Jaime Hayon‘s distinctive new jewellery salon in Kuwait is all about the furniture.
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Rapidly shaping up as the young world master of that space between art and design, Jaime Hayon does it again. This time in partnership with Baccarat, Hayon is plying his remarkable talent for transforming the slightly stuffy into the covetable and highly collectable. Helping to preserve traditional craftsman techniques for a new generation into the bargain. The splendid spoils of the Baccarat collaboration are the rather jauntily named Crystal Candy Set. But snappy (and hugely apt) titles apart, for me, the really wonderful side of Hayon’s work – be it with Lladro or Metalarte or Swarovski – is how he seems to bury a little piece of himself inside every vase and lamp and figurine. In the hands of the Spaniard, inanimate objects they most definitely are not.
I’ve seen it coming for a while now. One of the most useful (if oft maligned) devices in design, the mirror wall is back in focus. And judging by the lessons of Jaime Hayon we are not necessarily talking a minimalist approach either… In the already grand La Terraza del Casino restaurant in Madrid, the Spanish designer uses mirror glass as a decorative as well as a spacial element. And it works a treat. The big, sparkling diamond-cut walls fit perfectly in a room where familiar decorative traditions have been recast to create an oasis of sumptuous – yet measured and rather intellectual – new glamour. Ideal too for diners who want to see and be seen…
The fruity and fruitful partnership of iconic Spanish producer of porcelain, LLadro, and Spain’s crown prince of design Jaime Hayon took the stand as part of the designer’s retrospective at Interieur 08. Arguably one of the most intriguing and amusing collaborations between design star and artisan industry going on today (Hayon is guest creative director at Lladro since 2006), I get the feeling the medium of ‘highbrow’ porcelain really brings out the best in Hayon’s subtly subversive, intricate brand of fantasy. And on the flip side, the match up has had the presumably desired effect of a shot in the arm to a proud brand in danger of terminal irrelevance in the new century. A true design love story for our times.