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#022: 100% Design 2007

22 September, 2007 - posted in art & design - 4 Comments - leave your own!

yoyopop! stealthed into this trade-only design expo in order to salvage info on the craziest new designs just for you.

We waded through everything from chairs made of toilet paper to lights that were also fans, a ’sperm’ table, a black chandelier, a chair made of tennis balls, a horrifically skeletal staircase, karaoke booths and of course all the suited bigwigs, to bring you just the coolest and best stuff.

First off though just got to say two of the coolest things at the show were also the only two times that you weren’t allowed to take photos so we’re calling out all those pompous cats that think they don’t need free publicity!

Earl’s Court 2 (only half the show!)

KLH had a very cool stand. It was more boring inside.

the indoor fabric garden (collaboration between JAM and Ted Baker)

Ali Siahvoshi - coat hanger, table leg and umbrella lights from this London-based Iranian designer.

‘cascading hanger’

these very cool airLUCE lights by Tranlogue use hidden LEDs to light up the acrylic

Zmapping have modelled the entirety of central London digitally, and then ‘printed’ out physical models using some kind of magical dust layering. Watch their video with their special ’stereo’ glasses on to see it in 3D.

here’s Waterloo Station!

a 1:50 model here of Metropol Parasol, Seville. Designed by Jürgen Mayer H, the largest timber member is 2.5m deep and 25m long!

awesome use of timber at Wickersley Northfield Primary School by Rotherham Construction Partnership, a Wood Awards nominee

RD4S chair by Cohda

The centrepiece of the show was this lighting & sculpture installation by Dominic Bromley at Scabetti:

those fishies up close

Danish designers showing their skills in timber with some… erm… things.

this is a chair!!?? The ’stick chair’ by Carlo Volf

‘The Big Apple’ by Henriette W. Leth, this one looks more comfortable

some scary chairs!

this one by Patrick Jouin

“sintered SLS polyamide powder” apparently, by Eloueini & Brument

cool tree-esque coat-hanging tower by Louise Jones

the tree in detail

Roger Vilder’s ‘Anamorphose 5′ - an arrangement of springs and rotating armatures to explore the illusion of perspective with unique geometric patterns being continually formed.

this Casamania leaf curtain system was mad funky

Royal Lamp (it’s not really that good!) by renowned Danish architect Arne Jacobsen.

very nice raccoon-fox-rabbit by Donna Wilson found at Thorsten Van Elten’s stand

cool lights by Mixko - they also had a traffic bollard!

dope pulse coat racks from Colin O’Dowd

Japan had its own section and was killing it as usual with new hoovers and board games, super-efficient office chairs and wooden calculators. The nonsensical lightbulbs were the highlight though:

by 100%

expo-goers vented their angers on the ‘100% Thought Wall’

So many chairs.

So many lights.

So much wallpaper.

100% thanks!

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