Salı, Kasım 22, 2011
Perşembe, Kasım 10, 2011
Meet the Beetles - NYTimes.com
Meet the Beetles - NYTimes.com
At the Milan Furniture Fair this year, the design mecca Spazio Rossana Orlandi was infested with beetles. The culprit was Thomas Eyck, an adviser at the Zuiderzee Museumin Enkhuizen, the Netherlands, and also the producer of a growing collection of strange and wonderful things, including this set of bug vases called Schwarm. Each year at the time of the fair, Eyck switches gears from curator to editor by selecting a different designer with whom he delves into a traditional material and craft. Past explorations have yielded flax rope furniture and lighting by Christien Meindertsma, brightly colored striped woolen blankets and pillows by Scholten & Baijings, and pewter objects by Studio Job. For Schwarm, he worked with the German artists Beate Reinheimer and Ulrike Rehm, known as RaR, who are fascinated with the dizzying diversity of the animal kingdom, particularly among insects. To wit, Schwarm features 10 different shapes, or genuses, and 63 species, each with a different glaze. They are being sold as a limited-edition set or individually, for the less entomologically inclined. For more information, go to thomaseyck.com.
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