Moss Introduces Studio Job's Robber Baron Series at Design Miami

For those of you who are not familiar with the work of Studio Job, they are best known, at least here in the US, for their collection of stark white edgy porcelain dishes and containers designed for royal tichelaar makkum in 2006.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicTQ2lP__o6HnIrSQ9iDmNMofa_zJ9sUj0IourV6wRaBoD8CqAmWS9Pz4-4vR2CNRrb_fTrpQi4KSjgUlDgvt2OKafuwWZir2KVQ3LtB3tXfuCs_JB6_l2CAZg_OxkYadJAfvroQPUx-mT/s1600-h/24806.33CC8BB0.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145895314967858370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicTQ2lP__o6HnIrSQ9iDmNMofa_zJ9sUj0IourV6wRaBoD8CqAmWS9Pz4-4vR2CNRrb_fTrpQi4KSjgUlDgvt2OKafuwWZir2KVQ3LtB3tXfuCs_JB6_l2CAZg_OxkYadJAfvroQPUx-mT/s400/24806.33CC8BB0.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 390px;" /></a><br /><i>Above: some pieces from Studio Job's collection for Royal Tichelaar Makkum, 2006</i><br /><br />This makes their new collection, recently unveiled at Design Miami, in stark contrast, literally, to their previous work. Read on.<br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source: </span></span><small>Dezeen Magazine, December 9th, 2007 <!-- by admin --></small> <p><img src="http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/table02-008sq.jpg" style="width: 387px; height: 387px;" /></p> <p><strong>Design Miami 07:</strong> <a href="http://www.studiojob.nl/">Studio Job</a> present new pieces from their Robber Baron series at <a href="http://www.mossonline.com/">Moss</a> during <a href="http://www.designmiami.com/">Design Miami</a>.<span id="more-7672"></span></p> <p><img src="http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/tower01-010a.jpg" style="width: 388px; height: 578px;" /></p> <p>The five monumental pieces, cast in bronze, combine stylized elements from famous landmarks around the world and represent industrial power, wealth and corruption.</p> <p><img src="http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/table01-005.jpg" style="width: 386px; height: 257px;" /></p> <p>Details from Moss follow:</p> <p>Robber Baron~tales of power, corruption, art, and industry, cast in bronze,by Studio Job</p> <p>Conceived in 2006, Robber Baron is an important suite of five cast-bronze furnishings, consisting of a Cabinet, Mantel Clock, Table, Standing Lamp, and Jewel Safe, each to be offered in a limited edition of five, exclusive to Moss.</p> <p>Magnificent in scale, exceptionally finely modeled, detailed, and cast, with precision mechanical movements where required, incorporating deeply carved iconographic reliefs, with areas highly polished, gilded, or patinated, these works are guild-like in their master craftsmanship.</p> <p>Their mirror finish reflecting the outrageous excesses of America’s 19th century tycoons and Russia’s new oligarchs, these surreal, highly-expressive furnishings, each a complex composition of multiple visual elements depicting a narrative - much like a cathedral’s stained glass windows or its majestic bronze front doors - represent an interior belonging to a powerful industrial leader or his heirs. With clouds of pollution belching from towering smoke stacks, and missiles, falcons, gas masks, warplanes, and wrenches adorning golden surfaces, Robber Baron celebrates and shames both Art and Industry.</p> <p><img src="http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/cabinet-low-res.jpg" style="width: 388px; height: 580px;" /></p> <p>Cabinet<br />A polished bronze cabinet with black patinated “bomb crater” and gilded reliefs, inspired by a 17th century armoire by André-Charles Boulle, in the Wallace Collection, London. The heavy doors are fully functional because of a ball bearing mechanism.