 This is the third exhibition of young British designers organised by the British Council and Design Museum with Paul Smith Ltd. during the Milan Furniture Fair. The first in 2003 identified a new romanticism in design and helped launch the international careers of Tord Boontje, Sam Buxton, Mathias Bengtsson and Daniel Brown. The second Great Brits, the New Alchemists, introduced the raw, transformative and frequently surreal work of WOKmedia, Mathias Megyeri, Julia Lohmann and Peter Traag to Milan and an international audience in 2005.
Curators: Emily Campbell (British Council); Libby Sellars (Design Museum)
For more information please contact ellen.miller@britishcouncil.org.
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Peter Marigold’s furniture addresses the makeshift implications of temporary living with elegance and mechanical deftness. Hiroko Shiratori’s exquisite prototypes dissemble faux-artefacts derived from ancient Japanese stories. Conscientious entrepreneurs &made turn design into a socially-responsive performance of multifunctional objects. Eelko Moorer’s objects indulge improbable animalistic fantasies from flying to hanging and swinging through the jungle. By poignant and elemental means, Nadine Jarvis’s funeral urns return their precious contents to the earth. Some of these are needs we may not even know we have; a reminder of design’s dual-gratification of necessity and desire.