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 …
Bonbon, a workshop lead by Sebastian Bergne with students from L’ENSAD Nancy, has culminated this week with an exhibition at Gallery Joseph, Paris. Exploring ideas for the conservation and serving of sweets or chocolates, students worked with journalist and lecturer Claire Fayolle, Sebastian Bergne and the CIAV to design and realise their hand blown glass …
This in depth interview with Sebastian Bergne is featured on the OTHR website. ” Sebastian Bergne aims to make us re-imagine what we might otherwise consider commonplace. For the past two decades, he’s managed to accomplish this feat with aplomb from a vibrant studio in Battersea, London. Though Sebastian—once a student of the Royal College …
The Pronto vacuum cleaner by Sebastian Bergne for Moulinex has been included in the exhibition Comfort Zones or ‘Zone de Confort’ at Galerie Poirel, Nancy in collaboration with the Cnap. The exhibition suggests different ways to experience ‘comfort’, a concept that has become so omnipresent in design practice and theory that it has almost grown imperceptible. …
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 …
The inspirational exhibition Design is a state of mind curated by Martino Gamper will be touring in Italy. Firstly to the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli in Turin (22/10/2014–22/02/2015) then to Museion in Bolzano (12/06/2015-06/09/2015). The exhibition is effectively the story of design from the 1930’s to the present day seen through the eye’s of a single typology, shelving. …
The Chapel of St Peter and St Paul at the ORNC has commissioned designer Sebastian Bergne to produce a large scale contemporary nativity based on his domestic Colour Nativity sets. Each of the characters is a minimal wooden block that is recognisable by its colour, proportion and place in the composition. The project makes use …
As part of the 2013 Wallpaper Hand Made project, Sebastian Bergne collaborated with British brush manufacturer Kent. The results were a family of brushes for a variety of specialised functions that each utilise a different part of the same, particular handle form. The range formed part of the Hand Made exhibition, part of the Milan …
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.
“Vom Stand Der Dinge” | As things are now. International Design-Exhibition at Wilhelm Wagenfeld House. A group exhibition examining the state of design today, including installations of work by Sebastian Bergne (GBR), Alfredo Häberli (CHE), Naoto Fukasawa (JPN), Ineke Hans (NLD), Scholten & Baijings (NLD), Polka (AUT), Wilhelm Wagenfeld (DEU) and others. Wilhelm Wagenfeld Foundation, …