Cool Hunting
In my diary for early next month is the new exhibition at London's V&A, called Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939. The show claims to be the first to explore the movement from a truly international perspective, and cover all of the arts. The varied highlights include Soviet overalls from the 1920s, early sketches of the famous London Tube map and the super-streamlined Czechoslovakian Tatra T-87 car (above), to name but a few.
Incidentally, the show is sponsored by British furniture and homewares chain Habitat, which is opening what is likely to be an impressive new flagship store on London's Regent Street next month. It will be the first branch to be designed by the company's influential creative director Tom Dixon. The new store should be worth a look when it opens at the end of April 2006.
The exhibition starts on 6 April 2006. Tickets are £9 and the exhibition's website has a lot more information about the show. This preview article in The Observer also features the musings of some interesting Modernism fans.
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