Tablescapes collection by industrial designer Joe Doucet. Water waste and democracy of design.
A review for LEIBAL.
Joe Doucet ‘Tablescapes’
Philosophy
Carl Barnett Design/Studio
Philosophy and design are tightly intertwined in all I create. It is just as important to speak to and ruminate on what I do, as it is the actuality of doing. The elements of design are the legs upon which meaning and purpose sit. This is my wholistic approach. The why before the what.
My eye is attracted to opposites of textures and forms, as my mind draws to time lines. Contrasts and contradictions are what fuel my concepts, but it is the emotional and intellectual dialogue that I am after. My final destination.
A calm environment contrasts our contemporary world, as art and the handmade inspires thought and contemplation. This is the function of a well designed space. Utility and inspiration. To focus upon what our eye desires and what our lives need. To solve a problem and to vacillate the coming future.
This is what design can do. What creativity aspires to be. A tool to solve a problem, whether it is space, emotion and the uncertain future or facilitating a better understanding of who we are and who we wish to become.
My design aesthetic tends toward the calm, to again contrast our contemporary world. But it is not the aesthetics that have the final word, its how they resonate and inspire those who dwell within.
Carl Barnett Design/Studio
Beauty
Carl Barnett Design/Studio
What is the necessity
of beauty, but to express
our inner yearn.
To quench a need,
seemingly
not language
based.
Or to settle
the inner muck,
centuries old.
Time Line
Carl Barnett Design/Studio
An intriguing quality of interior design is its ability to speak to time, to reflect and to layer. The flux of life and living. Bringing forth physical memories of the past, juxtaposing those of today and subsequently inspiring the future. A timeline of emotion and nostalgia.
This can be viewed as story telling. A chronological documentation of humanity, families forgotten and families built. A registrar’s book of who we are.
As a designer and creator this is my interest, what inspires my doing, the movement of time and its captives. My interest lies within the depiction of time and how we live, who we are as we build forward. The making of the past inspires our future as we desperately cling to our collective identities. Our stories are displaced upon the objects we bring forward, somehow softening the coming unknown, or at least our hope
Carl Barnett Design/Studio
Carl Barnett Design/Studio
It is my firm belief that the built environment can be the catalyst for change. Our living spaces are vessels of memories and tools of time that inform who we are and who we can be. They can be seen as compasses. Birthers to our futures.
The interior as time line is one that we all experience, both in how we live and the memories we hold. Our personal histories inform our current choices and inform too the makers mark. This is what writes the stories of how we live and create. The past penning the future. After all, nothing comes from a vacuum. Look around, you’ll see what I mean. What are you wearing and why?
This is an aspect that informs my intentions, history, not as pure document but as inspiration for the future. It is the old that gives weight, that informs the now and inspires the future, gives us hope.
Review
The Freya Collection created by Peg Woodworking founder Kate Casey is physical poetry.
A review for LEIBAL.
Peg Woodworking ‘Freya’ lounge chair