Hasta La Ideas

Klaus Engelhorn, curator of Bulb Fiction, tries on POLKA’s ‘Perlenlicht’ prototype for size.

In the Hernals neighborhood of Vienna, we visited the Bulb Fiction show at the KlausEngelhorn Depot. Selections from the collections of Klaus Engelhorn and Michael Turkiewicz lighting objects from the late 1960s to the early 1970s were exhibited amongst a range of newly commissioned and contemporary lighting designs by various designers from the present day.

A selection of Vienna-based designers were asked to create a light source loosely based on the question, ‘What will happen to lamp designs when incandescent bulbs run out?,’ suggesting the impending demise of the incandescent lamp and its transition to the energy saving variety.

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Pscyhe, 2010 by Ulrike Lienbacher

At ak7’s Contemporary Design by Contemporary Artists, International artists collaborate with Tyroloean craftsmen to create a limited number of objects. Very much a show that discusses the growing trend in contemporary design where boundaries between art objects and designed products continue to blur.

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In collaboration with designforum Wien, Dyson celebrates 10 years of Dyson Austria with an exhibition detailing the whole Dyson range since the Ballbarrow, including his new air multiplier. Other highlights are cardboard prototypes and models sliced open to reveal the ways he and his huge R&D team have developed innovative air suction/flow patent.

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