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Interni Russia have included me in their SaloneSatellite08 review, two pages of my work and an interview (I think) in Russian.
Translation below thanks to Toby Summerskill and Heather O’Toole
Designer Steve Watson has woken his subconscious, so he could show off how it works.
“I explore the topic of human relationship in detail, the sensuousness and sexuality is the inseparable part of it” – those are not the words of psychoanalytic, they are the words of the designer Steve Watson about where the ideas for his work come from. He started to work independently in year 2000 in his native land, Australia, three years later he moved to Great Britain. Steve lives in the flat with the view of water towers and docks, and he says that this scenery inspires him. As strange as it sounds, as the result he produces erotic and physiological things. One of the most recent works of Watson, the chair “Rakel”, represents a woman who is laced up in a in a tight lacy corset. And this is not the first of his pieces with such a provocative twist. In 2006, he made a floor lamp with the self-explanatory name “Take me, I’m ready”. The body of this tripod lamp is made of black shiny fibreglass, from the inside of the legs there are fixed bright LED lights, from the “cupola” of the lamp the ‘Swarovski’ crystals are suspended in the centre. A lady dressed in latex on high heels - the most innocent association, from those that this lamp provokes. “I like to create ordinary things, that challenge the user’s perception”, - Watson says. Lately the designer became interested in the relationship between persons and space. As the result of which, the table “Cassiopeia” has been created. The base of the table is made out of carbon fibre (or aluminium in cheaper version) and appears to be a cluster of entwined lines that keep changing shapes according to the visual angle. You can also study the entwinement through the glass top. As a continuation to the table Watson is planning to create a lamp. However Steve is not abandoning his favourite theme and is working on the design of “Muse” the Melbourne restaurant, where everything from the hors d oeuvres to the upholstering of armchairs will invoke “temptation and delight” in customers.