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Design Week 2013 at: Ventura Lambrate Via Massimiano 25, Milan opening hours: April 9 - 13, 2013 10:00 am to 8:00 pm April 14, 2013 10:00 am to 6:00 pm open evening: April 10, 2013 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm for editorial requests and information: Sabine Schweigert, +39 347 0868023, press@sabineschweigert.com |
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wyssem nochi 79 Au bench individual or in a stack, gold is a foam bench covered with mirror-gold synthetic leather, the block physical mass would weigh 9 tons if it were metal. foam upholstered with synthetic mirror gold leather 76cmx190cmx43cm |
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Buck$. arm chair arm chair - polycarbonate skin strapped to a ply-wood palette - cover a stack of 18,000,000$. bills. 180x10000$ banded block notes printed on 80gr. ‘surfin’ paper, with nochi skull x-ray replacing president Benjamin Franklin portrait. paper, plywood and polycarbonate skin 79cmx79cmx71cm |
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FDVF "feuille de vigne femelle" couch this seat reinterprets a Marcel Duchamp 1950 work. “pas encore été clarifié. Ready-made érotique? moulage simulé de l’organe féminin? modelé à la main? Il semble plus exact de reconnaître dans cette oeuvre ambiguë, un moulage - moulage du sexe féminin rasé, selon un protocole que Man Ray dit avoir effectué avec Duchamp sur le corps d’une prostituée - rectifié, recadré, poncé, etc. si Duchamp a voulu, sur cet objet, maintenir l’énigme de son origine, c’est que la référence à un corps réel se double d’une référence, au corps fictif d’Etant Donnés, dont il peut être considéré comme une étude préparatoire. Il aura été rendu illisible - à une époque où Duchamp maintenait secrète l’entreprise Etant Donnés - par simple retournement de la forme (une fente) en contre-forme (une lame).” styrofoam, fiber mesh, concrete and powder coat and sheep skin cover 128cmx115cmx107cm |
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brick brick ice cream pod limited edition for gino’s gelateria brushed or polished stainless steel 13.2cmx24.4cmx7.3cm |
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Fe (fertilizer) recycled product - 100% natural preserve content: carbon 2.4%, silicon 1.8%, manganese 0.5%, iron 94.6% the grey cast iron bench legs were machine ground and put in 24 numbered glass jars 1/11(a) 1/11 (b) to serve as fertilizer to infuse in water or sprinkle over earth. glass jars 12/12 (a) and 12/!2(b) contain remnant iron dust, and cross section of each bench leg. “iron fertilization is intended to enhance biological productivity, it can benefit the marine food chain and remove carbon dioxide form the atmosphere. iron is a trace element necessary for photosynthesis in all plants.” © wyssemnochi for smogallery “ashes to ashes, and dust to dust” (david bowie) glass jar: 9cmx14cm glass jar stack: 60cmx56cm poster: 81cmx109cm |
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liquid mercury hexagon arm chair view catalog on: http://issuu.com/bokja/docs/sufi-facebook Stage 4 / Skull...Of My Father Verse 3 “Always those who are being loved are the others I will not live as a stone in a locked room I will lie down under the skull of my father as an incomplete kiss I will leave the lips of my sister she who has just been killed.” from poem ‘The Eights Son’ by Jolan Haji words illustrated by Everitte Barbee Wyssem Nochi, presents stage 4 from 'The Seven Stages of the Heart. A collaboration with Bokja - Huda Baroudi and Maria Hibri - presented in Design Day Dubai 2013. The collection is rooted in the Sufi teaching that in order to liberate oneself from the layers of ignorance, one must embark on a pilgrimage through the seven stages of the heart. 14 metal chairs, 7 of which are upholstered with Bokja assemblage, have been designed by wyssem nochi: a chair in which the extension of the lines of hexagon form a pyramid, putting the head and breathing person’s nose within an invisible pyramid’s energy field. Each chair represents a stage in the journey to remove all material, and earthly desires. 304 mirror polished stainless steel. 80cmx80x75cm |
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le vide bedside table (percussion instrument) - black and white modules view video on You Tube: http://youtu.be/w436wY8AbgE in a ‘trompe l’oeil’ application, the work reinterprets “the void” of Yves Klein, “la spécialization de la sensibilité a l’état matière première en sensibilité picturale stabilizée.” Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, 1958. mdf with painted graphics 32cmx32cmx50cm |
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universe composition door mat / carpet a black grey and white wool rectangle carpet represent a precise quantification of matter in our universe; dark energy 73%, dark matter 23%, intergalactic gas 3.6%, and stars etc. 0.4%. 100% wool door mat: 120cmx84cm carpet: 200cmx151cm |
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food stick chair and table, with movable plateau please do not sit, bird feeding area like a bird food stick, the chair and table are coated in honey with a brush then sprinkled over with bird seeds. birds eat away seed and mark chair surface with their bill, chair will carry trace of this whenever it is offered to them, then washed and appropriated for personal use. the plateau serves as bird bath or feed plateau, or a service tray, or used as traditional lap tray to sort stones from lentils. iroko or pine set chair: 50cmx40cmx80cm table: 30cmx30cmx45cm plateau: 50cm transatlantic beach sand or water container the container in wood can contain loose sand or water to drag to location by a pull rope and handle, for a sun bath. the work takes the Situationist International quote ‘sous le pave la plage’ and transforms it to; la ou l’on veut, la plage. iroko or pine, rope 78cmx198cmx12cm |
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rocker rocking chair hand made from several palm stems bent into form. weighs 3.3kg. tested under 150 kg. rattan 50cmx82cmx71cm |
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bagback folding portable chair in rattan bagback is a back rest made of three rattan sticks joined together with rope, a cushion and bleu, blanc, rouge, or camouflage fabric mat - detachable store bag to carry on items to a picnic. bag: 36cmx46cmx4cm back rest deployed: 107cm - 168cmx47cm |
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sinbad soap bar (slab and sink) oversize soap bar for use indoors in an open bath space or outdoors in a lush green garden. rub on a moist cloth or hand, to apply the soap onto body then rinse off with water. olive, palm, and coconut oils, lavender, sea salt, ultramarine, and gold leaf. brass plate, marine plywood base, and mould box. slab: 160cm 80cmx17cm sink: 52cmx40cmx25cm |
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w&co. (limo) custom 2 chairs bench extension 2 chairs with plank extension respond to a basic requirement of becoming a ‘famille nombreuse’ with a family badass (white vote) imprint on board. order of appearance: [wyssem, obi, neo, lou, and cecile] chairs in beech, board in pine, white paint 54cmx180cmx88cm |
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buiding remains piled table and chandelier "building remains piled" table and chandelier are made from recycled concrete blocks, and building columns. this is a variation on the work 'building remains wired' chairs and light fixture. concrete block, steel wire, concrete, socket wire and light bulb. table: 80cmx115cmx66cm chandelier: 110cmx60cmx100cm |
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