london design festival

‘comic-like frivolity’ (with lots of boobs) is how I would describe ‘american chateau’, a showcase of work by nienke klunder and jaime hayon which opened at spring projects – spring house earlier this month. it’s all about the sausages.

‘the rocking hot dog’

‘holly on caramel marble table’

‘yellowstone’

london design festival

designing lightning is a big thing within the designers. the victoria and albert museum in london spotted that trend and opened an exhibition called ‘in praise of shadows’ last monday during london design festival.

doodle, plumen series by hulger, 2009

fragile future by drift, 2006-09

lucid dream by eric klarenbeek, 2006

medusa light by mikko paakkanen, 2008

london design festival

wallpaper magazine commissioned london-based designer martino gamper to create a chair arch in the atrium of the victoria and albert museum. the multicoloured installation is build from original ercol stacking chairs.

london design festival

london design festival is on. yesterday evening I went to the johnson trading gallery to see max lamb‘s china granite project. the english designer spend 2 weeks in china to turn black granite into a collection of furniture pieces.

berlin

16 students from the esad strasbourg were presenting their work under the name zou! during the international design festival in berlin earlier this year. this shelf is called ‘up’ and is made by mabon leblanc.

maastricht

last week I visited maastricht based entrepreneurs paul rinkens and suze thomma in their office. damn, they could request money for the admission. I came across a nice collection of furniture and products. the globus, a compacted office space by michiel van der kley for artifort was my favourite.