flexibility – jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar image © designboom
ex carceri ‘le nuove’, turin
june 29 – october 12, 2008
‘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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individual modules image © designboom
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
