Martin Boyce

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (NYC) presents Martin Boyce.

"But this passageway has neither entrance or exit...." Haruki Murakami.

"Through a series of architectural interventions - free standing windows and hanging lanterns - Boyce transforms the space into an immersive and dream-like landscape."

Where shall I lead you today? .........I know, 1920's Americana, and the release of two gems from the period. The wonderfully named Imaginational Anthem Vol.6  and the lighter, fiddle and banjo of Charlie Poole and the Highlanders. If you want to escape to another place, these will definitely work.

Richard Bottwin

Richard Bottwin - "A sense of disorientation, implied weightlessness and the element of surprise are created by the reductive forms and subvert the modernist vocabulary of the simple constructions."

Kundera Chair

In my (humble) opinion, Kundera, by gud conspiracy is so much more successful, pleasing and well crafted than Konstantin Grcic's Medici Chair, which won the recent big Design Museum prize for 2013.
Rem Koolhaas OMA  is currently reinventing the Old Commonwealth Institute building for the upcoming Design Museum move, which is very exciting. But I really hope the curators pull their socks up regarding the stuff they are going to put in it, as this years awards are a joke.
Swiftly moving on, and back to Kundera, I really like the precision, its lean but healthy, the seat is slightly over-pitched (in a good way) and there is a real honest symbiosis between form and construction.

Liliana Ovalle

Some interesting suff from Liliana Ovalle. Particularly fond of the tables which are counter balanced with hand carved soap-stones, like glorified Stage-weights.

Thomas Kral

Good use of a trough by Thomas Kral with his Homework desk.