Outdoor Furniture Range
Studio Sam is pleased to announce that Sam Parsons has recently been awarded a Creative Sparks Grant to design a range of sustainable furniture and accessories for use in small outdoor spaces.
The project is proudly supported by and has received financial assistance from both the Brisbane City Council and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
After working as an interior designer and landscape architect for the last 14 years, Sam has become increasingly interested in micro scale outdoor spaces such as balconies, patios, decks and verandahs. The new range would cater for such spaces (especially here in Brisbane) as the population grows, urban areas become denser and living spaces become smaller.
We are planning to have a soft launch of the range later this year.
Top 10 Forces and Faces
Publication DQ 37
Date Autumn 2010
Article DQ’s Top 10 Forces and Faces in Design
DQ (Design Quarterly) magazine has selected a group of 10 people “across myriad fields” that they feel “have achieved outstanding results in their practice”. We thank them for including Studio Sam.
Australian Design Museum
The inaugural Australian Design Museum Exhibition was held earlier this year in Sydney. The exhibition provided a unique opportunity to view and purchase iconic, limited and prototype works by Australian Designers.
Date February to March 2010
Location Shapiro Gallery, Woollahra
Curator Sarah King
Photo by Samantha Parsons includes: Elliot the Bookscreen, Siena the Bookblock Tables, an original ‘Wood Chair’ by Marc Newson (1986) and a ‘Big Held Mobile’ by I design things (2010).
Exhibition Postcard by Mark Gowing
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Tomorrow
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for Tomorrow” (Albert Einstein)
Tomorrow is more than just the day after today. It is the future. This installation took a look at how we as consumers, retailers and designers may address various environmental and social issues as we approach ‘tomorrow’.
A series of rooms were choreographed based on colour and lyrics from songs. Each is a composition of furniture, accessories and found objects including some hand-made pieces from the Studio Sam’s Booksmith Range.
For each product/object a mini autobiography was written to explore their ‘lifecycle’; origin, materiality and outlook for their future. The products came from different generations and had varying degrees of ‘value’. Some were prized for their design, some were respected for their durability, some were treasured as ‘collectables’, some were appreciated for their clever reuse of materials and some were esteemed for their low environmental impact and social responsibility. Visitors were encouraged to engage, discover and reassess the value of things and consider possible new ways of using, collating and enjoying the things they buy and those they already have at home.
Date November 2009 to January 2010
Location Corporate Culture, Brisbane
Curator Samantha Parsons
Photographer Geoffrey Marsh, Pride of Joy Photographics, 0438 455 301
Brisbane Writers Festival
Date September 2009
Location State Library of QLD, Brisbane, Australia
Products on show Elliot the Bookscreen was selected as the backdrop to speakers at the 2009 BWF. Quite a suitable application! Photo adjacent taken on opening night.
Photograph Brisbane Writers Festival
Paper Installation
Date 2009
Project Paper Installation (commission) for Clara Display Suite, Melbourne, Australia. Included Siena the Bookblock Tables, Mini Sienas, a Mini Bookscreen and hand stitched paper sculptures
Stylist Megan Morton
Photographer Tim James (www.timjamesphotography.com)
Celebrating Paper
Publication Sunday Age Newspaper, M Magazine, Melbourne, Victoria
Date 2 August 2009
Product Siena the Bookblock Table
Paper Works
Publication Inside Out, Australia
Date July August 2009
Article Paper Works
Author Lara Hutton
Product Mini Bookscreen
Ish Singapore
Publication Ish Magazine, Singapore
Date June 2009
Article The Alchemist’s Touch
Special feature on Australian Designers.
