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Great Brits : The New AlchemistsCurated with the Design Museum and Sir Paul Smith, Great Brits is a showcase for the new generation of talented young designers working in Britain.
It will be launched at Paul Smith's headquarters during the 2005 Milan Furniture Fair.
Each of the designers in Great Brits - Pascal Anson, Michael Cross and Julie Mathias, Julia Lohmann, Matthias Megyeri and Peter Traag - is at the start of their career, yet has developed a distinctive approach to design. They share a passion for experimentation with new materials and technologies and for exploring the transformative - or alchemical - possibilities of design.
Pascal Anson gives new life to discarded objects by reinventing them as sets. Michael Cross and Julie Mathias test our taboos by making exquisite yet provocative lighting by immersing electric light bulbs in water. Julia Lohmann transforms the food industry's debris - cowhides and sheep's stomachs - into lighting and furniture.
Mathis Megyeri investigates the twin obsessions of security and kitsch by customising burglar alarms and surveillance devices. Peter Traag creates ingenious furniture by working with banal materials and unconventional industrial processes from a fresh perspective.
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