Concrete lamps - Annika Nordenskiold

Annika Nordenskiöld lives and works in Sweden. She has graduated from Berghs School of Communication and Konstfack – University college of arts, crafts and design. Annika’s work is mainly paintings, but also sculpture and works of art in different materials. Her work has been exhibited in Finland, Germany, Japan, Sweden and USA.


I don't know how these lamps look like when switched on in the dark but they are a nice example of painted concrete furniture.

Source: http://www.rita.se/

Rainer Mutsch

Modular outdoor furniture.
Winner of the Good Design Award 2010 this furniture allows the user to move freely on the objects and to choose an individual seating position according to his or her individual taste.

Links:
http://www.rainermutsch.net/products_dune.php
http://acidolatte.blogspot.com/2011/07/rainer-mutsch.html?zx=5eafd28f0616425f

Marila Dardot - Concrete letters

Marila Dardos is a Brazilian artist and he created a couple of concrete letters with the title of "Because the words are everywhere".

If you can lift them, you can create your own concrete word.

Source:
http://www.mariladardot.com/
http://acidolatte.blogspot.com/2011/07/marila-dardot.html?zx=b735249bd6d4f2e

Yoan Capote - Concrete sculptures

Yoan Capote is a Cuban artist.

He merges human organs with inanimate objects, rearranges the human body and reinvents the purpose of everyday life: the sculpture Nostalgia, which features an ordinary suitcase unzipped to reveal a wall of bricks, can be seen as a metaphor for nomadism and its limits, the wall of bricks standing for our own impediments we all carry with us wherever we go.

This work concentrates on the polemics of gender (male, female homosexuality etc…) applied to a design exercise about the representation of gender. The intention of the artist was to find a three-dimensional shape that in two different positions represents the male and female breast. The two concrete pieces are exactly the same sculptural shape; in different positions. The furniture has both female and male views.

Sources:
http://www.yoan-capote.com/
http://acidolatte.blogspot.com/2011/07/yoan-capote.html?zx=ca9bfd7ce8e95447

Concrete Lego

Concrete lego blocks for $14.

http://www.likecool.com/Concrete_Building_Blocks--Toy--Gear.html

Concrete Vases - Decha Archjananun

It is graduation time and it brings a lot of new ideas.
These concrete weight vases were designed by Decha Archjananun.

University of art and design Lausanne: http://www.ecal.ch/
Source: http://www.dezeen.com/2011/07/05/weight-vases-by-decha-archjananun/

Concrete speakers - Shmuel Linski

A final project from Shenkar college: concrete speakers. Shmuel Linski created these intersting pieces.


"The Horn speaker technology that I used in my project, works just great with the concrete, even without the need of padding the speakers from the inside.
The Driver, which is located in the top part of the speaker, moves the air through a pipe (96cm long) and into a horn shaped mouth in the bottom of the speaker. The weight (56kg) makes the speakers very solid, and turns these speakers into a unique product, invoking a sense of nirvana for concrete lovers and audiophiles."

Remember the concrete espresso machine? It was Linski too...

Links: http://www.linskidesign.com/exposed.php
Source: http://www.designsponge.com/2011/07/exposed-concrete-speakers.html