Meet the designer Tom Dixon at the Normann Copenhagen Store, 12th of August 19-22. You’ll need to pick up a ticket beforehand in the shop (it’s free). DJ Thomas Madvig will be playing and Somersby will make sure there’s something sweet, alcoholic and sticky in your glass while you mingle away. Tjeck out more at AOK.
ABC Chairs by Roeland Otten
Lo-fi sofa by Christiane Hoegner
(via Designtaxi)
WANT TO DESIGN WITH US?
Johannes Torpe Studios is currently looking for two interns for the fall semester. You will be a part of our young and dynamic design team and take part in all aspects of the design process.
We expect you to be ambitious, self-propelled and easy to work with. You have a strong commitment to the world of design that provides you with initiative, ideas and the willingness to help out where needed.
As our product designer/architectural design intern you must:
- be a talented senior student
- have a pro-active, hands-on approach
- be able to work easily with the Adobe package.
- be a Surface- and Solid modelling-wizz
- speak and write English fluently
As our graphic design intern you must:
- be a talented senior student
- have a pro-active, hands-on approach
- have Adobe as your BFF
- have some Flash/html experience.
- speak and write English fluently
Duration of Internship:
From 1. September 2010 to 1. January 2011
Application: Send CV, portfolio and application
in .pdf format no larger than 5Mb to:
job@johannestorpe.com
Note: “Don’t call us – we’ll call you”.
Hard copies will not be returned.
Space Enablers featured on Lifeweek’s Good’s Good pages.
THE SPACE ENABLERS
The Space Enablers is a product family that includes Slide, Drift and Soft Shelter developed by Johannes Torpe for Haworth. The Space Enablers take the traditional office environment into the new Millennium by facilitating new and more flexible ways of working – upgrading and mobilizing the office environment.
SLIDE AND DRIFT
Slide and Drift; are both flexible laptop tables that encourage spontaneous and effective business meetings standing up or sitting down, anywhere, anytime.
SOFT SHELTER
Soft Shelter is enabling a more lounge-like and casual encounter. It’s designed to be an easily configurable solution that can be moved around, shaped and reshaped – facilitating various degrees of privacy and comfort. Its flexibility and its acoustic properties allow you to customize the appropriate atmosphere for any business encounter.
“IF IT FEELS LIKE WORK, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG”
The Space Enablers ignite energy, creativity and connectivity. In the often so grey and gloomy office environment the Space Enablers will make space flexible and ad bubbly colorful hotspots that entail the very philosophy of Johannes: “If it feels like work, you’re doing it wrong”.
In Danish Mormor means grandmother and this sofa is part of a series of furniture with family related names. The larger version is called Farmor (paternal grandmother) and there are chairs named Faetter (Cousin), Tante (Aunt), Faster (Aunt) etc. The idea with the concept is to bring the family back in to the home and in to the living room. Also directly translated Mormor is pronounced and means “more more” in English, Farmor is “far more” and so on…
Mormor won the Danish Design Prize in 2007. But Johannes Torpe doesn’t believe in design prizes. He believe it takes up to much time and money to participate – and that’s not what design is all about… However when the producer HAY CPH told us that we where nominated – and when we won – we were of course both proud and happy……
Check out more at www.Hay.dk
Read the funny article of what this sofa can be used for (in Danish) here.
Check out the article at Boligmagasinet.dk where Johannes Torpe and Rune RK talks about Mormor as well (in Danish)
As part of the concept design for SUBU Restaurant in Beijing this chair was designed. Like all aspects of the SUBU project this chair was designed in the context of SUBU – but with a story to tell elsewhere. There fore we are working with a European furniture producer at this point in the further development of the SUBU Chair.
It looks and appears like a heavy sofa – one you would never be able to move around once the furniture remover had put in in place – thus 500 KG.
However all together the sofa weighs app. 20 KG and can be moved and costumized in any way you desire.
The sofa is produced by Italian manufacturer SPHaus – and sold in a variety of stores and design galleries around Europe and Middle East.
Tante is part of the Mormor family series…. We love the asymmetric chesterfield seat… Besides the leather seat, the chair is made in bamboo. The Chair is currently being worked on with a large European Furniture manufacturer….
When Supergeil was designed, Johannes Torpe created this sofa called Coupé for the space.
Like with many of the products and furniture evolving from the Torpe universe, Coupé has a build in story that reaches beyond the Supergeil universe…
As part of a pitch we participated in in fall 2008, Johannes Torpe created this Kindergarden Table….
The Faetter Chair is one of our favorite furniture pieces – which has not yet been launched….
However as we are in dialogue with a large European producer, we hope that it will be brought to live in 2009….
Faster is part of the “Mormor” series of furniture…
The pink color seems to be quite iconic for our design studio…..
As a spin off of the ParisTexas store design, Johannes Torpe created the Rock Table…
We have it in our studio – and yes! It has sharp edges….. very nice!
