Brodie Neill is a young dynamic designer capturing the attention of the international design scene with his new and exciting use of form. Only recently having graduated the 28-year-old Australian has quickly built up an impressive collection of international exhibitions and prestigious clientele. Already, Brodie\’s progressive approach has resulted in the much-celebrated design E-turn (Kundalini) and the @ Chair; a design recently included in Time Magazine\’s most influential designs for 2008.
Remix is a low chaise longue with organic shape carved from a mixture of reclaimed and sourced materials. The multicoloured pin stripe pattern includes various plastics as well as a range of plywoods, chipboards and fibreboards. The random mix is 5 axis CNC shaped from the one laminated block, insuring a single smooth organic surface with bold contour lines.
The bold, emerging geometry of the Reverb Chair is the striking new edition of the ever-expressive furniture forms by Brodie Neill. Hand-formed and mirror-polished from sheet aluminium, the single inverted skin evolves to provide function, yet is poised in a sculpturally dynamic pose. The highly reflective surface amplifies the tapering typology through a transition from curvaceous seat into the elliptical vortex of the back stabilizer. Inspired by the reverberation of sound, the Reverb Chair’s membrane flows outward before returning back into itself. Born from the pursuit to push materials to their limits, the fluting form is both seamless in structure as it is in surface.
Emerging from a gradation of metal mesh is the lightweight configuration of the Reverb Wire Chair. A further interpretation of the original solid surfaced Reverb Chair, the wireframe sister seat amplifies the vortex feel with flowing contour lines and fixed coordinates. A network of hand-formed and mirror polished stainless steel rods highlight the tapering typology by mapping the expanding geometry of the overall conical form.
Pop is a dynamic table consisting of one seamless ribbon stretching fromeither end to form a configuration of a table with an almost fuse like friction. From the three points of contact the line skims around an orbit to create both form and structure. Conceived digitally and realized through CNC fabrication the Pop table is coated in carbon fibre and finished in a striking electic blue.
Glacier: a cast glass chaise lounge, with sculptural lucidity and elegance. The smooth fluid-like shape consists of a single swooping gesture; an energy captured in pure, optically transparent glass. This once fluid material flows from the central core counterbalancing the outstretched planes of the overall lounge. Hand cast and polished by master craftsmen in the Czech Republic, the glass is annealed and strengthened over an 80 day cooling process.
The lucid chaise longue has a smooth, fluid-like shape consisting of a single, swooping gesture, an energy captured in pure, optically transparent glass. Its name comes from its resemblance to a solid piece of ice suspended in motion.
Edition one of only ten ever made, Glacier is the perfect synergy of design and craftsmanship.
Threefold is a large lighting feature consisting of a single seamless surface rolling and folding in the form of a 3 way mobius strip. Warm light is projected from within the undulations, deflecting downwards from the returning curve before continuing the endless cycle. Hand formed in satin aluminium and finished with a hint of colour, the never-ending form provides soft dramatic light within a striking sculptural centrepiece.
