FeltusFecit.com (post-neo-classical modernist design and photography)

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Gizmodo [www.gizmodo.com]

Designer Tobias Feltus calls it a post-neo-classical-surrealist mirror/clock . Vaguely inspired by Rene Magritte's surrealist imagery, the framed mirror has an LED clock/matrix pannel inserted right into its middle, thus obstructing the view of your smirking face. And after a night partying and consuming substances that will do nothing good for your health, this mirror is probably the best thing that could happen to your ego. -RD

Promenade: Arte ed il Circo

The Feltus brothers [www.feltusfeltus.com] will be exhibiting A/P prints of Untitled (Surreal Composition), 2004.
In association with EntroTerra and the Festa Internazionale del Circo, Brescia, Italy.

Open from the 11th to the 24th of June 2005 15-18.00 (Monday to Saturday, closed Tuesdays), Marchina Arte Contemporanea, via Soldini 6/A, Brescia tel. 030 2427397; opening reception on the 11th of June, at 18.00.

I fratelli Feltus [www.feltusfeltus.com] esporranno una stampa A/P di Untitled (Surreal Composition), 2004.
In associazione con EntroTerra e la the Festa Internazionale del Circo, Brescia, Italy.

Dall' 11 giugno al 24 giugno 2005 (dal lunedì al sabato dalle 15.00 alle 19.00, martedì chiuso). Marchina Arte Contemporanea, via Soldini 6/A, Brescia tel. 030 2427397; inaugurazione sabato 11 giugno, ore 18.00

"Picture the pretentious French designer in a recent IKEA poster campaign - looks like Philippe Starck, throws tantrums at Ikea's cheap prices -and you'll get an idea of Tobias Feltus, the sly and witty Edinburgh design graduate who is undoubtedly heading for great things."

- Moira Jeffrey, The Herald

Tobias Feltus / FeltusFecit.com will be exhibiting this April in Milan's SuperStudio 13 during the Salone del Mobile. Selected for the third time by Max Fraser, Tobias will be launching a new line of products at DesignUK MILANO 2005.

"Recently I have created an intricate statement of design criticism as a form of rejection towards the stylistic mayhem that is often considered minimal and functional. It is a series of products that define a new movement in design, a form of Post-Neo Classical-Modernism: a trend, or occurrence, and movement in design and lifestyle that is driven less by discovery and technology (as in the case with Art Deco) and more by a lack of personal culture and the intrinsic need for customisation. It is the need to make a Sony Wega system not look out of place next to a Rodin sculpture; a new movement that answers to the need for contextualization of design, and fills the large gap that may still be called po-po-mo. It is a style and philosophy that encompasses the jungle that is considered contemporary design."

- Tobias Feltus

FeltusFecit Couture 004 and 005, 2004.

Lamp No. 2b and No. 2 'Calum', 2004 - 2005.

This upcoming Milan design week, you will be able to see:

• FeltusFecit Couture 005, a mongrel chair deriving from the marriage between the classical and the post-modern. A polyprop bucket-seat, decorated with a rudimentary pattern fashioned from camouflage [DecoFlage], is perched, comfortably, on a recycled timber frame.

• Lamp No. 2b is a post-modern interpretation of a neo-classical lamp, albeit more simple. The ornate shape is cast out of a fine material, and left crude and unfinished. No. 2b is a single bone-china vessel that is fully illuminated by a compact fluorescent bulb. Unlike Victorian lamps that are comprised of a decorated porcelain vase, shade and fittings, No. 2b is a single inverted china urn, plus fittings, left undecorated and imperfect, complete with casting seam lines.

• Lamp No. 2c is the floor standing version of No. 2b. An illuminated china vessel perched on an untreated steel pipe, above a simple and crude cuboid base.

For more information on the event, please contact Max Fraser: info@maxfraser.com
or visit: www.hiddenart.com

For more information on Tobias Feltus or FeltusFecit.com,
please use the details below.

FeltusFecit.com
registered in Scotland no. 257967
5/5 Moat House, Moat Drive, Edinburgh EH14 1NS, UK
w : www.feltusfecit.com e : info@feltusfecit.com uk : 07739579459 it : 3292198655

"Picture the pretentious French designer in a recent IKEA poster campaign – looks like Philippe Starck, throws tantrums at Ikea's cheap prices – and you'll get an idea of Tobias Feltus, the sly and witty Edinburgh design graduate who is undoubtedly heading for great things. His publicity photos show a handsome young man with multiple earrings, intriguing facial hair and what appears to be a stuffed crocodile on his head. His website and brand name FeltusFecit (Feltus made it) are smart and accomplished. Much of his degree show work was a theatrical pastiche of design clichés and conundrums, and in rejecting chic minimalism he embraced the home-made and the customised. I particularly liked his hybrid chair: the seat of a classic bentwood Thonet welded on to a pair of bog-standard chrome legs.
In fact, beyond the comedy, many of his products are smart and lovely. His lights take the shape of discredited traditional lamps and shades and recast them entirely in porcelain, which illuminates beautifully. It's no wonder that his table lamp, Callum, features in the January edition of Elle Deco."