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Exhibition
The Seatub will be launched at Salone Satellite 2010 in Milan (Booth no. C22)

Publication
Design, Market & Art, Design DB Plus | Published by Korea Institute of Design Promotion

Season's Greeting from thebaek
Happy new year 2010 !

PROJECT
"Seatub" Re-started as Take two (will launch in Mar. 2010)

PROJECT
"INFLIGHT" FOR THE AIR FRANCE | KLM GROUP

KICKED OFF PROJECT "MINIATURE"

NEW PRESS UPDATES : "DESIGNERS" MAGAZINE, UK
NEW PRESS UPDATES : "MAISON & DECORATION" MAGAZINE, GREECE
NEW PRESS UPDATES : "DESIGN" MAGAZINE, CHINA (MAINLAND)
NEW PRESS UPDATES : "INTERIOR DESIGN" MAGAZINE, USA
PUBLICATIONS : "SEOUL DESIGN ESSENCE", ITALY
EXHIBITIONS : TENT LONDON 2008, UK
is London-based a Korean designer who investigates inter-disciplinary matter along architectural and industrial territories. He practiced at Samsung Electronics as a designer, and has studied an architect at the AA school of architecture that gained many of successful achievements for his works and researches. Domain of his work is interconnected among many of disciplines with its process that can be formed through experimental sequences. Also, it can be explored for a new attempt of thinking about what is design. Recently, he starts to investigate emergence paradigm which is driven by parametric phenomenon and bio-dynamics. His principle of design is that try to engage in design at the intellectual and productive works between science, art and design.
is a networked multi-discipline territory where is operating projects vertually or really. The studio is aiming that like a main hub for various disciplines amongst artists, architects, designers and clients.
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This project is regenerated a previous work(Seatub) that focus on how it can be simplified through evolutionary matter. (Initial statement) Seatub the lounge chair experiments to shift a function and to explore a similarity on different things in daily life. Although, the chair and the bathtub are not a live creature, it can be developed or justified a new creature as an evolutional thing through a shifting people’s perspectives.
Lounge chair Material : Editions are 10 pieces (made to order / price on request)
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Miniature project is aiming to explore a new possibilitiy of seating with
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Seatub is a lounge chair which came from bathroom. It is started from observing in every day which viewing an existence of object as an evolutional thing. Every objects are developed a symbiosis between factors such as circumstances, objects and users visibly or invisibly. Seatub the lounge chair experiments to shift a function and to explore a similarity on different things in daily life. Although, the chair and the bathtub are not a live creature, it can be developed or justified a new creature as an evolutional thing through a shifting people’s perspectives.
Lounge chair Material : Editions are one-off (price on request) |
Domestic perspectives represent that a scene of linking and conflating collective things through The snows was inspired by a scene of ‘Kim chi’ (the name of Korean traditional food) jars
Stool and Storage Container Material : One-off edition (price on request) |
The Saint is a set of floor lamps and a low-height table which can be use in living spaces.
Floor lamp Material : One-off edition (price on request) |
The Nest is a set of floor lamps and a low-height table which can be use in living spaces.
Low-height coffee table Material : Carbon Fibre Editions are made to order (order on request) |
The twisted twisted is a stool whose shape seems to have been wrenched by extreme gravity.
Stools Material : Carbon Fibre Editions are made to order (order on request) |
Domestic perspectives represent that a scene of linking and conflating collective things through Everything has two sides: positive-negative, in-out and above-below. They can be reverse meaning of both sides as well. The Positives =Negatives is basically a low-height-desk. It is possible to reverse it to create a rack for displaying books, amplifier and small goods etc.. The Positives =Negatives is motivated by Korean traditional low-height desk's form and color. Radically, this object is composed of lightness lines which are inspired by Korean traditional roof line. It is made of sprayed wood, also can be made of molded plastics, in particular, Corian™ (extrusion or gas injected methods).
Low-height Desk Material : One-off edition (price on request) |