally simple to enhance the features and colour of the timber – it’s a playful and eye-catching geometric design. It features two levels of shelving, designed for coffee-table books and other decorative pieces.
OKAPI-I
Designer’s description
Okapi-I is a side table of contrasting maple and carbonised ash timber. The design is intentionally simple to enhance the features and colour of the timber – it’s a playful and eye-catching geometric design. It features two levels of shelving, designed for coffee-table books and other decorative pieces.
3. Chloe Henderson
OKAPI-II
Designer’s description
Okapi-II is a console table of contrasting maple, carbonised ash timbers and brass. It intends to be striking and elegant but fun and playful. The rounded double legs give contrast to the angular form of the rest of the piece and the contrasting stripes give a subtle optical illusion.
OKAPI-II
Designer’s description
Okapi-II is a console table of contrasting maple, carbonised ash timbers and brass. It intends to be striking and elegant but fun and playful. The rounded double legs give contrast to the angular form of the rest of the piece and the contrasting stripes give a subtle optical illusion.
4. Georgia Weitenberg
Bent Wood Chair
Designer’s description
Bent Wood Chair is an ironic one-liner. A wry description of exactly what is perceived, and by allusion, everything the chair is not when a Thonet Bentwood is the measure… but what if we actually liked the alternative? Bent Wood Chair challenges taste conventions in its exploration of form and scale.
Bent Wood Chair
Designer’s description
Bent Wood Chair is an ironic one-liner. A wry description of exactly what is perceived, and by allusion, everything the chair is not when a Thonet Bentwood is the measure… but what if we actually liked the alternative? Bent Wood Chair challenges taste conventions in its exploration of form and scale.
5. Dalton Stewart
Basalt Table 2
Designer’s description
Basalt Table questions the relationship between objects and the idea of cultural heritage. Old bluestone building foundations from construction waste have been repurposed with the addition of three steel planes, interlocking in cut slots. One metal plane acts as a reinforcement for the tabletop’s vertical planes.
Basalt Table 2
Designer’s description
Basalt Table questions the relationship between objects and the idea of cultural heritage. Old bluestone building foundations from construction waste have been repurposed with the addition of three steel planes, interlocking in cut slots. One metal plane acts as a reinforcement for the tabletop’s vertical planes.
6. Marlo Lyda
Remnants Collection
Designer’s description
Normally, small or cracked pieces of stone are deemed a nuisance and discarded. In Remnants Collection, these imperfections are collected and coaxed back into the limelight, forming coffee and side tables. The restored stones sit atop custom-made frames, while meticulously wrapped copper binds together Marlo’s assembly of undervalued materials.
Remnants Collection
Designer’s description
Normally, small or cracked pieces of stone are deemed a nuisance and discarded. In Remnants Collection, these imperfections are collected and coaxed back into the limelight, forming coffee and side tables. The restored stones sit atop custom-made frames, while meticulously wrapped copper binds together Marlo’s assembly of undervalued materials.
7. Katrina Ramm
Buddy
Designer’s description
Buddy is a happy storage unit, designed to bring both functionality and positivity into the home, brightening up any space with its joyous grin.
Buddy is made locally, using sustainably grown Australian timbers and plant-based finishes.
Buddy has a playful and nostalgic child-like sensibility, without compromising on quality and longevity.
Buddy
Designer’s description
Buddy is a happy storage unit, designed to bring both functionality and positivity into the home, brightening up any space with its joyous grin.
Buddy is made locally, using sustainably grown Australian timbers and plant-based finishes.
Buddy has a playful and nostalgic child-like sensibility, without compromising on quality and longevity.
8. Kirby Bourke
CC Chair 1 – Half Arm Chair
Designer’s description
This design is a brutalist object made by wrapping a solid cylindrical base with a hollow cylindrical backrest to create an abstracted form of a more traditional armchair. Made from brass sheet and finished with an antique patina, it ensures that each piece has its own character and soul.
