BABLED. SELECTED WORKS
2018
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Finding roots in Italian craftsmanship The following projects are limited editions and customized pieces.
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Emmanuel Babled
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Etnastone
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Sunshare
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Osmosi / vase and complement
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Beverly
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Quark Plexiglass
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Stepp
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Quark Bronze
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Osmosi Light
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Digit Light
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Quark Copper
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Supernova
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Digit Table
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Breeze
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Pyros
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Stripes
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Jangada
Digit Lighting Installation
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Seaform
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Quark Marble
Arcana / wood and inox
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Omega
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Den chair
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Librastone
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Simbiosi
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Quark Wood
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Librawood
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Simbiosi Wood
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Quark Cork
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Origin
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Toys / Unit, Megalit, Genetic
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Intersection
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Black Sheep
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emmanuel babled Emmanuel Babled creates products in collaboration
and gaining a feeling for places and social
with the highest Italian craftsmen, mixing ancient
conditions have become integral parameters in his
knowledge with cutting edge technology, allowing
work method. This approach is not only driven by
sophisticated production processes. The Italian
anthropological interest but by mental immersion,
technical heritage is being explored and revisited
leading to a creative process.
in order to propose new unexpected results.
Emmanuel Babled’s designs encompass tradition,
Emmanuel Babled’s design approach is based
modernity, sacredness, consumption, artisanal
on the idea that a good project comes about
production and sustainability. This unique mix
through direct contact and physical presence in
gives his work a contemporary, poetic and
the territory of its production. Observing materials
transcultural character.
and techniques in their authentic surroundings
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Emmanuel Babled at Venini, Murano, Venice, Italy, 2013
osmosi 2013 Osmosi is an edition of unique glass and marble
the matching shape is CNC (computer numerical
pieces, marrying both materials into sculptural
control) milled into the marble, creating two
objects and pieces of furniture.
unique pieces that match each other perfectly.
By combining new technology with traditional
They are separate pieces, but each has no meaning
craftsmanship in an entirely innovative way,
without the other. They fit together through
a virtual fusion is made between marble and hand-
gravity alone. Like Cinderella and the glass shoe,
blown glass. These materials are put together with
there is only one unique piece of glass that can
a precision that is only possible thanks to high-
fit into one unique piece of marble. The effect is
level digital technology.
a perfect symbiosis between materials.
The process begins with making the glass. The hand-blown form is then captured by a 3-D scanner. Through the digitalization of the form,
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Production at Testi Group, Verona, Italy
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Vase #2 Absolute Black Belgium Marble and Murano Glass
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Complement #2 Carrara Statuario Marble and Murano Glass
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Vase #3 Carrara Statuario Marble and Murano Glass
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Vase #2 Carrara Statuario Marble and Murano Glass
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Production of Osmosi Complement #4 Carrara Statuario Marble and Murano Glass
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Emmanuel Babled and the Glass Masters, Venini’s furnace in Murano, Italy
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Complement #3 Carrara Statuario Marble and Murano Glass
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Complement #6 Black Marquinia Marble and Murano Glass
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Complement #5 Carrara Marble and Murano Glass
osmosi light 2013 Osmosi light is a collection of numbered editions and unique pieces, marrying materials like marble and glass into sculptural pieces of lightning.
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Lamp #1 Murano Glass and Carrara Statuario Marble Numbered Edition
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Lamp #4 Murano Glass and Black Marquinia Marble Numbered Edition
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Lamp #1 - Murano Glass and Sodalite - Unique Piece Lamp #3 - Murano Glass and Grey Carnico Marble - Numbered Edition
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Murano Hand Blown Glass at Venini’s furnace in Murano, Italy
supernova 2018 Supernova is an iconic lampshade reinterpreted in a thin layer of Carrara marble and available in two distinct versions. An extremely light marble shade was created, calculated using a complex ‘centre of gravity’ algorithm to give magical balance. Thanks to a new generation of sculptors and advanced robotic milling, it has been possible to create such a thin item and achieve this unique flying marble shade. It feels natural to use the peculiar quality of the Carrara white marble: Carrara marble is characterized by its smooth and compact nature, ideal for this challenging realization.
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Supernova lamp, model # 1, Carrara marble
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Supernova lamp, model # 1, Carrara marble
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Supernova lamp, model # 2, Carrara marble
pyros 2016 / 2017 “At the right and desired time I express my chromatic intuition which is translated by the glass masters into colorful meteorites. The most overwhelming moment of my vocation becomes true through an inexplicable synergy, a dancing gesture, when an escaping emotion results into an eternal matter.� Emmanuel Babled, 2016 Each Pyros is a unique artwork that symbolizes a unique day at VENINI, with its masters, colors and contemporary inspiration. Pyros is a limited edition, dated on the same day of its production.
