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DEBBIE MEYER’S kake-kut’r® TRIOTM
featured at The Design Museum London
DEBBIE MEYER’S kake-kut’r TRIO ®
Is featured in an INNOVATION EXHIBITION at The Design Museum London
The Design Museum
The Design Museum is the world’s first museum dedicated to 20th and 21st century design. Founded by Sir Terence Conran in 1989, the Design Museum has become a major London attraction and has won international acclaim for its groundbreaking exhibition, education and research programmes.
The Conran Foundation Collection
Each year, Conran invites a guest curator to collate a collection of designed objects. These are exhibited at the Design Museum for two months and then archived in the Conran Foundation Collection as a historical and educational reference resource. Past curators include Jasper Morrison, Ross Lovegrove, and Marc Newson. Designer Thomas Heatherwick has been chosen to curate the tenth anniversary of this tradition.
Thomas Heatherwick Studio
Founded in 1994 the Thomas Heatherwick Studio brings together architecture, design and art. The studio is made up of qualified practitioners of architecture and design and operates from a studio and workshop in London where design development, prototyping and fabrication take place under a single roof. Clients include English Heritage, the V&A, Science Museum, BMW, Harvey Nichols and Newcastle City Council.
2004 Collection
Previous collections have contained at most seventy objects, with an average price of £430 each. To mark this tenth anniversary collection, Thomas has chosen to explore the ideas, innovations and invention embodied in a collection of 1000 objects with an average price of £30 each. The challenge of this should not be underestimated; it has been necessary to employ a full time project manager to work with in order to meet a target of collecting at least eight objects a day over a six month collection period.
Thomas¹s criteria for inclusion in this collection is that each product contains inventive thinking which can be manifested in one or many of the following ways:
Physical use of materials, manufacturing technique, product function, packaging and presentation, aesthetic quality, creative and original decision-making and often simply just bold ambition.
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