黎巴嫩设计师展示了国家的“无规则”文化
Adorno's emerging Lebanese designers collection shows country's "no-rule" culture

由专筑网王帅，李韧编译

Adorno数字设计商店和画廊推出了一系列新产品，它们黎巴嫩贝鲁特的新兴设计师创作。

15名设计师的作品于上个月在贝鲁特设计周期间展出，展览地点位于近期修复的30年代公寓楼，这座公寓曾在黎巴嫩内战期间为狙击手使用。

Digital design store and gallery Adorno has launched a collection of products created by emerging designers based in Beirut, Lebanon.
Works by 15 designers were selected and the collection was unveiled last month during Beirut Design Week at an exhibition within a recently restored 1930s apartment block that was used by snipers during Lebanon's civil war.


Paola Sakr的混凝土圆筒容器入选／Paola Sakr's concrete cylinders vessels were selected to be included in the collection

贝鲁特展览遵循了2018年4月所发出的公开声明，目的是寻找能表达该地区特点的新兴设计作品。

同时，评审团正在寻找与今年设计周主题“设计与城市（Design and the City）”相吻合的设计理念。

展览之后，其中一些作品会通过Adorno在线商店销售。

The Beirut Collection follows an open call that was put out in April 2018 to find the best independent and emerging designers whose work best expresses the design character of the region.
In particular, the judging panel were looking for submissions that chimed with this year's design week theme, Design and the City.
Following the exhibition, some of the pieces were selected to be sold through Adorno's online store.


Wyssem Nochi设计的哑铃形烛台／Various dumbell-shaped candleholders, designed by Wyssem Nochi, are included in the collection

展览涵盖了家具、照明、陶瓷、艺术品以及艺术装置，其中就有Wyssem Nochi用透明金银玻璃设计制作的一系列哑铃形烛台。

当烛台底部装满水时，蜡烛就可以漂浮在容器的阀杆上。Nochi说这种设计参考了城市的建筑涂鸦，来抗议当地的日常停电。

The showcase spans furniture, lighting, ceramics, artwork, and architectural installations with highlights including a series of dumbell-shaped candleholders by Wyssem Nochi made in clear, gold and silvered glass.
When the base is filled with water, the candles float in the vessel's stem. The design, Nochi said, is a reference to an outline of a lightbulb that he spotted graffitied on a building in the city as a protest against the country's daily power outages.


Christian Zahr参考了城市建筑／Christian Zahr referenced construction taking place in the city for his contribution to the collection

Christian Zahr的块状铸造混凝土灯参考了贝鲁特城市中纵横交错的电线。

与此同时，Paola Sakr的混凝土圆筒容器使用了从城市各处建筑工地收集到的废料。

Christian Zahr's chunky cast concrete Core lamps reference Beirut's unending construction and the electrical wires that criss-cross the streets.
Meanwhile Paola Sakr's vessels are made using concrete cylinders and material scraps that she collected from construction sites around the city.


Zahr设计的一系列混凝土灯／Zahr created a series of chunky concrete lights

另一些人使用了更不寻常的本地材料，比如Youmna Geday，其圆形壁灯被称为“未出生的光之生物（Unborn Creatures of Light）”，它由59个强化蛋壳手工制作，内部是LED灯泡。

Zeina Aboul-Hosn和Marianne Sargi的瓶形容器使用了黎巴嫩的红色黏土，而Thomas Trad的桌子设计则受到日本细木工的启发，但是由多种不同的石板制成。

Others used more unusual locally-sourced materials such as Youmna Geday, whose circular wall light, called Unborn Creatures of Light, is handmade from 59 reinforced eggshells lit from within by LED bulbs.
Zeina Aboul-Hosn and Marianne Sargi's bottle-shaped vessels are made using Lebanese red clay, while Thomas Trad's tables are inspired by Japanese joinery, but made in Beirut from slabs of various colours of marble.


Thomas Trad 是15位贝鲁特设计师中的一员／Thomas Trad was one of 15 Beirut-based designers chosen for the collection

负责挑选展出作品的评委有贝鲁特设计周的创意总监Ghassan Salameh、Adorno的联合创始人Kristian Snorre Andersen、当地Joy Mardini设计画廊的创始人Joy Mardini、Adorno马德里和巴塞罗那藏品幕后设计作者兼策展人Ana Dominguez Siemens、英国家具设计师兼作家Suzanne Trocmé。

Salameh解释说：“与其他社区相比，贝鲁特没有明确的设计遗产，因此没有给每个制造商进行单独设计和试验留下空间。”

“尽管如此，手工技巧和制作却一直是本次活动的重点。”

The judges who were tasked with selecting the exhibited pieces include Beirut Design Week's creative director Ghassan Salameh; Adorno co-founder Kristian Snorre Andersen; Joy Mardini, founder of local Joy Mardini Design gallery; Ana Dominguez Siemens, the design writer and curator behind Adorno’s Madrid and Barcelona collections; and British furniture designer and author Suzanne Trocmé.
"Compared to other communities Beirut doesn’t have a clear design heritage which gives space for each maker to design and experiment on their own," explained Salameh.
"Despite that, the craft skills and handmade approach has always been high on the agenda."




