If ever a designer furniture contest could be compared to a game of "rock-paper-scissors" then surely Hella Jongerius against Frank O. Gehry.
The Mistress of Materials against the King of Solid Constructions.
And so developed this match. Frank Gehry applied all his radical geometry to try to find a way through the Dutch defence; but found himself continually hindered by the fact that natural material forms are always more sustainable than artificially generated: Or put another way Hella Jongerius genuine organic forms proved more than a match for Frank Gehry's contrived organic forms and in the closing minutes Hella Jongerius scored with a wonderful Bovist for Vitra.
The Group B table and all Group B results can be found here.
