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New Works

Iris, 2008 < > +

The coffee table 'Iris', made from a single sheet of steel, comes in white or black lacquered steel.

'Iris' can be piled up and is suitable for indoor and outdoor use.

Material: lacquered steel
Dimensions: H.34 D.91 cm


Libri, 2008 < > +
Edited by Swedese
Photography : Mikael Strinnhed

Libri received the '+1 Award' at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, "Best New Product Design 2008".

Libri is a storage solution suitable for our nomadic lifestyle. .. read more


Ondine, 2007 < > +

'a step forwards the 'no furniture'

Before being perceived as an element of furniture, this design tends to fascinate by its underlying complexity translated in a simple strong form. "Ondine" strikes the viewer as being somewhat organic: alive, supple and inherently mysterious".. read more


Mosquito, 2007 < > +

The chair Mosquito is the result of a thought about the furniture humanism and autonomy. .. read more

Material: white and black painted in gloss multiplex or finishing with whitened oak.


Fruit to create

Oyon, 2006 < > +

Oyon's endless extensions allow us to turn our walls into screens on which our fruit and vegetables play the role of pixels.

Finish/material: black, white & transparent polycarbonate


Oyon 1er, 2004 +

Oyon's endless extensions allow us to turn our walls into screens on which our fruit and vegetables play the role of pixels.

Material: 2 metres of white cornice pieces of tubing


Cocofruit, 2004 < > +

Cocofruit teaches us how to play with the various weights and shapes of the fruit. You will be delighted to put them into it time and time again.

Finish: Wenge, beech and birch curved plywood


Be eve, 2006 < > +

Be eve' by way of picture on the wall we have a luxury fruit-holder: Be eve allows us to create our own composition, and the apples remind us the biblical Eve

Finish/material: Steel polished


Fruikir, 2004 +

Mural storage for everything

Material: Resin


Visual

V. de Terre, 1999 < >

No comment


CDC & Mimie, 2006 < >

No comment


Good Sheets, 2006

No comment


Interior

Fedis, 2008 < > +

New reception area & conference rooms
In collaboration with J. De Four architects


OFFICE, 1996 +

Lonely external office


Connecting space, 2000 < > +

Endless space element


Fabrimetal

Office


Chairs for anytime

Paradise chair, 2006 +

Paradise chair, is made from 247 vertical elements

Finish: White, red, blue, green, yellow


Slim, 2005 < > +

Under its solid design representing the archetype of a tradition armchair,... read more

Material: EVA


Slim-Club, 2005 < > +

Under its solid design representing the archetype of a tradition armchair,... read more

Material: EVA


Moon, 2005 < > +

When the above are combined, one enjoy a seat within a wooden cocoon. .. read more

Finish/material: Lacquered multiply


Lilitte, 2001 < > +

No comment


Lounge chair Relax, 2004 < > +

Designed as a low table with an undulating surface in the middle and a deliberate cushion. .. read more

Finish: Wenge


Fragrance, 2004 < > +

The fragrance chair is designed in reference of a woman's body & shoes... read more

Finish/material: Wenge


Trophy for everyone

Star, 2006 < > +

The project: Designing a trophy which rewards the exporting firms, means designing and materialising the qualities and pictures useful to develop concerning the foreign market. .. read more

  • It is a trophy as well as a contemporary sculpture
  • The 8 trophies are identical, except for the prize mention inscribed on the upper side.
  • They can be piled up to become one (see the picture on the left). Everyone will have the feeling to have been part of a whole, the one of the 2007 Walloon prize-winner firms, and to be part of the same chain.
  • The twisted design of the trophy is obtained thanks to two turning on their axis triangles which evoke the openness to the other.
  • The trophies can be placed horizontally or vertically.
  • The sight in plan subtly evokes the part W of words AWEX /WALLON

Shelf to help

Tom-G, 2005 < > +

Tom-G' is a flat wall 'shelf'... read more


Be clear, 2006 +

Be clear' is a flat wall storage element closed at the front. It consists of a single sheet of steel, and enables documents to be stored without taking up any floor-space.

Finish/material: Stainless steel


Moya, 2004 +

Moya, is a building set made up of simple, light and identical units. It enables us to better adapt our interiors, to awake our creative directions and to follow our wandering need.

