Well, I've made it to post number 21!

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So, March's major chair lust was the Osso chair, which has been nominated for Designs of the year 2012. However, with a new month upon us, something else has caught my eye a little...

This is Sjoerd Vroonland's design for Moooi: The Extension Chair

Très intéressant, ouaih? At this moment in time I'm pondering how about this cantilever action is incorporates (it must have additional weight pumped into the one side, surely?)

Survey; A series of 6266 postcards between 2009- 2012

Could I get away with justifying this as an office purchase? Not really. But the chair's quirks are growing on me a little, it's both useful and useless at the same time. What I mean by that is; one of the chair extensions acts as a coat hanger, and I can't think of one person in the office who doesn't throw their coat over the back of their chair. But maybe this is sparking a change? Perhaps Moooi are encouraging us to embrace the 6ft stick? Who knows... but I'm heading off for a meeting at the V&A tomorrow morning, so I'll undoubtedly rekindle a lust for an old classic at their British Design Exhibition at some point that day.

Also if you get a chance, go have a look around Zoe Leonard's exhibition at Camden Arts Centre. I went there yesterday to bask in the glorious weather. Their café= divineee!

Leonard chose to include a few drilled holes from the previous deinstall as part of her work. Quite like this.

♥ camera obscura love.

Blossom and art galleries: the finest combination.

You walk into Gallery1, where Leonard has created a backdrop of CAC's surroundings through the medium of a camera obscura. It's rather mesmerising, you just watch thus urban landscape which kind of feels like a form of escapism. You forget your surroundings for a moment, and just gaze out at the city landscape in front of you in a moment of serenity (albeit, assisted by the great bean bags...). It's rather odd actually thinking about it, because even though the work is a direct projection of Arkwright Road, that piece in the exhibition is actually courtesy of Galerie Gisela Captain Colone and Galleria Raffaela Cortese Milan.

How can a work like this be owned by a gallery? Humm...




The MOOOI chair can be purchased from Utility Design, Liverpool 

Zoe Leonard: Observation Point runs at Camden Arts Centre until June 24 2012

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Labels: British Design Victoria and Albert Museum, Camden Arts Centre, Camera Obscura, Chair Lust of the Month, CHAIRS, Design Museum, MOOOI Extension Chair, VVS