From 24 to 28 March 2010, Benjamin Graindorge will be presenting his 'IkebanaMedulla' vase with the Ymer&Malta gallery at the Pavillon des Arts et du Design 2010, along with two lamps. 'IkebanaMedulla' is a study in weightlessness, an in-line sketch made real, a tangible result of the designer's six-month residence at the villa Kujoyama.
Benjamin Graindorge is passionately involved with designing contemplative objects, shrine-like points for meditation in the home, alert sensors that reflect our most fleeting thoughts. From his stay in Japan he has brought back elegant themes, light years away from the postcard clichés of Zen-land tourists. Ikebana, the Japanese art of floral composition, is one of them. But Graindorge has added the medulla to it: as intimate as marrow, an almost bestial presence. This is a vase that confronts purity of line to the substance of flesh and bone, that sets immobility pulsing with the dynamic violence of life.
The vase is inhabited, like a spring of water - a trickle that seems to be immobile but which comes to life when we approach it. With its inwardness and strange beauty, this Medusa-like vase is between animal and machine, like a mechanical spider.
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