Japanese designers Nendo will present three new projects for Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris , including this series of lamps, vases, bowls and tables made by heating agricultural nets. The designers used heat-forming to shape the netting, which is normally used to cover fields of fruit and vegetable plants to protect them from wind and birds. The work will be on show at:

Carpenters Workshop Gallery
54 rue de la Verrerie 75004 Paris
Jan 21, 2012 – March 3, 2012

Feathers stand for protection and shelter and bring to our minds our need to fly above the everyday routine and reach for the unknown. They are also connected to mythical fairy tale creatures, symbolizing power and the art of enchantment. With their colors and their complex structure they magnetize and impose. British artist Kate MccGwire shares a fascination for feathers that begun like an accident and finally became a long term love affair. Her latest works are made entirely by feathers and, far from mere ornamentation, Kate uses them to create some really haunting pieces. Her feathers form strange shapes that appear to be alive, they come out of unexpected surfaces, they even invade space with some very surrealistic effects. We don’t know at which extend the artistic means condition the final result, but Kate’s work manages to transmit a certain kind of out of this world beauty, both imposing and fascinating.