</p> <p><img src="http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/cabinet_open.jpg" style="width: 386px; height: 577px;" /></p> <p>Polished, patinated and gilded cast bronze<br />approximate dimensions: 46” x 20”, height 69”<br />approximate weight: 2,200 lbs.</p> <p><img src="http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/clown01-016.jpg" style="width: 385px; height: 577px;" /></p> <p>Jewel Safe<br />A patined bronze ‘safe’ with a ‘Jack-in-the-Box’ popping up out of the craggy top. The polished bronze head is colored with oil-based pigments, highlighting the collar, nose and other features. The lock mechanism is operated by turning the clown’s nose, and the door hinge employs a ball bearing mechanism.</p> <p><img src="http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/clown02-005.jpg" style="width: 389px; height: 584px;" /></p> <p>Polished, patinated and painted cast bronze<br />approximate dimensions: 20” x 20”; height 48”<br />approximate weight: 550 lbs.</p> <p><img src="http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/clock01-003.jpg" style="width: 388px; height: 582px;" /></p> <p>Mantel Clock<br />A patinated bronze pedestal clock supported by gilded oil barrels atop a model of the Florentine Galleria degli Uffizi, with Robber Baron reliefs. The dial of the clock is inspired by London’s Big Ben, circled by a futile railway running endless circles on a rocky land-scape. The clock face can be shut with cast bronze stable doors. On top of the clock sits a Neo-Classical ‘dream house’, partially shrouded by a cloud.</p> <p><img src="http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/clock02-001.jpg" style="width: 387px; height: 581px;" /></p> <p>Polished, patinated and gilded cast bronze; mechanical clockwork<br />approximate dimensions: 26” x 20”, height 42”<br />approximate weight: 550 lbs.</p> <p><img src="http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/tower02-002.jpg" style="width: 387px; height: 580px;" /></p> <p>Standing Lamp<br />A patinated bronze floor lamp in which three important icons of architecture – the Parthenon, the Empire State Building and Saint Peter’s Basilica - merge into one. The Zeppelin docked at the pinnacle symbolizes technological failure, and references the Empire State Building, whose top spire was originally intended as a mooring for Zeppelin airships. When illuminated, the hundreds of windows glow, diffused by a hand-blown frosted glass interior. The light bulbs can be changed by lifting the polished bronze ‘cloud’.</p> <p>polished and patinated cast bronze; glass; electrical components<br />approximate dimensions: 24” x 20”, height 63”<br />approximate weight: 990 lbs</p> <p><img src="http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/table02-008.jpg" style="width: 389px; height: 259px;" /></p> <p>Table<br />A patinated bronze “factory”, whose architecture is derived from interpretations of various early 20th century works, including the AEG factory of Peter Behrens and the Battersea Power Station in London. The four chimneys produce a “polluted cloud” of polished bronze, which becomes the open-work tabletop.</p> <p>polished and patinated cast bronze<br />approximate dimensions: 72” x 36”, height 30”<br />approximate weight: 770 lbs</p> <p><img src="http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/cabinet-detail-2.jpg" style="width: 388px; height: 595px;" /><br /><br />Relevant Links:<br /><a href="http://www.mossonline.com/">Moss</a><br /><a href="http://www.designmiami.com/">Design Miami</a><br /><a href="http://www.studiojob.nl/">Studio Job</a></p>

