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The Ap-Art London Winter Show 2012

Join us at this smashing collective exhibition organized by Ap-Art, Adrian Palengat’s gallery, with his playful, pop influenced eye, fulltime popup since 2006.

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Featuring The Wild Bodged Chair and The Ghost of a Chair, in colour and transparent. Not to be missed!

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We will be delighted to see you at the private view this Thursday the 22nd of November, from 18.30hrs.

The Sorting Post Office

222-224 Westbourne Grove

Notting Hill

W11 2RH

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The resultant work will be auctioned on behalf of Rebecca de Alba Cancer Research Foundation.

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Please join us next Tuesday the 22nd of November, 20hrs, at this grand the event.

Blend, Palmas 520

Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico City

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Valentina Glez Wohlers and The Wild Bodged Chair at The London Design Festival 2012

20 – 23 September 2012

London

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We have given rise to a beautiful collaboration with Oaxacan artisan Gabriel Lopez creating intriguing, one-of-a-kind handcrafted furniture pieces. The objects bring the soul of the Oaxacan artisan and the Universe of the San Jose del Pacifico, together with the energetic, emerging contemporary design of Val.
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The official launch of The Wild Bodged Chair will take place during the London Design Festival and in collaboration with Designersblock, from the 19th to the 23rd of September at the Southbank Centre, London.

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Every story, however hidden, leave TRACES… The objects we leave behind, speak fragile broken sentences to those who come across them later.
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For four days in August, TRACES will take a neglected old Victorian pub and bring it back to life. Painstakingly researched, TRACES is an immersive and theatrical art and design showcase that will map and elaborate on the actual stories of the (now long-dead) inhabitants of our event’s location: The Marquis of Lansdowne.

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The public are invited to come along and discover these histories for themselves; wandering through the rooms left as if only a moment before, and unpicking their secretes. Comparing notes about what’s going on over drinks. Interacting with the specially commissioned and selected art and design pieces to unravel clues about the building and its inhabitants; whilst also having the opportunity of buying their favourite ones at the end of the nights.

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The Siren Dressing Screen, contemporary Victorian.

One-Off piece custom made for TRACES by VAL & Emerald Faerie.

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Traces is a group of artist, designers, gallery owners and entrepreneurs with an extensive and wide ranging experience of exhibitions, theatre, architectural and design projects, both nationally and internationally.

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Following the success of the original Bodging Milano project 2010, co-founders Rory Dodd and Chris Eckersley decided to invite a second group of designers to make a return trip deep in the Clissett Wood. Going back to basic, each designer had the opportunity to experience and learn the traditional craft of bodging whist construct their own individual greenwood chair under the expert guidance of Gudrun Leitx and her team.

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The resulted pieces will be launched at Designersblock, part of the London Design Festival 2012 in the Southback Centre in September.

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For the second chapter of the 2012 edition of Mexico Through Your Senses, Mexican designer, Valentina Gonzalez Wohlers showcased samples of her unique line of furniture. From “The Ghost of a Chair” to tables that mimic the outline of Tenochtitlan -the capital of the Aztec Empire, now Mexico City. Guests had the chance to catch a glimpse of Valentina’s staggering creativity. Although her style has a strong rooting in Mexican traditions, it remains fiercely contemporary.

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During the event, Valentina held a public conversation with Piers Roberts Director of the prestigious design show Designersblock, in which she explained the principles that underlie her work, as well as her professional trajectory.

Mexico Through Your Senses is a series of events organised by the Embassy of Mexico in the UK, in which select British audiences are invited to explore contemporary Mexican culture.

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Val in conversation with Piers Roberts

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Val & Co at Pinta Design, the Latinamerican Art Fair. London 2012
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THE   MEXICO   TOURISM   BOARD   is   participating   in   PINTA,   The   Modern   and   Contemporary  Latin  American  Art  Show  in  London.      For   the   third   edition   of   the   exhibition   in   London,   The   Mexico   Tourism   Board   introduces   four   designers   who   will   present   their   works   to   showcase   contemporary   Mexican   design.   Design   Mexico   will   be   a   space   dedicated   to   celebrate   Mexican   origins   and   pride.   The   exhibits   are   conceived  with  inspiration  in  the  state  of  Oaxaca  and  Mexico  City  with   an   emphasis   on   social   awareness   and   sustainability   using   highly   recyclable  materials  such  as  wood,  stainless  steel  or  PET  bottles.  The   exhibition   intends   to   show   Mexican   design   as   it   is:   a   vibrating   field   of   unique   artistic   creation   nourished   by   a   rich   legacy   combined   with   contemporary  design.

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