Fundstücke: Bedtime stories by Alfredo Häberli

May 8, 2008

There are two sides to Häberli’s cartoons: the daytime idyll and the nighttime adventure. The fluorescent elements on the curtain fabric “Village” start to glow when it gets dark. They are invisible during the day.

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The twentieth ICFF

May 8, 2008

From May 17 through 20, 2008 the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) is being held in the Jacob K Javits Center in New York. In the international design calendar the ICFF plays a minor role, but it takes place in the Big Apple, which is where Europeans particularly like to meet, especially in the sonny month of May.

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Da Vinci and his lighting man

May 5, 2008

Peter Greenaway’s multimedia dinner at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2008 in Milan

Leonardo da Vinci’s very fragile “Last Supper”, painted in egg tempera on a wall of the refectory of the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, is the pride and joy of Milan. So after the typical arguments, concerned for the safety of the carefully and arduously restored mural, the City of Milan decided to not grant director Peter Greenaway permission to himself realize his cineastic project relating to the “Cenacolo” at the original location.

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