Home Futures

Home Futures: Living in Yesterday’s Tomorrow - Exhibition Catalogue

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The ‘home of the future’ has long intrigued designers and popular culture alike. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanised home or the notion that technology might liberate us from home altogether, the domestic realm was a site of endless invention and speculation. But what happened to those visions? Are today’s smart homes the future that architects and designers once predicted, or has our idea of home proved resistant to real change? Explores today’s home through the prism of yesterday’s imagination. Alongside original essays by leading voices in the field, this richly illustrated book features more than 200 colour images, organised in six thematic sections exploring privacy, the smart home, compact living, self-sufficiency, nomadic lifestyles and the idea of the home as an idyllic landscape. Ultimately this book proposes that we are already living in yesterday’s tomorrow, just not in the way anyone predicted The designers, architects and artists featured in this book include:Absalon // Ron Arad // Archigram // Archizoom Associati // Atelier Van Lieshout // Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec // Andrea Branzi // Joe Colombo // Michael Craig-Martin // Dunne & Raby // Yona Friedman // Buckminster Fuller // Richard Hamilton // Hans Hollein // Haus-Rucker-Co // Industrial Facility // Jan Kaplický // Frederick Kiesler // Mark Leckey // Linder // Enzo Mari // OpenStructures // Gaetano Pesce // Ugo la Pietra // Alison and Peter Smithson // SO–IL // Ettore Sottsass // Studio Makkink & Bey // Superstudio // Andrea Zittel With original essays on the home and its future by:Deyan Sudjic // Adam Greenfield // Pier Vittorio Aureli, Martino Tattara and Marson Korbi of Dogma // Sarah Kember // Emilio Ambasz // Jing Liu of SO–IL // Justin McGuirk // Eszter Steierhoffer

Amazing Archigram 4 print - large format A1

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Produced by the Design Museum exclusively for the Home Futures exhibition, this large format print features the front cover of Archigram Magazine Issue No. 4, 1964 Big and bold to make a statement on any wall Add a magnetic frame

Grid Pattern Sticky Notes

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Produced exclusively for the Home Futures exhibition at the Design Museum, these compact sticky notes are surrounded by a red and white grid pattern cover, which protects them from creasing, marking or coming loose on the go Inner pages are plain white paper with adhesive along the inside vertical edge of the page

Nuage Vase

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The shape of the Nuage vases made its first appearance in the oeuvre of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec in 2002. Reminiscent of a cloud, the motif was originally produced as a plastic shelf module that can be grouped into clusters or large-scale configurations. Eight tubular cavities pierce the flat surfaces of the modular element while also defining the form's outer contours For the Nuage vase, the designers executed the cloud motif in extruded aluminium profiles of varying lengths. The cavities in the basic form are now positioned upright, dividing the vase into eight individual tubes that can be used for the artful arrangement of flowers and grasses. The undulating surfaces, with an anodised finish in various colours, produce an attractive interplay of light and shadow. Thanks to their precise outer contours, the vases can be fitted together to create entire 'cloud formations' All vases

Plywood Mobile

£75.00 £95.00

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The Eames Plywood Mobile models by Vitra are replicas of the original mobiles, designed in 1941 by Charles & Ray Eames. The plywood mobiles consist of two abstract and organic plywood elements that playfully rotate around each other. The mobiles were born in the early 1940s in a series of experiments with plywood. At the time, Charles and Ray Eames wanted to advance the technique of laminated wood deformation. The two of them found the random mobiles so beautiful that they hung the models up in their apartment in Los Angeles Available in two models: A and B

849 Alexander Girard Ballpoint Pen

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The 849 Alexander Girard Ballpoint Pen is a collaboration between the mid-century modern artist and the Swiss pen maker Caran d'Ache Features a “double triangle” pattern in brilliant white varnish and is presented in a beautiful metal box decorated with the Girard “the eyes” pattern Matt black or pink varnish on light and resistant aluminium body Made in Switzerland

Dash Baby Blanket

£40.00 £70.00

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A gorgeous, hand knitted baby blanket with a sprinkle of dashes on a solid colour backdrop Knitted in Hackney, London, using the softest, warmest merino wool

Etto Cushion

£45.00 £55.00

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The Etto Cushion features pop art patterns and are an eye catching addition to any sofa, armchair or bed Comes with duck down cushion pad Made in London As all items are made by hand - please be aware that items may vary slightly from one another due to the nature of their construction