2012
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
La Table des Matières is a library, forum and social hub, designed by JODR for NMNM. Positioned at the entrance to the museum’s Villa Paloma, the room offers an informal environment to reflect on the museum’s exhibition, education and horticulture programs. A framework of wall-mounted templates, inspired by blogs, allow the museum’s curators, education coordinator and gardener to regularly post books, videos, plants, useful tools, descriptive texts and news for the visitor, and allow visitors to leave comments and their contact information for the museum.
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2012
Kvadrat
The Chaise for Hallingdal 65 was designed for the Hallingdal 65 exhibition, put on by the Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat in celebration of their classic textile. The Chaise was imagined as a piece of furniture intended only to hold a piece of fabric. Considering how a roll of textile would find comfort and sit most naturally, the chaise allows the fabric to drape between a post that secures the roll itself and a rail that allows the end of the material to hang. The structure is made of aluminum castings and extrusions, and plastic fittings.
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April, 2012
Apartamento
This exploration into contemporary wall construction looks at how and why drywall became the building industry’s standard and how it lacks the texture, craft and aesthetic qualities that characterized so many of the walls of past civilizations, like stone walls, shoji screens and lath walls.
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2012
Ediciones Jalapa
In 2010 JODR began collaboration with E/J in Mexico City to research, test and manufacture explorative archetypes that exist between architecture and product design. The first exploration focuses on walls, offering an alternative to the sheetrock variety, with traditional building materials, marble, wood and glass sheet. Walls were envisioned as a semi-permanent element, that can distinguish and separate space through visual and acoustic privacy. The object was designed to support a wide variety of marble and tinted glass sheet, as specified by an architect or client, which together change the tone of a space.
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February 25 – July 15, 2012
The Art Institute of Chicago
Curated by Zoë Ryan, John H. Bryan Curator and Chair of Architecture and Design
The Outdoor Office is a project conducted at JODR to explore outdoor workplaces for education and business environments. While portable work tools enable new kinds of workspaces, free from indoor constraints, HVAC and lighting pose financial and environmental burdens. The Outdoor Office seeks to address these problems with new types of outdoor furniture and architectural elements. This exhibit is the first public viewing of this work, and was realized with the generous support of the Architecture and Design Society and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
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October 16, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
This exhibit shows JODR’s activity in product design, research and writing, as well as in-progress interior design that the office is doing for NMNM. Products, videos of products in use shown on iPads, books, and press about the office are displayed together, on platform-benches designed for the museum by JODR. The benches offer a casual way of engaging multiple forms of media within the museum context.
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October 2 – November 27, 2011
EXD’11 / Lisboa & MUDE
Designed and curated for the Portuguese design biennial EXD’11, this exhibit explores the varied causes, manifestations and effects of uselessness in the design, production and disposal of contemporary products. A forty meter long display table, flanked by chairs, allows visitors to sit, study, read the exhibit guide, watch videos, and discuss. Conceived as a three dimensional library, the exhibit envisions the design museum as a dynamic place for social exchange and debate.
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