Ha’ porcelain was launched in Tokyo this week at a press event and Pop-Up shop. The new brand and products recently designed and art directed by Sebastian Bergne are now available to customers at Slow House Tenozu and through the online platform Saikai shop In Europe Ha’ porcelain products are available here. The Pop Up shop is …
On reflection is a mirror bowl for self-enjoyment and reflection. Created by Sebastian Bergne for the Cr exhibition at Gallery Surface during the ‘Biennale Internationale Design in Saint-Étienne’ 2019. The exhibition invites the visitor to discover the reinterpretation of chromium plating by four designers, Sebastian Bergne, Atelier BL119, Maddalena Casadei and Normal Studio. The history and …
Sebastian Bergne and Tokyo Saikai, Japan have joined forces to launch ha’ porcelain, a micro brand making porcelain goods with life. The first collection of products consist of containers that give us the opportunity to enjoy cut flowers and plants in new ways. Manufactured in fine quality porcelain using traditional Japanese manufacturing techniques in the south of …
Digital Shabbat is a traveling kit designed by Sebastian Bergne for the exhibition To Go: New Designs for Jewish Ritual Objects. For this exhibition, leading contemporary designers were asked to create a travel-set of objects for a Jewish holiday or lifecycle event. The results form the exhibition To Go at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. More about …
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 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 …
We’re hardly short of new products in the modern world. Our 21st century, techno-driven, global economy has become a giant engine, geared up to make and to market objects to us in their millions. But how often do the many products we rely on really excite us? Why do we so often favour big brand …
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