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Spindle Table
Product Type :: Occasional Table
Year: 2008 Manufacturer :: Ligne Roset
Materials :: Glass, Lacquered Wood

Born outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA), Brad Ascalon was immersed in a world of art and design. His grandfather was a Hungarian-born sculptor and noted industrial designer. His father is the founder and principal of Ascalon Studios Inc., an art and design firm dedicated to the creation of large-scale artwork and furnishings that can be found throughout North America.

With his main focus on furniture design, Ascalon received his Masters’ degree from Pratt Institute’s department of Industrial Design in 2005. While working towards his degree at Pratt Institute, Ascalon held a number of design internships, including one at the design studio of Karim Rashid. That same year, Ascalon was selected by Wallpaper* Magazine as one of the world’s “Ten Most Wanted” up and coming designers (July/August 2005).

Upon obtaining his degree, Ascalon immediately opened his own design studio when he acquired his first client, the cosmetics giant, L’Oreal. Since then, Ascalon continues to develop product and packaging designs for a wide range of companies and industries, while continuing to apply most of his energy and passion towards furniture. In 2007, Ascalon’s work made its first appearance at Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile, with the Italian manufacturer, Sintesi, as well as at the ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair) in New York City. There Ascalon unveiled a new seating collection as part of the ICFF Bernhardt Studio Design Exhibition, a high-profile juried competition that promotes emerging furniture designers from around the world. Most recently, Ascalon has completed his first project, an occasional table, for Ligne Roset’s 2008 collection.

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François Clerc is a 30 year-old designer living between Paris, London and Taipei. Whether it be graphic design, product design or interior design, his work is clearly eco-friendly orientated.

Four years ago he started working with French gardening companies designing furniture and flower pots for the garden. With ADEME (Environmental and Energy Agency), he developed the concept for a trade stand according to the principles of eco-design. In Ethiopia he worked with craftsmen to design eco-friendly outside furniture. He is now working with Ihrmarke to build the image of this new organic brand and also with a company specialising in beautiful folding bicycles (Dahon).

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Déjà-vu, project, 2006

...like a dream decomposes and recomposes; divides and reconstructs; transforms and distorts pieces of reality.

Vase Clos, project, 2005

A structure that does not limit itself to remaining static in its surrounding space. It has a necessity to interact. It is only through human interaction that "it" is able to express its authentic connotation. Twisting, adding, substracting, piece by piece... in constant change from a completely closed and hermetic shape... ... to a multi-leveled vase.

Realized in rapid prototyping, this vase has been showed in the "Model Ideas" exhibition, organised by Industreal for the Milan Furniture Fair.

The Meligoth cylinders, project, 2006

Vases that explore the narrative power of an elaborate detail applied on a banal shape.

I’m born in 1979 in Nantes, France. I studied industrial design at L’École de Design Nantes Atlantique where I graduated in 2003. My studies also include a scholarship exchange at the Faculty of Art and Design of the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland. I moved to Milan after my graduation and since then have been collaborating with George J. Sowden. My collaboration with George J. Sowden usually concern “industrial” design, that’s why, as an individual, I tend to design objects with much freedom. I design with my emotions more than with my brain and try to provoke things instead of resolving problems. My creations have roots in my interrogations/questioning, explorations, experimentations, my feelings, the mood of the day… Some of my work has been presented in exhibitions such as : “First Cuts” (Milano 2007), “Dream” (Milano, 2006), “Model Ideas” (Milano, 2005) or “European Way(s) of Life” (Paris, 2002).

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Photo : Ilvio Gallo

A graphic artist and designer based in Marseille, Julia has spent several years exploring the myriad of possibilities offered by cardboard. Using this light and easily shaped material, she is committed to producing original items that are faithful to the demands of both aestheticism and functionality.
To this end, she doesn’t hesitate to mix disciplines (design, graphic arts, silk screening) in her various experiments.

