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

Omer Arbel - chair

Another chair today made of concrete.
Omer Arbel, the Vancouver-based designer of the lauded 1.2 Shelf, has used ductile concrete—usually an infrastructural material—in its first application as furniture. Arbel’s 8.0 Chair—the inaugural piece in what the designer anticipates will be a series of outdoor pieces—has the pallor of a sunbaked Nevada salt flat and seems to project in all directions. “The concrete is very, very, very, very strong,” Arbel says. “It allows me to create this incredibly thin, cantilevering form.’

Links:
http://www.omerarbel.com/
http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20050514/80-a-ductile-concrete-chair
http://minimalissimo.com/2009/11/8-0-concrete-chair/

Chesterfield concrete sofa by GrayConcrete UK

http://www.grayconcrete.co.uk/ created a chesterfield sofa for the garden. Might be uncomfortable without cushions but surely undestroyable.

via chariblog
http://www.chairblog.eu/2011/05/02/concrete-chesterfield-sofa-by-gray-concrete/

Concrete necklaces - Bergnershmidt

Beautiful concrete jewellery - and you can buy it online. Great xmas presents.

When Ludwig Mies van der Rohe proclaimed: „please do not confuse the simple with the simple minded“, he characterized the formal principle of the label BERGNERSCHMIDT. 

The clothes and jewellery are reduced to form to focus on their essence and have been conceived on the basis of the Bauhaus maxim ’less is more’. 
The ’baustoff’ collection combines purist and constructive expression with subtle femininity in the contrasting materials silk, silver and concrete. 
Each piece of jewellery is handmade and therefore has a unique character.

MATERIAL: concrete

COLOUR: grey/black

DIMENSIONS: length 5,5 cm, depth 0,5 cm, ∅ 6,5 cm"

Oh, I'm already in love with these...