Friday Diary: Prints! Exhibit Belgium
Prints! Motifs in Costume & Fashion History (1750-2000)
Design inspiration fanatics, color lovers, and pattern princesses (okay, that’s a bad one), if you’re anywhere near Belgium between now and January 8, 2012, power down your laptops and raise your eyes from your iphone as you head over to the Mode Museum Hasselt for some historical inspiration – prints and patterns of all kinds.
Why this is interesting / augments what you already know:
- Illustrates different phases in the life of notable motifs
- Looks at socio-economic changes
- Looks at technological innovation
- Examines relationship between fashion and applied arts, in particular interiors.
- From European prints to Indian chintzes
- Highlights historical printing methods such as block printing and cylinder printing
- Designers shown include Hermès, Emilio Pucci, Versace, Marimekko, Leonard, Dries Van Noten, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Jean Charles de Castelbajac and more
From website: “Varieties of motifs often reflect the collective taste and Zeitgeist of a certain period. Printing textile is also a complex industrial process and as such depended on innovation, mechanization, research and technological progress.”
You might also like our recent post highlighting favorite prints from Spoonflower, the online community for designers offering on-demand custom printed fabric. And check out guest bloggers, the duo known as “Pattern People” who discuss their historical inspirations as well as Argentinian graphic designer Laura Varsky’s prints and patterns. Also some picks from Katja Behre of Elli Popp wallpaper and textiles discussed here.
Also look at our other Friday Diary late summer / last chance exhibits and events:
1> Tracey Emin, London
2> The Int’l Gift Fair, New York
3> Contemplating Spaces of the Future, Denmark
Lead Image: Mastori*Motwary Studio. Images 2/3 courtesy of Mode Museum Hasselt (in order): Tim van Steenbergen AW 2011-2012, catwalk models from Lanvin SS11.
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Highlights from Milan Design Week 2011 – Triangles, Triangles, Everywhere
I took my usual hunt-for-female-talent cap off and put on my trend cap to troll the fiera and all of the design districts in Milan during design week to report on the surprising and delightful trends I found within for MyDeco readers in the U.K. and the U.S.* At first, I was struggling to find anything new and revolutionary that hadn’t evolved from trends already in full swing. Re-purposed materials? yes. Sustainable design? yes. Many-tentacled light fixtures? Yes. Modular furniture? Yes. But what was really new? The first thing that struck me was the preponderance of the triangle shape – usurping the squares, blocks and cubes of yesteryear.
Walking from exhibit to exhibit over my four day stay, I spied with my little eye, the following:
Wooden podiums at Wallpaper Handmade at Brioni:
Julien de Smedt at Belgium Is Design:
Table by Eyal Burstein who won the Designers of the Future Award for his pieces that double as social commentary:
Chair at ‘Promise design – New Design From Israel 2011′:
Chair by Bakery at ‘Promise design – New Design From Israel 2011′:
RCA Student Show at Ventura Lambrate:
Platter at ‘Promise design – New Design From Israel 2011′:
Lighting at ‘Promise design – New Design From Israel 2011′:
Joints to make triangles at Salone Satellite:
At ‘Promise design – New Design From Israel 2011′:
Table by Design POOL:
D.R.Y. (Don’t Repeat Yourself) by Vincent Van Duysen at D.R.Y.:
D.R.Y.:
*A slightly varied version of this piece was first published on mydeco.
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