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Reduction is a means of communication, a way to achieve visual clarity. I try to take away details in order to enhance an expression or specific character and make a product aesthetically stronger. Reduction is to boil down the sauce to uplift the flavour.
– Jonas Wagell
What's happening?
Hello. Enjoyed a fun week of curating. I've definitely found a new enthusiasm for minimal design since the launch of the new site. Maybe it's down to the format of the features, maybe it's a slight shift into more brutalist and bauhaus design—I'm not sure. Maybe it's a bit like working with a new desk setup or a new set of tools—you naturally feel motivated to create. So reflecting on the past couple of months, I'm really proud of how strong the curation is. Aesthetically, it's really beautiful. This is why quality over quantity is such an important factor. Having an uncompromising attitude towards what gets published and what doesn't is the only way to produce worthwhile visual content. Essentially, it's a bit like a gallery you wander into off the street. Maybe not everything speaks to you, but you can still appreciate the care and attention that has gone into the experience of design discovery. And that's why this continues to be such a pleasure to do on a daily basis. So thanks for coming along for the ride. Now let's dive into some of those recent features.
– Carl
Features
AGNES SPEAKER
Conceived by industrial designer Philipp Emrich, Agnes is a brutalist desk speaker that is inspired by the distinctive Gallery St. Agnes in Berlin, Germany. A former church designed by urban architect Werner Düttmann, it is now home to Johann König's innovative art gallery. Agnes consists of two pieces: a main speaker with 360 sound, the bell tower, and a detatchable bass box.
JOT
Celebrating stainless steel in the Bauhaus tradition, this is the tubular chrome-framed Jot chair originally designed by Giotto Stoppino in 1976. It takes its swooping, balletic form into the contemporary era with a new version courtesy of Italian furniture brand Acerbis.
CASA ATLÂNTICA
Brazilian architecture studio Acayaba + Rosenberg, led by Marina Acayaba and Juan Pablo Rosenberg, designed the spacious white box dwelling Casa Atlântica in São Paulo. The central space of the house was restructured with a double-height ceiling in which a large square volume hovers loose, surrounded by a sky light that bathes the interiors with a soft and homogeneous light.
GLASS BODY
Architect and industrial designer Jörg Hugo focuses on the relationship between materiality, form, and space. One of his latest creations is the striking pendant lamp, GLASS BODY 04. During the manufacturing process of glass blowing, its individual parts are placed in a geometrical field of tension that generate deformation, which is caused by different material properties. The result of which is this beautifully minimal organic pendant.
STICKS TABLE
All We Value is an experimental research and design lab based in New York focused on creating products that push new ideas forward through form, experience, and production. The minimal and sculptural Sticks Table is composed of a steel frame with powder-coated finishes in a range of colours, including black, blue, orange, green, and light grey.
Where next?
Discovery
other things for you to read, explore, and maybe even admire:
dasprogramm: a digital museum of braun design that researches works between 1955-1995 (the period of dieter rams’ directorship)
constraint systems: not exactly minimal, but an interesting collection of alternative interfaces for creating and editing images and text
wireframer font: the new lorem ipsum for design prototyping
window swap: look out someone else's window in different places around in the world (this also helped me through lockdown)
This monthly edition of the Minimalissimo newsletter was supported by aprile, the hanging chair
inspired by spring days and designed by Matteo Modica, aprile is a simple suspended chair that oozes elegance—a floating seat, shaped after spring petals, swinging gently. designed and handcrafted in Italy with artisanal love.
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