Contact details
Wiesingerstr. 3/22
1010 Vienna
Austria
Tel: 0043 664 4167061 Fax: 0043 1 9582406
Brief Summary
Nina Levett has her own product line in the camouflage style. All her products fit together to create the perfect home.
Nina Levett about her "Camouflage Couture":
"Yes, this is about repeating images, much like the military look of it's namesake. The patterns are combined in wallpaper, fashion, plates and accessories, and furniture so that they all blend into one and disappear."
"The story of the camouflage couture idea is as follows:
I had started a degree in Architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna but never finished because I moved to Italy for several years and had a family. When I separated from the father of my children, I returned to Vienna and wanted to study fashion design. For the entrance exam we had to chose a theme, and do a fashion collection, so I chose 'fashion for the housewife'. My designs worked with the fact that the woman of the house has historically been seen as a sort of household object; looking nice, perfect body, being sexy and speaking rarely. So, I thought the perfect clothing to go with this idea of the 'housewife' could be pieces that make her disappear; they would be the same color and print as the tiles in the bathroom, or as the sheets on the bed, all blending into one."
"I now use these designs with wallpapers, home textiles, and fashion articles; all the things that we use to make our homes and lives perfect. The idea was to show the perfect home, swallowing the perfect housewife with her perfect husband, and make them ridiculously invisible so that they become accessorized by their wish to be seemingly perfect people."
Clients
Publications:
IdN Magazine Hong Kong v16n4 2009
Home Magazine Austria 2009
Diva Wohnen Austria 2009
Gourmand Ukraine 2009
L’Officiel Singapore 2009
Yen Magazine Australia 2009
A’ La Carte Austria 2009
Die Presse Schaufenster „Freiraum“ 2009
Woman Austria 2008
Oesterreich Austria 2008
NZZ Switzerland 2009
ICON Magazine 2009
Wellness Magazine Austria 2009
Wien live Austria 2009
Rosebud Magazine Austria 2009 (www.rosebudmagazine.com)
Trade Shows
Wohnen Vienna @ Ladenstein: 2008 und 2009
Decorex London 2008
Blickfang Vienna 2008 and 2009
Illustrative Portfolio Review Berlin 2009 with Designtaxi and Austrianillustration
Weihnachtsquartier in MQ Vienna 2008
Weihnachtsmarkt im Looshaus Vienna 2009
Exhibits
SMZ Ost 2007
Right Here 2007
Combinat MQ Vienna 2007
Plattform D, MQ Vienna 2007
Mediensalon Linz 2008
Showrooms/Shops – Furniture/Design:
Steininger Designers, Hans Taus, Famler Einrichtungen, WOKA Lamps Vienna and Ladenstein
Online Portfolios:
Gosee (www.gosee.de, www.gosee.fr and www.gosee.us)
Architonic (www.architonic.com)
Designspotter (www.designspotter.com)
Designtaxi (www.designtaxi.com)
Pictoplasma (www.pictoplasma.de)
Austrianillustration (www.austrianillustration.com)
Lebook (rep. by Caroline Seidler), www.lebook.com
Ava Living, www.avaliving.com
Clients/Partners:
Esvinilo, www.esvinilo.com
Pitour Fashion, www.pitour.com
RMK Design, www.rmkdesign.co.uk
Misty Beethoven, www.mistybeethoven.it
Stylist Karin Aichinger
Elegant Events, www.elegantevents.at
Fesch&Gnaedig
Cooperations :
Bunny Lake and Klein Records, www.bunnylake.net, www.kleinrecords.com
CastYourArt, www.castyourart.com
Jan Asdonk, www.janasdonk.com
Notkoo, www.notkoo.com
Irene Schaur, Photographer, www.ireneschaur.com
Stephan Doleschal, Photographer, www.doleschal.at
Alex Grübling, Photographer, www.gruebling.com
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Professional Experience
Nina Levett is a design studio specialised in ornaments and patterns. It offers the wide range of services from illustration to culturally and environmentally significant ornamental studies and pattern designs. Nina Levett combines different visual media: illustration, painting, graphic and product design, textile-, wallpaper-, interior and fashion design. The studio's approach is characterised by humour and originality.
Nina Levett's patterns and ornaments are based on conceptual, humorous ideas. The work is based on experiments with surfaces and materials. Ornaments and patterns are developed for ceramic tiles, textiles, resin floors, boats, glass walls as well as packaging and (editorial) print.
These are the main fields of operation:
- development of ornaments and patterns for wallpapers, textiles and interior/exterior architectural design
- (editorial) illustration work
- Nina Levett's branded luxury products: tableware, wallpapers, textiles, fashion...
