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Mudac: No name design

The cabinet of curiosities of Franco Clivio: a collection of everyday objects usually considered commonplace and hardly spectacular.

For several decades now, Franco Clivio, a creator and lecturer, notably at the Zurich Schule für Gestaltung (School of Design) has, with a passion and a rare perspicacity, gone about collecting everyday objects usually considered commonplace and hardly spectacular.

mudac, No Name Design, photo Hans Hansen — mudac, No Name Design, photo Michael Lio

These he classes by functions, or into system typologies, materials or formal families; his collection is featured in a publication (“Hidden Forms”, Franco Clivio, Hans Hansen, Pierre Mendell, 2009). This exhibition, which he himself will be devising, features a significant selection of his discoveries.

mudac, No Name Design, photo Michael Lio

These objects, often anonymously designed, pay homage to the ingenuity of craftsmen and engineers who provided solutions to a variety of problems. The show addresses issues linked to, for instance, an original and copies of it, to the model that enables a whole range of products to be developed, or else to the old but still current issue of the choice of materials-natural or artificial-and the techniques these bring into play. A generous presentation is foreseen in a playful, pedagogical and at times poetic vein.

mudac, No Name Design, photo Hans Hansen

mudac, No Name Design, photo Hans Hansen

mudac, No Name Design, photo Hans Hansen

mudac, No Name Design, photo Michael Lio

mudac, No Name Design, photo Michael Lio

mudac, No Name Design, photo Michael Lio

until February 9, 2014
No Name Design
The cabinet of curiosities of Franco Clivio
Mudac
Musée de Design et d'Arts Appliqués Contemporains
Place Cathédrale 6, Lausanne

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