Joining an array of informed design connoisseurs, visitors to New York’s Museum of Arts and Design have fallen under the spell of ultra-elegant, Paris-based designer Patrick Jouin. As part of “Patrick Jouin: Design & Gesture,” his exhibition that opened at the museum last November, the designer installed an artful configuration of his handblown glass Reed tubes as a chandelier in the museum lobby. Reception to the piece has been so successful, MAD officials have chosen to keep the fixture in place for a full year. The show, which has been similarly well received, has been extended through April 17.
Reed, a series of lighting now produced by Leucos/FDV, is based on a screen Jouin produced for star-rated dining destination, L’Auberge de L’Ill in Alsace, France in 2007. The custom design entailed stringing together hundreds of handblown Murano glass tubes with steel cables. The glass was then illuminated with a combination of warm and cold sources. MAD’s installation similarly utilizes both LEDs and incandescent lamps, and the Italian-made production pieces are compatible with these sources as well as halogen bulbs. In addition to lighting, the show features 25 of Jouin’s designs, including a spreader for Nutella, flatware for Puiforat, and a pasta pot for Alessi. The development process for this last piece spurred endless jokes around the legendary Italian company, which Jouin happily relays, about a Frenchman making improvements on the cooking of pasta.
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