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REM!

|Beautiful new Milan venue of Fondazione Prada in which art can be shared with the public. The building at the left is plastered with real gold. The transformed distillery offers 11,000

Exercises in Seating in a Garage

|In Milan I loved an exhibition of chairs in an old garage. All chairs were dominated by their material, and I especially fancied a tiny Poly Bronze combi, carved from a

Vanitas Preserves

|Simply prefect execution of a new range of preserves, to be sold at the Rijksmuseum. The pork sausage is preserved with typical VOC spices: mace and nutmeg,

From stone to paper to light

|The first object I bumped into at iSaloni was this Danish hand pleated table lamp, combined with ceramic dinnerware. The 50’s lamp was not distributed widely; and now is re-launched.

Design your own car

|These 112 miniature cars are purely made out of biological materials. The way we make things, produce things and recycle things might actually change. The concept here is

Your light is my life

|Go and see this funny and moving work; the sculptures provide food for thought, ranging from the crisis to mass consumption to stress with some dark humor, like the black bird saying “You

Hollandse Heren – Dutch Gentlemen

|Last week I visited this show with my art school teacher, who painted 18 well-known Dutch men, dressed in just a white tank top; a direct style which for centuries characterised

Golden ID

|Quite big golden earrings were worn by fishermen in The Netherlands. They are all different to identify the wearer in case he drowned. With the gold his family could pay for

Intellectual & emotive moves

|The strong black line is the representation of the force of fate in our lives. The other elements are all the ideas, emotions, relationships and events in our lives.

Pass from mother to daughter

|Inspired from Mata Hari to Indian culture, Russian jewellery designer Lilya Areifulina just started in 2012 with her first collection. I especially fancy the body chain. All items are crafted with gold, diamonds and

Split with gradation

|I’m looking forward to the Milan furniture expo; I need dining chairs. Love to try out these split chairs with beautiful color grading. Click here to see

Upgrade and re-use

|The Thonet Nº 14 is one of the first mass-produced chairs of the industrial age. Rubberized the chair looks more comfortable. Would love to see this in

A man-of-war

|My son is making a Portuguese man-of-war from metal at school. The fantastic Physalia Physalis is made up of a colony of organisms working together.

Work with eyes closed

|Life shown as color, light, movement, layers. Human, thinking, embracing, structure. The artist sometimes paints with his eyes closed. Art Bernard Frize

Mesmerizing color-layers of graffiti

|Fantastic, rigorous experiential work. Saatchi about the painter: “Oehlen approaches painting with the uncontrollability of Tourettes syndrome. Chaotic and visually overloaded… violently clamouring for attention… clawing for meaning

His horizon is mine

|Water and the Dutch. I live at the IJssel lake/IJsselmeer in Holland, and so does this photographer. Years ago I wanted to buy one of his

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