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Born in France in 1979, he studied at l’Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique, and at Politecnico di Milano. Graduated in 2002, he went to work in Milan with George J. Sowden designing consumer products. He participates to the creation of the Industreal society and their exhibitions. In 2004 he joined the team RADI Designers in Paris to work on a new range for Moulinex. Since 2005 he works with Delo Lindo on projects for Ligne Roset and Tefal. He also collaborates with the designers Robert Stadler and Christophe Pillet. He is still working on his own projects for Industreal, Fondation Ricard, Région Pays de La Loire,… Regularly he participates to design exhibitions.

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CERCLEETCARRE.COM DESIGN was born in 2000 impulsed by his creator Philippe TYBERGHIEN, who signs all his production under this generic name.
In the end of the eighties, he started his architecture studies (DPLG) and in the beginning of the Nineties discovers the emerging world of virtual images and CAD. In 2000, Philippe TYBERGHIEN decided to launch into DESIGN creation approaching each project on 3 axes ::

- stick to the prescriber and consumer needs (decoding social and cultural rites, adaptation to time and way of life…),

- offer an innovative product (the innovation takes different forms: technicality, choice of materials, rendered service…),

- give a personality to the object and produce “beautiful”: the product becomes visible and is posted.

All prototypes and products can be immediately spotted by their simple and sober forms (circle and square generally!!!!). The products often associate materials traditional in particular wood or manufactured in more technological materials like silicones and synthetic resins.

Strongly influenced by Bauhaus and Scandinavian or Japanese creation, the CERCLEETCARRE.COM DESIGN production mixes rigour, formal purity and harmony in space, each realisation releases a great poetry and an emotional load calling upon known decorative references (collection vintage and fun).

We must bring to our creations ingeniousness, surprised and beauty. The designer must show of relevance and listening from his contemporaries to contribute to the emergence of new decorative, economic and functional references.

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"Hi,
My name is Florent Lasbleiz I was born in 1970 in Brittany, France.
There isn't a lot of things I can do but so many people give love to me...
They make me so happy that I feel like shouting how much I LOVE them, writting how much I love them too but I'm not good at spelling, so I draw poems for them... :: + ::

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Ceramic artist, lives and works in southwest of Sweden.

"Influence, pressure, strain. These words have been the foundation for my current projects that comprise communicating the theme in large, hand-built clay forms. Delicate continously flowing entities in white thinbuilt clay. They reflect varying degrees of external and internal pressures, and how, as a consequence, perception of inner and outer space is changed or challenged.

My inspiration is the ever-changing landscape of my own life and environment! I try to relate my work to my life. What is happening and how does it feel? Pressure. Flow. Strain. Ramification. Inside turns outside. As a starting point I put words onto my feelings, and use the vessel form to translate this into three dimension. The size of the form relates to my body. The thin walls are pulled and bent in different directions.

I feel a great freedom in hand-building. It grows slowly, I have time to reflect, I can change direction, make connections and have a smooth surface with the same thickness. I build big forms, the clay will dry slowly and not collapse. When the form is ready and the clay is dry, I sand away at the surface and then spray it with a slurry of kaolin. The pieces are finally fired in stoneware temperature, about 1250°."

Photo: Carl Bengtsson, Andrea Björsell, Ola Kjelbye, Eva Hild

Eva Hild

"Dot Kite was conceived in 2005, in the shadows of the Italian Alps. It was schooled in the art of fine furniture and SoHo related products, as exquisitely dimensional as its homeland: the brand assumed boldness from its mountainous landscape, its fluidity from the Mediterranean coast. Dot Kite's founders are coming from the first real European generation and therefore borrowed an aesthetic cue from across Europe, but relied as much on sheer design instinct: the brand evolved as a sophisticated product of its upbringing, a tapestry both ruggedly and leisurely refined. The brands of the Dot Kite group, all with their own personal identity, are linked by the same philosophy, which distinguishes itself for a well-balanced mix of tradition and modernity, high quality, creativity and functionality."

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