‘Off The Shelf’

'现成的'

Monocle on Design

艺术

2024-09-19

8 分钟
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At the temporary pavilion in London’s Olympia we meet woodworker and designer Rio Kobayashi, along with structural engineer Steve Webb, to discuss their collaborative project. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  • This is Monocle on Design Extra.

  • It's a short show to accompany our weekly program where we discuss everything from architecture and craft to furniture and fashion.

  • I'm Maile Evans.

  • As part of the London Design Festival currently underway, many temporary structures are popping up across the city.

  • Off the shelf is one pavilion amongst this number located in Olympia, a sway frame is fashioned from stone and timber.

  • It's also the biggest installation to date from the woodworker and designer Ryo Kobayashi.

  • The maker created this structure in collaboration with the multidisciplinary practice Webb Yates engineers.

  • Monocle's design editor Nick Moniz caught up with Ryo Kobayashi as well as the structural engineer Steve Webb to find out more.

  • Rio began by sharing the starting point.

  • This pavilion.

  • This pavilion.

  • The concept is recreating my childhood home that where I grew up in the middle of the countryside in Japan, which was built by parents and by, you know, my mom is Austrian and my dad is Japanese.

  • So it's kind of like entire house was like mixture of, like, Japanese and European.

  • It was made out of wood and, like, plaster was made out of, like, limestone and stuff.

  • Tell us a little bit about the design.

  • It's almost like a pavilion of shelving.

  • Yeah, the shelving structure.

  • We also actually came up with Steve with the shelving things, which was also, like, ideal for me.

  • My parents traveled around the world when they were younger and then collected during the journey.

  • And they had lots of multicultural pieces and objects at home.