Aylin Kayser and Christian Metzner 12 April 2008
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Aylin Kayser and Christian Metzner
In the D3 showcase was a wax light shade by German designers Kayser and Metzner. It’s impractical and very messy – but original. As the bulb heats up the wax, the shade melts from the inside out and reforms in a different shape on the floor. We saw it half way through the process – molten and disfigured.
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Kaether & Weise 12 April 2008
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Kaether & Weise
Ehrenfeld, an industrial wasteland on the outskirts, was being hyped as the city’s “incubating centre”, but trawling through the area on a dark January afternoon wasn’t too enlightening. We did manage to find this pleasing collapsible chair by German duo Kaether & Weise, exhibited in a place that was made to look like the site of a crime scene.
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Shay Alkalay 12 April 2008
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Shay Alkalay
London-based designer Alkalay showed this blue, polished version of his rickety two-legged cabinet (launched at Cologne last year), and it’s now produced by Arco. Its hinges feel like those on expensive kitchen drawers.
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Fabio Novembre 12 April 2008
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Fabio Novembre
In the KölnMesse, the fair’s vast central venue, hidden among a load of stuff launched at Milan last year, we found something we actually liked. Designed for Driade, Novembre’s silver-plated platters are copies of Italian squares. The bigger piazzas double up as serving trays.
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Review: The Island: London Series 11 April 2008
There is a box of magnifying glasses at the entrance to Stephen Walter’s exhibition The Island: London Series. It’s a courteous gesture. Walter’s hand-drawn maps are an overwhelming mass of cramped detail.
Junya Ishigami's Facility 10 April 2008
A white forest in a grey field, Junya Ishigami’s university project space in the foothills west of Tokyo is a building designed to almost disappear.
Pink Project in New Orleans 09 April 2008
A village of pink, life-size monopoly homes currently occupies 14 city blocks in downtown New Orleans.
Chanel’s Mobile Art Container 08 April 2008
On the roof of a car park in Hong Kong, in the shadow of Norman Foster’s HSBC building and IM Pei’s Bank of China, sits Chanel’s latest publicity ruse, the snake-like Mobile Art Container.
icon 059 out now 07 April 2008
The May icon is something of a feast. The cover stars of the biggest issue of the year so far are a chicken and Dutch “eating designer” Marije Vogelzang. Vogelzang bakes dough with angle-poise lamps, prepares funeral banquets at which all the food is white, and organises tap-water tastings.
Paper tea house 07 April 2008
A paper tea house designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban sold at auction in London last week for £31,700. The lot was one of many pieces of Japanese art and design being auctioned by Phillips de Pury & Company.
Review: Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe 04 April 2008
Nine white cars suspended in various stages of flight – with blinking LED lights streaking in cartoon-like drama from their window screens – appear to be flying through the centre of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York.
The Design Auction 03 April 2008
When three resourceful graphic design students from Lincoln University were trying to think of ways to raise cash for their degree show, they never imagined they’d spark intense competition between some of design’s leading lights.
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