On the train down to Kortrijk and the 2016 Biennale Interieur we started drafting this introduction. The talk was of the 25th anniversary edition, the relevance of the event in context of the European furniture and design market - then and now - and the strength(s) of contemporary Belgian furniture design Then we saw that organisers were charging 50 cents to use the toilet. In a fair. Ctrl A. Ctrl X. It may "only" be 50 cents, but.... having charged visitors €22,00 to enter a fair. You
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We were famously first drawn to the work of Belgian designer Tim Baute aka Interror.be via a lamp he showed at Designers Fair Cologne 2010. And his SevenUp, a moody and reduced down chandelier, remains one of our reference products. Tim is however a metalworker by training and so it was good to see him presenting a new steel product range for his debut at DMY Berlin. And although named after the B-2 Bomber, the range doesn't have its origins in the secretive world of military aviation, but
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"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in" Arlo Guthrie's quote features on interror.be in conjunction with the product sevenup - a light that ironically proves that although a dark can be helpful to a light ... it aint a pre-requisite. Reminiscent of Rody Grauman’s 85 lamps for droog - just with only seven bulbs and with the bulbs elegantly held apart form one another - sevenup is a wonderful modern interpretation the classic chandelier. Stripped to the bare essentials - cables,
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