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DESIGN ACADEMY EINDHOVEN - MILAN 2008
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Design Academy Eindhoven Spazio Rossana Orlandi
Project name: Still All of a sudden, design has come to its senses, integrating old values in a new quality. A calm yet modest and quieter form. The dawn of a serene lifestyle. This is what characterises the work of the new crop of graduates of Design Academy Eindhoven in the exhibition STILL. Their sincere pieces, imbued with restrained technique and well designed practicability, are shown during the Salone del Mobile in Milan from April 16 through April 21, 2008. For years now, the exhibition during the Salone has been the platform for the academy's new graduates. In order to find itself a permanent nesting place in the 21st century, functionality reborn searches for virgin territory; a refrigerator that can cool, and heat the surroundings, and be a chair, if necessary. A sturdy iron garden table is an outdoor heater rolled into one. Variations in the graininess of salt beg for specifically designed saltcellars, and a contemporary chair wobbles to make our restless bodies feel comfortable. The brass coating of a lamp is both embellishing and conductive. A clothesline makes music while the clothes are slowly drying. Necessity is the mother of invention. Dual functions are typical of the endless possibilities and the flexibility that can lead to the connection of the ordinary and the extraordinary. The materials are ordinary, the colours are neutral, tactility is warm, and the execution controlled. Beauty is reserved for the trained eye of the beholder. Curator: Li Edelkoort Participants:
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