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, …
Disegno magazine commissioned a group of designers to create an Emoji for 2018. Sebastian Bergne responded to the brief with an emoji that reflects on a societal tendency to act without proper consideration of the likely effects. Titled “Shooting yourself in the foot”, Bergne’s emoji is a playful response to the idea of thoughtless action. …
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 …
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, …
The new exhibition L’esprit du Bauhaus includes two works by Sebastian Bergne, Colour Nativity and Tower glassware. The Musée des Arts Décoratifs pays tribute to the Bauhaus in this exhibition featuring more than nine hundred works – objects, furniture, textiles, drawings, models, paintings – all placed in the context of the school and illustrating the …
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 recently relaunched Ring Soap is featured in Issue 11 of Disegno, the quarterly design journal. Sebastian Bergne and Disegno magazine collaborated for the launch of Ring Soap and issue 11 of the magazine. More information and pictures of the launch can be found here.
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 …