Truman Brewery, brick lane: it has become a very sellable brand, having been tweeted the shit out of by Rachel Isherwood, tagged all over the place. Tent has always been a nice little package, promising a variety of stuff for all to see, but to me it has never really gelled, seeming somewhat disparate.
Here is my selection of stuff from Tent.
OLD FURNITURE STILL BETTER THAN NEW
Tent once again puts vintage furniture alongside new stuff, design clash, but again the old furntiure comes out on top, especially in comparison with the Mona Lisa chair by Korean designer Kwang Hoo Lee, Retranslation of Readymade.
LOTS OF OLD CLOCKS BUT STILL NEED A WATCH
A whole wall of old clocks, lovely of course but not in a semi trade show context.
“BACKS ARE BAD NEWS IN A NEWSPAPER”
Barbara Chandler shares a little nugget from her years of experience in the publishing industry as she tells me about her lovely images from Poland. It was good to see photography in a design event, it gave the other work in the exhibition some background and context.
VISIONS OF POLAND
An exhibition of photographs by Barbara Chandler
www.barbarachandler.co.uk
TENT DIGITAL DARK
MAX FRASER INTERN BORED AND NEEDS A WEE
“he went out for lunch two hours ago and still hasn’t come back”
SELLING LOADS OF PLASTIC CUPS TO SAVE THE WORLD
Australian company Keep Cup fills a table with plastic cups and watches them sell like cakes hotter than hot cakes, it’s amazing what people buy. Perhaps Tent had weakened everyones defence and they felt like they had to consume something more rewarding, achieved by buying something physical. Apparently 1.8 billion paper cups are disposed of every year in the UK to quote Mr Stuart Forsyth, the persistent salesman behind the table. If you want to be sustainable then let’s just produce nothing apart from events and occasions the excite and inspire. Or just stay at home, how negative.
Text & Images : Edward Vince