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"As in 2001, during the 2002 Cologne International Furniture Fair three internationally known designers squeezed themselves into the town's best known building between buildings. There they presented their ideas on the subject of ""expanding the gap"". From Tokyo came the idea of expanding the exhibition space with an installation to make it snow. Designer Tokujin Yoshioka had 18 kilos of down whirled up by fans at the end of the room to create an everlasting blizzard, and the largest snowball of the year. - In order to burst through the austere geometry of the exhibition building, projections from lava lamps from the London-based designer Ross Lovegrove covered the greater part of the interior. The coloured, gently moving bubbles created in these lamps by heat caused the sharp contours and hard black and white contrasts of the ceilings and walls to melt and flow. - Greg Lynn from Los Angeles installed an overdimensioned, organic sculpture on one of the side walls. It reached out well into the room, and so the visitors were obliged to squeeze past it and search on the other side for space."

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Author:   Martin Rendel ,  Rene Spitz
Publisher:   Edition Axel Menges
Imprint:   Edition Axel Menges
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9783932565281

ISBN 10:   3932565282
Pages:   112
Publication Date:   20 August 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Language:   English & German

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"Martin Rendel studied design in Germany and Switzerland. He has had his own studio since 1995, first in Hamburg, then in Paris. He has prepared designs for clients including L'Oreal, Yves Saint-Laurent and Gucci. He has worked jointly on projects with Rene Spitz since 1998. Spitz studied German, communications and history in Munich and Cologne. He has worked in advertising since 1988, first as a partner in the Munich agency Oesterle, Spitz & Jaeger, then as a freelance. He was awarded the ""Roter Punkt"" for high-quality design in 1991. He has published work on themes relating to design history, and reports on the radio and in the specialist press on current events on the design scene."

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