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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.
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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.
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More information about ZMIK (in German) can be found here.
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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.
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Above: KROON, outdoor-chandelier
Zmik explores opportunitites at the fringes of various disciplines such as interior design, architecture, scenography and product design.
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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.
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Above: TATI, service boy
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Above: DOUBLE-V, young bussiness men table
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Above: HUA, ramble-lamp
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Above: SCOPIDO, lashing-table
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Above: UFA, umbrella for art galleries
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Below: SCHLITTEN, mobile one-man-lounge
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