Art director, curator and design illuminator, Bradley Seymour’s Milan base allows him to share his passion for interiors, design and culture via his vibrant colour themed Instagram account, @bradleyseymour - an evolving research attracting a loyal following of over 46k design fans and industry insiders. His experience as former creative director of Italian fashion magazine, Marie Claire and love of interiors focuses his point of view on the intersection between fashion and design.
Bradley Seymour will be participating in Does ‘Instagrammable’ Equate To Good Design? Tuesday 8th October at 4pm at Decorex
Follow @Decorex_international and join me, @bradleyseymour as I discover Decorex International 6-9 October, 2019
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WE INTERUPT SUMMER WITH MY DECOREX FUTURE HERITAGE TOP 5
5. Hsiao-Chi Tsai and Kimiya Yoshikawa
Mixed Media Artists
4. Alice Walton
Sending me way back to geography class yet
touching that innate knowing of what came
before, Alice Walton sees ceramics like no other.
Redefining what the term actually means, she
folds and shapes textures, layers and forms for
a new world that is begging to be touched. It’s
unchartered territory for Walton who explores the
surface and finds herself, pleasing herself so that
we too are pleased. Her work is believable and
simple and yet her harmoniously hued creations
are immensely complicated. The pieces are
a compelling collage of child-like wonder and
something deeper from the ancestors.
Ceramic Artist
3. Gavin Keightley
Mixed Material Designer
Beautiful decay is something that Gavin
Keightley is turning into an art form. His morphic
shapes and otherworldly textures begin life as
mashed potatoes or seaweed. Where they go
from there and how they end up in our lives is
thanks to Keightley’s new, unnatural methods
of natural disintegration. The sandblaster is his
tool of choice, applied with a questioning mind.
Experimenting with erosion techniques and
materials as a way forward is the key for Keightly
and I say that with enlightenment, comes beauty.
His domestic objects pose questions that are
not so easily answered and that delightful friction
makes me smile.
Celia Dowson likes to get her hands dirty as most
artists do and yet all that process is concealed
behind the poise and elegance of her sublime
gestures made of ceramics or cast glass.
Domestically destined but not always practical,
this is sculpture on a very refined level but at heart,
a fascination with both the craftsmanship behind
industrial production and nature at it’s most pure -
at least that’s what I see in her poetic interpretation
of light, transparency and reflection. And talking of
colour, there’s nothing like glass to intrigue the eye
and draw us into Celia Dowson’s beautiful world.
2. Celia Dowson
Ceramic and Glass Artist
1. James Rigler
Ceramic Designer
I like the idea that certain objects have a power to
attract us to them. That something so beautifully
formed and of intriguing materials and finishes
can have an energy all their own. Such is the
mesmerising sculptural work of James Rigler
whose solidity and confidence creates magic. His
pieces are fabled, as if they fell from the pages of
a fairytale - but not just in any romantic sense. His
bold, nature-inspired, architectural and geometric
pieces in ceramic, metal leaf, stone and wood
are oversized talismans of mesmerising appeal
in pastel and fauvist
Vibrant sea creatures come to mind when first
encountering London duo, Hsiao-Chi Tsai and
Kimiya Yoshikawa’s installations. Placed in either a public or residential environment, their work opens the mind to new possibilities. This is the wobbly, wonderful line between art and design and one so
rarely negotiated quite this boldly and exquisitely. Tsai and Yoshikawa are choreographers of culture, colour, material and expression, successfully mastered thanks to their unique sensibility. Is there is a more exciting way to shake up a sleeping historic interior than with a bold stroke of millennial genius? A courageous choice for today and generations to follow.