Moss Introduces Studio Job's Robber Baron Series at Design Miami

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Los Angeles Gathers Moss

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOg5sOZkoCCTX3LTZbbs0P0LiRm-pWqV_AqTA_P_Li4LXdZCcWPw_P7PfHuAgWefUI_IDj_ZA1MzDwS5zfejgEkdhyphenhyphenbn-XEuMzS5X1SnAiyIM45VUNZ5t11yA8N93wJQR9ySZeO-_YeNZ/s1600-h/slide_2b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104569209245865714" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOg5sOZkoCCTX3LTZbbs0P0LiRm-pWqV_AqTA_P_Li4LXdZCcWPw_P7PfHuAgWefUI_IDj_ZA1MzDwS5zfejgEkdhyphenhyphenbn-XEuMzS5X1SnAiyIM45VUNZ5t11yA8N93wJQR9ySZeO-_YeNZ/s400/slide_2b.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpql0aKRvJriBhKio7GZ76aUuTiWZj2zvfT0B8AUJ92_MU4pueW8lZLFYUpVbaNt-68hlEfwKl0GzVL1WalHe40EFRZN6_9MfoEKtjD9hkNXaNu9sP-SdcAoaje-15qddSoJLBY_e_3JSI/s1600-h/Picture+5.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104569046037108450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpql0aKRvJriBhKio7GZ76aUuTiWZj2zvfT0B8AUJ92_MU4pueW8lZLFYUpVbaNt-68hlEfwKl0GzVL1WalHe40EFRZN6_9MfoEKtjD9hkNXaNu9sP-SdcAoaje-15qddSoJLBY_e_3JSI/s400/Picture+5.png" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV2YEHoou5OZjDXpOlAoz4-YcclJnUDCfCigJq-9te3Kv4650FPwGDT_6tLxS8272NildHtzpKAEPUT1O1Duw9IFCn-p_z1tRyWroAY2dSFBN7cxDfrZGO8C7thChzF5uHSN3yQKW3V-yw/s1600-h/Picture+4.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104567826266396370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV2YEHoou5OZjDXpOlAoz4-YcclJnUDCfCigJq-9te3Kv4650FPwGDT_6tLxS8272NildHtzpKAEPUT1O1Duw9IFCn-p_z1tRyWroAY2dSFBN7cxDfrZGO8C7thChzF5uHSN3yQKW3V-yw/s400/Picture+4.png" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" /></a><br /><br /><br />It's been with eager anticipation that trendsetters have looked forward to the inevitable expansion of Moss, Murray Moss and Franklin Getchell's New York-based design store and gallery. <br /><br />And appeared it certainly has, in the shape of a minimalist, open-plan 3,500 square foot gallery on LA's Melrose Avenue. The venue was designed by Murray Moss himself to be the ultimate exhibition space, though Moss is keen to stress that the new venue is a development, not simply a replica: 'We're very excited about the ability to create a new environment, not a duplicate one, expanding our presentation in ways unique to Los Angeles. We want Moss to grow, to reach further and at the same time, we want it to be local.'<br /><br />Moss<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr2rbR49NM7sPNHL3jp5P0WYIq4vy1sdOr-HEfHsTjPo9oodfNZ5fJ-gg2tKhWbS92ekgmiSAiQNssuzaWOf3yKUZ1MDtW2T4jxhC1rmwEUBFJsuJIlWwewk6hsEfjcxiQwjMtS4sfDR8a/s1600-h/Picture+7.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104570390361872162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr2rbR49NM7sPNHL3jp5P0WYIq4vy1sdOr-HEfHsTjPo9oodfNZ5fJ-gg2tKhWbS92ekgmiSAiQNssuzaWOf3yKUZ1MDtW2T4jxhC1rmwEUBFJsuJIlWwewk6hsEfjcxiQwjMtS4sfDR8a/s400/Picture+7.png" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" /></a><br /><br /><br />August 2007: the first Moss store outside of New York's Soho district opens its big glass door, on Melrose Avenue near the mouth of Melrose Place. 3500 square feet of cool optic white space bifurcated by a ten ton steel beam running straight from the door to the sales station. Paul Smith Big Pink to right of us, the Pacific Design Center Blue Whale to the left, and Marc Jacobs across the street. We got Maharam down the street and APC so close we can bang on the wall.<br /><br />The opening exhibition, 'Glitter and Smoke' is the first of several installations featuring chandeliers from the Swarovski Crystal Palace collection. Up first is Georg Baldele's Vertical Glitterbox, comprising 18 eight-foot crystal pillars, together giving a hanging garden effect. The chandelier surrounds a unique 1938 Steinway Baby Grand Piano, fire-sculpted by Maarten Baas, which forms part of Baas' ongoing 'Where there's Smoke' collection for Moss. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM_gKhTiFtCnxQw7ALannmO1PyZIdiUgevU-CvMwJr4nV0dB0bKYv_SWCYUayoiJOPAPGm3_TsGRhkBHDTRRPBU4bR1YnSDWY6pS4PvBmpCdq1tMJ67Lv2LPP3TQXJK49a3EhzQJhEk58D/s1600-h/slide_2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104569612972791554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM_gKhTiFtCnxQw7ALannmO1PyZIdiUgevU-CvMwJr4nV0dB0bKYv_SWCYUayoiJOPAPGm3_TsGRhkBHDTRRPBU4bR1YnSDWY6pS4PvBmpCdq1tMJ67Lv2LPP3TQXJK49a3EhzQJhEk58D/s400/slide_2.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" /></a><br /><br />INFORMATION<br />Address<br /><br />Moss Loss Angeles<br />8444 Melrose Avenue<br />Los Angeles<br />Telephone<br /><br />+1.323 866 5260<br />Website<br /><br />http://www.mossonline.com

Los Angeles Gathers Moss

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