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 …
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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.
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 …
Review of the Lego Greenhouse installation by Sebastian Bergne, commissioned by The London Design Festival, Covent Garden and LEGO for the London Design Festival in September 2011. A+U Magazine Feb, 2012.
Colour Ware was inspired by the desire to challenge the traditional creative process and to use colour as a starting point and key element in the finished object as opposed to a final surface treatment. The result is a series of plates in various thicknesses of materials with inherent colour. As place settings they give creative …
Following the success of the Blow By Blow exhibition in London, Sebastian Bergne has collaborated with Milan gallery Pigr’ to present a new version of the exhibition. The 20 years of projects in glass will be joined by Pipe glass the new object created for the event and available in an edition of 100 pieces. see more… Exhibition design …
Profile article about the work of Sebastian Bergne written by Laurence Salmon and published in the September issue of ElleDeco France. Photo’s by Marie-Pierre Morel
This summer marks the 20th Anniversary of industrial designer Sebastian Bergne’s studio. To celebrate this occasion, the exhibition Blow By Blow will show an extraordinary collection of unseen personal glass projects. Since starting his professional practice in 1990, Sebastian has collaborated with small glass making workshops to produce these private pieces alongside his regular studio activities. This series …
The Looking Glass decanter uses the optical effect created by filling a lens shaped decanter with a clear liquid. Featured here in Elle decoration UK, December 2009 issue.
Profile article about Sebastian Bergne by Sixtine Dubley in the special edition of Beaux Art magazine – Qu’Est-Ce Que Le Design Aujourd’hui? (what is design today?) November 2009.