CB2 Features L+R Products

Legendre Rutter — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:07:06 +0000

Fresh Ink, a series of product creations by Legendre+Rutter for the super-cool, contemporary retailer, CB2, explores the reinvention of the printed artifact, transforming functional communication pieces into a form of visual poetry for your home. For Fall, CB2 is presenting five original works by L+R, now available online. The products include Legendre posters Niki de Saint Phalle and The Birdman, a duvet and pillow case set inspired by a poster for the musician Richard Pinhas, a clock from the same series, and a rug that recreates Rutter’s poster for Les Liaisons Dangereuses. CB2 has made a blog post about the rug that provides some detail and very interesting photos that describe the manufacturing process. Made by hand, each rug takes 2 days to make.

“Fresh Ink” clock, designed and illustrated by Yann Legendre

“Fresh Ink” bedding is available in Queen and King sizes.

This 4' X 6' area rug is a recreation of Lance Rutter’s illustrated poster for a presentation of “Dangerous Liaisons.”

Yann Legendre’s posters "The Birdman” and “Niki de Saint Phalle” are presented by CB2 as a limited edition silkscreen print (40" X 60").

The Seduction of Design

Legendre Rutter — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:16:10 +0000

The cover of the Fall issue of Perspective, the International Interior Design Association’s quarterly journal, is essentially a small poster. As such, its meaning has as much to do with the act of making it as with the resulting artifact. In order to make a great poster, one must be able to sense the policeman or soldier lurking around the corner as he applies his message of provocation to the wall. One must be able to feel the possibility of a parent or religious authority discovering his innermost desires as he creates a message of sensuality and seduction. He must feel the edge of the precipice… and step over. Great design, universally, is about the creation of that which seduces and provokes. The seduction of great design can be a soft whisper in your ear or the smoke-crackled voice of a blues singer—raw, coarse, and unapologetic in its call to your emotions. This illustration for the cover of Perspective is about that kind of raw seduction. The kind that leaves us saying, “I don’t need to understand exactly how or why this object was made, I only know that I want it. And I won’t settle for anything else.”

Cover for the Fall issue of “Perspective,” the journal of the International Interior Design Association

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CB2 Features L+R Products

The Seduction of Design