No, it’s not a rendering: this project, resulted from a collaboration between bastard and the venetian luxury shoes brand Golden Goose, kept us busy during the whole month of August. We moved the milanese ‘bastard bowl’ to Venice, for a truly special event in the lagoon.
When we discovered that Russ Pope would have been in Milan for the opening of a group art exhibition, we immediately asked him if he could make a new masterpiece on the main wall of the bowl, to be inaugurated with a healthy skate session with friends. And he agreed.
Mattia Turco is one of the most powerful skaters around in Milan and a great artist with his own technical painting skills that keeps evolving. He is part of our family. Read the rest of this entry »
The #bastardbowl wall has just been painted white and the bastard store is looking for a talented artist who wants to mark the wall with his artwork. Here all the info [italian language only sorry].
The four dudes above are Greg Nowick, Andy Scott, Josh Young and Jake Collins, aka the Vans team UK that ripped for two days straight the “Vans Off the wall spring classic” miniramp.
Having to kill some time before boarding their flight back to the UK out of Milan, they squeezed in a skate session at the bastard bowl delighthing us with their sweet british style.
TSPORT is a magazine about sport and recreational facilities. Inside the issue n° 266 there are three pages about the bastard bowl written by Riccardo Consoli.
In the picture above the artpiece made by Lorenzo Fonda (who’s leaving for Los Angeles where he wants to stay more than usual) and Sergi Sanchez after 12 hours of session alternating painting/skateboarding at the bastard bowl.
My take: if you smell something rotten do something… or pay the consequences after sometime.
On archinfo.it is published an article with the details of the bastard bowl construction, illustrations and a general view of the COMVERT Headquarter project.
On domus web there is an article with the main project and a few pics.
ITALIAN LANGUAGE ONLY.
They used a shot of Daniel Cardone frontside flippin over the extension of the bowl, taken by Giuliano Berarducci the day after the Grand Opening (ONLYWOOD), I put here the original pic at a better resolution.
(Click the picture to enlarge).
Daniel Cardone - fs flip @ bastard bowl
Argano
Today
Heavy Metal
The Master Plan
The smiths
Numbered parts
Today we ordered the last structural components of the bastard bowl that we are building inside the new COMVERT HQ in Milano projected by studiometrico.
Laid on a mt. 15×12 area, the bowl is mt. 1.85 high with two hips, one lowered to 1.50 (the one on the left in the image above), an extension 2.50 high and a corner with elevator 2.10 high (low right). With a lazy radius of mt. 2.50 the bowl is completely made using CAD/CAM technologies applied with knowledge by engineer Marco Clozza of Atelier LC.
The bowl is reserved for recreational use and fun of bastard employees, team and friends.