‘Colour Machine’ at CasaVitra Bringing the Vitra Colour & Material Library to life

2016-05-04

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设计公司: :; Hella Jongerius
位置: :; Italy
类型: :; Architecture Design
标签: :; Milan Milan Design Week
分类: :; Exhibition Architecture Exhibition Culture Architecture

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面料在工业产品上的缤纷运用创造了丰富的室内环境。面料作为设计界重要的角色，由专门的色彩与材料机构研发推广，维特拉就是其中一家专业机构，他们在2016年米兰设计周上面向大众推出了独展“色彩机器”。作为维特拉的老合作伙伴，荷兰设计师 Hella Jongerius设计了这个展览。

A decade ago, Vitra initiated a research project in collaboration with the Dutch designer Hella Jongerius to study the properties and possibilities of the colours, textures, finishes and materials in the company’s product portfolio. This long-term project resulted in the Vitra Colour and Material Library, which comes to life during Milan Design Week 2016 in Vitra’s ‘Colour Machine’ installation at the temporary location CasaVitra.

展览中的每一款产品都被给予最大的表现力。设计师将各个产品以充满对比的方式组合起来，尽显每一款的活力。不同色彩和质感的面料拼成圆形轮状，有的放置在地面，有的悬挂在空中－就像彩色的风车般，异常夺目。整个展览比较完整的再现了维特拉着几十年来在面料开放领域的深耕成果与强大技术，让人们的注意力从产品的形式转移到产品的材料与细节。在这里，游客能清晰的体验到面料的光泽差异，色彩差异，质感差异。

艺术家告诉gooood：“我希望通过这个展览让人们意识到色彩是不断变化的实体，色彩也没有任何对错，她们是我们主观选择的客观反应。一个好的色彩图书馆，有助于人们做出决定”。

Colour Machine at CasaVitra

During Milan Design Week 2016, Vitra is moving into a temporary location as part of the Fuorisalone events in Milan’s city centre: CasaVitra, situated in the vicinity of Corso Como, will be showing the installation ‘Colour Machine’, which is dedicated to the Vitra Colour and Material Library.

The installation reflects the continuous refinement of the Colour and Material Library into a group of beautifully crafted fabrics and other materials that are specific to the Vitra product group. ‘A colour can lift a product to greater heights by accentuating a material or emphasising certain details. I want people to recognise Vitra not only by product or form, but also by the material and surface’, explains Hella Jongerius.

At CasaVitra, visitors encounter giant spinning tops twirling on the floor, which present the full range of Vitra materials in four colour worlds: lights, darks, greens and reds. These four worlds form the foundation of the library, organising textiles, plastics, woods and colours in many sizes and shapes. Suspended from the ceiling above the spinning tops, nine colour wheels revolve in space. These wheels celebrate particular parts of contemporary and classic furniture pieces by iconic Vitra designers – such as the base of Prouvé’s EM Table or Eames Plastic Chair shells – each in their own signature colours.

The wheels offer insights into the way colour is affected by volume, shape and material, and how much these elements influence one another. Whether a surface is shiny or matte, large or small determines how loudly something shouts or how softly it whispers.

Wandering through the installation, visitors are immersed in an engaging polychromatic experience of the rich Vitra colour world. They are invited to touch diverse textiles, give a whirl to one of the colour wheels and inspect new materials up close on the flat spinning tops. Colour ranges revolve in a dynamic interplay of hues, materials come to life, and the process of building the library is mapped out.

‘My goal is to call attention to colour as an ever-changing entity. Questioning colour’s appearance, our relationship to it and speculating about its nature, is in essence a never-ending process. There are no mistakes in choosing colours, only variations of subjective expressions. A good colour library, though, can help make a decision’, states Hella Jongerius.

Art Direction: Hella Jongerius
Installation Concept and Design by Bas van Tol, MüllerVanTol