Lyrois
Behind the Scenes
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The eighth, and for now, final Lyrois chair, #18, for Patio & Lounge --
Chair #18 is based on the original Lyrois shape #18, a somewhat lost (but beloved) child from the family, it appeared never before.
Models are made in hard wood and a very limited collector's edition will be made from translucent and colored acrylic glass.
Please inquire about prices, colors, and availability via lyrois [at] googlemail.com.
You might want to read the backstory and see a list of models.
Labels: 2010, architecture, art, chairs, commissions, furniture, interior+design, lyrois, store+furniture
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The seventh Lyrois chair, for Showroom & Stage, #13 --
Chair #13 is based on the original Lyrois shape #13, featuring fluid lines for soft curves.
Models are made in hard wood and a very limited collector's edition will be made from translucent and colored acrylic glass.
Please inquire about prices, colors, and availability via lyrois [at] googlemail.com.
You might want to read the backstory and see a list of models.
Labels: 2010, architecture, art, chairs, commissions, furniture, interior+design, lyrois, store+furniture
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The sixth Lyrois chair, is a reunion of twins, for Garden & Patio, #16 --
Chair #16 is based on the original Lyrois shape #16, a very special garden & patio chair, it's a metamorphosis of two models, each one of them made from the same shape, one side being upright and the opposing side being upside-down.
Models are made in hard wood and a very limited collector's edition will be made from translucent and colored acrylic glass.
Please inquire about prices, colors, and availability via lyrois [at] googlemail.com.
You might want to read the backstory and see a list of models.
Labels: 2010, architecture, art, chairs, commissions, furniture, interior+design, lyrois, store+furniture
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The fifth Lyrois chair, #12 --
Chair #12 is based on the original Lyrois shape #12, a simple, inviting audience chair.
Models are made in hard wood and a very limited collector's edition will be made from translucent and colored acrylic glass.
Please inquire about prices, colors, and availability via lyrois [at] googlemail.com.
You might want to read the backstory and see a list of models.
Labels: 2010, architecture, art, chairs, commissions, furniture, interior+design, lyrois, store+furniture
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The fourth Lyrois chair, in fact, a stool, #06b --
Chair #06b is based on the original Lyrois shape #06, a bar stool, the companion piece to the director's chair.
Models are made in hard wood and a very limited collector's edition will be made from translucent and colored acrylic glass.
Please inquire about prices, colors, and availability via lyrois [at] googlemail.com.
You might want to read the backstory and see a list of models.
Labels: 2010, architecture, art, chairs, commissions, furniture, interior+design, lyrois, store+furniture
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The third Lyrois chair and a bench variation, #06a --
Chair #06a is based on the original Lyrois shape #06, a director's chair and a variant as a bench.
Models are made in hard wood and a very limited collector's edition will be made from translucent and colored acrylic glass.
Please inquire about prices, colors, and availability via lyrois [at] googlemail.com.
You might want to read the backstory and see a list of models.
Labels: 2010, architecture, art, chairs, commissions, furniture, interior+design, lyrois, store+furniture
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The second Lyrois chair, #02 --
Chair #02 is based on the original Lyrois shape #02, a lounge chair, companion piece to chair #10.
Models are made in hard wood and a very limited collector's edition will be made from translucent and colored acrylic glass.
Please inquire about prices, colors, and availability via lyrois [at] googlemail.com.
You might want to read the backstory and see a list of models.
Labels: 2010, architecture, art, chairs, commissions, furniture, interior+design, lyrois, store+furniture
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The first one from a line of exquisite furniture items, chair #10 is finally ready to be shown --
Chair #10 is based on the original Lyrois shape #10, a coffeehouse and lounge design piece.
Models are made in hard wood and a very limited collector's edition will be made from translucent and colored acrylic glass.
Please inquire about prices, colors, and availability via lyrois [at] googlemail.com.
You might want to read the backstory and see a list of models.
Labels: 2010, architecture, art, chairs, commissions, furniture, interior+design, lyrois, store+furniture
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Something new for 2010: A micro-manufacturing project featuring a line of chairs: A couple of lounge chairs, a director's chair, a bench, and a bar stool, ... all built around, of course, the LYROIS shapes.
Loud coffeehouses and calm lounges, as well as the big stage, or that stylish office -- a Lyrois chair might add the final touch in your quest towards extraordinary --
The prototype production is in progress, there will be high quality chairs in heavy wood and a line of collector's chairs in translucent and colored acrylic glass. Watch this space for updates and the different models dropping in.