Finish/material: 3,5 meters of white cornice tubing, dia. 8 cm


Ingo 1er, 2001

An ingenious freestanding shelf system which, which can fit in every room in your home. Designed to compliment our nomadic life style, the Shelf Ingo1er is formed simply as 4 wooden bars and 16 square plywood panels... read more

Finish/material: Birch

Floor to rest

Miss Puz, 2005 < > +

Miss puz draws its name from the simplicity of its conception... read more

Material: Felt & EVA

Light

be light, 2006 +

Be light' with the archetypal profile of lamp with shade, be light is hollow and becomes a luxurious box and new skin for your old lamp. be light also operates autonomously. Finish/material: Steel polished


be light+, 2006 < > +

Be light' is the beauty of archetypal profile of lamp in simply one sheet of plexiglass. Finish/material: black, white & transparent plexiglass


Sanitary

The washbassin, 1998 < > +

'Wachbasin' is a table with a curved and eccentric part used as a basin... read more

Finish/material: Varnished plywood birch panels - Stainless steel

Table

Inspired table, 2005 < > +

Project for book inspired - Designed in Brussels


Jewellery

Comming soon


Product Project

CDC, 2006 +

CDC...is an overhead CD holder... read more


Mimie, 2006 +

MIMIE...The no mess car tray for people on the move. The tray consists of an inner folding steel frame covered with a layer of neoprene. Opened or Folded up.
Project for Impex - Dynamo industrial price - Designed in Brussels


Flip-it, 2005 +

Flip it, is a storage for 20 Cd to stick on all support and in all the directions. .. read more

Finish/material: EP 4500 black, red, gray, yellow, green
Project for Posso - Designed in Brussels


V.de terre, 2001 < > +

  • function .......
  • support of food moving
  • destination .......
  • the blue planet
  • .. read more

Contact

Studio

Michaël Bihain

Interior & Furniture design

  • 53, rue Nothomb
    1040, Bruxelles, Belgium
  • 11, rue Trôleu,
    4141, Louveigné, Belgium
  • +32(0)472-707-202
  • info@bihain.com
  • www.bihain.com
  • Press

    Press can download high resolution material and info : www.bihain.com/press.


    Press can ask anything : press@bihain.com.

    Credits

    Links

    Michael

    Biography

    Biography: 

    Having trained as a butcher and as a carpenter, Michaël Bihain studied interior design at the St Luc Institute in Liège and at the University of Hull in England.  

    He is currently working with companies and distribution firms on developing furniture, jewels and accessories. 

    He has set up the BIHAINprod studio in London which deals exclusively with the conception of unique creations for private customers. 

    Michaël Bihain also produces some of his products such as ‘OYON’, the first mural fruit basket. 

    He currently teaches furniture conception at the St Luc Institute. His works are regularly exposed at exhibitions in Paris, London, Milan and some of his pieces are part of the permanent collection of the Seoul’s Design Museum.

    He has been nominated for the ‘Award Design Report’ in Milan 2007, won the ‘Help for creation and innovation’ prize and has been chosen to design the furniture of the British Council in Paris.  

    In Michaël Bihain’s world, you can see dancing shelves (Let’s Dance), fruits becoming an integral part of our walls (Oyon), a chair on which you wouldn’t dare sit (Paradise Chair) or even a chair (Mosquito) so alive that you could have a conversation with. 

    Michael’s conceptions represent the convergence point between the new ways of life and the collective memory. They are the fulfilment of his desire to design respectable furniture for free individuals. A characteristic element of his research is the obviousness of the lines obtained. 
     

    Aquisitions & Prizes

  • > The Libri shelf is nominated for the 2008 Swedish Design Award
    Swedese

  • > 'Libri' has been awarded the Prize for Best New Product 2008 at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, 2008
    Swedese

  • > Nominated for the Design Brussels Award, BE, 2007

  • > Michaël Bihain received the culturel prize « Coup d’éclat », by the 'Collège provincial de Liège', 2007

  • > www.Bihain.com has been awarded Web Site Of The Day on TAXI,
    july 4th 2007
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  • > Prize winner of the international Parck Design competition with the bench Ondine, 2007
    parck

  • > The Mosquito Chair has been nominated for the ‘Award Design Report’ in Milan, 2007

  • > Prize winner for the design of the STAR trophy, for the 'Agence Wallone à l'exporation' (AWEX), 2006

  • > The product OYON and COCOFRUIT are part of the collections of the Design museum of Seoul, 2006
    www.designmade.org

  • > Figaro magazine selected the product COCOFRUIT as part of the best design objects, France, 2006
    www.lefigaro.fr/...