CC Chair 1 – Half Arm Chair
Designer’s description
This design is a brutalist object made by wrapping a solid cylindrical base with a hollow cylindrical backrest to create an abstracted form of a more traditional armchair. Made from brass sheet and finished with an antique patina, it ensures that each piece has its own character and soul.
9. Bel Williams
Lava Table
Designer’s description
Lava table is an exploration of aerated aluminium, created by injecting air and ceramic particles into molten recycled aluminium. With sponge, pumice and metal-like qualities it tethers on the edge of familiarity. Navigating these perceptions, Lava Table applies a softness and warmth to the ambiguous substrate, reconstructing the imperfect.
Lava Table
Designer’s description
Lava table is an exploration of aerated aluminium, created by injecting air and ceramic particles into molten recycled aluminium. With sponge, pumice and metal-like qualities it tethers on the edge of familiarity. Navigating these perceptions, Lava Table applies a softness and warmth to the ambiguous substrate, reconstructing the imperfect.
10. Katrina Ramm
Penny Chair
Designer’s description
Penny is a compact dining chair made for small spaces, with a curved back that sits flush against a one-millimetre-diametre table. Penny’s design is based on play and nostalgia, with its simple forms and construction techniques being inspired by Meccano pieces. Penny is made locally, using sustainably grown Australian timbers.
Penny Chair
Designer’s description
Penny is a compact dining chair made for small spaces, with a curved back that sits flush against a one-millimetre-diametre table. Penny’s design is based on play and nostalgia, with its simple forms and construction techniques being inspired by Meccano pieces. Penny is made locally, using sustainably grown Australian timbers.
13. Elliot Hall
Bombora
Designer’s description
Bombora is a lounge chair that replicates the motion of a breaking wave, giving the user a sense of being encapsulated within the wave’s curling lip. The organic form takes on the characteristics of water movement while sinking into a moulded seating shape. It features hollow laminated construction with dual-sections clipped together.
Bombora
Designer’s description
Bombora is a lounge chair that replicates the motion of a breaking wave, giving the user a sense of being encapsulated within the wave’s curling lip. The organic form takes on the characteristics of water movement while sinking into a moulded seating shape. It features hollow laminated construction with dual-sections clipped together.
14. Billie Civello
Fleur Stool
Designer’s description
The Fleur stool is a whimsical design that explores contemporary motifs. Three hand-rolled steel legs bloom into a five-petalled upholstered seat, each component handmade and finished on Kulin Nations by Billie Civello. The stool consists of chrome-plated steel, plywood, recycled foam and recycled upholstery.
Fleur Stool
Designer’s description
The Fleur stool is a whimsical design that explores contemporary motifs. Three hand-rolled steel legs bloom into a five-petalled upholstered seat, each component handmade and finished on Kulin Nations by Billie Civello. The stool consists of chrome-plated steel, plywood, recycled foam and recycled upholstery.
15. Billie Civello
Transparent Table
Designer’s description
Made entirely from perspex, the Transparent table is a lightweight, timeless coffee table, suitable for everyday use. The design explores how to create complexity within form by using only simple multi-planar bends. The two-step process of laser cutting and then bending lends itself to the minimalist yet elegant outcome.
Transparent Table
Designer’s description
Made entirely from perspex, the Transparent table is a lightweight, timeless coffee table, suitable for everyday use. The design explores how to create complexity within form by using only simple multi-planar bends. The two-step process of laser cutting and then bending lends itself to the minimalist yet elegant outcome.
Lighting Design
16. Friday Studio
Lumen
Designer’s description
Lumen is a statement sconce to set the mood. Layered and radiant light bouncing off the living patinated brass provides lighting with character. The elegant exterior yet complex architecture inside leaves no trace of wires and exposes negative spaces, bringing an airy atmosphere and subtle warmth to any setting.
