Coming Out by ZMIK

Better late than never # 1: Coming Out is a collection of prototypes by Swiss designers Zmik, exhibited at V-Gallery in Basel, Switzerland, last year.

The exhibition featured eight lighting and furniture prototypes created for the studio’s interior projects, including an outdoor chandelier and a light made of a polystyrene fast-food box.

More information about ZMIK (in German) can be found here.

The following is from ZMIK:
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ZMIK at V-Gallery
Swiss design trio ZMIK presents 8 prototypes at V-Gallery in Basel/Switzerland. Exhibited are lighting and furniture between functional product and experiment. ZMIK is a young studio for space design.

Above: KROON, outdoor-chandelier
Zmik explores opportunitites at the fringes of various disciplines such as interior design, architecture, scenography and product design.

Above: BATMAN & ROBIN, lighting duo
The objects of this exhibition mainly have their origins as by-products of spacial projects. For the exhibiton they got refined and are shown independently for the first time.

Above: TATI, service boy

Above: DOUBLE-V, young bussiness men table

Above: HUA, ramble-lamp

Above: SCOPIDO, lashing-table

Above: UFA, umbrella for art galleries

Below: SCHLITTEN, mobile one-man-lounge


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