2008/04/25 by Matylda

piotr uklanski: polish national pride

today I got an email from patrick vogt, a friend. patrick knows that my heart belongs to poland and that I would like this:

gogosian gallery – bialo-czerwona
(white-red – a reference to the colours of the polish flag)
an exhibition by piotr uklanski

the crowned eagle is the national coat of arms of poland.

piotr uklanski
untitled 2008
steel frame, foam and gesso

piotr uklanski
untitled (Stach’s Eagle) 2008
steel frame, foam and gesso

summerlove first polish western

he is also the maker of summerlove, the first polish western. I haven’t seen that one but I wonder why val kilmer is playing a role in a polish western? waldek kilmerowsk, the lost polish soul? maybe it has more to do with celebrity than function. to be honest, he not even says anything because he plays a dead person.

pat, by now I think you know me better than I thought.

2008/04/24 by Matylda

arnout visser: playful

Milan

arnout visser

arnout visser
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2008/04/23 by Matylda

milan design week 2008 – the epilogue.. or: just some pictures left

Here are some more pictures to give you an idea how great Milan actually was. Wish you were here !

hairdress cloning 5.5 designers hairdress cloning by 5.5 designers

superma..ahm.. stephan siepermann at tuttobene showroom

karim rashid picks his suit color by his environment

design metropole aachen
some guerilla in the metro – designmetropole aachen (hey fab and pat!)

fruit stranger
my mum said that I shouldn’t talk with alien fruits

charles and marie
for everybody who loves flowers – charles & marie

hugo chritiaans drift
hugo christiaan/intern at drift and ralph nauta/drift – he calls hugo ‘the best intern of the world’

matylda
finally I found my chair

2008/04/22 by Matylda

marcus fairs: mr dezeen

Milan

marcus fairs

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2008/04/21 by Matylda

milan designweek 2008 – it’s over. and everything is going to be alright

internet is a treat. a special gift. especially when you spend a hole week in italy and you are dependent on italian wireless lan. if it’s raining there is no chance to be online (we had 3 days rainy days).

tomorrow I will fly back to the netherlands. within the next few days I will post more about the design week. there are still some interviews which I couldn’t post without a scanner (arnout visser, kiki van eijk, maarten baas..etc.)(now I recognize that I am quite obsessed with dutch design)(to be honest: I knew before!) so you should be excited like a virgin on prom night!!

design soap in our friends milanish bathroom. I am responsible for the packaging (the design world is waiting for my ideas, as you can see)

2008/04/20 by Matylda

milan design week 2008 – day4 – nacho, droog, myto, fish, – sounds like a food collection

there is not so much time.. some fast posted pictures again. maybe I will have some more time to adapt the last 3 posts. maybe..

nacho carbonell – his new collection was exhibited at spazio rossana orlandi

michou nanon de bruijn – a lost product, with lost heat, for lost time. it’s michou’s graduation project, 2008

at the design triennale: finally sitting on the myto chair from konstantin grcic

tejo remy – chest of drawers xs. limited edition of 13 – still a classic. one of these is also in the collection of the museum of modern art/moma in ny

laszlo rozsnoki and tiago sa da costa at the droog design showroom

woman with fish head. pretending to read a newspaper

miss geschick lady lapsus
miss geschick and lady lapsus from hamburg at the designersblock party. click and visit their online boutique.

2008/04/19 by Matylda

milan design week 2008 – day3 – that’s design and all the rest of it

Milan

some people I have met – some design I have seen.

alvin aronson. check out his website. you can see how his d/a clock works

mr hyde
mr.hyde – by pablo crespo, martin franzen, isaac pineiro

girls from lund selma ostrom and li lundvang (I love these scandnavian names) from lund university. presenting the ‘what can you bring to the table’ project

purple trend purple, baby

jurgen bey at ‘block – turkish marble meets design’

maximaldesign

polimoda milano polimoda milano

front
front

rossana orlandi and jeroen wesselink at the design academy party

2008/04/17 by Matylda

milan design week 2008 – 2day – fuck, pozza

if you are in milan for the design week you shouldn’t be too obsessed with the idea of seeing everything in a short time. select what you really want to see. affacted by mies van der rohe‘s statement ‘less is more’ and by the bad weather we made some sightseeing and shopping and in the end we visited richard hutten for a gin tonic.

duomo roof on the roof of milan’s gothic cathedral ‘duomo’

torre velasca – much debated at the time of its construction in 1957 but dominant in milan’s skyline

customize your tictac box customize your tic tac box

camilla reale camilla is fashion designer. she names her collection: reale slow-fashion. couple days ago she opened her own shop in the centre of milano. visit her at via brisa 15!