Browse contemporary Australian homes to inspire your own interior
16. Friday Studio
Lumen
Designer’s description
Lumen is a statement sconce to set the mood. Layered and radiant light bouncing off the living patinated brass provides lighting with character. The elegant exterior yet complex architecture inside leaves no trace of wires and exposes negative spaces, bringing an airy atmosphere and subtle warmth to any setting.
Browse contemporary Australian homes to inspire your own interior
18. Thomas Yeend
REO Lamp
Designer’s description
The REO Lamp was inspired by an interest in architectural forms and materials, combined with an experimentation with mould-blown glass techniques. Featuring a cast Jesmonite base and a series of mould-blown glass tubes, the REO Lamp emulates the exposed reinforcing rod (‘reo rod’) of a demolished concrete chunk.
REO Lamp
Designer’s description
The REO Lamp was inspired by an interest in architectural forms and materials, combined with an experimentation with mould-blown glass techniques. Featuring a cast Jesmonite base and a series of mould-blown glass tubes, the REO Lamp emulates the exposed reinforcing rod (‘reo rod’) of a demolished concrete chunk.
20. Julian Leigh May
Malachite Wall Lamps
Designer’s description
Malachite Wall Lamps are inspired by the monolithic mineral malachite. Referencing colour and forms seen in sci-fi films, the lamp’s globes ooze from the hammered aluminium shells, light catching and reflecting on the shell’s protrusions.
Malachite Wall Lamps
Designer’s description
Malachite Wall Lamps are inspired by the monolithic mineral malachite. Referencing colour and forms seen in sci-fi films, the lamp’s globes ooze from the hammered aluminium shells, light catching and reflecting on the shell’s protrusions.
21. Matthew Hurley
Manor Double Swing Pendant
Designer’s description
The Manor Double Swing Pendant allows for a kinetic interaction of light that in form plays to the malleability of steel. Its plastic-like powder-coated touch talks to a moment of both stretch and tension, which is held in pause within the framework of the light.
Manor Double Swing Pendant
Designer’s description
The Manor Double Swing Pendant allows for a kinetic interaction of light that in form plays to the malleability of steel. Its plastic-like powder-coated touch talks to a moment of both stretch and tension, which is held in pause within the framework of the light.
22. Billie Civello
The Dichot Lamp
Designer’s description
The Dichot lamp is a playful standing-lamp-come-side-table that explores the interaction of materiality between steel and perspex. The design is heavily informed by Italian modernism of the 1960s, while also incorporating contemporary themes, shapes and multi-functionality. The lamp is hand-rolled, welded and assembled by the designer.
The Dichot Lamp
Designer’s description
The Dichot lamp is a playful standing-lamp-come-side-table that explores the interaction of materiality between steel and perspex. The design is heavily informed by Italian modernism of the 1960s, while also incorporating contemporary themes, shapes and multi-functionality. The lamp is hand-rolled, welded and assembled by the designer.
Object Design
23. Arian Berisa
The Plate of Baulbek
Designer’s description
The Plate of Baulbek is a sculptural furnishing piece, which holds a stone or glass plate, vertically balanced, in a powder-coated steel-tube base.
23. Arian Berisa
The Plate of Baulbek
Designer’s description
The Plate of Baulbek is a sculptural furnishing piece, which holds a stone or glass plate, vertically balanced, in a powder-coated steel-tube base.
24. Caro Pattle
Vessel
Designer’s description
Vessel is a series of large handwoven amphorae, formed using coil-basketry techniques in a premium plush velvet. The amphorae playfully reference their antecedents from antiquities, with a materiality that honours a once-utilitarian object at the expense of its function. The vessels are future artifacts, embodying today’s material culture.
Vessel
Designer’s description
Vessel is a series of large handwoven amphorae, formed using coil-basketry techniques in a premium plush velvet. The amphorae playfully reference their antecedents from antiquities, with a materiality that honours a once-utilitarian object at the expense of its function. The vessels are future artifacts, embodying today’s material culture.
