BCXSY will participate in the Wish List auction by Pierre Bergé & associés with two projects – 7 Stones and See-Saw Bookshelf SHINE.

Wish List is a special auction curated by Li Edelkoort which will take place at Pierre Bergé & associés, Brussels on September the 13th, 2009

“Museum House

The cultural world is focused on design and the discipline is gaining importance every day, every hour, almost. The auction houses of the world make the prices of autonomous pieces escalate and the one-of-a-kind avant-garde, or vintage industrial is the new object of desire for collectors, and is housed in the collections of prestigious brands.

Therefore the consumer will access design in a new way and acknowledge not just function but more so emotional and investment values.

Design takes its place next to art and is fast becoming the discipline of the 21th century.

With this growing enthusiasm for form, people will therefore conceive their houses and studios in a new more artistic way with connoisseur connotations… their home becomes an atelier, a gallery or even a small private museum.

People will collect and accumulate decorative pieces, put ordinary objects on a pedestal to consider them anew, single out the beautiful, and give it space. We will in fact master the installation of our own life, creating a dialogue amongst design pieces. Therefore, inspiration is taken from archetypical museums as found in the metropolises of the world. We will explore history with studies of antiquity, experiences of science, narration of natural history, rediscovery of craft and the rebirth of the curiosity cabinet, but also rethink modernism in a truely contemporary manner, referring to sculpture, abstraction, drawing and installation art. All these disciplines will in turn further influence design to become of an even greater conceptual value.

The collectionneur will become the curator of his own life’s exhibit, creating a Museum House.”

-Li Edelkoort