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Pyros 33/49
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Pyros Stellati 6/9
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Pyros 39/49
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Pyros Acromatico Prototype
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Production of Pyros, Venini’s furnace in Murano, Italy
jangada 2018 Jangada is a modern twirling lounge chair, whose silhouette is inspired by wooden rafts from Brazil. The wide and asymmetric design of the shell offers various seating positions. Its sculptural curves, resolutely sensual and organic, are covered with heavy leather for increased comfort. The swivel base is in marble and provides great stability. Jangada conveys, in a highly unusual way, the effect of a sliding movement and asymmetrical fusion. The perfect chair for the modern villain.
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Jangada Base in Carrara marble, seat in leather
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Jangada Base in Black Marquina marble, seat in leather
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Jangada Base in Carrara marble, seat in leather
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Jangada Base in Black Marquina marble, seat in leather
quark marble 2009 The Quark series of low coffee tables blend the exploration of materials and production techniques to give birth to unique monolith tables. Quark explores prime materials such as wood and marble, in the meantime using materials like Plexiglas, Bronze, and Copper to challenge traditional methods of Italian craftsmanship and design. This is combined with the use of digital tools, whose precision gives the tables' form.
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Quark Marble – 6 elements Carrara C Marble
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Quark Marble – 4 elements Green Forest Marble
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Production at Torart, Carrara, Italy
den chair 2017 Den chair, the challenging perception of Marble. Designed for outdoor and indoor use it combines the warmth of Portuguese rose marble with smooth satin Carrara marble. Den chair is shaped like a large shell, welcoming the user with an unexpected comfort in contrast with the surface of marble. It offers great spatiality, inspired for multiple seating position. This comfort combined with the surprising spinning capability in 360 degrees increases the sensation of lightness and mobility of the overall object.
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Exhibition at Palazzo Litta, Milan 2017
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Production at Torart, Carrara, Italy
quark wood 2011 The Quark series of low coffee tables blend the exploration of materials and production techniques to give birth to unique monolith tables. Quark explores prime materials such as wood and marble, in the meantime using materials like Plexiglas, Bronze, and Copper to challenge traditional methods of Italian craftsmanship and design. This is combined with the use of digital tools, whose precision gives the tables’ form.
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Quark Wood – 8 elements American Walnut
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Quark Wood – 5 elements Oak
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Quark Wood – 11 elements Elm Wood
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Quark Wood – 3 and 6 elements American Walnut and Black Wenge
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Cabinet maker Anders Lunderskov, Milan, Italy
quark cork 2017 Quark Cork is the latest exploration in material and production techniques which gives birth to these unique monolith tables. Produced in Portugal, Quark cork is made of 100% natural cork without the use of any additives and is a truly renewable and ecological product with no waste, 95% self-sufficient energy wise. The biomass, left over from the cork itself, is used to produce the steamneeded to condense the raw material.
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Quark Cork – 8 elements
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Quark Cork – 3 elements and 8 elements
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intersection 2018 Geometric area rug. Each Design is a masterpiece of traditional Nepalese craftsmanship and a unique creation with its own signature. Intersection pays particular attention to the way space relates to a rug. Hand-knotted in a choice of warm multi-toned Wool, Allo and Viscose, the minimal design features an abstract play of graphic geometric forms and layers to transform a space with charm and modern simplicity.
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rug Forma 1, hand-knotted, Wool, Allo and Viscose
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rug Forma 2, hand-knotted, Wool, Allo and Viscose
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rug Forma 3 and 4, hand-knotted, Wool, Allo and Viscose
etnastone 2015 The Etnastone collection is named after the Sicilian volcano, a reference to the traditional craftsmanship in lava stone and ceramics found in the town of Caltagirone. Another testimony to Emmanuel Babled’s bond with pure techniques and heritage. The tables are a union of pieces of
lava
coloured
with
delicate
enamelling,
with the volcanic texture generating a unique material. The design concept of this table consists in the assembly of elements like a puzzle. This particularity together with the fully handcrafted process make for infinite customization possibilities.
