Helen Kontouris Design | Designer
Helen Kontouris Design
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19.01.2022 During Melbourne Design Week, come and visit and speak to a selection of Australia's most celebrated designers. Date: Saturday March 14th Time: 2-4pm Location: Stylecraft, 145 Flinders Lane, Melbourne... All designers will be available to answer your questions about their design journeys, where they find inspiration, and to offer advice for your own design practice. Designers include Ross Gardam, Helen Kontouris, Tom Skeehan of Skeehan Studio, Keith Melbourne, Anne-Claire Petre of Anaca Studio - Furniture Design, Seaton Mckeon & James Laffan of Neatt Studio. Registration is free but essential. Book here: https://lnkd.in/g_XDexn
17.01.2022 Our Bauhaus seating system won GOLD at the prestigious 2020 Good Design Awards @gooddesignaus today in the Product Design Furniture and Lighting category in recognition for outstanding design and innovation. About Bauhaus Bauhaus is a highly versatile seating system. Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria and inspired by the NGV’s Great Hall stained glass ceiling and Alma Seidhoff-Buscher’s timber Bauhaus building blocks. Bauhaus encourages play and interacti...on, ideally suited across a diverse range of interior workspaces, public seating or education environments. The Good Design Awards Jury praised Bauhaus, commenting: A playful and well executed system for modular furniture and wonderful to see it in the gallery space. It allows for a true play on colours. So joyful and child-like yet refined and graceful. Furniture as art that truly functions. Beautiful job. Thank you to the National Gallery of Victoria for commissioning me to create all the furniture for the Great Hall - a vast and expansive space with a stained glass ceiling measuring 60m in length. Our Bauhaus collection was inspired by the ceiling of the Great Hall. A huge thank you to Simone LeAmon and Ewan McEoin from the NGV for their incredible support. Bauhaus manufactured by Len Furniture and is now available through @stylecraftfurniture @stylecraft.home @stylecraft.asia
06.01.2022 Incredibly proud to announce that our seating system Bauhaus has been selected for the longlist of the prestigious Dezeen Awards 2020. We were commissioned by the NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) to design seating for their Great Hall. A vast and expansive space with a stained glass ceiling measuring 60m in length (the largest in the Southern Hemisphere) created by Leonard French in 1968. The collection is now also available through Stylecraft. Image: Sean Fennessy
05.01.2022 We are incredibly proud to announce that today our Bauhaus seating system has been selected as one of a small clutch of Finalists in this year's prestigious Victorian Premiers Design Awards in the Product Design category. Winners to be announced March 2021. Thank you to National Gallery of Victoria for commissioning us to design the seating for the National Gallery of Victoria’s The Great Hall. A vast and expansive space with a stained glass ceiling measuring 60m in length. O...ur Bauhaus collection was inspired by the stained glass ceiling of the Great Hall. Enormous gratitude to the fantastic NGV curators Ewan Mceoin and Simone LeAmon for your ongoing support. The Victorian Premiers Design Awards also raise awareness about the impact design can have on productivity and business outcomes and the role design plays in tackling the challenges of the day to shape a better environment and society. Congratulations to all the finalists! About Bauhaus: Bauhaus is a highly versatile seating system. Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria and inspired by the NGV’s Great Hall stained glass ceiling and Alma Seidhoff-Buscher’s timber Bauhaus building blocks. Bauhaus encourages play and interaction, ideally suited across a diverse range of interior workspaces, public seating or education environments. Bauhaus is available through @stylecraftfurniture @stylecraft.home @stylecraft.asia
02.01.2022 Visit the Stylecraft Melbourne showroom on Saturday, March 14th to meet some of Australia's most celebrated furniture designers. As part of the 2020 Melbourne Design Week program, the Stylecraft showroom will exhibit the five finalists of the 2020 Australian Furniture Design Award, presented by Stylecraft and the National Gallery of Victoria. All designers will be available to answer your questions about their design journeys, where they find inspiration, and to offer any adv...ice for your own design practice. The Designers Ross Gardam, Helen Kontouris of LEN Furniture, Keith Melbourne, Tom Skeehan of Skeehan Studio, Anne Claire Petre of Anaca Studio, and Seaton McKeon and James Laffan of Neatt Studio. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-faces-behind-australian This is a free event, however, please note that registration is essential.
01.01.2022 We’re honored to announce that we have been commissioned to create all the new seating for the National Gallery of Victoria’s Great Hall. This project has been 2 years in development and we’re thrilled to have worked with National Gallery of Victoria to bring our BAUHAUS seating collection for the space to life. -Repost- Have you lounged on our new furniture pieces in the Great Hall yet? NGV commissioned Australian designer, Helen Kontouris to design seating for the expansiv...e space. The collection celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus movement and is inspired by a Bauhaus-designed building block toy and the geometric shapes of the Great Hall's stained glass ceiling, created by Leonard French in 1968. Each seating model has been carefully designed to blend contrasting and complementary combinations to support private or social gathering spaces within the Great Hall. #NGV Thank you especially to the amazing Ewan McEoin and Simone LeAmon for your ongoing support and for the fantastic opportunity to design for this incredible space. Photo by Sean Fennessy. We partnered with leading textile brand, Kvadrat Kvadrat Maharam to select a range of textiles from their Febrik Husk, Maharam Messenger, Steelcut Trio, Canvas and Rime collections. We selected Kvadrat Maharam textiles for this project for the textile diversity within the collection's vibrant colour palettes and richness in varying textures. It enabled us to bring together a cohesive textile selection, referencing the colours of the Bauhaus movement and the brilliant saturation of stained glass colours in the ceiling of the Great Hall. Photo by Sean Fennessy
