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Sir Terence Conran 'The Way We Live Now' @ The Design Museum

Post by Nic on Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:03 pm

Retrospective exhibition to mark Conran's 80th birthday at The Design Museum, London (which he, himself, founded in 1989 (the museum, not London Laughter)):

http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/2011/terence-conran

There's a great video interview with the man himself on the Guardian website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/video/2011/nov/16/terence-conran-design-video

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Post by Taylor Thomas on Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:23 pm

An exhibition that makes me glad I live in London town...... Happy

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Post by Nic on Wed Nov 16, 2011 11:13 pm

I don't particularly want to live in London, but I do greatly envy the ease of access to culture.

I'll try to wrangle a trip to the capital before the exhibition ends.

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Post by dantheman on Thu Nov 17, 2011 1:20 pm

I'll be in London in a couple of weeks but the da Vinci exhibition is more appealing to me

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Post by Nic on Thu Nov 17, 2011 3:56 pm

I've always been more design than art. I'd rather own a good lamp than a good painting. Embarrassed

That said, I've got more art than lamps hanging in the house. Laughter

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Post by dantheman on Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:04 pm

but it's not every day you get to see da Vinci's work ,Conran design is everywhere

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Post by Nic on Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:13 pm

I'd get excited by a decent Warhol exhibition... but Da Vinci doesn't really do it for me.

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Post by dantheman on Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:27 pm

I don't recognise Warhol as an artist

when I look at the stuff he produced my only conclusion is that he was trying to find how far he could go before the saps who were buying his work realised he was taking the p1ss,he only just fell short of bending over in front of a camera, evacuating his bowels and making a collage of 12 prints each in a different colour

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Post by Nic on Thu Nov 17, 2011 6:21 pm

Well... each to their own I s'pose.


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Post by Taylor Thomas on Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:20 pm

Nic wrote:I don't particularly want to live in London, but I do greatly envy the ease of access to culture.

I'll try to wrangle a trip to the capital before the exhibition ends.


I don't particularly want to live in London either Nic but as I do I take full advantage of all the exhibitions that take my fancy...

Looking forward to seeing this as well...

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/building-the-revolution/


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Post by Nic on Thu Nov 17, 2011 9:18 pm

Soviet architecture is definitely something I could get excited about. There was a book out earlier this year called CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed (would help if I got the right title!) - it showcases 90 jaw-dropping buildings from old Soviet Bloc countries. It's one of the few 'coffeetable books' I go back to read again.


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Post by Taylor Thomas on Thu Nov 17, 2011 10:08 pm

I'll check that out Nic...

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Post by Nic on Thu Nov 17, 2011 10:21 pm

Interview with the author, and some photos of the buildings: http://bigbigbigthings.com/2011/08/time-travel-tuesday-space-age-buildings-of-the-ussr/

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Post by tenpot on Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:24 pm

I'm a great fan of Warhol and leonardo by the way Dan andy did piddle on copper sheets and make screen printsof it . imo one of the greatest and most interesting thought provoking artists of the20th cent

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Post by dantheman on Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:32 pm

if looking at another man's pee floats your boat then that's great,the only thought it provokes is mucky bugger but that's just me

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