As part of the Barcelona Design Festival and in collaboration with the design store OpenHouse, Roomservice Design Gallery Frank presents Ryan Frank and his latest creations of sustainable design. Ryan is a versatile South African-born designer with design studios in London and Barcelona. In the latter he has created a new collection of furniture from the remains of local objects found in the city's "Puntos Verdes". Roomservice Design will exhibit for the first time the new pieces, all made from recycled materials, with the presence of Ryan and his own presentation on the manufacturing process.
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This group of young international designers use tape (a movement known as Tape Art) in order to create different imagery and designs. Linked to the Loop 2011 festival and its Screen from Barcelona project, they decorated different locations of the city, one of which was Roomservice Design.
As part of the OFF-LOOP Videoart Festival, Roomservice Gallery will host Kevin Matweew Pawel and his work "No Title", a look at four different locations in the metropolis of London. Matweew seeks to combine still images and film, making a dynamism that captures the viewer and focuses on various characteristics of the movement and sound.
No Title
Year: 2008
Format: Audio-Visual Installation (Digital Video)
Duration: 12 Min
Aspect ratio: 16:9
System: PAL
Breakfast with collaborators of LLadró's new trends.
"Immersed in the process of building the Hotel Aire de Bardenas and its interior design, it was time to choose the furniture. It was very difficult to find pieces that matched with what we imagined for the spaces and the multiple daily uses that occur in a hotel. We were looking for consistent pieces that kept the intentions of the design of the building, versatile pieces that have an anonymous, basic, almost standard character. But something always failed: the material, the color, the height, redundancy of details, diameter, price ...
Faced with this dilemma, one of the promoters and hotel builder Alejandro Ahedo, encouraged us to propose our designs to the blacksmith who was in charge of the construction of the project: Blas Villanueva. Working closely with them we developed showers, bathtubs, sinks, beds, structures for various stools and tables and lounge chairs structures. All pieces were designed with the criterion of being very simple, with the minimum joints and no moving parts or accessories. "
Emiliano López and Mónica Rivera
For the first time in Spain and exclusively for Roomservice Design, will display the innovative and original designs of WELTEVREE Dutch study. Founded in 2007 by young designers Dick van Hoff (1972), Floris Schoonderbeek (1979) and Rogier Martens (1978) they land in Barcelona to revolutionize the outlook of contemporary design with its bold and provocative products suitable for all kinds of public and environments. Weltevree develops and produces his designs under his own direction, and through a transparent production process, they offer pieces in series: well-defined and practical forms clearly reflects the contemporary tastes and the pursuit of originality, distinction and quality. Weltevree is well-known for their innovative and multi-functional designs steeped in a conceptual humor.
Exhibition of Arkidelias collective, consisting of architets and designers Belén Barrigón Ferrero, Borja Baños Ramos y Carlos Bauzá Cortés (ETSA Sevilla, September 2007, January 2010 and June 2008).
The exhibition is located within the activities of the international symposium of young architects "Wonderland 2010" - Barcelona, 14-16 October 2010 - and is organized by the AJAC, Association of young architects of Catalonia.The symposium sessions are intented togenerate debate on "how and when a project starts" from the perspective of the young architet, both locally and internacionally.
Collaboration with the gallery of Madrid OA MADRID, which initiates the new season with the presentation of ecologically sustainable designs, conceptual humor and big doses of originality applied to the utilitarianism.
Roomservice Design in collaboration with the LOOP festival presents videos from
TALENTS, THE ART VIDEO COLLECTION -1
Daniel Askill, Camille Henrot, Gary Hill, Sabine Massenet, Tim White Sobieski
07.05.10
The opening of the exhibition of René Windig, including within the program 'The Netherlands: The Pleasure of Drawing', is included in a series of exhibitions and events organized by the Embassy of Holland with the occasion of the 28th edition of International Fair Comic of Barcelona, where The Netherlands is the guest country.
René Windig, is the creator of hilarious parodies of classic comic such as Oom Wim, Donald Duck, Dick Bos and especially the" famous and infamous " Heinz cat, his most popular character. Based on a real cat (the mascot of the designer), dumb and blind in one eye, cranky and cynical, he loves to drink beer (it could not be something else, being a ducth cat) . For his well receivement, soon it will come a new comic book featuring only by Heinz, and also published in the Het Parool since 1987. Since its first appearance Heinz has starred in 20 comic books and many series of cartoons in ducth newspapers and abroad. In 1992 Windig and teammate De Jong won the award for best animated Dutchman, the Stripschapprijs. In 2004 the idea of a film animation about Heinz becomes a series of cartoons published in the newspaper Het Parool
Lecture at FAD Auditorium
"A personal note on the role of craft and design in the Netherlands"
GIJS BAKER, ducth industrial designer, who is also known as a jeweler, as a design theoretician and as co-founder of the prestigious DROOG DESIGN company. His pieces, revolutionary for their time, are now a classic of the international design. Gijs Bakker is well known for his experiments with new materials and his conceptual designs.
04.12.09
GIJS BAKKER (Amersfoort, 1942) was trained as a jewellery and industrial-designer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and the Konstfack Skolen in Stockholm, Sweden.
His pieces, revolutionary for their time, are now a classic of the international design. Gijs Bakker is well known for his experiments with new materials and his conceptual designs. Bakker's designs cover jewellery, home accessories and household appliances, furniture, interiors, public spaces and exhibitions. He worked and works for numerous companies: Polaroid, Artifort, HEMA, Van Kempen & Begeer, and recently for ENO Studio in France.
In 1993, Gijs Bakker founded together with design critic and historian Renny Ramakers Droog Design, a Dutch collection of designers, products and information. Together with Ramakers, Bakker is the selector and art director of all products within Droog Design.
Bakker also teaches for more than 40 years at different schools. After teaching at the Design Academy Eindhoven for more than 15 years, Bakker is now head of the Masters department, IM.
16.10.08 > 31.01.09
Dutch designer MAARTEN BAAS (1978) presents pieces from his “Clay” collection. Each piece is unique and made by hand out of synthetic clay. The experimental and playful pieces demonstrate his own unusual perception that via design we are able to breakthrough the preconceived moulds and barriers modern day society has in place. His work has been exhibited in the Design Museum in London, the Groninger Museum in Holland, Milan’s furniture fair and the Cibone in Tokyo amongst many others.
19.02.08 > 21.05.08
Actualmente presentamos la primera exposición en España del diseñador conceptual holandés RICHARD HUTTEN. Sus formas austeras y simples reflejan el concepto de ausencia de diseño y permiten una libre interpretación de su uso.
Sus diseños pueden verse en las colecciones permanentes del San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art (Amsterdam), Central Museum (Utrecht) o del Vitra Design Museum, entre otros.
The Dutch designer PIET HEIN EEK is the creator of aesthetically and ecologically sustainable furniture using totally natural materials.
His works of art communicate an ecological concept of design that unites tradition alongside modernity.
His work has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MOMA), The Furniture Fair in Milan and The Cibone in Tokio, to name but a few.
The launch of Eek’s exhibition coincided with the opening of the ROOMSERVICE gallery, which is dedicated to the promotion of the newest trends available in contemporary design.