Nature of Japan

You can find more details on his website: http://blog.martinbaileyphotography.com/exhibitions/

alon's online shop

Probably not many of you know that we've also run a design gift shop called ALON in Lugano for the last five years. Business is doing well and three months ago we were faced with the option of either moving to a much larger space downtown or expand our shop online.

We went with the latter, and after three months of hard hard work, our ONLINE SHOP is ready for primetime!.

So, for design lovers out there, punch in the code DESIGNFAN03 at checkout for a 10% discount on any order over 100CHF courtesy of the studio to celebrate with us this happy milestone.

Cheers.

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Refuge, Five Cities
May 12 2010 - Jun 26 2010

Refuge, Princen's most recent project, could be described as a photographic fiction of sorts. Although it is the result of extensive travels and research in five cities of the Middle East and Turkey - Istanbul, Beirut, Amman, Cairo and Dubai - it could just as easily pass as the pictorial record of a drive through a single, imaginary city: a city without a center, populated by extraordinary and at times implausible architectural artifacts; an urban laboratory whose physical traits are defined by migratory flows, spatial transformation and geopolitical flux on a continental scale. 

An architect by training, Princen has for many years used photography as a tool to observe, record and interpret the contemporary landscape. His photographs - themselves unmanipulated representations of reality - invite the viewer to construct an imaginary landscape that lies beyond the frame, outside the limits of the viewfinder. 

Refuge is not, however, an exercise in abstraction. It is a documentation of the spatial products of refuge, ranging from migrant worker camps to gated satellite cities in the desert or the frequent proximity between abject poverty and extreme wealth, that at the same time sidesteps the cliches and the iconic emblems of segregation and seclusion. Starting from its peripheries, Princen's photographs conduct the viewer through a cityscape that is both familiar and remote, ominous and beautiful. 

Biography: 
Bas Princen (Zeeland, Netherlands 1975) is an artist and photographer living and working in Rotterdam. His work focuses on the transformations of the urban landscape researching the possible future scenarios and outcomes by the use of photography.

FOTOGRAFIE DAL WORKSHOP CON PINO MUSI - some of my work will be displayed at the foyer of the Cinema Teatro in Via Dante Alighieri 3b in Chiasso from Friday, February 26th with a group of incredibly talented photographers.

"I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares."

thefuntheory.com - a Volkswagen initiative to change people's behavior by making everyday activities fun.

Monza
design Konstantin Grcic

Armchair, ash wooden structure – natural lacquered or stained- lacquered in black or wenge. Backrest in polypropylene in the colours in black, grey white, traffic red, wine red, light blue, yellow green. Stackable.

Mod. 1900-12 dimensions (cm):
height: 76 / seat height: 45 / depth: 50 / width: 53 / armrest height: 64


Faculty: Civil Engineering & Geosciences (CEG)
Individual entry: Henk Jonkers.

from TUDelft