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Etnastone Coffee Table Enameled Lava Stone
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Etnastone Large Coffee Table Enameled Lava Stone
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Etnastone Round Table and Etnastone Coffee Table Enameled Lava Stone
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Etnastone Dining Table and GuĂŠridon II Enameled Lava Stone
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Exhibition with producer Made a Mano at Palazzo Litta, Milan 2017
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beverly 2018 Handcrafted from different woods, including brown smoked oak, walnut, zebrano and palisander, this organic chest features a hand-carved unique surface design and suggests a mystery to be solved. The chest has no front or back, no openings or visible handles, no planed surfaces: an invitation to discover and experience its shape. The mystery will eventually be solved, to include a further hidden storage compartment behind two cabinet doors. The two polished copper plates on the side create the illusion of spaciousness, depth and infinity. Four fine legs made of copper give this cabinet a fresh and sleek look.
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Beverly – Version 1, solid wood: brown smoked oak, walnut, zebrano and palisander, copper legs
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Beverly – Version 1, storage compartment
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Beverly – Version 3 and Version 4, solid wood: brown smoked oak, walnut, zebrano and palisander, copper legs
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Beverly – Version 2, solid wood: brown smoked oak, walnut, zebrano and palisander, copper legs
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Detail of Beverly, polished copper plates on the side
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Foundation Fress, Lisbon, Portugal
stepp 2016 The Stepp Table is a unique piece among the
In reaching for this lightness in design, Emmanuel
limited editions. It plays with the concept of
Babled solved the strong ecstatic and mechanical
antagonistic feelings: hard and steady materials
challenge, by hiding a refined stainless steal
like marble and granite and the lightness and
structure inside the granite legs making this
dynamics of the leg shape.
unusual design character possible.
The iconoclastic vision of the stone table is seen
One more example of Babled's playful and
through the humour and freshness of this new
innovating vision which desanctifies the nobility of
shape: four moving, skinny, granite legs support a
marble by giving it a singular character.
large tabletop in Carrara statuario marble as if they are starting either to dance or escape from the room.
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Stepp Carrara Marble
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Production of Stepp, Testi Group, Verona, Italy
digit light 2008 These hand blown light features are precious in material and offer a reference of Pop Culture and randomness in contrast with the classical Muranese chandelier. The visual density is what makes the light peculiar yet utterly unique. The composition uses computer based technology to reach the extreme precision of the core of the light and disposition of the light's arms.
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Digit Light – Standing Version, White Lattimo and Soft Sky Blue, Digit Light Large, White Lattimo and Hazy Purple
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Digit Light – Standing Version, White Lattimo and Black
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Digit Light White Lattimo and Mirrored Acquamarine
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Digit Light White Lattimo and Light Amber
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Digit Light White Lattimo and Mirrored Bronze Grey
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Glass Hand Blowing in Italy
digit table 2008 Digit Light objects playing with unexpected compositions, assembly, geometry and balance. Inspired by pop culture, the hand-crafted sculptural lighting objects use the strong contrast between the coloured and mirrored parts. The effect of opacity and transparency serves to characterise the ambience of the light. Hand blown glass light, produced in Murano, Venice in a limited edition.
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Digit Table VI Hand Blown Glass
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Digit Table V Hand Blown Glass
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Digit Table II Hand Blown Glass
digit lighting installation 2015 The Digit lighting installations is a proposal for interior decorators and architectural projects. The installations are bespoke designs and can be customized for specific projects with different colours and finishes. The fixtures exist in different sizes and versions: suspension, standing/ floor version and a wall version that all can be combined together.
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Entrance ight installation – Pavillon of Art and Design (PAD), Paris, 2015
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Exhibition – Crafted – Gallery Yves Gastou, Paris, 2015
arcana 2015 The Arcana collection honors the know how of high quality cabinet making. Inspired by the cabinet of curiosities, the outer surface of the monolithic walnut cabinet has a powerful angular relief pattern. The inside conceals a secret interior in curly maple. The Arcana series investigates the classic furniture model of the cabinet, using ordinary dimensions and conformations, yet introducing an unexpected sculptural dimension.
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Arcana Chest / Entre-Deux American Walnut
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Arcana Chest / Bahut American Walnut
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Arcana Chest / Bahut American Walnut
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Cabinet maker Anders Lunderskov, Milan, Italy
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Arcana Inox / Stainless Steel
librastone 2014 Librastone limited-edition low tables rest on a curved base, balancing on one point. Made in Italy in white Carrara marble or brown tobacco stone, Librastone’s point of gravity is manipulated through the use of algorithmic software that allows the tabletop to achieve a perfectly horizontal position. The project is customizable in different materials following the same gravity-based principle. This is an example of how Emmanuel Babled combines new technology with traditional craft techniques to obtain unexpected, almost magical design pieces.
