Surreal from Studio Job

The lead designers of Antwerp-based Studio Job are Job Smeets and Nynke Tynage, who met as the students at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Their creative work is known for historical inspirations, crossing the borders between art and design, and concern with moral issues.

The furniture designed by the duo was featured at 'Telling tales' exhibition London Victoria & Albert Museum last year. Following the success of the exhibition the series was presented at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London.

'Industry' series, which use images from traditional and contemporary iconography, creates a meaningful parallel between medieval and modern symbolism. The work contrasts the natural, creating forces, and the manmade, destructive ideas. 

via: designboom

Cafeteria by Tobias Rehberger at La Biennale di Venezia

Still exploring the subject of surrealistic interiors... The black and white design of cafeteria by Tobias Rehberger overwhelms with contrasting graphical patterns and vivid colours. Retro and cartoon inspirations seem to be obvious. But there is something more. By oversizing the stripes and dots, interesting effect had been achieved: the space grew and we might experience surreal feeling, like if we had entered a fairytale word of giants.

The cafeteria at the Palazzo delle Exposizioni della Biennale was the winning project at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia last year. The designer, Tobias Rehberger was awarded the Golden Lion as best artist. The interior had been created in close collaboration with Finnish furniture Artek, the sponsor of La Biennale di Venezia.

photos: Katja Hagelstam and Wolfgang Guenzel 

Surreal interiors by Anne Hardy

The photographs taken by Anne Hardy are strangely captivating... I felt entirely drawn into the images that seem to invite us into mysterious, intimate worlds. Each of them enclose a different, personal story. The artist says:

"I want you to encounter the spaces directly and not through someone else physical presence in the image. However I also don't see it that there is nobody in the images, the protagonists are embedded into the spaces by the way in which they have used, marked, adapted or built them. So even though they are not physically present they still possess the space."

The interiors are not real, but created by the artist herself. Photography, as a documentary medium, helps to evoke the viewers imagination and transfers us into the child-like state of mind, into the time that reality was magical and everything was possible.

"The relationship between the real and the fictional is important to the work, not literaly (is it real or not?) but in relation to what we consider or imagine our actual 'real' world to be."

via: Trendland, Zoum Zoum

Café Germain by India Mahdavi

Surreal mood continues... I came across one more inspiring interior design: Café Germain in Paris. The most recognizable feature of the interior is an enormous yellow sculpture named "Sophie", created by renowned French artist Xavier Veilhan. The architect India Mahdavi placed it in a vertical opening between restaurants two floors, achieving surreal "oversizing" illusion. Splendid effect!

www.india-mahdavi.com
www.veilhan.net

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Styled by Faye Toogood

Writing recently in surreal atmosphere, I can not avoid mentioning Faye Toogood, a stylist excelling at creating dream-like spaces for exhibitions and set designs for photoshoots. In her superb works we can find a lot of absurd sense of humour and surrealistic play with the scale.

Faye Toogood cooperates regularly with many magazines (Vogue, Wallpaper*, Elle Decoration), designers (Tom Dixon), fashion labels (Burberry, Topshop, Comme des Garçons) and creates advertising campaigns for numerous world-known brands.

www.studiotoogood.com

seen at: 50 danska kvadrat

'La Suite Elle Decoration' by Jean Paul Gaultier

Optical illusion inspiration led my thoughts towards interiors designed with a touch of surrealistic sense of humour, like this one, by Jean Paul Gaultier. His signature nautical stripes wrap around the walls and cover the furniture like a veil. Chic but also very atmospheric. Does it make you feel like in a dream?

The apartment is located in the heart of Paris, opposite the Eiffel Tower. You can see the video showcase at French Elle Decoration 

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