Demet Bilici at Salone Satellite

Demet Bilici, a young designer from Istanbul, will be exhibiting at Salone Satellite, the special pavilion of International Milan Furniture Fair with her individual stand between the dates 5-10 April 2006.

Demet Bilici will be displaying two products, "Yaptim Bozdum", a modular living unit and "Drop", a washbasin, at her own booth situated in the most appealing/exciting and colorful pavilion of the fair, Salone Satellite. Both products have been manufactured using DuPont's Corian massive surface coating material and with an experimental approach, Corian has gained new and alternative processing possibilities.

Demet Bilici won the "Young Designer of the year" award at Adesign Fair 2004 held in Istanbul. In the year 2005 she took place in the highly influential international design and lifestyle magazine Wallpaper with her "Drop" project, under the topic of "10 most wanted designers" which introduces new young talents to the world.

At the moment she is working as a freelance designer.



Drop
DROP sink has taken place in the July/August issue of Wallpaper where Demet Bilici has been introduced amongst the "10 most wanted designers".

This is her graduation project. It is a material based study because she was matched with ARKAD, a "Corian" factory which is specialised in sink production. After some observations on the production techniques and the latter processes, she created a concept of water drops - the main reason for the existance of sinks.

The inside of the sink has the form of a whirlpool and the outer surface is curved softly just to give a slight feeling of the movements of water's surface when a drop falls on it. These effects provide a pure and refreshing bath joy.

The soft wavy curves on the surface create an illusion as if the tide is very deep to put objects on it; however the deepness is only 5mm which causes no trouble in usage.




Yaptim Bozdum
This project was previously exhibited at ADesignFair 2004. The project took place in the "young designers" saloon.

Demet Bilici was chosen Young Designer of the Year with this project. The judge composed of leading Turkish designers. The judging criteria were conceptual originality, creativity, functionality, aesthetics and adaptability to real life.

"Yaptim-Bozdum" is a modular living space composed of (50x50cm) square plates that make up the floor. Onto these squares, attached are various objects and furniture like stool, table, wine-holder, clothes rack, newspaper rack. By sliding these squares, you can arrange your room according to your momentary needs.

This is a material based conceptual project. As well as the concept, the project also aimed to be an experimental platform for alternative uses of "Corian". The designers (Demet Bilici and Beritan Fırat Arık) aimed to analyze corian and its production techniques. During this process, the material was forced to its limits to produce some of the objects like the wine-holders, the clothes rack and the newspaper rack.


Contact
demetbilici gmail.com
http://www.demetbilici.com


I Saloni
New Milan Fairgrounds, Rho-Pero
April 5-10, 2006
Salone Satellite
Pavilion 26
Stand 36
Opening Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.

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