  • > Chosen Favourite by 'Gaëlle Maison',
    November 2004

  • > Prize 'Aide à la création et innovation', January 2000

  • > Prize of the 3rd carpenter of Belgium,
    June 1993
  • Exhibitions

    • > 2008
    • Salon Maison Passion Annecy, FR
    • Stockholm Furniture Fair, Stockholm, SE
    • Imm Koln, Koln, GE
    • > 2007
    • Designed in brussels, BE
    • Jong designer, Gallery Design Vlaanderen, BE
    • Design September, Brussels, BE
      Rediscover the Mosquito chair and other Bihain’s works during the Designer’s Open Doors in Brussels 15-16 September.
      Guest designer: Defact studio presenting the KGP, Kiss Guide Package and other piece of design.
    • The New Belgian Design, Waterland Museum, Neederlands
    • Mobiliers V, La Châtaigneraie, BE
    • Decorative arts and design of the 20 and 21 centuries, Pierre Bergè, BE
    • Interzum, DE
    • Salon Satellite, Milan Furniture Fair, IT
    • Blanc de banc, Liege, BE

    • > 2006
    • Biennal International Design, Saint-Etienne, France
    • Designbrussels, 'stand of the French community', Brussels, BE
    • Design made 2006, Seoul, KR
    • Parcours de Stylistes, Brussels, BE
    • 100% Design, London Furniture Fair, UK
    • Addict lab shop, Hasselt, BE
    • Exhibitions 'Couleur', Liege, BE
    • Maison & objet, now design, Paris, France
    • Salon Satellite, Milan Furniture Fair, IT
    • Passagen, Cologne, DE, 2005

    • > 2005
    • Maison & objet, now design, Paris, France
    • Designbrussels, Brussels, BE,
    • Bel appétit, Liege, BE
    • SIDIM, Montreal, Canada,
    • Salon Satellite, Milan Furniture Fair, IT,
    • SFEER, Gand, BE,
    • Paris Furniture Fair, France,
    • Z33, 'living in motion', Hasselt, BE

    • > 2004
    • Brussels Furniture Fair 'SQUARE', Brussels, BE
    • Design 2004, Liege, BE
    • Design for Europe, Courtray, BE
    • Exposure of the prizes winner of the Price Young Artists, Brussels, BE
    • Fuorisalone, Milan Furniture Fair, IT
    • Parcours d'artistes, Brussels, BE
    • Paris Furniture Fair, France

    • > 2003
    • 100% Design, London Furniture Fair, UK

    • > 2002
    • Focus on the Belgian design, Jodoigne, BE
    • Salon Bois et Habitat, Liege, BE
    • Exhibitions 'A table, design in Wallonia, BE

    • > 2001
    • Maison des métiers d'arts de liege, BE

    • > 2000
    • Design for Europe, Courtray, BE
    • Maison des métiers d'arts de liège, BE
    • young creators, S.P.I.+, Liege, BE

    • > 1999
    • Maison des métiers d'arts de liège, BE

    • > 1998
    • Design for Europe, Courtray, BE
    • young creators, S.P.I.+, Liege, BE

