STATE OF CRAFT part 2

Collaborative exhibit between Fendi and Design Miami December 2009. Excerpt from NYT magazine below.

For three days during Milan’s design week, Spazio Fendi was filled not with models parading down the runway but with young designers cutting, pleating, weaving and generally transforming materials and processes in live demonstrations, in “Craft Punk,” organized by Design Miami. Garden hoses were turned into chairs, ceramic vases were decorated by means of an old-fashioned photographic printing technique, and scraps of leather discarded from Fendi’s factories became tabletops, to name of few of the freewheeling projects on display. http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/on-the-make-craft-punk-in-milan/