Thursday, March 13, 2003
Paging Dr Freud!
Good grief. I've just remembered that last night I *dreamt* I was in Habitat trying to buy the new cheap version of Tord Boontje's 'Wednesday Light'...of course, in the dream, it was on display but out of stock. I AM DREAMING ABOUT DESIGNER LAMPSHADES. (This perhaps vindicates this week's decision to quit working for The Man and being a starving artist...)
'I didn't want my work to be too fashionable or perfect. It's neither of the past nor the present. It's normal - like a Wednesday.'
Tord Boontje is my new favourite designer. It started when I saw his 'Wednesday' collection - the etched steel light and table and the glassware - at the Craft Council's Pattern Crazy exhibition. I was stunned by the beauty and fragility of the light - laser-cut from steel but so delicate it shimmied if you blew on it. The whole of the exhibition was wonderful - particularly my longtime love Michael Brennand-Wood's giant 'Stars Underfoot' photos - but I kept going back to the Wednesday light for another look. It even had Boontje's signature etched in miniscule script on one of its leaves.
Then the Wednesday light (£150) began appearing in all the style magazines. Then I started spotting other Boontje items - such as a stunning £1,800 Swarovski chandelier. One day I spotted a GOLD version of the Wednesday light in Elle Decoration - and read on, assuming I'd hear it was a limited edition gold-plated version and about £300 - but it is in fact a mass-produced brass version and on sale in Habitat for just £15!
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Good grief. I've just remembered that last night I *dreamt* I was in Habitat trying to buy the new cheap version of Tord Boontje's 'Wednesday Light'...of course, in the dream, it was on display but out of stock. I AM DREAMING ABOUT DESIGNER LAMPSHADES. (This perhaps vindicates this week's decision to quit working for The Man and being a starving artist...)
'I didn't want my work to be too fashionable or perfect. It's neither of the past nor the present. It's normal - like a Wednesday.'
Tord Boontje is my new favourite designer. It started when I saw his 'Wednesday' collection - the etched steel light and table and the glassware - at the Craft Council's Pattern Crazy exhibition. I was stunned by the beauty and fragility of the light - laser-cut from steel but so delicate it shimmied if you blew on it. The whole of the exhibition was wonderful - particularly my longtime love Michael Brennand-Wood's giant 'Stars Underfoot' photos - but I kept going back to the Wednesday light for another look. It even had Boontje's signature etched in miniscule script on one of its leaves.
Then the Wednesday light (£150) began appearing in all the style magazines. Then I started spotting other Boontje items - such as a stunning £1,800 Swarovski chandelier. One day I spotted a GOLD version of the Wednesday light in Elle Decoration - and read on, assuming I'd hear it was a limited edition gold-plated version and about £300 - but it is in fact a mass-produced brass version and on sale in Habitat for just £15!
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