Studio Mumbai | 简单材料之美-设计风向

Studio Mumbai以其简朴的材料和巧妙地将传统与现代结合在一起的作品而闻名，这些作品取材于印度和西方文化。这是他们在布鲁塞尔Maniera画廊举办的第二场展览，于5月18日开幕，一直持续到2019年8月24日。

Indian architectural practice Studio Mumbai has forged a reputation for celebrating humble materials and astutely combining tradition and modernity in a body of work that draws from both Indian and Western cultures. For their second show at Maniera Gallery in Brussels, which opens on May 18th and runs until August 24, 2019, the practice has developed an eclectic collection of hand-made furniture and objects that was born as a result of researching materials not usually associated with the production of homeware.

该工作室由Bijoy Jain于2005年创建，位于孟买，由建筑师、工程师、木匠和泥瓦匠组成，他们都接受过传统技术的培训。团队一起工作，非常注重每一个项目的细节，无论大小，都鼓励探索性的创作过程，其中材料，形式和功能同等重要。工作室的实践方法包括深入研究材料，使用比例模型而不是计划以及大型模型，这意味着设计一个家具系列与他们的建筑项目并没有太大的不同。

Founded by Bijoy Jain in 2005, the Studio is a Mumbai-based practice consisting of architects, engineers, carpenters and masons who have all been trained in traditional techniques. Working collectively, the team pays enormous attention to detail with each project, large or small, instigating an explorative creative process where material, form and function are given equal importance. The Studio’s hands-on approach, which includes studying materials in depth and using scale models rather than plans as well as large-scale mock-ups, means that designing a furniture collection is not all that different from their architectural projects.

对于他最新的Maniera画廊系列，包括沙发床，控制台，灯，长凳，折叠屏幕和一系列椅子，Jain从当地资源，传统印度工艺品和古埃及文物中汲取灵感。

For his latest collection for Maniera Gallery, which comprises a daybed, a console, a lamp, a bench, a folding screen and a series of chairs, Jain drew inspiration from local resources, traditional Indian crafts and ancient Egypt artefacts.

乍一看，这个系列的手工作品似乎是简单的设计，但事实上，它们是对简单材料进行了深入研究的结果；传统工艺使石头、砖和牛粪等通常与家具生产无关的基本材料充满了优雅和精致。

The collection’s hand-made pieces may seem at first glance as simple designs but they are in fact the result of an intense research focused on humble materials and traditional techniques which allowed rudimentary materials like stone, brick and cow dung, which are not usually associated with furniture production, to be imbued with elegance and refinement.