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Matthew Williamson at the Design Museum

The second exhibition I saw at the design museum was the Matthew Williamson's. The exhibtion looked great. The colourfulness of his designs looked great suspended from the ceiling in the white museum. In terms of exhibition I didn't think it was my thing. I did find the colours and the patterns very cool, but part from that I didn't find it too interesting.

The text on the walls was the most interesting thing - where Matthew Williamson's design process was described and where you can read quotes from him. I liked how he says that ' combing the natural with the man made - the contrast between design, fabric and decoration is the strongest inspiration of all'.

Jean Prouve at the Design Museum

This is the 2nd Focus week this year. Took the chance today to go to the Design Museum to check out the Jean Prouve exhibition.

They say that Jean Prouve was the man who invented high-tech. He worked in architecture, but wasn't an architect. He was a designer and an engineer. He designed unique furniture and moved on to buildings. Some of the models on show are amazing. Some are surprisingly organic and ecological and feel very contemporary at the same time

This model is of a youth center proposal for Ermot done in 1967.

His use of material and inventive ideas make him inspiring. In a house he designed for his brother he had vents in the roof to naturally ventilate the house.

Model showing the structure of the Grenoble exhibition hall, done in aluminium and brass in 1968.

His sketches are cool and his furniture very nice. He designed a lot for schools, and government institutions. They got to have a very cool furniture in those days!

Jean Prouves sketches are very good. I love the way he has worked with line thickness to give his sketches some depth.

It was a nice exhibition and I took the chance to try to do some sketching of some of the models and structures. I found Jean Prouves work inspiring and he seemed like a designer with a systematic approach and order. Which is what I am in a way. It is good to see that you can be organised and a good designer at the same time. Since for me the go hand in hand.