objects of fascination

@studiomanuelraeder OBJECTS OF FASCINATION @objectsoffascination A project by CENTRAL (Radim Louda, Paul Mouchet & Valentin Piret), Maxime Delvaux and UR(Gaétan Brunet & Chloé Valadié) 2021 Editors: Sophie Dars, Roxane Le Grelle Photography: Maxime Delvaux Design: Studio Manuel Raeder Published in collaboration with Architecture Curating Practice Hardcover, 208 pages 13 x 20 cm available at https://accattone.be During the pandemic, 44 people were invited to take part in a ‘serious game’: each participant selected the image of a personal object of fascination, out of which a shape was extracted, redrawn, scaled and sent to a CNC machine to be cut out of a 5 mm thick aluminium sheet and become a low table. Each table is here presented through the original image that generated it, the selected contour, a text by its author and photographs of the prototype taken by Maxime Delvaux and printed in silver. Objects of Fascination explores digital technology and craftsmanship through found forms. It can be seen as a collection of personal worldviews by an emerging generation of architects, as much as an attempt to give a physical form to the multiplicity of our collective cultural background. Tables by 2001 architecture, 51N4E, Accattone, ArtefactoryLab, Asli Çiçek, B-ILD with Dirk Jaspaert & Vincent de Rijk, BAST, Bétillon & Freyermuth architects, Cédric Libert, CENTRAL office for architecture and urbanism, Concorde, Didon, Elmēs, fala Atelier, FELT Architecture & Design, Francelle Cane, Giusto Van Campenhout, GUMA Design, Ištvan Išt Huzjan & Tina Javornik, Jean-Benoît Vétillard architecture, Jeanne & Jean Didier Bergilez, Krutejavas Studio for Architecture, l’AUC, Laetitia Gendre & Iwan Strauven, Martial Coudamy, Maxime Delvaux, Maximiliaan Royakkers, MBL architects, Nicolas Dorval-Bory Architectes, NP2F Architectes, Olivier Bellflamme, Peaks, Piovenefabi, PLAN COMÚN & Claire Leger, Plant en Houtgoed, Studio NOCC, UR bureau d’architecture et d’urbanisme, Vidic Grohar Arhitekti @central_ofaau @architecture_curating_practice @accattone_magazine @maxdelv @madhomeofcreators

#44 Martha Virgaux (Central ofaau) REF: Peter Märkli, Language Drawing 2294, 2000–2014 INS: @marthavgx Images @maxdelv #objetcsoffascination #oof

#43 Laetitia Gendre & Iwan Strauven Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia I, 1514 INS: @laetitia_gendre_ @iwanstrauven Images @maxdelv #objetcsoffascination #oof

#42 Clément Mathieu et Emmanuel Guilloux (Guma) REF: The French Alpine Club - Cartography of the massif du Mont Pelvoux, 1875 INS : @guma_objects @guilloux.emmanuel Images @maxdelv #objetcsoffascination #oof

#41 Francelle Cane REF : Robert SMITHSON - Broken Circle/SpiralHill, 1971 INS : @francellecan Images @maxdelv #objetcsoffascination #oof

#40 Olivier Campagne (ArtefactoryLab) REF : Wacław Sierpiński - Sierpiński triangle INS : @artefactorylab @olivier_campagne Images @artefactorylab #objetcsoffascination #oof

#39 Djamel Klouche, Caroline Poulin, François Decoster (L’AUC architectes et urbanistes) REF : Hercule FLORENCE - Ordem Palmiana, 1840-1860 INS : @djamelklouche @caroline_poulin Images @artefactorylab #objetcsoffascination #oof

#38 Vinh Linh (Elmēs) REF : Isoperimetry - 251.3274cm, perimeter of a 80 cm diameter table INS : @vinh.q.linh Images @artefactorylab #objetcsoffascination #oof

#37 Nicolas Dorval-Bory REF : NASA Cassini - Titan’s northern land of lakes and seas, 2013 INS : @nicolas_db Images @artefactorylab #objetcsoffascination #oof

#36 Cédric Libert REF : Domenico Gnoli - Striped shirt lapel, 1969 + Konrad Klapheck - The Fanatic, 1979 INS : @cedriclibert Images @artefactorylab #objetcsoffascination #oof

#35 Sacha Discors (PLAN COMÚN) & Claire Leger REF : Europa Island - ISS satellite image, coordinates 22°22’06’S 40°21’48’E INS : @plancomun_ @sacha.discors Images @maxdelv #objetcsoffascination #oof

#34 NP2f Architectes REF : Lina Bo Bardi - SESC Pompeia, 1977 INS : @np2f Images @artefactorylab #objetcsoffascination #oof