    Bibliography Magazines

    • > 2008
    • Elle Decoration, UK
    • map magazine, AU
    • NPmagazine, IT
    • Maison actuelle, FR
    • Feeling Wonen, BE
    • Forum AID, SE
    • Playboy, SL
    • Monocle, UK
    • Bargiornale, IT
    • Feeling Wonen, BE
    • Monocle, GB
    • Forum AID, SE
    • Casa Claudia, PT
    • MD magazine, BG
    • Gaël maison, BE
    • Bravacasa, IT
    • Style Mag, GR
    • De dining experience, IT
    • Bravacasa magazine, BG
    • Gaël maison, BE
    • FRAAI magazine
    • The Bulletin, BE
    • Public design, KO
    • Ecofabulous, US
    • ARCH, US
    • Majstor, HR
    • The Bulletin
    • Style magazine, US
    • plaza koti, FI
    • Maison Francaise, TK
    • MAX, UK
    • MARU, KR
    • DESIGN BIMONTHLY, TW
    • The Wave Magazine
    • maison francaise TK
    • RUM, Swedish architectural, SE
    • Vivienda y Decoracion, IT
    • Kitchens, IT
    • Designrepublic, IT
    • PLanet Magazine, USA
    • > 2007
    • Eigenhuis & interior, NL
    • Gaël maison, BE
    • trend magazine, BE
    • CASARESART, IT
    • map magazine, UK
    • Azure Magazine, CA
    • Catchy, BE
    • Het nieuwsblad, BE
    • Frame Magazine, NL
    • Ottagono, IT
    • annabelle, CH
    • Deco idée, BE
    • NRWZ, DE
    • Fengshang Weekly Magazine, CH
    • PLanet Magazine, SC
    • Extérieurs design magazine, FR
    • FRAME, NL
    • Agenda, BE
    • trend magazine, BE
    • nP Magazine, IT
    • Flaia, IT
    • ABRODE, US
    • El Mundo, ESP
    • Casaviva México, MX
    • modern home, CH
    • A vivre, FR
    • Wallpaper, UK
    • Femina, SW
    • InDesign magazine
    • egg magazine, CH
    • MONITOR magazine, RU
    • Eigen Huis & Interieur, NL
    • FEMINA, SE
    • L'événement, BE
    • Wallpaper, UK
    • INTERNI, IT
    • Estilo Mexico, MEX
    • Surface Magazine, US
    • All great Design 2006, TH
    • 101 Livingideas, NL
    • Icon Magazine, UK
    • Kontrast, SL
    • Ambientes, DE
    • Tribune, BE
    • Knack Weekend, BE
    • Le Soir, BE
    • Victoire, BE
    • Add Lib, UK
    • Select Magazine, IR
    • Codigo 06140, PT
    • Bravacasa, BG
    • Casamica-Corriere della Sera, IT
    • Surface Magazine, USA
    • Vimagazino, GR
    • Feeling Wonen/Gael Maison, BE
    • IYD, IND
    • young designers section, BU
    • Egg Magazine, CH
    • The Home, CH
    • MAX Ukraine, UK
    • Dezeen, UK
    • Wohn!Design, GR
    • Icon Magazine, UK
    • Frame Mag, May, HO
    • Rooi Rose Magazine, SA
    • Evening Standard, April, UK
    • Design magazine Yanko Design, JP
    • ELLE Decoration, April, BE
    • The Home Magazine, BG
    • Hicomm, BG
    • Hi-fi, BG
    • Calimero, April, SE
    • La Mia Casa, March n°200, p.17, IT
    • Prestige House, February n°1, p. 24, PL
    • Taburet magazine, RU
    • Interior+Design magazine, RU
    • Standard, UK
    • Cosmopolitan, CN
    • Corriere della sera, IT

    • > 2006
    • Wallpaper, UK
    • Eccelso, France
    • Public Art, November, 002, p.22, KR
    • MARU, November, vol 56, p.35, KR
    • ARTE news, September, BE
    • Le jour, September, BE
    • Interior world, vol52, p.190-193, KR
    • Le jour, June, BE
    • Décor, BE-NL
    • Textile magazine, October, BE
    • Designmade2006, KR
    • Déco idées, BE
    • Feeling Wonen, BE
    • View Point, UK
    • House and Garden, UK
    • Architects' Journal, UK
    • Casa D, IT
    • SN magazine, Spirit, BE
    • Spirit, BE
    • DDN, IT
    • Ambient, SI
    • Elle Interior, NO
    • View Point, UK
    • La Mia Casa, IT
    • Vogue Women, FR
    • Figaro, France
    • CarPlus Magazine, CN
    • CasaInternational, CN
    • Glamour, IT
    • Casainternational, CN
    • Ark magazine, RU

    • > 2005
    • Young European Designers, p. 70 to 73, daab editions
    • Villas, n°70, BE
    • Plus Design, KR
    • Elle Decor, IT
    • Home&Style, DE
    • PI magazine, BE
    • Weekend Knack, BE
    • Raum and Wohmen, DE
    • Wall paper, UK

    • > 2004
    • Apple Daily Limited, CN
    • Textile Magazine, november, BE
    • BOX, IT
    • Gaëlle Maison, october, BE
    • Le Vif l'express, october, BE
    • Déco idées, january, BE
    • Je vais construire, BE

    • > 2003
    • Hogares magazine, ES
    • Dobre Wnetrze, PL
    • Art+décor, TC
    • B+L, Sweden
    • Country Homes, TC
    • Dwell Magazine, US
    • Forma interiors, IE

    • > 2002
    • La Meuse, BE
    • Le Jour, BE

    • > 2001
    • Prov-liege, BE
    • Publi-Hebdo, BE
    • Le Vif l'express, BE

    Bibliography Books

    • > Plastic, Edition Christian Campos, ES, 2008
    • > Belgium news architecure 4, Edition Prisme, 2007
    • > Parck Design / Innovative Urban Furniture for parks, Edition Stichting Kunstboek, Promateria & Bruxelles Environement, 2007
    • > Young European Designers, p. 70 to 73, daab editions

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