25. Lyn Wallis
Whippy Vase
Designer’s description
The Whippy is a functional watertight vase, 3D-printed with eco-friendly, PLA bio-plastic. Designed using MOI3D, it can be printed in heights between 14 and 30 centimetres, in a variety of colours and textures. The Whippy’s geometry maximises the impact of colour-morphing materials, which appear to change colour from different viewing angles.
Whippy Vase
Designer’s description
The Whippy is a functional watertight vase, 3D-printed with eco-friendly, PLA bio-plastic. Designed using MOI3D, it can be printed in heights between 14 and 30 centimetres, in a variety of colours and textures. The Whippy’s geometry maximises the impact of colour-morphing materials, which appear to change colour from different viewing angles.
26. Tyler Wade & Matthew Hurley
Myoko Tapware
Designers’ description
The Myoko Series is a tapware collection, which in form and function references the thoughtful approach to interactions we have been introduced to in small mountain villages of Japan. In the collection, ornament is reduced and form is simplified, allowing for a simple and quiet interaction.
Myoko Tapware
Designers’ description
The Myoko Series is a tapware collection, which in form and function references the thoughtful approach to interactions we have been introduced to in small mountain villages of Japan. In the collection, ornament is reduced and form is simplified, allowing for a simple and quiet interaction.
27. Tom Morton
Flourish Hook
Designer’s description
The Flourish Hook is a piece of practical wall art that works as a hanging device. Handmade from mild steel, the vertical ribbon of hook loops is informed by floral organic shapes in conjunction with the natural bending properties of mild steel. Its dimensions are 20 millimetres in width, 350 millimetres in length, and 80 millimetres in depth.
Flourish Hook
Designer’s description
The Flourish Hook is a piece of practical wall art that works as a hanging device. Handmade from mild steel, the vertical ribbon of hook loops is informed by floral organic shapes in conjunction with the natural bending properties of mild steel. Its dimensions are 20 millimetres in width, 350 millimetres in length, and 80 millimetres in depth.
28. Alexandra Hirst
Juicy Juicer Series
Designer’s description
The Juicy series was designed after receiving an abundance of lemons last citrus season. It includes Juicy Bowl, a glass juicer, and a hand held variant, Juicy Junior. The solid element of each piece highlights the optical qualities of glass and provides a sturdy point of contact for juicing.
Juicy Juicer Series
Designer’s description
The Juicy series was designed after receiving an abundance of lemons last citrus season. It includes Juicy Bowl, a glass juicer, and a hand held variant, Juicy Junior. The solid element of each piece highlights the optical qualities of glass and provides a sturdy point of contact for juicing.
Concept Design
29. Charles Skender
Plant Light No1
Designer’s description
A light for your plants, designed for your home. We seek out light that enters through windows to keep our plants happy. Access to natural light in modern homes can sometimes be difficult. Utilising advanced horticultural lighting technology, PL1 is able to re-introduce nature without a single ray of sun.
29. Charles Skender
Plant Light No1
Designer’s description
A light for your plants, designed for your home. We seek out light that enters through windows to keep our plants happy. Access to natural light in modern homes can sometimes be difficult. Utilising advanced horticultural lighting technology, PL1 is able to re-introduce nature without a single ray of sun.
30. Gaby Miegeville-Little
Besser + Besser
Designer’s description
Inspired by the extraneous leftovers of building sites, Besser + Besser are a pair of perches for plants and miscellanea. Masonry blocks are typically overlooked for their singular beauty: by combining recycled, powder-coated aluminium sheets and the ubiquitous breezeblock, the Bessers prove that these concrete leftovers can be delicious.
Besser + Besser
Designer’s description
Inspired by the extraneous leftovers of building sites, Besser + Besser are a pair of perches for plants and miscellanea. Masonry blocks are typically overlooked for their singular beauty: by combining recycled, powder-coated aluminium sheets and the ubiquitous breezeblock, the Bessers prove that these concrete leftovers can be delicious.
