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Accidental Carpet Tejo Remy René Veenhuizen Unter Zwischen im Ampelhaus Oranienbaum
Designer | 23.07.2014

Unter Zwischen im Ampelhaus, Oranienbaum

In 2011 a group of Dutch artists and designers established the Orangemann Trust and set about converting an old, abandoned house in the centre of Oranienbaum into a gallery for contemporary art and design. That Oranienbaum is a village of some 3000 inhabitants situated 150 kilometres south of Berlin, 80 kilometres north of Leipzig and 4 light years from the next railway station, the location could appear somewhat questionable. Could. Were it not for the fact that modern Oranienbaum was

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Droog | 15.09.2011

Fantastical Investments by Droog and Metahaven

As if it wasn't hard enough to keep up with the various project strands that twine together to form Droog. They've launched an imaginary brand. We did consider marking the moment by penning an imaginary post. But that would be to completely miss the point. Again. Created from the Moscow leg of the Droog Lab "Here, there, everywhere" project, Fantastical Investments is both a response to consumer habits in Russia and a vision of how the world of the future could look. The Droog Lab team

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Designer | 20.01.2010

smow am rhein: droog

Truth be told we'd expected a bit more bravery from our favourite Amsterdam anarcho-artisans. But no, no tree-trunk bench on the droog presence in Cologne. At least there was people - in comparison to their stand at ICFF 2009 in New York where they made do with a shadylace. High-point for us, however, was without doubt the Rag Chair. And especially the woman who sat on it, looked at her companion and said "Hard as stone!!" And Rag Chair is; which is of also why it is comfortable. The

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