Designer of the Week

Maurice Mentjens was born in 1964 in Sittard, the Netherlands.
In 1988 he graduated in jewelry and product design at the academy of visual arts in Maastricht. In addition he completed interior and product design at the same academy in 1990. Maurice has designed interiors, furnitures, lighting objects, wristwatches and other products.

His work has been widely documented by press all over the world and he has won several prizes amongst which the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2006 for the design of the handbag shop ‘Stash’.

Stash

Wijckerbrugstraat 45, Maastricht
Stash sells modern bags. Most shops display bags perched on a shelf. But bags do not ?perch? when they are worn; they hang. For this reason, Maurice Mentjens wanted a hanging display for the bags in Stash. The idea was quickly conceived to work with magnets, with which the bags could be ?stuck? to steel plates. Customers could then remove each bag from the wall to look at it and then stick it back in place. In this way, optimum use could be made of the entire wall surface of the fairly limited space (33 m²) for the presentation of the bags.
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Jasper Morrison was born in London in 1959, and graduated in Design at Kingston Polytechnic Design School, London (1979-82 BA (Des.)) and The Royal College of Art for Postgraduate studies (1982-85 MA (Des.) RCA). In 1984 he studied at Berlins HdK on a Scholarship.
In 1986 he set up an Office for Design in London. His work was included in the Documenta 8 exhibition in Kassel in 1987.
He has received numerous awards, contract to design the new Hannover Tram, the largest European light rail production contract of its time, at 500 Million Deutschemarks 1995, The first vehicle was presented to the public in June 1997 at the Hannover Industrial Fair, and awarded the IF Transportation Design Prize and the Ecology award.

Oblong

A modular system that comprises an armchair, a two-seat sofa, a three-seat sofa and a pouf of two dimensions. This system is manufactured in upholstered polystyrene pearls and has no supporting frame. The covers are removable with coloured stitching and hinges.

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Born in postwar Poland in 1946,He studied music in Israel (on the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship) and in New York, becoming a virtuoso performer. He left music to study architecture, receiving his professional architectural degree in 1970 from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. He received a postgraduate degree in History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Comparative Studies at Essex University (England) in 1972. He has received numerous awards, including the 2001 Hiroshima Art, awarded the 1999 Deutsche Architekturpreis (German Architecture Prize) also the 2000 Goethe Medallion for cultural contribution. Libeskind was appointed the first Cultural Ambassador for Architecture by the U.S. Department of State, as part of the Culture Connect Program.

Imperial War Museum

Machester, England
The Imperial War Museum North deals with the conflicts that have shaped the 20th century and those which will continue to shape the future.  The concept for the project is that of a globe shattered into fragments and then reassembled on that site as an iconic emblem of conflict.  The building is the interlocking of three shards representing earth, air, and water.  The Museum, permanent exhibits, temporary exhibits, learning center and restaurant was completed in 2001 by SDL and Sir Robert McAlpine and opened in 2002.  During its first year, the Museum had more than 550,000 visitors.
 

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