As always, I am making these on a custom basis and am able to make the chairs according to your input; size, and color, and material-wise. The shapes can't be altered though, it wouldn't be an original Lyrois anymore...
You may contact me for options and prices via lyrois [at] googlemail.com.
Labels: 2010, acrylic, architecture, art, black, chairs, commissions, interior+design, lyrois, preview, store+furniture, vinyl, wood
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With the Architectural Essays all spread out, it's time to recollect them and put them together in a small catalogue for the screen, or, if you want to, for printing.
The print-edition catalogue with all 14 works is available as a PDF-file now and here --
Also, please note that selected works are available as limited-edition, high-quality, signed and numbered, prints.
Labels: 2009, architecture, art, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, pdf, print, stylebook, vinyl
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Chicago Crownhall, interior window --
Number #14 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
Black and pink, translucent vinyl (#14). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
Labels: 2009, architecture, art, black, decals, graffiti, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, vinyl
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Chicago Crownhall, facade --
Number #13 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
White, transparent vinyl (#13). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
Labels: 2009, architecture, art, decals, etched+glas, facade, graffiti, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, vinyl
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New York Seagram Building, facade --
Number #12 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
White, black, and pink opaque vinyl (#12). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
Labels: 2009, architecture, art, decals, facade, graffiti, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, pixel+art, vinyl
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Chicago IBM Building, facade --
Number #11 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
White opaque vinyl (#11). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
Labels: 2009, architecture, art, decals, facade, graffiti, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, pixel+art, vinyl
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Berlin Nationalgalerie, window front --
Number #10 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
White translucent vinyl (#10). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
Labels: 2009, architecture, art, decals, etched+glas, facade, graffiti, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, vinyl
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Toronto Dominion Centre, facade --
Number #8 in the Mies Series.
Number #9 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
White translucent vinyl (#8), white and black translucent vinyl (#9). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
Labels: 2009, architecture, art, black, decals, facade, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe
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Horreur! Graffiti! on the German Pavillon in Barcelona --
Number #3 in the Mies Series.
Number #4 in the Mies Series.
Number #5 in the Mies Series.
Number #6 in the Mies Series.
Number #7 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
Digital print on white vinyl (#3), black-matte opaque vinyl (#4 - #7). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
Labels: 2009, architecture, art, decals, graffiti, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, murals, script+logo, vinyl
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Chicago Lake Shore Drive Apartments --
Number #1 in the Mies Series.
Number #2 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
Silver-matte translucent vinyl (#1), black-matte opaque vinyl (#2). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
Labels: 2009, architecture, art, decals, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, vinyl
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Introducing Lyrois' architectural essays, conversations between architecture and art --
The vision: Lyrois shapes in public spaces. (Backstory)
The plan: Using our beloved glass, steel, and concrete as the perfect canvas to create a dialogue between static architecture and dynamic art.
Looking for and at glass, steel, and concrete; there is one artist -- architect -- who provides iconic, clean, and clear structures and patterns to pick up and play with: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Granite or concrete?
Mies planned to use granite for an element of the entrance for the IIT. The president of the Institute suggested using less expensive concrete stating that the granite was barely visible anyway. Mies retorted: Concrete instead of granite you would see and asked the president to raise more money instead -- eventually he built with granite.(Related by Swiss architect Otto Kolb)
The inspiration: Linear divisions, spatial proportions, as well as details like huge pieces of marble cut in symmetrical patterns.
Like graffiti, the public landscape is the canvas to work on.
Unlike graffiti, the Lyrois pieces pick up the pattern of the underlying architecture and highlight both canvas and artwork.
The print-edition catalogue with all 14 works is available either as a PDF-file or in actual, real paper.
Selected works are available as limited-edition, high-quality prints.
Artwork may be ordered as-is or privately commissioned and custom-tailored to your environmental structure, color-scale, and local setting.
Labels: 2009, announcement, architecture, art, decals, etched+glas, graffiti, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, murals, vinyl
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An appetizer for stuff to come --
Lyrois' architectural essays, conversations between architecture and art.
Labels: 2009, announcement, architecture, art, decals, etched+glas, graffiti, interior+design, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, murals, pixel+art, preview
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We talked about the mural long before. Well, finally, here it is --
This one is 125 × 53cm -- you know, we have huge walls in those old European houses.
