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date: 01-10-2010
Window shopping in Milan: Centrepiece Basins by Patrick Hubmann
A bathroom all in engraved, polished and assembled durmast. The first of the kind for living rooms
Patrick Hubmann is an Austrian designer who lives and work in Milan since ten years.
He collaborates with International research groups and also exhibits in the foreigner design weeks, as lastly happened in Wien. Recently he has been appointed creative director of esterni.
He also dedicated himself to teach and to cooperate to special care, learning and rehabilitation programs promoted by public institutions and foundations, such as la Fabbrica di Olinda (where he has been director of the carpentry whose team was formed by mental diseased people) and as Minors State Prison Beccaria.
Patrick is, above all, an artist and a “relational” artisan mainly, if not exclusively, working with wood. Urban portable gardens, benches who pretend to be bridges, crush barriers who pretend to be flower boxes, barrows in form of tables and new architectures for transient spaces in which sociality and exchange must be reactivated or placed for the first time: Hubmann gets intrigued from what design can do, especially for public realm or for new habitats arising from urban crisis or fractures in the social body.
A new creation (self produced by Patrick and presented in preview at upmarket 2012) is the collection Centrepiece Basins, a bathroom all in engraved, polished and assembled durmast. Passionate of shared and public spaces, for the very first time he is designing a domestic room, perhaps the most intimate and private.
Centrepiece Basins is a family of objects that are polished and made very cohesive not only by function but also from the building technique that generates a precise and peculiar shape reminding, somehow, the abilities of the old vessel builders and so the boat design.
An unusually squared bath-tube with uncommon highness, a lamp, a stool, a soap holder and a box for little things, come with a narrow and tall mirror and make a special place, right in the middle of the audience, for this toilet space by moving it directly in the living area. The new brainchild is versatile to bespoke commissions. It is possible to create a customized collection of Centrepiece Basins speaking directly with us and/or the designer! Download the attached pdf and let's meet up in your or ours cities soon!
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