作为一年一度的全球设计盛会，2024年的米兰设计周在这个春天再次吸引了来自全球设计届及媒体届的目光，其中由法国高端家居品牌Roche Bobois 罗奇堡和中国艺术家、设计师蒋琼耳首次合作的「BAMBOOMOOD祥竹」系列更是成为本年度米兰设计盛事中融合东西之境的浓墨重彩的一笔。
「BAMBOO MOOD祥竹」系列同时也是RocheBobois罗奇堡首次与中国设计师合作的全系列家具。2024年恰逢Roche Bobois罗奇堡进入中国市场20周年，以及中法建交60周年之际，这一合作系列的发布便有了举足轻重的意义。
蒋琼耳：
“竹子一直让我着迷。它优雅、坚韧、流畅、平和，以傲慢和嬉戏来对抗强风。竹子会弯曲但不会折断。它低语，颤抖，过滤光线，玩弄阴影。它永恒存在。竹子可能看起来很脆弱，却为世界上最高的摩天大楼提供了设计元素。我设计了这个新的 Bamboo Mood 系列邀请大家去旅行；它是灵感、诗歌和梦想的不竭源泉。”
THE BAMBOO MOOD 系列
在这个系列中，设计师想将竹子这一中国文化中强有力的象征转变为现实。竹子代表着正直、坚韧、朴素与和谐的重要价值观。蒋琼耳以诗意旋律重新诠释了这些价值观，并增添了奇怪但始终如一的优雅。该系列包括沙发、屏风、边几和鸡尾酒桌，以及地毯和陶瓷。
屏风既是雕塑，又是家具，经过切割和穿孔的竹条塑造了极具现代感的设计。屏风中间镂空处截面，通过不同反差色彩的运用，产生“移步换景”的效果，在不同角度观察时会产生不同的色彩节奏的效果。此系列屏风有两屏，三屏，四屏的不同版本可供选择； 沙发流畅的线条让人不由自主地陷入沉思和宁静。它采用蜂窝状弹力面料装饰，微妙的青瓷绿色或珊瑚色线更突显弧形靠背。
蒋琼耳为吉美国立亚洲艺术博物馆创作的独家作品
作为" Guimet X China 2024 "计划的一部分，蒋琼耳为巴黎吉美国立亚洲艺术博物馆构思和创作的" Gardiens dutemps" （时间的守护者）展览特别设计了两件作品——冥想座椅和鸡尾酒桌，均采用独家配色。
As an annual global design extravaganza, Milan Design Week 2024 once again attracted the attention of the global design and media communities this spring. Among the highlights was the “BAMBOO MOOD” collection, a collaboration between French high-end home furnishings brand Roche Bobois and Chinese artist and designer Jiang Qiong'er, which stood out as a significant fusion of Eastern and Western aesthetics at this year's Milan Design Week.
The “BAMBOO MOOD” collection also marks Roche Bobois' first full-scale furniture collaboration with a Chinese designer. In 2024, as Roche Bobois celebrates its 20th anniversary in the Chinese market and the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and France, the launch of this collaborative series holds significant symbolic importance.
Jiang Qiong Er :
“Bamboo has always fascinated me. Elegant, hardy, fluid and peaceful, it counters strong winds with insolence and play. Bamboo bends but does not break. It whispers, trembles, filters the light, and plays with shadow. Timeless. It may seem fragile, yet it provides scaffolding for the world’s tallest skyscrapers. I designed this new Bamboo Mood collection as an invitation to travel; an inexhaustible source of inspiration, poetry, and dreams.”
THE BAMBOO MOOD collection
With this collection, the designer wanted to conjure bamboo, a powerful symbol in Chinese culture. The plant represents the key values of integrity, resilience, simplicity and harmony. Jiang Qiong Er reinterprets these values with a poetic spin, adding touches that are often quirky but consistently elegant. The collection comprises a sofa, a screen, a console, and cocktail tables, together with rugs and ceramics.
The screen is equal parts sculpture and furniture. Its highly contemporary design summons bamboo sticks that have been cut and perforated. Available in versions with two, three or four panels, it is dyed in the mass for a singular color effect that changes when viewed from different angles. The sofa’s fluid lines are an invitation to quiet contemplation and serenity. It is upholstered in a honeycomb stretch fabric, with subtle celadon- green or coral threads highlighting the curved backs. The cocktail tables offer a graceful interpretation of a cut bamboo stem; color shading accentuates the node, which adds gentle definition to the slanting silhouette. They are available in several colors, whether in a lacquered monochrome or with a wood-effect top. The rugs conjure stylized bamboo sticks in a multicolor palette that is both vibrant and delicate.
Exclusive pieces created by Jiang Qiong Er for the Musée Guimet in Paris
Two pieces have been specially developed - a meditation seat and a cocktail table in an exclusive colorway – for the Gardiens du temps (Guardians of time) exhibition conceived and created by Jiang Qiong Er for the Guimet National Museum of Arts in Paris as part of its “Guimet X China 2024” program.