Trad的桌子设计受日本细木工的启发，但制造于贝鲁特／Trad's tables are inspired by Japanese joinery, but made in Beirut

Salameh继续说道：“在过去的几年里，这座城市正经历着地方独立倡议，这是我们近代史上的首例。人们希望重塑城市，使之成为更公正、更宽容和更适宜居住的场所。”

“这些作品所表达的嬉戏和现实诠释着这座城市的坎坷历史，它们反映了当前的状况，并展望了积极的未来。”

"During the past couple of years, and for the first time in our recent history, the city is experiencing a rise in local independent initiatives and movements wanting to reshape our city to become a more just, tolerant and livable space," continued Salameh.
"The playfulness and the honest reality that the pieces express are interpreting the rough history of the city while visualising the current state and positive future to come."




Youmna Geday设计的圆形壁灯由强化蛋壳制成／Youmna Geday created a circular wall light made from reinforced eggshells

Kristian Snorre Andersen与Martin Clausen于2016年创建Adorno，该平台位于丹麦，目前已经设计了另外11个针对城市的系列产品，其中有圣保罗、墨西哥、伦敦、阿姆斯特丹、巴塞罗那、布鲁塞尔、哥本哈根、马德里、米兰、伊斯坦布尔和柏林。

该平台计划在未来的项目中增加新城市，同时也会增加其现有城市的集合作品。

Founded in 2016 by Kristian Snorre Andersen and Martin Clausen, Adorno is a Denmark-based platform that has already created 11 other city-specific product collections including São Paulo, Mexico City, London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Milan, Istanbul and Berlin.
The platform plans to add new cities to its roster while also adding to its existing city collections.




Zeina Aboul Hosn和Marianne Sargi设计的一套瓶形容器／Zeina Aboul-Hosn and Marianne Sargi contribution to the collection was a set of bottle-shaped vessels

Snorre Anderson告诉Dezeen的记者说：“我们两人一直以来都对贝鲁特很感兴趣，这是我们第一次在阿拉伯国家工作，这里的设计带有黎巴嫩文化，这非常有意思。”

Clausen补充说：“我认为这里的文化‘不受约束’，设计师就地取材，并将其转化为设计作品。事实上，它们并没有既定的场所，所以一切从零开始，这让其整体都非常自由。”

"Beirut has always been interesting to both of us," Snorre Anderson told Dezeen. "It's the first Arabic country we have worked in. The design here is touched by the culture here in Lebanon – it's very playful."
"I would definitely say it has something of a "no-rule" culture," added Clausen. "They take materials directly from the streets and transform it into design. There isn't really an established design scene here, so they are building it from scratch and that makes it very free."


贝鲁特是Adorno作品展览的第十一座城市，同时，该平台还计划增加新城市／Beirut is the eleventh city that Adorno has focused on to create a collection, and the platform plans to add new cities to its roster

除了展览和在线平台，贝鲁特设计师还得益于Fabraca工作室提供的技术和制造支持。Fabraca 工作室由建筑设计为主，同时结合艺术设计和手工艺技术，是一家设计定制照明和家具的工作室。

Snorre Anderson说：“我们想帮助设计师销售他们的作品，因此正在创建一个销售渠道，使他们能够接触到新观众。在某种意义上，这是一种协作，我们把来自不同设计地区的人聚集在一起，然后共同展示，以这种方式让他们变得强大，形成国际化设计理念。”

在去年的贝鲁特设计周上，这座城市的垃圾危机引发了一系列回收和升级项目，比如用咖啡渣制成的可生物降解容器，以及用广告横幅制作的食品杂货袋。

摄影：Taym Karesly

In addition to the exposure that the exhibition and online platform provide, the Beirut designers also benefit from technical and manufacturing support provided by Fabraca Studios – a collaborative, architect-led initiative, which works with designers and craftspeople to create bespoke lighting and furniture.
"We want to help designers sell their work," stated Snorre Anderson. "We are creating a sales channel that allows them to reach a new audience. It's a collaboration in a sense that we bring people from different design communities together, and we are presenting them together. In this way they are strengthening each other and providing an international view on design."
At last year's Beirut design week, the city's so-called trash crisis fueled a slew of recycled and upcycled projects such as biodegradable containers made from coffee grounds and grocery bags made from advertising banners.
Photography is by Taym Karesly.