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the-sustainable-earth-blog · 4 years

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Slowing Down Life

The question for this blog post: Part 5 Describe 3 challenges and 3 opportunities that you see in the slow movement. Do you want to slow some aspect(s) of your life? If so, what concrete steps can you take to achieve this?

Reflecting on the slow movement following the podcast entitled Slow Furniture in a Fast World, hosted by Carl Honoré as well as Oona Bannon and Russel Pinch as guests, the table below represents the challenges and opportunities that I view within the slow movement in the context of the podcast and thus, is focused on the slow movement occurring in the business industry and more specifically the world of furniture. To listen to this same podcast, or other topics surrounding the slow movement, visit Honoré’s website:http://www.carlhonore.com/unlock-slow/podcasts/.

Figure 21.1. Shopping, A. Robert, 2018

One aspect of my life in particular I would like to slow, and have been working towards achieving, is my consumerism, especially in terms of clothes. In the modern world of fast fashion, it’s so easy to get sucked into their destructive grasp and contribute to a broken system. It sells clothes that are purposefully not made to last, so that the individual has no choice but to replace it with the newest and latest fashion. Becoming aware of this excessive consumerism made a large impact, as I started to monitor my buying habits closer and would scrutinize in an attempt to make smarter choices.

Value Village is a great source for used clothes in Winnipeg, but there are many other places such as Plato’s Closet and The Closet Chick, as well as others. I now acquire most of my clothes from these stores, as I love the idea of giving these pieces a second life that does not include a landfill. Just as important is where our current clothes we no longer want or need go as well. I never threw out my clothes, always donating them to groups like Big Brother or Salvation Army, but have recently found a church that collects clothes for newly immigrated individuals to choose from at no charge.

To find out more on the slow movement, check out these videos:

https://www.ted.com/talks/carl_honore_praises_slowness?language=en

https://www.ted.com/talks/pico_iyer_the_art_of_stillness?referrer=playlist-slow_down_enjoy_life

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ownerzero · 5 years

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Where I Work: Russell Pinch of PINCH

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connorrenwick · 5 years

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Where I Work: Russell Pinch of PINCH

British furniture brand PINCH was founded in 2004 by husband and wife team, designer Russell Pinch and creative director Oona Bannon. They design furniture and lighting with an understated elegance that makes each piece perfect for passing down to the next generation. The duo splits their time between their south London studio and their two shops in the Pimlico Road district where they sell their products. In this month’s Where I Work, co-founder Russell Pinch takes us inside the company’s design world to see how and where it all happens.

What’s your studio/work environment like?

It depends on who you ask – I think it’s creative, but others might think it’s a wee bit messy. There are always a lot of ongoing projects with samples and prototypes half built or being adjusted. To the untrained eye it looks like a collection of Frankenstein models, legs missing – half finished starting points of ideas, long forgotten though to me and my team they are crucial markers of where we are with a project.

How is your space organized/arranged?

There are 2 business locations I work from – the studio in south London and the shops on the Pimlico Road. The studio is the main design office and my real home. It’s a 19th century railway shed with 30’ high tongue and groove timber ceilings, stained glass windows, and is a beast to heat – or cool. We built a mezzanine with a cast iron spiral staircase in the corner and this is where the design and procurement team sits in one long row. It’s more like the helm of a ship than an office and the Victorian era feeling is exaggerated by wood burning stoves providing smoky smelling heating in the winter.

How long have you been in this space? Where did you work before that?

Oona and I started working from our Brixton home 15 years ago where we turned the house into a showroom and everything was for sale. That worked really well up to a point. It gave a really intimate and fully domestic way of viewing the furniture but it had its downsides when people came visiting from all over the world walking up at strange hours and buying our dining table and sofa literally from under our feet. We moved into the studio about 10 years ago. About 2 years ago we opened our first store and this year our second.

If you could change something about your workspace, what would it be?

I wish the real estate in London would allow us to have the design studio and shops all combined. Alas we need the shops to be where the customers will visit – in a smart part of London and we need space and to be able to create noise and mess in the workshop / studio which can only be afforded south of the river.

Is there an office pet?

There will be shortly, Joni is only 8 weeks old but will be a permanent shadow to myself or Oona between all our spaces.

Do you require music in the background? If so, who are some favorites?

Oh yes, music is hugely important, something to retreat to but also something to change up the studio vibes when needed. The week starts off quite somber with some Nils Frahm, it starts to get a bit more Velvet Underground midweek, and then ends up with Moderat and Jon Hopkins Friday afternoon with the volume following suit.

How do you record ideas?

I have a sketchbook which I try to keep ideas in but to be honest it ends up with any corner of paper as a starting point. I use a combination of Tombow pens, which are like drawing with watercolors and a very specific fine line black pen.

Do you have an inspiration board? What’s on it right now?

No, we are not really into Pinterest or magazine tears (though Oona sometimes has weird images she collects that convey a feeling rather than a product characteristic. You might argue the whole studio is a mood board, we do have photos of exhibitions we’ve seen, graphics we love mixed with bits of found stone, shells, strange salvaged materials from all over the place. Somehow all these things converge and inspire from within, subliminally and other times directly.

What is your typical work style?

The work is varied, we’re running a mid-sized business that requires a pretty scheduled approach for all things “business”. Creative is where it goes more off piste.

