BRAVACASA Design Challenge

BRAVACASA Indonesia is calling all of you non-professional designers aged from 19 to 35 to join us in our Design Challenge!

Design a product that fits one of our categories:
- furniture
- lighting
- kitchenware


Create the technical drawing showing the top elevation, side elevation, two sections, perspective, and detail, complete with the dimensions and materials used.

Along with your self portrait, copy of ID, a letter from your university/school (for students) or a copy of your latest education certificate, and a completed form of BRAVACASA design challenge entry (provided inside BRAVACASA Feb-April 2011 and BRAVACASA May-July 2011 editions)

Mail it to our desk before JULY 1st, 2011
BRAVACASA Indonesia
Wisma Chita Kirana Lantai 3
Jl. Lombok No. 73, Menteng

For more information, see the image of this event or click www.bravacasa.co.id, email to redaksi@bravacasa.co.id, or simply leave us a comment below this event invitation

INDONESIAN HERITAGE: THE FOUNDING FATHER'S DESIGNS

Indonesian founding father, Soekarno, is an engineer graduated from Technische Hoogeschool Bandoeng or now known as Institut Teknologi Bandung – Bandung Institute of Technology. Besides as a president, he is also known as an artist, art lover and an architect also furniture designer. His designs are various from a house to a mosque. He and Oei Tjeng Hien in Bengkulu, Sumatra, in 1938 as explained by Yuke Ardhiati in her book ‘Bung Karno the Architect’, joined together to start furniture business under the label ‘Mebel Soekamerindoe’.

Soekarno’s furniture designs are placed on several palaces in Indonesia like Istana Negara in Jakarta, Istana Bogor located in Bogor, a small city near Jakarta, Istana Cipanas also in Bogor and Istana Tampak Siring in Bali. His designs also placed in Hotel Indonesia, Jakarta, and Hotel Samudra Beach in Pelabuhan Ratu, Sukabumi, West Java. In producing his designs, Soekarno is helped by some cabinet makers, like Chris Broekhuyzen, an art deco artist in Bandung.

‘I made myself the design of my office desk of one solid Indonesian teak.’

His designs are recognized have lotus shape, simple, clean and bodyship impression. Some of them have art deco touch combined with splash of Indonesian traditional, individualist and modernist. His collection also reflecting the romanticism with Biedermeyer style.

A RESIDENCE AT CENGKARENG

Originally around end December 2008 I've had time to measure and make a design. But then I was a little lazy to follow up because I couldn't stand the traffic jam to the locations. It took about two hours long to get there than the normal half an hour. I had decided to turn down this offer. But somehow the owner just waited until May the next year. She asked me personally to design her furnitures. Starting from the master bedroom continues until finally the kitchen and bathroom.