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The Narcissist Dressing Table

Lyndon Neri & Rossana Hu - 2011
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Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu are NERI & HU; they have their studio Neri & Hu Design and Research Office in Shanghai and represent the first generation of architects and designers working from China with talent and their own personality. They are young, were trained in the US and have returned to the Asian giant with a wish to change the meaning of "Made in China". 

Their collection "The Narcissist", which they have made for Bd in collaboration with Swarovski Elements, is an example: it is designed in China and made in Barcelona. It seems the world in reverse, but this is just a sample of what is to come. Lyndon and Rossana’s work embodies a confluence of western contemporary design features and traditional oriental roots. This project arose from a script created to measure for them. These are dressing table pieces, a type of furniture, very common in oriental culture, which is in danger of extinction. The piece is topped by a lattice with encrusted Swarovski crystals, generating a very special atmosphere when the light filters through.

"It not only evokes the repeating pattern of crystal formation, but also articulates a brilliant configuration of light and shimmer for the person seeing his or her own image in the mirror."

Rossana Hu

Schooled in the United States at UC Berkeley and, respectively, Harvard and Princeton, Philippines-born Lyndon Neri (1965) and Taiwanese-born Rossana Hu (1968) have together become one of the most dynamic design forces in China today. They moved to Shanghai in 2002 while working for American architect Michael Graves on his renovation of that city’s landmark Three on the Bund project.

The husband-and-wife team established their Shanghai showroom Design Republic, selling contemporary design, in 2003. In 2004, they established their design company, neri&hu Design and Research Office. Since then, they have taken on architecture and interiors projects including the restaurants and nightclubs of the Kengo Kuma-designed Opposite House hotel in Beijing and Shanghai’s new Waterhouse boutique hotel. Simultaneously, as neri&hu, they have created independently-produced, contemporary furniture and objects that have been sold around the world. 

Bd Barcelona Design is the Spanish company with the highest international prestige in design. It was founded in 1972 as Bd Ediciones de Diseño by the architects and interior designers Pep Bonet, Cristian Cirici, Lluis Clotet, Mireia Riera and Oscar Tusquets. At the time of its foundation, Bd Ediciones de Diseño was a mere expression of almost insolent rebellion by a group of young, unsatisfied architects, but it soon became a productive philosophy with a mission to break moulds, even commercial ones.

The Bocaccio Design (a clue for those who were not already in on the secret) of the Barcelona of the early 70s was created as a vehicle for the production of all those items of furniture, objects and accessories which could not be found in shops. It might have turned out to be nothing more than an arrogant idea, but in fact became a unique experience, offering an interpretation of design hitherto unknown in Spain: a new sensibility, a different perception of everyday objects.

"We believe that this initial stimulus has become enriched over the intervening years with mixtures which, to us, appear exquisite. It is for this reason that we have published them."

In this way, contemporary creations co-exist with those of the great universally admired masters. Konstantin Grcic, Jaime Hayón, Ross Lovegrove and Alfredo Häberli have shared space with Antoni Gaudì, Salvator Dalí, Ettore Sottsass and Giuseppe Terragni. 

Make-up furniture and stool

Base in iron and aluminium with a micro-textured black lacquer, main body in beech plywood with a glossy black lacquer on the outside, inside in natural varnished solid oak, mirror with concealed led lights, upper grille with Swarovski crystals

SPECIFICATIONS

Table: width 86cm, depth 34cm, height 150cm, stool: width 42cm, depth 24cm, height 45cm
The door has a lock
Note: this product is HEAVY, please make adequate arrangements for the reception

Made in Spain

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