this sunday morning I’ve been browsing through my pictures from last years design week in milan. I found these pictures of me and my friends sitting on konstantin grcic‘s awarded cantilever chair. we were having a rest at the triennale design museum and decided to take some of the myto chairs out on the terrace.

derya inanici, theda schoppe and me

you can have this umbrella for an affordable price of 59,95 €. netherlands-based senz have designed this umbrella that ‘always finds the best position in the wind’.

gerwin hoogendoorn, gerard kool, philip hess and niel heiijman are surely proud of their design: it has won the brit insurance awards, red dot design award, if award and many more. congratulations.

rotterdam-based designer wieki somers has designed a wardrobe for the boijmans van beuningen museum in rotterdam.

she came came up with the idea while watching the jiska rickels film, 4 elements in which mine workers had to hoist their coats back up because the space was so limited.

the red and white fairground carousel is made from plastic pulley blocks. fire hoses and metal weights were used to make the mechanism, which is simple to use – just pull on the rope, hang the coat and fasten the lock. the metal weights ensure that the hoisting up and down works automatically.

the image is a picture of a picture. I took it at the brit insurance awards, designs of the year 2009, at the design museum in london

‘the absent presence’ (june 2005) is a short film by hussein chalayan for the 51st venice biennale. a biologist, played by tilda swinton, extracts cells to examine their dna sequences.

one of this forms was presented at hussein chalayan‘s ‘from fashion and back’ exhibition at the design museum, london. the dna forms in the animation were frozen at a point in action and transformed into 3d objects and put on a table.

It is ‘representing how an individual reacts to their environment.’

I have visited the hussein chalayan exhibition at the design museum in london. its a comprehensive retrospective about the fashion designers work between 1994 – 2009.

this is the aircraft wing chandelier for the swarovski crystal palace at kunsthalle mannheim .

Its a large flap moving slowly up and down, revealing a long strip of swarovski crystals which are illuminated from behind by led lights. the installation is called ‘repose’ and belongs to the autumn/winter collection 2006.

also included into the installation:a digital clock with specially cut crystals, featuring 24 leds and 96 crystal octagons

roy mcmakin is sometimes described as a designer, sometimes as an architect but mainly as a craftsman.

english furniture manufacturer established & sons is presenting an exhibition of selected work of the american creative. It’s his first european debut in london.

high chest of drawers with knobs,
originally made in 1986, made of mahogany

ebonized stools

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