ShowBoats International — April 2017

APRIL 2017

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Take inspiration from the powerful undulations

of the ocean. Mieke ten Have selects the best of this

season’s wave motifs

Blue crush:

wave-inspired décor

Georg Jensen has a long history

of using modernist, curvilinear

forms in artfully made tableware

and accessories. The Danish

firm’s recent introductions –

the Helle Damkjær-designed

Indulgence grand champagne

cooler (which accommodates

three bottles of your favorite

bubbly) and classic Constantin

Wortmann-designed Cobra

candlestick (now available in

gold) – are proof of concept.

As creative director Nicholas

Manville explains, wave-

reminiscent, organic shapes

are in the brand’s DNA. “Henning

Koppel, Georg Jensen’s core

designer in the 1950s, was the

first to create the organic forms

you know us for – a lot of

technically difficult shapes to

make as a silversmith,” he says.

“Cobra and Indulgence riff off of

those now classic Scandinavian

design principles.”

Today, Koppel’s pioneering

aesthetic is a touchpoint for the

house’s designers. An innovator in

adapting its products to stainless

steel, Georg Jensen offers both

the Cobra and Indulgence pieces

in the resilient material, which

make tarnishing, both at home

and at sea, a thing of the past.

Cooler, $475; candleholders from

$85, georgjensen.com

Steel curves

RIPPLE EFFECT

Woodworker and cabinet maker Giuseppe

Rivadossi, whose atelier in Lombardy, northern

Italy, has been turning out one-of-a-kind,

handmade cabinetry since the 1960s,

balances the sculptural and the organic in his

cherrywood Del Ponto dresser. Hand carved

into bold three-dimensional relief, this piece

aims to conjure the “ancestral force of waves”.

$35,900, artemest.com

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SOFT SWELL

Outdoor fabrics have

become so well

engineered it is hard

to tell the difference

between interior and

exterior upholstery

weight textiles.

Kravet has released

its latest outdoor

fabric collection,

including

Decowaves, an art

deco homage to the

Chinese decorative

treatment of waves.

The fabric is

impervious to water

and sunlight and

comes in four

colorways, including

jade (shown).

POA, kravet.com

WALK ON WATER

The concepts of

rhythm and flow

were the starting

points for

London-based

designer Luke

Irwin’s Seascape

rug. He renders

the piece – which

can be custom

ordered in both silk

and wool in a range

of colorways –

in an ethereal,

watercolor fashion,

making it a

meditation on

the constant

interdependence

between these

essential elements

of the ocean.

POA, lukeirwin.com

GO WITH THE FLOW

Ralph Lauren Home’s Ryder suite of barware,

which includes a carafe, nut bowl, highball

glass, double Old Fashioned glass and vase,

is mouth-blown using a traditional technique

to achieve its opalescent shades. The swirling

movement effect created recalls a wave

breaking into foaming surf.

$35-$125, ralphlauren.com

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