flexibility - jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar

flexibility – jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar image © designboom

‘flexibility – design in a fast-changing society’ is one of the many events taking place in turin this year in conjunction with the city being named the ‘design world capital for 2008‘. the show consists of nine projects by international designers installed at a former prison ex carceri ‘le nuove’.

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vendôme is body of work takes a precondition of endless transformation as its point of departure. the idea is to parametrically generate a family of objects with different typologies including stools, pedestals and tables of different heights’. for their installation ‘jailbreak’ kram/weisshaar built a tower using a number of pieces from the vendôme series which  reached towards one of the prisons skylights.http://www.kramweisshaar.com

reed kram of kram/weisshaar elaborates on the projec video © designboom

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the vendôme series was originally conceived for ‘designers of the future’ part of design miami / basel 2008 – you can find more on the project here.

— see the nine installations:

renewable clothing by fernando brízio

instant rooms by matali crasset

liquid memory by ross lovegrove

chasen by patricia urquiola

mirror-blind by bertjan pot

flexible bench by giulio iacchetti

domestic sandbags by antenna design

jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar

my treasures trash by emiliana design studio

— ‘flexibility’ introduction flexibility – introduction