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Librastone model #2 Brown Tobacco Marble
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Librastone model #3 Carrara C White Marble
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Librastone model #3 Black Marquina Marble
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Exhibition – Prime matter 1 – Salone del Mobile, Palazzo Litta, Milan, 2014
librawood 2014 Librawood limited-edition low tables rest on a curved base, balancing on one point. Made in Italy, Librawood’s point of gravity is manipulated through the use of algorithmic software that allows the tabletop to achieve a perfectly horizontal position. The project is customizable in different materials following the same gravity-based principle. This is an example of how Emmanuel Babled combines new technology with traditional craft techniques to obtain unexpected, almost magical design pieces.
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Librawood model #3 Black Wenge
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Librawood model #3 Black Wenge
origin 2014 Origin is a low table made from white Carrara marble, produced in Italy. Origin is a continuation of exploration into producing new interpretations of classical materials and techniques. The heavy stone alludes to a perception of lightness. Curved around the structure itself, the thin marble appears skin-like, tense and tight. This method allows the inside to become the outside, while the outside transforms inwardly. This creates a soft hole, the navel...the origin.
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Origin Carrara Marble
black sheep 2011 Black sheep is an edition of low coffee tables made of black Marquinia marble. The Black sheep is unique unto itself in its randomness and organic composition. The edition, suggests a visual division of the monolithic stone, and gives birth to movement, impermanence, and origin. The Black sheep is an investigation in an attempt to associate a concept and sensation used to contrast the normal identity of the material used.
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Black Sheep – 5 elements Black Marquinia Marble
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Black Sheep – 15 elements Black Marquinia Marble
sunshare 2010 Crafted from white Carrara marble, Sunshare is a testament to the forward design and technique methods practiced by Emmanuel Babled. Dense Carrara marble is strategically cut by CNC technology then hand finished in its final stages. What is left from its original organic state is a beautifully carved origami structure. Folded edges and wrapped corners give shape to this delicate chair which showcases Babled’s innovative twist on the material and techniques he continues to work with.
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Production of Sunshare, CNC milling, Tor Art in Carrara, Italy
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Sunshare Carrara Marble
quark plexiglas 2009 Low table in plexiglas. The synthetic version of Quark. The project Quark continues to explore materials and production techniques to give birth to monolithic tables. The challenge in this version is to use a monolithic block, extremely difficult to achieve on such dimensions, to insure the stunning transparency due to the natural diffraction of the plexiglass.
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Quark Plexiglas 5 elements, h30cm
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Quark Plexiglas 7 elements, h30cm
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Production of Quark Plexiglass, CNC milling, Europlex in Belgium
quark bronze 2014 Low table in bronze. The hard metal version of Quark. The project Quark continues to explore materials and production techniques to give birth to monolithic tables. This version uses the historical knowledge highly developed in Lombardy,Italy, in bronze casting for sculpture. This gives birth to a sculptural interpretation of the quark series.
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Quark Bronze – 7 elements scratched black patina, polished and varnished
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Quark Bronze – 6 elements brushed top and polished bottom
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Quark Bronze – 8 elements dark black patina, matt varnish
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Quark Bronze – 6 elements dark black patina, matt varnish
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Quark Bronze – 3 elements brushed top and polished bottom
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Fonderie Valtorta, Milan, Italy
quark copper 2014 Low table in copper, the warm metal version of Quark. The project Quark continues to explore materials and production techniques to give birth to monolithic tables. The distinct reflection of copper gives the object the inconfondable warm light and mirrored surface tonality.
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Quark Copper – 3 elements dark black patina, satin table top
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Quark Copper – 3 elements polished and varnished
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Exhibition – Emmanuel Babled, Limited Editions – Twenty First Gallery, New York, 2016
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Production of Qurak Copper at Ugo Valtorta’s foundry in Milan, Italy
breeze 2011 The Breeze rugs have been realized in collaboration with weavers from North India and the Italian company I+I based in Milan. Geometric abstraction is translated through the imprecise beauty of craftsmanship. The nonfigurative design reflects the desire to avoid direct comparison with the classical imagery of carpets. Not by breaking with tradition, but by exploring it like a voyage between two worlds, one digital (design) and one manual (weaving hand knotting).