31. Emanuel Sammartano
Fragment
Designer’s description
Old original fragments, discarded, abandoned pieces of chairs, tables, frames, broken and forgotten, with no hope, which with one hand I bring back to life and to which with the other I grant a new future. I re-synthesise original shapes, and then I frame them into a new visionary suit.
Fragment
Designer’s description
Old original fragments, discarded, abandoned pieces of chairs, tables, frames, broken and forgotten, with no hope, which with one hand I bring back to life and to which with the other I grant a new future. I re-synthesise original shapes, and then I frame them into a new visionary suit.
32. Hadden Daley
Flamingo
Designer’s description
The Flamingo floor-lamp concept is a low-voltage LED with a steel frame and textured paint. A balance of form and colours, the lightweight steel frame allows delicate slender forms, while the heavy counterweight maintains a perfect balance. Bright gradient colours flow to soften rigid forms and playfully illuminate any space.
Flamingo
Designer’s description
The Flamingo floor-lamp concept is a low-voltage LED with a steel frame and textured paint. A balance of form and colours, the lightweight steel frame allows delicate slender forms, while the heavy counterweight maintains a perfect balance. Bright gradient colours flow to soften rigid forms and playfully illuminate any space.
33. Bolaji Teniola
Timber Shaving Vessels
Designer’s description
Timber Shaving Vessels are an exercise in upcycling in producing objects that change the perceived value of timber offcuts. Inspired by the manufacturing techniques of the Akari lamps and the papier-mâché process, timber shavings are transformed into vessels using a homemade organic adhesive and found objects acting as moulds.
Timber Shaving Vessels
Designer’s description
Timber Shaving Vessels are an exercise in upcycling in producing objects that change the perceived value of timber offcuts. Inspired by the manufacturing techniques of the Akari lamps and the papier-mâché process, timber shavings are transformed into vessels using a homemade organic adhesive and found objects acting as moulds.
34. Georgia Weitenberg
Chair With a Pearl Earring
Designer’s description
Inspired by my Dutch heritage, Chair with a Pearl Earring makes a case for the examined life and asks us to consider the value we place in things. This chair is made from an oregon beam my father kept from the renovation of our family home some 30 years ago.
Chair With a Pearl Earring
Designer’s description
Inspired by my Dutch heritage, Chair with a Pearl Earring makes a case for the examined life and asks us to consider the value we place in things. This chair is made from an oregon beam my father kept from the renovation of our family home some 30 years ago.
35. Hae Yunjung
Pavilion Stool – Stool Pavilion
Designer’s description
Change begins with an individual, but transformation happens with a community. Designed with sustainability at the forefront, the Pavilion Stool can be reused, redistributed and transformed from a singular piece of furniture to a larger system – the Stool Pavilion.
Pavilion Stool – Stool Pavilion
Designer’s description
Change begins with an individual, but transformation happens with a community. Designed with sustainability at the forefront, the Pavilion Stool can be reused, redistributed and transformed from a singular piece of furniture to a larger system – the Stool Pavilion.
This entry also appears in Furniture Design.
37. Georgia Weitenberg
Bent Wood Chair
Designer’s description
Bent Wood Chair is an ironic one-liner. A wry description of exactly what is perceived, and by allusion, everything the chair is not when a Thonet Bentwood is the measure… but what if we actually liked the alternative? Bent Wood Chair challenges taste conventions in its exploration of form and scale.
37. Georgia Weitenberg
Bent Wood Chair
Designer’s description
Bent Wood Chair is an ironic one-liner. A wry description of exactly what is perceived, and by allusion, everything the chair is not when a Thonet Bentwood is the measure… but what if we actually liked the alternative? Bent Wood Chair challenges taste conventions in its exploration of form and scale.
