04.09.09 TELLING TALES

design on the verge of art. Blurring boundaries between what is fine and what are applied arts through exhibition in the gallery, in this case museum. More than anything shows interest in new techniques of production: Jeroen Verhoeven; Cinderella table, CNC cut marble, baroque and grotesque, based on 18th C console merged with commode, empty in the centre.  Studio Job; Robber Baron cabinet, cast bronze, the re-birth of vulgar elite exaggeration, over-the-top gold and black lacquer.  Niels van Eijk/Miriam van der Lubbe; La Divina Commedia chair and lamp, laser-engraved and hand-carved polypropylene, heavy but translucent and floating, solid but with carved almost classical figures, elegant and modern.

V&A Museum, London