Moss Gallery Miami: 2011
DESIGN MIAMI 2011
DR. HARESH LALVANI:
MASS CUSTOMIZATION OF EMERGENT DESIGNS
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
MILGO\BUFKIN, BROOKLYN
FEATURING
MORPHING FRUIT PLATTERS 1D, SERIES 300
AND
HYPERSURFACES
At Design Miami 2011, Moss introduced two collections of work from Dr. Haresh Lalvani. The work caused a minor sensation at the Fair, and the booth was mobbed throughout
its five days.
The first collection was Morphing Fruit Platters 1D Series 2000. The concept of which was this: There are 1000 unique fruit platters in the collection. Each platter has
300 holes (hence the name Series 300) and it is the manipulation of the holes - size, alignment, position - that determines a unique pattern for each of the 1000 platters.
Made from laser cut steel and powder coated, each platter is 12 inches in diameter. Each is numbered, and the number corresponds to a number within an animation of the designs
of the full 1000 platters.
Dr. Lalvani's work lies at the intersection of Art and Science and is driven by a search to understand how nature designs its incredible creations using generative principles
and formal codes combined with forming processes so we can design our own. He is mapping the morphological genome as the starting point for the genomic architecture. He is the
inventor of 'Algorhythms' and 'Xurf' product lines, both reminiscent of biological forms. The sculptures in his Hyper Surface series, represent the culmination of 40 years of
Lalvani's studies in art, architecture and mathematics, and were developed during the past 15 years in collaboration with renowned metal fabricators Milgo\Bufkin.
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