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So last Thursday I headed down to London and hit the design museum. Initially to see the Web Wizards exhibition (which was pretty crap apart from the free games).
Wandering around the main section I came across the Conran FOundation at the back of the top floor.
Apparantely Sir Terry Conran chooses a guest curator to spend £30,000 on "things you'd like to live with" which are then exhibited.
This years exhibition included stuff from a wetsuit, frisbee golf discs, snap-on toolkit (and tools) and a cosmonaut's suit.
This, I think, is a cool idea and something I want to try and elemilate here so welcome to The Barbelith Foundation.
The rules:
Rather than using the values of the real thing I'd like you lot to list nine items "you'd like to live with". They have to be attainable and, in your eyes, design classics.
I'll start with my first four:
The Zippo lighter - still a classic of simple design, unchanged since it's creation back in (god knows).
Audi TT - in a time of crap box shaped vehicles on the road when the TT was launched it immediately turned my head. Thefact that it stands out from the crowd so much means I have to have it in my collection.
Clip frames - cheap cheerful and easy to use these give a post modern effect to anything you want to display, from photos to pages hacked out of a magazine to club flyers. Plus saves the walls from the perils of blu-tack.
Bang & Olfosen wall mounted Stereo - you know the ones I mean. With the fancy glass covering that exposes the cd and tape at the wave at a hand. The ones that every other hi-fi manufactures are now desperately coping, even though the original is still as old as me.
There my first four, now over to you lot and then you may get the rest of my list... |
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