Xavier Lust
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Xavier Lust is a Belgian artist and furniture designer based in Brussels. He is most known his metal curving technique to curve a metal without using a mould. He has collaborated with several furniture manufacturers including MDF italia, Driade, De Padova, Cerruti Baleri, Fiam and Extremis.[1]
Early life and education
Lust was born on August 27, 1969 in Bruges. He studied interior design at Saint-Luc Institute, where he graduated in 1992.[2]
Career
After graduating, Lust found his own studio in Brussels and had an atelier for the next nine years where he worked on pieces in steel, stainless steel and aluminium. He spent much of the decade developing his own range of furniture designs in his workshop, while also undertaking projects for shops, offices, bars, restaurants and private interiors.[3] In 2000, he collaborated with MDF Italia and design the Le Banc Bench, which lead to several collaborations between the two.[4]
In 2011, Lust designed the awarding statuette for Magritte Awards drawing inspiration from a poster by René Magritte for a film festival in 1958.[5] In 2014, in collaboration with Pianca, he designed Confluence, a table with a wooden surface on a steel structure. The design of the table received several awards including Compasso d’Oro.[6] Later that year, Kristalia released oXo collection of chairs in collaboration with Lust at the Biennale Interieur 2014. The collection included the oXo Chair and Stool.[7][8]
Other famous works by Lust include S-Table, Crédence,[9] and Cone chair[10] He has designed furniture for several Italian brands including MDF Italia, De Padova, Driade, Cerruti Baleri and Skitsch.[2][11] He is known for his unique technique of shaping metal that he applies in various pieces of furniture. He folds and curves steel without using a mould.[4] His work was the object of a significant retrospective in 2007 at the Musée des Arts Contemporains in Belgium and is part of the permanent collection of museums including Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.[4]
Lust also speaks at art and design institutions and industry conferences regularly.[12][13] He was a speaker at the Business of Design Week in Hong Kong in 2013.[1]
In 2015, Lust designed a bus shelter which will be placed all over Brussels as part of a project by the Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company.[14]
Critical Reception
Lust's metal moulding technique has been praised widely. Design Boom wrote that "Xavier Lust is clearly identifiable through the visible tension he gives to his objects, and the curves influenced by his innovative (de)formation process of metallic surfaces."[1]
Lust's artwork has also been featured in multiple magazines with positive reviews. Writing about the oXo collection, Design Chronicle wrote that "the minimalist and sleek design makes the collection ideal for commercial and residential settings"[15] and Retail Design Blog wrote about the Confluence table that "the attraction for metal elements that has always affected Lust is combined here with Pianca’s experience with wooden materials, emerging into an organic and dynamic composition."[6]
Awards and honors
- Confluence awarded Muuuz International Awards - 2014 [16]
- Sumo awarded Premio Dino Gavina - Sept 2009
- Flow awarded Henry van de Velde Label - 2008
- S-table awarded "Schoener-Wohnen-Neue-Klassiker" - 2008
- Elle Decoration International Design Award for S-table - 2008
- Special Mention for La Grande Table at the XXth Compasso D'oro Awards - 2004 [1]
- PicNik awarded the Good Design award by The Chicago Athenaeum (Museum of Architecture and Design) - 2004
- Crédence selected by the Osservatorio Permanente Per Il Design for the XXth Compasso D'oro Awards - 2004
- PicNik won the iF Award - 2004
- Henry van de Velde Award for Young Talent - 2003
- La Grande Table selected by the Osservatorio Permanente Per Il Design for the XX Compasso D'oro Awards - 2003
- PicNik awarded First Prize in the Best Item category Interior Innovation Award 2003 at the Internationale Möbelmesse - 2003
- Le Banc wins the best furniture design award at the 13th Design week Awards - 2002
- Le Banc wins first prize in the seating category and all around favorite prize from Le Vif - l'Express - 2002
Museum Acquisitions
- 2015 - Baobab - The Liliane and David M. Stewart Program for Modern Design at Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal
- 2012 - Turner - Indianapolis Museum of Art from The Liliane and David M. Stewart Program
- 2006 - Crédence - Musée Des Arts Décoratifs, Contemporary design museum collection.
- 2006 - Crédence and Le Banc - Stedelijk Museum
- 2006 - PicNik - Tate Modern
- 2005 - Le Banc - Musée d'Art Japonais
- 2001 - 2004 - T-chair - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Xavier Lust to speak at BODW forum 2013". Design Boom. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Competition: win a Gamete.MGX lamp by Xavier Lust". Dezeen. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ↑ "Profile: Xavier Lust". Design Week. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Xavier Lust: The Language of Metal". Spotted Magazine. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ↑ "Le gratin du 7ème art belge sera aux "Magritte du cinéma" ce samedi". RTBF. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Confluence table by Xavier Lust for PIANCA". Retail Design Blog. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
- ↑ "OXO: Xavier Lust meets Kristalia". Archi Products. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ↑ "xavier lust designs OXO collection for kristalia". Design Boom. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
- ↑ "Sedersi al volante come in salotto: la continua osmosi tra automotive e arredo". Il Sole 24 Ore. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
- ↑ ".MGX at Salone: new lamps by Batsheba, Xavier Lust and Wertell Oberfell Platform". I Materialise. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
- ↑ "Le designer Belge Xavier Lust et une papesse du design worldwide Marva Griffin Wilshire". Le Figaro. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ↑ "Belgium's best interior designers coming to Hong Kong". SCMP. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ↑ "Xavier Lust, between art and industry". WBDM. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
- ↑ "Les nouveaux abribus de Xavier Lust". BXL Blog. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
- ↑ "oXo Chair by Xavier Lust for Kristalia". Design Chronicle. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ↑ "MIAWs 2014 Discover the winners!". Achi Design Club. Retrieved 11 March 2015.