INCREDIBLE DESIGN ALCHEMY AT LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 2016

Art is alchemy, turning ideas and materials into transformative works, creating both illusions and real experiential beauty. Two designers transform our experience at London Design Festival 2016. Check out their magnificent works below.

FOIL -- BENJAMIN HUBERT

Razor blades, light, and complex technology transform a room hung with medieval tapestries into an otherworldly Utopian experience at the Victoria & Albert Museum, as part of London Design Festival 2016.

The immersive installation, entitled “Foil,” was conceived and created by Benjamin Hubert, of experience design agency Layer, commissioned by Braun, to highlight the technical precision engineering of its razors.

Composed of 50,000 mirror-finish stainless steel panels, mounted on a 20 meter-long form, reflects morphing patterns on all surfaces in the V&A’s Room 94 Tapestry Gallery, as the form, lit by LED lighting, continuously undulates in sine-wave motion.

Emotions flood with the light, and atmospheric soundscape offering a surreal multi-sensory experience.

Check out the trippy video.

LIQUID MARBLE -- MATHIEU LEHANNEUR

Both solid & liquid simultaneously, Liquid Marble, by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur spreads out in surreal regalia in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Norfolk House Music Room as part of the London Design Festival 2016.

The piece at the V & A is made from a single piece of black marble that has been sculpted to mimic the surface of water that has been stirred by the wind. A similar piece, in green marble is installed at Petite Loire.

Lehanneur’s design inspirations come from his passion for the intersection of science, technology and art.

While it’s as still as a slab of rock can be, light reflecting off its high-luster hand-polished surfaces moves as you move around the piece. It feels like a piece of the sea.

Lehanneur designed Liquid Marble using 3D software, reproducing the effect of wind passing over the surface of water.

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Ed Reeve. Courtesy of London Design Festival. “Foil,” by Benjamin Hubert, of Layer Design. Installed at the V & A Museum for London Design Festival 2016.
2. Image: by Ed Reeve. Courtesy of London Design Festival. “Foil,” by Benjamin Hubert, of Layer Design. Installed at the V & A Museum for London Design Festival 2016.
3. Image: by Ed Reeve. Courtesy of London Design Festival. “Foil,” by Benjamin Hubert, of Layer Design. Installed at the V & A Museum for London Design Festival 2016.
4. Image: by Ed Reeve. Courtesy of London Design Festival. “Foil,” by Benjamin Hubert, of Layer Design. Installed at the V & A Museum for London Design Festival 2016.
5. Image: by Ed Reeve. Courtesy of London Design Festival. “Foil,” by Benjamin Hubert, of Layer Design. Installed at the V & A Museum for London Design Festival 2016.
6. Image: by Ed Reeve. Courtesy of London Design Festival. “Liquid Marble,” designed by Mathieu Lehanneur. Installed at the V & A Museum for London Design Festival 2016.
7. Image: by Ed Reeve. Courtesy of London Design Festival. “Liquid Marble,” designed by Mathieu Lehanneur. Installed at the V & A Museum for London Design Festival 2016.
8. Image: by Ed Reeve. Courtesy of London Design Festival. “Liquid Marble,” designed by Mathieu Lehanneur. Installed at the V & A Museum for London Design Festival 2016.
9. Image: Courtesy of Mathieu Lehanneur. “Liquid Marble,” designed by  Mathieu Lehanneur, installed at Petite Loire, in the courtyard of Domaine de Chaumont-sur-loire centre d’arts et de nature. France.
10. Image: Courtesy of London Design Festival. “Liquid Marble,” designed by Mathieu Lehanneur. Installed at the V & A Museum for London Design Festival 2016.
11. Image: by Ed Reeve.Courtesy of London Design Festival. “Foil,” by Benjamin Hubert, of Layer Design. Installed at the V & A Museum for London Design Festival 2016.
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13. Image: by Ed Reeve.Courtesy of London Design Festival. “Foil,” by Benjamin Hubert, of Layer Design. Installed at the V & A Museum for London Design Festival 2016.