Hasta La Ideas

Berlin native and Eindhoven graduate Yi Cong Lu is an industrial designer based in Leipzig. In 2010 he accepted a teaching post in ID at the University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle (ed. note: which partially explains their strong showing at Ventura Lambrate), and his students’ gain is our loss; prior to his professorship, Lu maintained a website filled with his experimental design ideas.

His Chairs, Up and Down and Upside Down project from ’07 does the Quakers one better, turning folding chairs into short-term storage and closet space:

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