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Dustbin table
Marie-Louise Gustafsson designed a table for those who are dependent of their dustbin, or like to easily tide their work space. You don’t have to look for the wastebasket somewhere under the desk (God knows where it is), the slide-like table top allows you to literally push those useless papers to the side and straight […]
Bread fashion by Jean-Paul Gaultier
At first you feel the smell of freshly baked bread, and then you start to see the wicker mannequins „dressed” in baguettes, country loaves, sour dough bread or even biscuits. This all happened in the museum of contemporary art from Paris, Fondation Cartier, which Jean-Paul Gaultier had transformed into a bakery. Helped by a team […]
The Waste Man
A 25m high man, all made of wastes, that the people from Margate were very happy to provide. In fact a “modern man”, nothing else than consumption goods: planks of wood, tables, chairs, keyboards, paintings, dartboards, a front door, old rope, sofa padding, toilet seats etc. Conceived by the controversial British artist and sculptor, Antony […]
Building Nothing
When asked to design an exhibition pavilion for the Swiss Expo 2002, the New York studio Diller & Scofidio came with a most unlikely solution: making nothing. So they decided, they would create, on the Neuchatel Lake, a “formless, massless, colorless, weightless, odorless, scaleless, […]