The Silhouettes Mural is for sale; matte black and glossy Lyrois signature-purple vinyl on white aluminum. It is possible to make different sizes and color combinations to custom-match your individual environment.
There is also a printed version on high-gloss photographic paper in 100 x 50cm.
Labels: 2008, 2008ss, aluminum, architecture, art, interior+design, lyrois, murals, posters, print, tableaux
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The Olympic motto is made up of three Latin words: "Citius, Altius, Fortius", which means "Faster, Higher, Stronger". These three words encourage the athlete to give his or her best during competition, and to view this effort as a victory in itself.
The sense of the motto is that being first is not necessarily a priority, but that giving one's best and striving for personal excellence is a worthwhile goal. It can apply equally to athletes and to each one of us.
Here are a few things to learn from the Olympians --
- Be dedicated and passionate
- Keep your goals in mind
- Learn to be a team player
- Cheaters never prosper
- It's not done till it's done
- Milk it while you can
- Have a backup plan
- Have goals after your career is over
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... door decals, that is. The beauty about European houses is that antique wooden doors are all included and genuine.
The same techniques we use to cover busses and trucks with ads, pictures and all-over graphics, come back -- en miniature -- in delicate shapes, cut in elegant, glossy foil.
As promised --
These decals stick to most wallpapers and laquered wood, yet the foil is fully removable without leaving any residue.
Labels: 2008, 2008ss, architecture, art, decals, decoration, interior+design, lyrois, stylebook, vinyl
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A partial view of the design draft for an interior wall.
A mural, 5m × 2m -- part of one, that is. Nothing more specific right now...
Between adding and taking away.
UPDATE: The Silhouettes Mural -- finally incarnated.
Labels: 2008, architecture, art, decoration, interior+design, lyrois, murals, preview, silhouette, wallpaper
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A partial menu for the year 2008, with spring and summer hints on design, fashion, and art projects, as well as signposts pointing to other things yet to come, explore, and create.
Lyrois: The Stylebook Spring/Summer 2008.
A printable PDF-file is available. Here are the pics --
Enjoy and consider yourself teased...
Labels: 2008, 2008ss, aluminum, announcement, architecture, art, decals, decoration, fashion, interior+design, lyrois, stickers, stylebook, vinyl, wallpaper
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Lyrois is an art scheme, an experimental brand, and a design meme in the making. Lyrois sounds similar to the french Le Roi, yet it is otherwise unrelated.
In 1997, Alexander Becker drew a bunch of shapes, 17 figures gathered around the silhouette of a dancer. Since then, they come back, year after year, in always different styles and designs, covering bags and wallpapers, populating store walls and windows, as well as being featured on tiny vinyl stickers and cut as huge decals or tableaux; elaborate arrangements on industrial materials. Repetition changes.
The shapes are sampled, over and over, with the techniques du jour, and the materials we contemporarily love; bright, opaque, or translucent vinyl, bulletproof bullet-resistant (it depends...) plexiglas, hi-tech paper, and industrial adhesive foil.
Inspired by theatrical Gobos, Lyrois plays with light and shadows and their projections.
The original vector-graphics, their lines combining fragile leaves and powerful graffiti strokes, are never altered themselves, their outlines always remain unchanged. Everything else evolves around these already iconic shapes.
It is the guilt of contemporary superficiality, the struggle with lightness, and the conflict of art and design, which fuels the notoriety of Lyrois.
Projects -- upcoming or completed -- include Lyrois-appearances in architecture, fashion, art, and design productions, as well as unique collaborations in store- and interior design.
Behind the Scenes is covering everything from the Lyrois universe: Ready-made art for sale and to be given away, customizations, commercial projects and collaborations, also previews of work in progress.
Some things are not for the public, which allows only partial views that often lead to interesting speculations about the unseen and many times result in new expressions of a visual language that is built along the way.
Announcements and fragmentary ideas are collected and documented here, exemplary designs and some making-of posts that reveal how it's done.
The peaking behind the scenes, reporting straight from the shop, is based on the idea of developing in public, we could just as well hide everything and wait 'til we're there but that wouldn't be nearly as exciting as creating here and as-is.
A list of selected works gives an overview.
Lyrois also accepts custom commissions, one-of-a-kind productions picking up collector's input and environments.
Labels: 1997, about, architecture, art, decals, decoration, fashion, graffiti, interior+design, lyrois, press, vinyl
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