DUTCH DESIGN WEEK: 2010
By WGSN Interiors team, 02 November 2010
Trend Analysis
The 9th edition of Dutch Design Week took place between 23 - 31 October this year in Eindhoven. The event attracts more than 120,000 visitors making it the largest design event in the Netherlands and around 1500 Dutch and international designers showed their work across four design districts. This included graduates from the Design Academy Eindhoven who exhibited their projects at the highly anticipated Graduation Show.
Death and decay
From a set of vases grown out of mould, to a series of decomposable coffins for the stillborn, this year designers explore the uncomfortable and unsightly
Projects that incorporate human hair, animal carcasses and plastic-eating bacteria are all seen at the Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show
Academy Eindhoven graduate, Yasuhito Hirose, designed a lampshade to dignify dust. The diffuser of the Dust Shade is charged with static electricity, attracting layers of dust to build and take on the appearance of soft, fluffy cotton
Joost Wever's necklace of teeth and ceramic brain bowls were inspired by the symbolic vanitas used in 16th and 17th century still life paintings in Europe. The presence of the vanitas, typically a skull or rotten fruit, symbolises the transient nature of vanity and serves as a reminder of the certainty of death
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