10 young designers to watch from Collectible 2020
Design writer Anna Winston selects 10 of the names to know from this year's Collectible design fair, which took place last week in Brussels.
Collectible ? the world's only annual fair dedicated entirely to collectable contemporary design ? places a strong focus on promoting new talent.
Young galleries and independent designers mingle with established gallerists and big names, while a curated section of the fair is dedicated to showcasing one-off pieces by emerging designers.
Here are 10 of the key names to watch from the third edition of the fair, which ran from 5-8 March:
Müsing-Sellés
A collaboration between Spanish architect Ãlvaro Gómez-Sellés and Canadian architect Marisa Müsing, this New York studio explores the relationship between form and function, creating ambiguous pieces of furniture that look like digital renders made real. At Collectible the studio showed a double-sided seat that uses rounded stone to create the illusion of a soft form, with a backrest made from glass.
"Rather than describing our pieces as furniture, they act more as spatial objects that set the space for domestic activities ? we describe the pieces almost as stage set objects or characters," Müsing told Dezeen.
Elissa Lacoste
An alumnus of Design Academy Eindhoven and the École Supérieure d'Art ed Design de Saint-Étienne, Elissa Lacoste combines natural and man-made forms and a wide range of materials to create a "grotesque aesthetic".
At Collectible, she sho...
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