Thursday 18 April 2013

Homing in on the Senses

The sensory pavillion is in the house at Milan Design Week!











BE OPEN commissioned award-winning architect and designer Christophe Pillet to create the "House of the Senses" - a sensory exploration which calls upon our sixth sense, intuition. The installation challenges pre-conceptions of structure by interplaying unusual materials. Visitors enter a simple black wooden box covered in vegetation. On the three walls of the pavillion are projected a constantly changing series of moving images, whilst the floor and ceiling are made from a reflective material which distorts our impression of space.


"I wanted to give a pared down, almost simplistic vision of architecture,” says Pillet. “The outside is rather 'quaint' - a simple black wood box, covered in vegetation. Inside an eclectic, impressionistic collage of random video images loops in no particular order. The visitor can only have a visceral response to these very different experiences - a sensory overload.”

Bringing design and architecture together, the "House of the Senses" creates an intense multi-sensory experience which inventively combines nature, technology and structure. 

What next for Pillet? On his "wish list" is creating a space using only light as the material...we can't wait to be  enlightened!

Watch the Interview with Christophe Pillet in the House of Senses for a glimpse of the action.
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Read more about BE OPEN's sensory feast at Milan Design Week and catch the review in Dexigner.

Wednesday 3 April 2013

The new Internet Sensation...Search and Smell with the Google Nose!

Google have launched a fabulous new product which promises "one fragrant Google Experience"
Watch the Google Nose Video to find out more. 

Smell a rat?? Yes, sadly it was just an April Fools' prank! 

We reckon it's just a matter of time before Google's programmers come to their senses and start work on creating the real thing!