There is a sadly predictable cycle that we have to go through. I usually need to take myself away to start on sketches – headphones on at the kitchen table. Day 1, I think I have no more ideas and just can’t do this anymore. Oona raises her eyes to the sky (she’s heard this all before for 20 years) and patiently suggests I keep going. Day 2, there’s a flurry of inspiration and I am itching to get straight back into the workshop and start model making to see if any of the ideas fly. Then there days and days of refining and restarting.

What follows is a much more structured cycle of commercialization involving lots of the team following the project through its development to production.

What is your creative process and/or creative workflow like? Does it change every project or do you keep it the same?

Always the same as above, sketch followed by a huge amount of modeling all at 1:5 with full-size details and material exploration. We try and make a full-size model in the workshop before even starting to talk to our workshops about prototyping which is multiple in its phases.

What kind of art/design/objects might you have scattered about the space?

There are a lot of found objects – I have parts of wooden model airplanes on my desk, a parrot mask, some French and Dutch graphic signs, countless models, molds, samples bits of rock, and strange shells. It is organized chaos. Everything has meaning to me.

Are there tools and/or machinery in your space?

Yes in the model making workshop we have most small-scale machinery, from bandsaws to bobbin and disk sanders and a lathe. We all spend a lot of time in the workshop.

What tool(s) do you most enjoy using in the design process?

A 10 A Scalpel – I think I’ve been using this since I was about 14 years old and have been making models ever since. It has to be very, very sharp and there’s not much I can’t sculpt with it.

Let’s talk about how you’re wired. Tell us about your tech arsenal/devices.

Just 3 key things: iPhone 10XS, mostly for photos and music; Bose speakers (the music again) & Bose headphones because they’re so good; and a very powerful MacBook Pro – I’m not very patient so I need my machine to be efficient.

What design software do you use, if any, and for what?

CAD Vectorworks, all things model making related, most of the Adobe suite for playing with color.

However when it comes to a beautiful curve I have to draw it full size in pencil as I think there is a difference and the hand drawn line still has its place.

What’s on your desk right now?

Pots of paint, color mixing, and model painting. Receipts I should be filing.

Is there a favorite project/piece you’ve worked on?

They are all our children and you just can’t have a favorite. I’m usually in love with the project I’m working on at that moment in time, which as I write is a four poster version of our latest bed – Christo. However, once it’s out there it’s old news creatively and I’m onto the next.

Do you have anything in your home that you’ve designed/created?

It’s simpler to ask do we have anything in our house not designed by us. From the sofa we sit on to the dining table we gather around, to the bed we sleep in. It’s important to actually use the furniture we design and test it on children and shortly on dogs.

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topbrandwear · 6 years

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The Gorgeous Furniture Line That Make Us Want to Lounge Forever

Oona Bannon, a cofounder of the London-based furniture and lighting collection PINCH, dreams of downtime.

“It’s my ambition to rush around less, to sit more,” Bannon says. Which is why she recently asked her husband and cofounder, Russell Pinch, to create something that would make relaxing easier—a sofa so inviting it “actually keeps me anchored in a spot.”

This goal greatly informs PINCH. The organic, pared-back designs illustrate a modern form of creativity that values comfort and experience as much as aesthetic. They’re all made of inviting materials, like warm timber wood and natural fibers—exactly the kind of stuff you’d want to lounge on. And they have “human qualities,” says Bannon. “They react to humidity, sunshine, rain. You can feel that when you engage with them.”

The couple founded PINCH in 2004.

Check Out The Article Here…

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peachescriticizes-blog · 7 years

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About Pinch Design

In 2004 we started PINCH with a single aim; to design and make furniture and lighting that we would want to live with. We set our sights on what we would want to surround ourselves with. We indulged ourselves in the detail, and didn’t compromise on the materials. The result is our growing collection and we are delighted to have been nominated for, and to have won, design awards along the way.

Our work celebrates simplicity of form, the purity of a good shape and our emotional connection with the materials around us. We live in a cluttered world and understand that any furniture or product has to work very hard to win its place. We believe in poetic design, making beautiful things, pieces that endure, inspire and aspire to be inherited. We refine and refine our designs until we feel we have arrived at our idea of perfection, but we seek to leave them with a lightness of touch. The manner in which the pieces are produced is as important to us as the designs themselves and we manufacture with a serious commitment to quality, and attention to detail and finish.

Our furniture and lighting work in both domestic spaces and contract environments and whilst we had a very personal vision of how our pieces might live, we delight in the fact that our clients engage with them differently to create very personal and particular spaces. We don’t seek to create a hard, dominating look; we are not driven by ego. Rather we hope that all our clients will use our pieces to create environments that invite and embrace, and contribute to a sense of harmony, interest and resonance.

Pinch is the collaboration between husband and wife team Russell Pinch and Oona Bannon and is run from our studio/showroom in Clapham, London.

Studio:

Mon-Fri by appointment Unit 1W Clapham North Art Centre 26–32 Voltaire Road London SW4 6DH

Products:

a. Beata light

b. Anders light

c. Derome column table lamp

General critique/s:

Personally, I would like my own space to have these sorts of lighting accessories. Pinch’s collection is very unique and stylish. All of the pieces shows the significance of harmony. Each catches the interest of the buyers because of its one of a kind concept. Even though Pinch is a high end brand, it tries to reach out to people under any class. I find their designs humble and distinctive. Any consumer of this brand would be delighted.

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