Paris Design Week is largely about brand in-store and similar PR driven presentations. An extension if you will of Maison et Objet into the city, and thus predictably prosaic. Largely. Not exclusively. Throughout the city there are/were stimulating and challenging presentations to be found and interesting designers and manufacturers to be discovered and enjoyed. Among the new discoveries we made at Paris Design Week 2017 was Paris based studio woodmade. Mali à bascule by woodmade, as seen
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Designers are prone to spending inordinate amounts of time shaving a millimetre of a surface thickness. Or trying to increase the distance between two points by a couple of millimetres. Occupations which to the uninitiated can appear just a tick obsessive. In how far however relatively small changes of scale, differences of a few millimetres, can alter not only the physical appearance of a product, but the very character of a product, was elegantly explained by Danish manufacturer Houe at
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Amongst the objects Jasper Morrison selected from the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich’s archive for the "MyCollection" section of his Thingness retrospective is/was a prototype for a wooden rocking chair by the Swiss designer and architect Jacob Müller. A wooden rocking chair from the 1920s. Which belongs in the 2020s. In the exhibition notes Jasper Morrison states that “the addition of the rocking function is also part of its appeal” Part? In as far as 95% can be considered a “part”, then
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