39. Maya Schwalb
The ‘Rumour Bench’
Designer’s description
I have designed a telephone hallway bench as a call to action to reduce the amount of time spent on the phone. The bench restricts telephone handling to one area, encouraging reflection on phone-usage behaviours and allowing for more face-to-face interactions.
The ‘Rumour Bench’
Designer’s description
I have designed a telephone hallway bench as a call to action to reduce the amount of time spent on the phone. The bench restricts telephone handling to one area, encouraging reflection on phone-usage behaviours and allowing for more face-to-face interactions.
This entry also appears in Concept Design.
40. Hae Yunjung
Pavilion Stool – Stool Pavilion
Designer’s description
Change begins with an individual, but transformation happens with a community. Designed with sustainability at the forefront, the Pavilion Stool can be reused, redistributed and transformed from a singular piece of furniture to a larger system – the Stool Pavilion.
40. Hae Yunjung
Pavilion Stool – Stool Pavilion
Designer’s description
Change begins with an individual, but transformation happens with a community. Designed with sustainability at the forefront, the Pavilion Stool can be reused, redistributed and transformed from a singular piece of furniture to a larger system – the Stool Pavilion.
This entry also appears in Object Design.
Colour Design
41. Caro Pattle
Vessel
Designer’s description
Vessel is a series of large handwoven amphorae, formed using coil-basketry techniques in a premium plush velvet. The amphorae playfully reference their antecedents from antiquities, with a materiality that honours a once-utilitarian object at the expense of its function. The vessels are future artifacts, embodying today’s material culture.
Colour Design
41. Caro Pattle
Vessel
Designer’s description
Vessel is a series of large handwoven amphorae, formed using coil-basketry techniques in a premium plush velvet. The amphorae playfully reference their antecedents from antiquities, with a materiality that honours a once-utilitarian object at the expense of its function. The vessels are future artifacts, embodying today’s material culture.
This entry also appears in Object Design.
42. Lyn Wallis
Whippy Vase (Summer Story)
Designer’s description
The Whippy is a functional watertight vase, 3D-printed with eco-friendly, PLA bio-plastic. Designed using MOI3D, it can be printed in heights between 14 and 30 centimetres, in a variety of colours and textures. The Whippy’s geometry maximises the impact of colour-morphing materials, which appear to change colour from different viewing angles.
42. Lyn Wallis
Whippy Vase (Summer Story)
Designer’s description
The Whippy is a functional watertight vase, 3D-printed with eco-friendly, PLA bio-plastic. Designed using MOI3D, it can be printed in heights between 14 and 30 centimetres, in a variety of colours and textures. The Whippy’s geometry maximises the impact of colour-morphing materials, which appear to change colour from different viewing angles.
This entry also appears in Concept Design.
43. Hadden Daley
Flamingo
Designer’s description
The Flamingo floor-lamp concept is a low-voltage LED with a steel frame and textured paint. A balance of form and colours, the lightweight steel frame allows delicate slender forms, while the heavy counterweight maintains a perfect balance. Bright gradient colours flow to soften rigid forms and playfully illuminate any space.
43. Hadden Daley
Flamingo
Designer’s description
The Flamingo floor-lamp concept is a low-voltage LED with a steel frame and textured paint. A balance of form and colours, the lightweight steel frame allows delicate slender forms, while the heavy counterweight maintains a perfect balance. Bright gradient colours flow to soften rigid forms and playfully illuminate any space.
This entry also appears in Furniture Design.
44. Marlo Lyda
Remnants Collection
Designer’s description
Normally, small or cracked pieces of stone are deemed a nuisance and discarded. In Remnants Collection, these imperfections are collected and coaxed back into the limelight, forming coffee and side tables. The restored stones sit atop custom-made frames, while meticulously wrapped copper binds together Marlo’s assembly of undervalued materials.
