BMW Kvadrat: The Dwelling Lab

For this year's milan design week, BMW and danish textile company Kvadrat are collaborating with designers Patricia Urquiola and GiulioRidolfo on an installation called 'the dwelling lab'.

The project explores the interior and exterior of the new BMW 5 series gran turismo.It is constructed from five geometrical cones, which are impacted into a model of the car.

The cones are covered in Kvadrat textiles and provide five different points of view into the vehicle.The partner lighting company on the project is FLOS.

'The Dwelling Lab' will be on show at the Kvadrat showroom, Corso Monforte 15, Milan
from April 14th - 19th, 2010.

All pics & info via www.designboom.com

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‘Wooden Textiles’ by Elisa Strozyk

Having studied at prominent arts colleges in Paris and Berlin, as well as for a MA in ‘Future Textile Design’ at London’s influential Central Saint Martins, Berlin born Elisa Strozyk is particularly well qualified, and it shows with the artistry and originality of her work, in particular her beautiful ‘Wooden Textiles’ project…. an innovative study of contrasting materials, hard and soft, flexible and rigid. Strozyk’s work is an antidote to the increasingly virtual, non-tangible world we live in, her vision is that “giving importance to surfaces that are desirable to touch can reconnect us with the material world and enhance the emotional value of an object”… with products this challenging and beautiful, reconnecting to the material world would be no problem whatsover….

All pics & info courtesy of www.weheart.co.uk

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