Design Exquis is a partner event of the London Design Festival.
It makes its UK début at the Hoxton Hotel in Shoreditch.
Where:
The Hoxton Hotel
81 Great Eastern St
London
When:
14 September – 14 October
Free Entry.
Design Exquis’ innovative concept is based on the ‘Cadavre Exquis’ (Exquisite Corpse) technique, whose British equivalents are ‘Chinese Whispers’ and ‘Consequences’. Using this idea, Design Exquis has created its own game. The rules are as follows:
An object is chosen for its design qualities.
A designer is invited to react to it by producing a work.
This work is, in turn, answered to by a second designer.
The process is repeated.
None of the designers but the first one know what the first object is.
None of the designers know who the others are.
The only information they receive is the last object created
The exhibition narrative takes the viewer from metamorphosing furniture to bacteria detectors, through to calcified sandcastles and a kit which turns the concept of the souvenir on its head.
Projects by four international designers are featured, including Veronika Gombert (barberyOsgerby, Jasper Morrison), Mikael and Milan Metthey (RCA, MoMA 2006-2007, Milan Design Week 2009), bold-design (VIA) and breadedEscalope design studio (Milan Design Week 2012, Beijing International Design Triennial 2011).
