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designer Zoë Mowat is a native of Montreal, Quebec, where she runs her studio, Zoë Mowat design, furniture production and double objects as works of sculpture. The young designer focuses on the forms and pairs with clever details and simple bold colors while exploring the materials and texture. She has exhibited in Canada, the US and Europe since 08. In this Friday Five, Mowat sharing what keeps her inspiration.

Archival image from Isamu Noguchi: A Study of Space by Ana Maria Torres (New York: Monacelli Press, 00).

Archive picture from Isamu Noguchi: A study of space by Ana Maria Torres (New York: Monacelli Press, 00).

1. Playgrounds

Isamu Noguchi Noguchi has excelled in many areas and prodigious career included work in sculpture, architecture, landscaping and furniture and lighting design. I love all and it only makes sense that design playgrounds that are perfectly beautiful and timeless. He designed many playgrounds throughout his career, only a few that were actually performed. His playscapes Piedmont Park in Atlanta from 1970 is one of the few concepts that was built (I love the slide), but many of its original models remain - and they are wonderful

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2. Italo Disco
It is not for everyone, but I have a real passion for the strange electronic music and catchy that is completely out of Italy in 70 and early 80's the end. Italo Disco embraced synthesizers and other electronic effects to create a dance music that evolved from the popular nightclub that was too expensive to import from the United States at the time. Tracks were often travel in space with English lyrics heavily accented and relentless, driving beat arpeggios. I slowly raise my vinyl collection.

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3. The director Jacques Rivette

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One thing I've always liked, and found inspiration in , is a film. In early twenties, I entered the French New Wave and I watched everything I could by Truffaut and Godard, and Rhomer. Since I discovered the fourth member of the group New Wave, Jacques Rivette, whose films are enigmatic, unconventional and experimental (and often improvised with a long running time). Celine and Julie Go Boating is absolutely wonderful. Unfortunately, he passed away earlier this year.

Photo by Zoë Mowat

Photo by Zoë Mowat

4. Scottish Highlands
My family is Scottish so I take every opportunity I can to visit, especially for a journey through the Scottish Highlands. I find the combination of landscape and atmosphere, or dreich - word of my family and the local population used to describe the drizzly, overcast, foggy and gloomy time characteristic of Scotland - to be completely inspiring. A recent trip has inspired blue, gray and green color palette of my last set of furniture, Ora.

Photo by Douglas Curran

Photo by Douglas Curran

5. Sculpture of Catherine Burgess
I think one of the things that inspires me most consciously and unconsciously, is the sculpture of my mother. I find his abstract works in metal and stone have such strength in their simplicity and purity. I grew up spending a lot of time in his studio, the construction and assembly of things, and the exhibition of his work - the manufacturing process, materials, emphasis on geometry, philosophy - m ' inspired a lot as a child and still do now.