Make the street your home. Binnen/Buiten

Exhibitions / Product design

Start date: 17-10-2008

End date: 03-05-2009

Country: Spain

City: Various

Location: Various

An exhibition about how to make the street your home, where public boundaries blur with private realms.

By Editor Design.nl / 08-12-2008

Relax, play, eat, light, interact, protect and work.

The Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza is hosting the exhibition 'Dutch Design: Make the street your home. Binnen/Buiten' in two locations in Spain. The exhibition features a broad sample of recent Dutch design for public and private spaces, which aims to establish a relationship between home and the street. From 17 October and 25 January 2009, the exhibition can be seen in A Coruña and from 19 February and 3 May 2009 it will move to the foundation's premises at Vigo.

The exhibition is divided into seven areas: relax, play, eat, light, interact, protect and work, and consists of 140 items by 61 major Dutch designers, both emerging and established. The exhibition presents private and public space as a continuum, a logical sequence within urban culture, where objects often with a conceptual basis, that are used for similar purposes but belong to both spheres of everyday city living are placed side by side. The reason for centering the exhibition around design for public and private spaces has its roots in the civic culture in The Netherlands, where people view public space as a shared heritage, as the social prolongation of their private space.

Many of the recognisable designs include Heatwave radiator by Joris Laarman, Chest of drawers and Milk bottle lamp by Tejo Remy, Stormparaplu, Lace Fence by Demakersvan, Tree Trunk Bench by Studio Makkink & Bey, Domoor by Richard Hutten and the Tyranny of the Plug series by Dick Van Hoff.