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Timed to coincide with the opening of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, Moss presents installations of work from three disparate and very different studios, which together offer a glimpse into the state of design and design process.

1. Bavaria

   by Studio Job

   Moss has collaborated with Studio Job on several major collections and exhibitions, including Perished (2006), Homework (2006), Robber Baron (2007), Graphic Paper (2007), and Golden Still Life and Golden Biscuit (2007). Presenting their work in collections that they consider as chapters in an evolving narrative, Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel created Bavaria (2008), a limited-edition suite of five masterfully-executed marquetry furnishings inspired by the 17th and 18th century tradition of hand-painted furniture in the southern German province. Featuring exuberant ‘book-matched’ multicoloured laser-cut wooden inlays set densely, and ‘painterly’, in a Rosewood ground, each work depicts a unique series of Utopian heraldic patterns rendered through paradisiacal rustic iconography, wantonly dismissing the historic distinctions between the fine, the graphic, and the applied arts.

2. .MGX by Materialise

   The Belgian company Materialise, renowned for their innovation in the field of Additive Layered Fabrication (ALF), continues to explore through its new and highly inventive design label, .MGX by Materialise, new possibilities in 3D printing techniques, including the advanced technologies of stereolithography, selective laser sintering, and fused deposition modelling. Moss presents their most celebrated new ‘icons’ of ALF, an all digital technique, whereby material is transformed from one state to another (liquid to solid or welding of material particles by laser beam). Included are works by Luc Merx, Patrick Jouin, Hani Rashid, Bathsheba Grossman, Jiri Evenhuis, Strand & Hvass, Lars Spuybroek, Assa Ashuach, Peter Jansen, Platform Studio and Matthias Bär, Arik Levy, Amanda Levete, and Dan Yeffet.

3. To be continued

   by Julien Carretero

   Having established his studio in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, where he recently graduated from that city’s famed Design Academy, Julien Carretero explores issues of control and perfection in serial production through his limited-edition Bench and Table, from the series To be continued. Using the repetitive actions existing within the production process as a tool, ironically, for highlighting differentiation as opposed to regularity, multiple casts in a polyurethane composite, variously coloured, are layered one on top of the next, creating a long series of ‘slices’ which cause these remarkable works to gradually mutate—in a sense, imperfectly ‘designing’ themselves.

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