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Europe, The Netherlands, Noord Brabant, Den Bosch, Design museum, 'Goth - designing darkness' exhibition (uncut)
The 'Goth – designing darkness' exhibition explores the dark side of the human mind and the human imagination & culture. The side that’s both fascinated and fearful of death, the occult and supernatural phenomena. That fascination has always been there. But in the middle of the 18th century, it came to the forefront due to the anxiety about the changing of society thru rapid urbanization and early industrialization. It was translated in funerary culture, painting and the plastic arts. It would later develop into the neurasthenia of the beginning of the 20th century. And literature brought us Mary Shelley (Frankenstein). In architecture Neo-Gothicism appeared too. It basically never went away. So it still inspires contemporary photography, cinema, video clips (Anton Corbijn), popular music (Siouxsie & the Banshees) and fashion. The exhibition offers an intriguing and eclectic historical overview. Displaying film clips featuring Bela Lugosi a.o. alongside Cuypers' neo-gothic architectural drawings.
Check it out and hurry, the exhibition closes on April 18.
This large model (beginning 20th century) shown here is informed by the fear of the urban with it high density and loss of individuality.
This is number 272 of the Museum album.
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Detail of the ceiling of the Design Museum, Kensington High Street. The building was designed by architect Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall and Partners and was completed in 1962. It was originally home to the Commonwealth Institute.
Detail of the ceiling of the Design Museum, Kensington High Street. The building was designed by architect Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall and Partners and was completed in 1962. It was originally home to the Commonwealth Institute.
Detail of the ceiling of the Design Museum, Kensington High Street. The building was designed by architect Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall and Partners and was completed in 1962. It was originally home to the Commonwealth Institute.
In the foreground, a detail of the 1962 building which houses the Design Museum, Kensington. In the background, the 2016 Holland Green apartment block.
The Spanish designer Jaime Hayon is regarded as one of the most influential young designers of this moment.
Commissioned by the London Design Festival, Hayon created this life-size chess set that was first exhibited on Trafalgar Square in London in 2009, forming the centrepiece of this event. The pieces consist of wooden base and a ceramic upper part, he hand-painted them himself.
His imagination was directly fired when he realized that Trafalgar Square had been named after the sea battle that the British fleet fought, under the command of Admiral Nelson, against a Spanish-French alliance. The British victory relied largely on a certain strategy, which reminded Hayon of chess tactics. He processed all kinds of icons and symbols of British culture into the chess pieces, including towers and domes in London.
Design Museum, Holon, Israel
Copenhagen – Design Museum
"Propellor Stool" by Jørgen Gammelgaard (1938-1991),
designed in 1970.
=> in Macro Mondays – 04.09.2017: "connection"
see also => on black
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Panton Chair – CPH Design Museum
The Panton Chair (Danish: Pantonstolen) is an S-shaped plastic chair created by the Danish designer Verner Panton (1925– 1998) in 1959. The world's first moulded plastic chair, it is considered to be one of the masterpieces of Danish design.
The chair was included in the 2006 Danish Culture Canon.
=> 7 Days with Flickr – "Macro or Close Up"
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Detail of the ceiling of the Design Museum, Kensington High Street. The building was designed by architect Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall and Partners and was completed in 1962. It was originally home to the Commonwealth Institute.
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