Architect and Builder August/September 2018 | Page 93

THE NON CONFORMIST CARBON COLLECTION – BY OKHA
In keeping with Okha’s enquiring design
philosophy, the Carbon Collection comprises
six objects which challenge preconceptions
of structure, beauty and imagined realities:
Black Rain, High Voltage, Law & Disorder,
Mondo, Rock Sculpture & Omega. These
six designs bring into question aesthetic
conformity and the presupposed need for
order and equi-balance. Contrary to the
accepted norms of balance and symmetry,
these designs revel in asymmetry and a non-
conformist provocation where form is
unpredictable, non-uniform and beauty a
multi-lingual dialogue between mind and heart.
fractals and elements in perfect orbit. In
profile Law and Disorder surprises and
confuses as the three vertical flanges of the
base jut out at seemingly disproportionate
and irregular angles.
High Voltage
replicates the form
of a pylon, its
perforated lamp
shade texturing
and filtering light.
Powder coated
steel bars run
diagonally and form supportive beams. As
one moves around the lamp, a second set
of bars becomes visible, cross etching the
first. As with all the designs in the Carbon
Collection, black is the chosen colour, the
emphasis being on pure form, graphic
expressionism and absolute values.
NEWSWORTHY
SAMCA WALL ADDS
EXCITING NEW DIMENSION
TO ITALTILE SHOWROOMS.
Italtile searches the globe for
beautiful and innovative products
to inspire South Africa to live
beautifully. Very often, the road
to
world-class
products
leads
right back to South Africa and to
SAMCA Wall, local manufacturers
of
superb
recently
wall
tiles.
introduced
Italtile
their
two
range additions.
Introducing Origami Satin White
and Louvre Satin White, both
beautiful
Wall’s
(single
examples
mastery
fired)
of
of
SAMCA
monocotura
wall/floor
combi-
nation tiles. Each 265 x 800 tile
offers
eye-catching
texture
to
create an outstanding feature wall.
The elegant Mondo coffee table is a para-
doxical puzzle. The seemingly discordant
composition of vertical and horizontal wafer-
thin steel profiles fuse together to create
two perfectly concentric and symmetrical
squares. The vertical supports are
diametrically opposed only visually revealing
one pair of supports at a time. It is balance
and imbalance, random and systematic.
Louvre Satin
Think Hamptons sea,
sun and sand. Think
eternal summer. Think
painted, timber-clad walls. Think
Louvre Satin White with its unique
outdoorsy,
shutter-board
feel.
Apply horizontally or vertically in
bond or stacked lines to create a
feature wall.
Origami Satin White
Chantel Woodman’s Rock Sculptures are
pure sculptural works which reiterate the
randomisation (or perhaps intuitive)
arrangement of the facet evident throughout
the collection. Rock Sculptures evoke
fossilised crystal formations, they remind us
of the structural order and disorder
embedded in nature.
Similarly, each
new perspective of
Law and Disorder
reveals unexpected
proportional and
compositional
changes. When
viewed from above
the 3 stainless steel legs and drum-
shaped shade form a balanced and har-
monious encircled triangle with a likeness
to the universal modelling structures of
Interior Watch
Possibly the most profound work in the
Carbon Collection is Black Rain. A mirror
quite unlike any other, multifaceted recessed
and extended shafts of mirror replicate
sculpted and shifting tectonic plates and
evoke shafts of harsh winter Black Rain.
Nothing is static, everything is in a state of
flux, shifting, sometimes imperceptibly,
sometimes cataclysmically and in life as with
the Carbon Collection our perceptions
depend upon the angle from which we are
viewing from.
The sixth element in the Carbon Collection
is the Omega V console. Vertical lines carved
into a carbon black finish reference a mantra
of meditative minimalism. The solid oak
timber frame and stepped solid brass legs
pay homage to the architectural inspiration
of Art Deco.
A ‘weave and fold’
design, Origami’s 3D
texture creates a fas-
cinating surface for the play of
light and shade, reflecting shifting
moods throughout the day as the
light changes. Origami creates
not just a feature wall, but also,
a talking point. Can be applied
horizontally or vertically to suit
customer tastes.
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