Fwd: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec. Pico collection, Mutina 2011

[Yanling Duan]

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From: "Studio Bouroullec"<in...@bouroullec.com>

Date: July 27, 2011 12:53:17 AM GMT+08:00

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Subject: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec. Pico collection, Mutina 2011

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Hello,

 

We are pleased to present the new ceramic collection Pico, designed for the Italian brand Mutina. 

 

While in recent years tiling mainly produced icy surfaces hiding the material depth, Pico focuses on revealing the matter as a substance itself - the compressed sand and minerals that constitute ceramic tiles. We intended to maintain the raw aspect of traditional earth floors or handmade cement, letting the material convey its natural characteristics.

The collection comes in three differently coloured bases (white, grey and sand), composed of specific mineral mixtures that produce surfaces with a real material depth. The subtly composed shades have a matt finish with a sensual surface feel. Together with its slightly irregular dotted texture Pico produces gentle surfaces that stand in contrast with the extreme brightness and slickness of today’s coating materials.

In this collection we have worked on defining a regular-irregular texture, the result is the declension of two relief surfaces: “Down” with sunken dots and “Up” with elevated dots. Both reliefs are available in their natural, monochrome base colours: “blanc”, “gris” and “terre”. Furthermore, to add dynamics, we also decided to use two tones of colour, red and blue, applied as little dots in the hollow or as a base colour. The use of colours activates the relief by creating delicate shadows, turning the tiles a nuance colder or warmer.

We wanted to use the ceramic material in a very flexible way consequently the Pico collection is equally adapted for use in public spaces (airports, restaurants) as for use in domestic spaces (indoors and outdoors).

 

Pico collection will be presented during the fair Cersaie in Bologna, Italy from September 20^th to September 24^th 2011. Pavilion 22 A218 – B209.

 

 

Furthermore we wish to announce our next collaboration with the textile company Kvadrat. During the London Design Festival, The Victoria & Albert Museum invited us to choose any space we wanted within the Museum: the result is Textile Field an installation which takes over 240m sq of the floor of the famous Raphael Gallery.  We conceived an expansive, coloured foam and textile piece to produce a sensual field on which to comfortably lounge while meditating on the surrounding Raphael Cartoons.

 

The installation will be on show from September 15^th to September 25^th 2011.

 

Victoria & Albert Museum

http://www.vam.ac.uk/

The London Design Festival

http://www.londondesignfestival.com/

 

 

We are also pleased to inform you about our upcoming exhibition Bivouac which will be held at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, France. Our works and research projects made for the last 15 years will be presented over 1000 sq. m in the gallery.

The exhibition Bivouac is opened from October 7^th 2011 to July 30^th 2012.

 

Centre Pompidou-Metz

http://www.centrepompidou-metz.fr/

 

 

For preview, we invite you to click on the link below

 

http://www.bouroullec.com/upload/facsimile/erb_2011_pico.pdf

 

  

The Studio Bouroullec will be closed from Friday the 29^th July to Monday the 29^th August. We wish you a nice summer holiday.

 

Thank you and best regards.

 

 

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

 

   

 

 

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