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Breeze I, Hand knotted Wool and Cotton Rug
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Dyeing process and hand knotting of Breeze in North India
stripes 2018 Working together with craftsmen from India, Babled Design Studio extended his creations to design-driven custom handmade carpets. Inky black hues shift in waves across the field, play on vibrant perspective in black and white and optical illusion. Hand-knotted in a combination of Wool and Viscose, the subtle yet striking pattern adds unique depth and texture to the design, creating a striking statement for the modern interior.
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rug Stripes, model # 1
seaform 2010 A unique, organic and fluid composition, the Seaform edition consists of glass pieces that are hand blown in Italy. Available in Aquamarine and Opal white, Seaform is the exploration into the natural beauty of glass. Emmanuel Babled explores the potential of transparency and spontaneity in the form of the glass. He believes that through the process of hand-blowing, the glass in the final sculpture Seaform achieves a natural, random, and luminous graciousness.
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Seaform 1 Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Seaform 11 Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Emmanuel Babled at Anfora Murano Glass Factory, Italy
omega 2014 Omega expresses Emmanuel Babled’s creativity in procedures and colouring which are hallmarks of the extremely high level of workmanship in Venini production. Ancient technique redefined for the contemporary world are the foundations of Omega. Omega is the result of coordination, speed, intuition and knowledge. Each piece is unique and rare, making them timeless standards for the design of glasswork.
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Detail Omega Murano Hand Blown Glass Unique Piece
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Omega Murano Hand Blown Glass Unique Piece
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Omega Murano Hand Blown Glass Unique Piece
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Omega Murano Hand Blown Glass Unique Piece
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Glass Hand Blowing, Venini’s furnace in Murano, Italy
simbiosi 2012 Simbiosi presents the colours of the famous furnace Venini and combines hand blown glass in an assemblage of Carrara marble or with black Belgian marble, applied using a digital process.
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Simbiosi - 3 elements Murano Hand Blown Glass Unique Piece
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Simbiosi 6 Murano Hand Blown Glass Unique Piece
simbiosi wood 2015 Simbiosi presents the colors of the famous furnace Venini combining hand blown glass in an assemblage of Indonesian ebony wood and Indian rosewood, applied using a digital process.
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Simbiosi Wood – 3 elements Murano Hand Blown Glass and Indian Palisander Rosewood
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Simbiosi Wood – 2 elements Murano Hand Blown Glass and Indonesian Ebony Wood
toys unit / megalit / genetic 2004 Hand blown glass pieces designed for the exhibition TOYS presented in the foundation Bevilacqua La Masa, produced in Murano by Venini.
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Unit – Ring Tower II Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Unit – Lunar II Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Megalit – Hearts Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Megalit – Wires Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Genetic – Poly Pod Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Genetic – Poly Spot Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Genetic – Body Tentacles Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Genetic – Body Holes Murano Hand Blown Glass
work in progress Emmanuel Babled's signature is distinguished by original forms and excellence of materials, resulting from a work process that celebrates traditional techniques and respects the raw materials, committed to cultural and human characteristics of each production context.
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Emmanuel Babled Editions We are proud to deliver the finest of products. Each piece is crafted with the highest quality in materials and craftsmanship. The unique pieces varie from one another or comes in a numbered limited edition. Each piece comes with a certificate signed by the author, Emmanuel Babled. Quality of craftsmanship and reliability is what we believe in. We maintain and control the highest quality in any of our editions and keep record of every piece we produce. Our office is available for any information regarding certification and numeration. Don’t hesitate to contact us at info@babled.net regarding any information or inquiries.
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Emmanuel Babled is a registred trade mark. Our product and production is protected by the European Union law. Copyright applies to all products and service. Any reproduction or redistribution is expressly prohibited by law. Graphic Design: Anett Krase Printed by Negócios - Artes Gráficas, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2018 Photo Credits: Yves Callewaert Galerie Gastou Carlo Lavatori Nicole Marnati Gaetano Del Mauro Francesco Secchi Studio Pointer Twenty First Gallery Venini Valentina Zanobelli We would like to express our gratitude to our numerous producers and galleries who made this work possible through these past years: Anders Lunderskov, Milan, Italy; Anfora, Venice, Italy; Europlex, Belgium; Fonderie Valtorta, Milan, Italy; I+I, Milan, Italy; Ludi Metacrilati Special, Bergamo, Italy; Made a Mano, Caltagirone, Italy; Testi Group, Verona, Italy; Tor Art s.r.l., Carrara, Italy; Venini, Venice, Italy; Galerie Yves et Victor Gastou, Paris, France; Galerie Vivid, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Galleria Nilufar, Milan, Italy; Sofalca, Abrantes, Portugal; Twenty First Gallery, New York, U.S.
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