Hasta La Ideas

Kikut; containers for dried mushrooms by Anderssen & Voll, top, and Gro, a watering can by Petter Skogstad, Hallgeir Homstvedt, Espen Voll and Torbjorn Anderssen, pictured bottom

Oslo-Tokyo is a design exhibition as part of the Design Tide show in Tokyo currently running until November 3rd.

The Oslo-Tokyo exhibition has been set up by a group of Norwegian designers to explore the notion of ‘Norwegian’. The cultural origin of a geographical affiliation, has in recent years become less relevant as a sales argument therefore these designers have chosen to focus on their individual experiences of Oslo. The brief was to develop a prototype based on a specific situation or place related to the city of Oslo with each product detailing their own personal story.

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