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

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The Eames Plywood Mobile model by Vitra is a replica of the original mobiles designed in 1941 by Charles & Ray Eames. The plywood mobile consist of two abstract and organic plywood elements that playfully rotate around each other. The mobile was 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

Metal Sun Wall Relief

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Metal wall relief carefully chosen by Vitra from Alexander Girard's estate for their impact and timelessness The Sun is one of the most popular motifs by the American designer Alexander Girard. As a large wall relief made out of solid brass, the sun is a decorative and sculptural wall element all in one. It was crafted as a wall decoration for The Compound restaurant and Girard's own house in Santa Fe

Girard Pillow - Love

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Alexander Girard was a versatile skilled architect and designer for furniture and textiles, interior design, graphic design, exposition design and industrial design. These graphic cushions in three distinct patterns: heart, maze graph and eyes, represent his versatility and graphic skills The world of Alexander Girard consisted of happy colours and patterns, abstract and geometrical shapes or unique colour constellations. The focus of his work was textile design, where he expressed his love for colours, textures and graphical patterns Girard unified motives of traditional arts with abstract patterns in his works. Even his simplest graphical patterns reached high differentiation because of their clear colours and many of his patterns and figures express delighted playfulness. The graphic print pillows vitalise some of these designs: abstract graphical or expressive figurative patterns make up powerful accents

Guframini Pratone

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Exclusively available in the UK from the Design Museum Shop, the mini Pratone plays with the juxtaposition of a "large-small" proportion by reducing to 7/8 the giant Pratone that was designed in 1972 by Ceretti, Derossi, and Rosso, and exhibited that year at the MoMA as part of the Italy: The New Domestic Landscape exhibition Just like the original version, by 1/8th the size, the base of the "mini" sculpture shows the writing ‘Pratone’ on one of the sides, and 42 soft stems stretching in different directions complete the radical look of this little icon