Looking ahead: Design Days Dubai launches this month during Art Week. Velcro would love to be there, gawking and staring at all the wonderful and sumptuous designs which have been put together for the inaugural edition. Perhaps next year. All the best to fair director Cyril Zammit and to the organisation team!

Design Days Dubai is the first fair in the Middle East and South Asia dedicated to collectible and limited edition design. Held in partnership with the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, DDD is a forward-thinking concept that presents exclusive and limited edition furniture, objects and works by international designers.

Bringing a fresh dimension to the region’s arts and design scene, DDD aims to be a flagship regional design event and global forum for attracting leading international design galleries, collectors, designers, critics and curators.

DDD will be held from March 18-21 at a purpose-built venue in Downtown Dubai. 

The fair, along with world-renowned contemporary art fair Art Dubai, is an integral part of Art Week, a broad programme of cultural events taking place across the United Arab Emirates during the month of March.

 http://designdaysdubai.ae/

Velcro’s loving the simplicity of this duo’s designs!

http://www.pottingerandcole.co.uk/

Godspeed Furniture launched in 2008 in Tel Aviv by Finn Ahlgren, (Sweden) and Joy van Erven (Holland). They started building bars and interiors, using very badly decayed scrap wood found on the street and put an added challenge of making the piece within a one hour time frame. Because of this self imposed limitation,  they had to eliminate sketching before creating, which resulted in their very specific and unique “live sketching”; a process which brings “randomness and improvisation” to their work. They work with what would normally be an end of life of material and transform it with an intention of purpose and beauty, although perhaps because the beauty is not so cliche, it maybe a little bit harder for some to see. Each piece of furniture has been made by highly eroded material, with the thought that it will keep eroding, wine will be spilt, dogs may chew the legs of a table or” children may stain a sofa” These “traces of usage are supported and embedded within Godspeed’s designs” which makes them highly functional and long life. That is the heart of a sustainable practice, Godspeed is doing their part in taking what we may find banal and insipid and transforming it into charm and wit, and, they make really cool furniture. (source: trendland.net)

What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids…

Because I know you <3 street art. 

No more ‘excuses’. It’s all for you <3

Paying tribute to Chanel No. 5

Charles Demuth, No. 5

Nepa lamp, by Giles Godwin Brown

Looking back: The opening of The Pavilion, contemporary art space, Downtown Dubai (UAE), early in 2011. 

Photos by Velcro.