The Poise lamps designed by Sebastian Bergne are part of the exhibition Akari Unfolded: A collection curated and edited by Ymer & Malta in collaboration with 5 designers that opened this week at the Noguchi Museum, New York. Poise are inspired by the work of artist and designer Isamu Noguchi using simple materials and humble references. Paper, …
During this years’ Boisbuchet summer season designer Sebastian Bergne and Yoga expert Franziska Kessler conducted a one week workshop entitled Balance The importance of balance in all aspects of art and design cannot be overstated. And in life at large, balance is fundamental for a healthy existence. We don’t always have control of what goes on around …
Sebastian Bergne president of ENSAD jury Sebastian Bergne was honoured to be appointed president of this year’s post graduate ‘object design’ jury at ENSAD, Paris. The jury of 6 deliberated over the work of 15 students for 2 days, awarding an exceptional number of distinctions. This year’s graduating class included projects in wide ranging areas from service design, product, …
Are we experiencing a revolution or a resurgence in functional, logical design? Essential Journal speak with Sebastian Bergne about this and his 30 years in design. Full text here at Essential Journal Volume III issue 1 written by Thomas Sumner
On November 11th, 2016. OCRA Officina Creativa dell’Abitare and Matter of Stuff will open Blow By Blow 16, a retrospective exhibition of works in glass by Sebastian Bergne. Designer Sebastian Bergne regularly uses glass as his preferred material for experimentation. Collaborating with workshops in England, France and the Czech Republic he creates objects for the storage, …
During the 2016 London Design Festival Sebastian Bergne will be exhibiting 25 self produced objects created over the past 25 years. The exhibition will take place in the studio in which many were created. There will be the previously unseen Drop jug and Cubit beer glass (developed in collaboration with the CIAV – Meisenthal) Together with …
The poetry of the everyday – A portrait of designer Sebastian Bergne in IDEAT Sept 2016. Written by Ellia Ascheri / Photographs by Sean Geraghty
The launch of Ring Soap took place this week in collaboration with quarterly design journal Disegno who launched issue #11 of their magazine. Ring soap is a playful redesign of the everyday bathroom soap that hangs on a peg to keep dry and that features on the pages of the magazine. The light hearted event had …
Sebastian Bergne’s winning proposal ‘Tomb of the past’ for the Monumental Masonry competition has been featured in Financial Times. The article explores the ideas and traditions of tombs, graves and mausolea in general as well as the various entries to the competition. The results of the competition were exhibited at the John Soane’s Museum. Nov …
Part of the 10th anniversary issue of ICON magazine, this article explores the relationship between designers, their work and their personal collections of objects. Text: Edwin Heathcote Photographs: Michael Thomas Jones June 2013.