Comments on: Max Lamb at Johnson Trading Gallery http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/09/new-products-by-max-lamb/ architecture and design magazine Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: qwerty http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/09/new-products-by-max-lamb/comment-page-2/#comment-212914 qwerty Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:45:30 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/09/new-products-by-max-lamb/#comment-212914 Tom - it's Delaware Bluestone, not slate. Tom – it’s Delaware Bluestone, not slate.

]]> By: l. brathwaite http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/09/new-products-by-max-lamb/comment-page-2/#comment-191743 l. brathwaite Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:13:05 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/09/new-products-by-max-lamb/#comment-191743 I agree with some of what has been discussed here. This project has a feeling of being 'spoilt', a bit like a child. I think it is the combination of the very, very simple (lack?) of arresting craft or concept combined with what we assume to be very high-prices gives it this 'bratty' feeling. Following the recent financial fall out, it does feel out-of-date, in a way. It will be interesting to see what new work is presented at December's Design Miami. I agree with some of what has been discussed here. This project has a feeling of being ‘spoilt’, a bit like a child. I think it is the combination of the very, very simple (lack?) of arresting craft or concept combined with what we assume to be very high-prices gives it this ‘bratty’ feeling.

Following the recent financial fall out, it does feel out-of-date, in a way.

It will be interesting to see what new work is presented at December’s Design Miami.

]]> By: Tom http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/09/new-products-by-max-lamb/comment-page-2/#comment-190041 Tom Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:03:28 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/09/new-products-by-max-lamb/#comment-190041 Brilliant! Can't see why people are slating it!? Brilliant!

Can’t see why people are slating it!?

]]> By: richard http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/09/new-products-by-max-lamb/comment-page-2/#comment-189372 richard Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:48:25 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/09/new-products-by-max-lamb/#comment-189372 What bothers me about the text-brief from Max Lamb and his Gallery is that it rides on the wagon of advances in digital design- This project doesn't employ high-tech. This is Bollocks. He is using a saw on rocks. What this project employs is loads of money to make it happen. There are very interesting experiments happening via digital processes (Including Johnson's own Aranda/Lasch as a good example. But please- don't corrupt the language by saying this is an experiment in the meeting of high tech and the rough-hewn. What bothers me about the text-brief from Max Lamb and his Gallery is that it rides on the wagon of advances in digital design-

This project doesn’t employ high-tech. This is Bollocks. He is using a saw on rocks.
What this project employs is loads of money to make it happen. There are very interesting experiments happening via digital processes (Including Johnson’s own Aranda/Lasch as a good example. But please- don’t corrupt the language by saying this is an experiment in the meeting of high tech and the rough-hewn.

]]> By: mcfetterige http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/09/new-products-by-max-lamb/comment-page-2/#comment-189097 mcfetterige Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:35:00 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/09/new-products-by-max-lamb/#comment-189097 I agree with many of the criticisms above especially those about a general lack of 'craft', skill and a developed idea. It is simple work and that isn't a compliment. However, I do feel a bit sorry for this Max fellow, who I'm sure is reading these comments. I do think he is out of bright ideas just now which doesn't mean he is a bad designer. As someone above said, "he is receiving investment faster than he is producing ideas." But this is normal and you really cant be so hard on someone in that position- what would you do? Tell the Gallerist that you aren't ready for his trust and USD? Hell no! "Fake it Till You Make It" is the phrase that says it best, I think. What I would like to bring into the discussion though, is the responsibility of the Currator to his artist. I think he is largely the person who should be given the blame for this generally flat, poor exhibition. I think he has not measured his artist properly and injected too much promotion, pressure, investment, trust into someone who isn't ready. It is an understandable state: Lamb was generating alot of revenue for him previously, and ofcourse the Gallery gets used to the revenue and wants more. The danger is though, that you will burn out your artist and leave him tarnished by bad work and a slew of negative public comments like those above. This predicament is a common curratorial pitfal in the art world too. It is funny to see how the 'Art-mirroring world of High Design' will absorb moments like this since the Design market is so new (I really think it only began in 2005 with the first Design Miami) and it has never been through an economic downturn. Just to say, this situation where a gallery burns out its artist is common in the world of Fine art, and it will be interesting to see how it plays out in the world of Design Galleries. Shame on you currator! You must remember to rotate your crops and allow the soil to re-fertilize itself. In the mean time, show us something totally new from someone we don't already know and let Lamb get his bearings again.. I agree with many of the criticisms above especially those about a general lack of ‘craft’, skill and a developed idea. It is simple work and that isn’t a compliment.

However, I do feel a bit sorry for this Max fellow, who I’m sure is reading these comments. I do think he is out of bright ideas just now which doesn’t mean he is a bad designer. As someone above said, “he is receiving investment faster than he is producing ideas.” But this is normal and you really cant be so hard on someone in that position- what would you do? Tell the Gallerist that you aren’t ready for his trust and USD? Hell no! “Fake it Till You Make It” is the phrase that says it best, I think.

What I would like to bring into the discussion though, is the responsibility of the Currator to his artist. I think he is largely the person who should be given the blame for this generally flat, poor exhibition. I think he has not measured his artist properly and injected too much promotion, pressure, investment, trust into someone who isn’t ready.

It is an understandable state: Lamb was generating alot of revenue for him previously, and ofcourse the Gallery gets used to the revenue and wants more. The danger is though, that you will burn out your artist and leave him tarnished by bad work and a slew of negative public comments like those above.

This predicament is a common curratorial pitfal in the art world too. It is funny to see how the ‘Art-mirroring world of High Design’ will absorb moments like this since the Design market is so new (I really think it only began in 2005 with the first Design Miami) and it has never been through an economic downturn. Just to say, this situation where a gallery burns out its artist is common in the world of Fine art, and it will be interesting to see how it plays out in the world of Design Galleries.

Shame on you currator! You must remember to rotate your crops and allow the soil to re-fertilize itself. In the mean time, show us something totally new from someone we don’t already know and let Lamb get his bearings again..

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