44. Marlo Lyda
Remnants Collection
Designer’s description
Normally, small or cracked pieces of stone are deemed a nuisance and discarded. In Remnants Collection, these imperfections are collected and coaxed back into the limelight, forming coffee and side tables. The restored stones sit atop custom-made frames, while meticulously wrapped copper binds together Marlo’s assembly of undervalued materials.
This entry also appears in Furniture Design.
45. Kirby Bourke
CC Chair 1 – Half Arm Chair
Designer’s description
This design is a brutalist object made by wrapping a solid cylindrical base with a hollow cylindrical backrest to create an abstracted form of a more traditional armchair. Made from brass sheet and finished with an antique patina, it ensures that each piece has its own character and soul.
45. Kirby Bourke
CC Chair 1 – Half Arm Chair
Designer’s description
This design is a brutalist object made by wrapping a solid cylindrical base with a hollow cylindrical backrest to create an abstracted form of a more traditional armchair. Made from brass sheet and finished with an antique patina, it ensures that each piece has its own character and soul.
This entry also appears in Concept Design.
46. Emanuel Sammartano
Fragment
Designer’s description
Old original fragments, discarded, abandoned pieces of chairs, tables, frames, broken and forgotten, with no hope, which with one hand I bring back to life and to which with the other I grant a new future. I re-synthesise original shapes, and then I frame them into a new visionary suit.
46. Emanuel Sammartano
Fragment
Designer’s description
Old original fragments, discarded, abandoned pieces of chairs, tables, frames, broken and forgotten, with no hope, which with one hand I bring back to life and to which with the other I grant a new future. I re-synthesise original shapes, and then I frame them into a new visionary suit.
This entry also appears in Lighting Design.
47. Thomas Yeend
REO Lamp
Designer’s description
The REO Lamp was inspired by an interest in architectural forms and materials, combined with an experimentation with mould-blown glass techniques. Featuring a cast Jesmonite base and a series of mould-blown glass tubes, the REO Lamp emulates the exposed reinforcing rod (‘reo rod’) of a demolished concrete chunk.
47. Thomas Yeend
REO Lamp
Designer’s description
The REO Lamp was inspired by an interest in architectural forms and materials, combined with an experimentation with mould-blown glass techniques. Featuring a cast Jesmonite base and a series of mould-blown glass tubes, the REO Lamp emulates the exposed reinforcing rod (‘reo rod’) of a demolished concrete chunk.
This entry also appears in Lighting Design.
48. Julian Leigh May
Malachite Wall Lamps
Designer’s description
Malachite Wall Lamps are inspired by the monolithic mineral malachite. Referencing colour and forms seen in sci-fi films, the lamp’s globes ooze from the hammered aluminium shells, light catching and reflecting on the shell’s protrusions.
Your turn
Vote for your favourites here (simply click the ‘Like’ buttons below your preferred designs). Voting for the 2022 VIVID x Houzz People’s Choice winner starts 27 June and runs until 17 July 2022. On 18 July 2022 at 5pm AEST, we will announce the 2022 VIVID x Houzz People’s Choice winner.
48. Julian Leigh May
Malachite Wall Lamps
Designer’s description
Malachite Wall Lamps are inspired by the monolithic mineral malachite. Referencing colour and forms seen in sci-fi films, the lamp’s globes ooze from the hammered aluminium shells, light catching and reflecting on the shell’s protrusions.
Your turn
Vote for your favourites here (simply click the ‘Like’ buttons below your preferred designs). Voting for the 2022 VIVID x Houzz People’s Choice winner starts 27 June and runs until 17 July 2022. On 18 July 2022 at 5pm AEST, we will announce the 2022 VIVID x Houzz People’s Choice winner.
1. Tess Pirrie
Intestine Stool
Designer’s description
The intestine stool was created by analysing the digestive system. The designer was inspired by the shape and role of intestines, and how the movement through them ended up in a ‘stool’. This piece was created out three-millimetre-thin mild steel and finished with a clear coat.