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Archive 2010
Maid in Shanghai
until 31 October, Shanghai, China
Copenhagen's Little Mermaid must be used to being tampered with. Her history is littered with sawn off body parts, blasts and paint attacks. Situationists, radical feminists, anti-war and immigration protestors - they've all had a go. Well now she has a temporary 'harbour' in Shanghai as ...
Change & Transformation
Text by Anneke Bokern
Gijs Bakker has high hopes for his Yii-project. ‘My aim is to prove that a conceptual approach generates different products when placed in a new context’, he says. In general, conceptuality is independent of context. But when you link it to local skills and culture, that's when it becomes ...
Bram Boo's Still Life
Ventura Lambrate
Not your average workplace materials, Belgian designer Bram Boo's ''still life' of a desk' was realised in polished copper and wood. 'Using the silent beauty of archetypal office items and translating them into storage', the resulting objects sought to transform their regular ...
Dragonfly.MGX
Design: WertelOberfell - Platform
Growthobjects
A new project from KXdesigners and CloneNature fuses the possibilities of generative design, mathematics, biomimetics and advanced technologies. Growthobjects are new objects; created, grown and made digitally. Their instigators' describe the work as continued 'experimentation in the ...
True Stories
Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan
‘In collaboration with Lamborghini’ must have been sweet music to students attending Milan’s Scuola Politecnica di Design Master’s Programme in Transportation Design. Sunday at the Race, which lined up 11 models of new Lamborghini supercars on a rollercoaster, was one of four scenarios that ...
A Chairless World
Posted by Walter Bettens
A few months ago, when bumping into Alejandro Aravena and asking him about his architectural contribution to the Vitra Campus - a workshop and training facility building project for the Weil premises – the Chilean architect kinda raised his left eyebrow, co-produced a subdued smile and ...
Bangle On
Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milan
Baumkuchen (German Tree Cake), American roadside sculptures and eventually a blown-up pineapple all feature in the story of S.O.P's recent bangle jangle. Co mmissioned for FoodMarketo, a joint venture by Apartmento Magazine and DesignMarketo that was presented during this year's Milan ...
Aldo Bakker
Ventura Lambrate
Accompanied by pieces from his Urushi series, Aldo Bakker continues his relationship with Japanese varnish. The show was presented by the Amsterdam-based Particles Gallery.
Studio Job & Pieke Bergmans
Pieke Bergmans with one of the seven light objects in the Wonderlamp collection, created together with Studio Job and presented by the Dilmos gallery.
Totem and Taboo
Oratorio della Passione, Basilica Sant' Ambrogio, Milan
Designer Ineke Hans is mesmerised by Sottsass at the Totem and Taboo installation.
The Campana Circus
The Campana Bros' Circus rug for Nodus. Baby dolls...made in Brazil.
13.798 Grams of Design
Lambretto Art Project, Ventura Lambrate
Exhibition featuring work by Barber Osgerby, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Konstantin Grcic Gitta Gschwendtner Max Lamb, Arik Levy, Marc Newson, Fabio Novembre, Inga Sempé, Kiki van Eijk, Maciek Wojcicki ao. Curated by Maria Cristina Didero and Susanna Legrenzi.
Design Bake: Autarky
Studio Formafantasma's Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin in front of the broom that formed part of its Autarky installation at Spazio Rossana Orlandi. Featuring vessels and lamps made from a biomaterial mix of flour, agricultural waste and natural limestone, the Italian Netherlands-based ...
