CONNECTORS:

Connectors are designers who, through a visual vocabulary, a show of their hand and heart, can infuse even the most functional of objects with emotion; in provoking a response, their creations bind the user to the maker.What better way to appreciate and connect to objects than through an understanding of why or how something was made and by whom? Understanding is connection and Michael Antrobus, Tomás Alonso, Pieke Bergmans, Best Made Company, Mark Braun, Julien Carretero, Michel Charlot, Tristan Cochrane, Oscar Diaz, Charlotte Dumoncel d'Argence, Glass Hill, Humans Since 1982, Tomas Kral, Max Lamb, Nicolas Le Moigne, Finn Magee, Peter Marigold, Oscar Narud, Nendo, Leon Ransmeier, Raw Edges, Hanna Sandin, Marcus Tremonto, and Oskar Zieta are connectors.

Highlights of the exhibition include: Humans Since 1982's Clock Clock Sweden, 2009. Clock Clock is composed of 24 analogue clocks stacked so that the movements of the hands align to communicate the time digitally.

Humans Since 1982
Bastian Bischoff (b. 1982, de)
Per Emanuelsson (b. 1982, se)
Clock Clock
Sweden, 2009
Aluminium, stainless steel,
electrical elements
120 x 45 cm
Edition of 5 + 2 AP + 1 Prototype

Though the digital analogue format is impressive, it's the choreography that takes place between the minutes that is the real stunner. Bastian Bischoff and Per Emanuelsson met in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2007 while attending hdk's (School for Design & Craft) mfa program for design. Per, a for mer student of mechanical engineering found a kindred spirit in Bastian and, upon completion of the program, decided to collaborate under the name Humans Since 1982. Humans Since 1982 spent over a year and half developing the analogue to digital language that the Clock Clock employs. This prototype was exhibited in 2009 at the Röhsska Design Museum, Gothenburg.

Max Lamb's Spoon Study United Kingdom, 2008 was executed during his 2008 stint as a product design tutor at the prestigious Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL). Max Lamb's spoon study is one of the sweetest and purest explorations of medium, form, and process. Max's language fluidly traverses woods, metals, plastics and stone and in this case uses techniques that range from electroforming to whittling. His comfort in multiple mediums is rarely seen in young designers but is ever apparent in his work and especially here in Spoon Study. A native of St.

Max Lamb (b.1980 UK)
Spoon Study
Switzerland, 2008
Copper, pewter, driftwood,
bamboo
Dimensions variable
Unique 27 piece

Austell, Cornwall, Lamb earned a degree in 3d Design from North Umbria University in 2003. In the same year he was awarded the Hettich International Design Award and the Peter Walker Award for Innovation in Furniture Design. He completed his Masters Degree in Design Products at the Royal College of Art in 2006. Max established his own practice after a year designing for Tom Dixon Studio, and in 2008 taught the Industrial Design course at ecal/University of Art and Design Lausanne.

Nendo
Oki Sato (b.1977 CA)
Blown-Colour
Japan, 2009
Air and hot-water inflated
thermoplastic, non-woven
textile, dye
Dimensions variable
Edition of 10

MARIO TESTINO: KATE WHO?

KATE WHO? AN EXHIBITION OF ICONIC WORKS BY MARIO TESTINO AT PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY'S EXHIBITION SPACE AT THE SAATCHI GALLERY

INTIMATE PHOTOGRAPHS OF A FASHION LEGEND BY THE ULTIMATE FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER

EXHIBITION DATE FROM JULY 20 2010

LOCATION: Phillips de Pury & Company, Saatchi Gallery, London, SW3 4SQ

1996 (Paris, 1996) © Mario Testino.	London -- Kate Who? An exhibition of 7 selected works by Mario Testino will be on view and for sale from July 20 at Phillips de Pury & Company's exhibition space at the Saatchi Gallery. 11 prints are currently showing at Phillips de Pury & Company. The photographs are a series of 18 exhibition prints celebrating Mario Testino's work with his favourite muse Kate Moss; selected iconic images that will also be produced in a book "Kate Moss by Mario Testino" (Taschen, 2010). The colour images are high glamour, provocative and provide an intimate testimony of his friendship with Kate spanning over two decades. Comparable to Irving Penn's extraordinary relationship with Lisa Fonssagrives, David Bailey's with Jean Shrimpton's and Norman Parkinson's with Wenda, Testino uniquely extracts a quality no other photographer could, a catalyst occurs and magic is made visual. There is the possibility of everything and anything when Mario Testino and Kate Moss work together, their relationship endures and stays vividly alive allowing Testino's pictures of Moss to transcend fashion. Mario Testino comments, "Kate represents the ultimate kind of woman, an icon of our times. Not just an image of beauty, but of a life-style, an attitude. She has been a catalyst for many things and transcends the notion of a model who models a 'look' or a hair style - she represents a world, a whole way of being, living in a moment where everything is communicated globally and without restraint." "Kate Moss is the quintessential woman of our time. Her iconic impact can only be compared to women from other eras such as Marilyn Monroe, Botticelli's Venus or to the Mona Lisa. Like her illustrious predecessors, her myth will forever be associated to that of a great artist; in her case Mario Testino." Simon de Pury, Chairman of Phillips de Pury & Company.
Kate Who? will present a unique opportunity to buy exhibition-quality prints by one of the most sought-after fashion and portrait photographers of the contemporary era. There will be 18 images available in the following editions: 184 x 264 cm -Edition of 2,145 x 184 cm- Edition of 3.
MARIO TESTINO Mario Testino, one of the world's most celebrated photographers has photographed the world's most famous people and contributed to the visual development of some of the most sought after fashion brands. His work for top fashion advertising clients such as Gucci, Burberry, Calvin Klein and Versace has produced some of the most provocative imagery to be seen in advertising alongside his editorial work for American, French and British Vogue which has featured images of the world top actors, musicians and models of recent times. In addition, Mario Testino has been awarded royal commissions by HRH Prince of Wales, Princes William and Harry, Diana Princess of Wales, Prince Nikolaos of Greece, Prince Willem-Alexander and Maxima of the Netherlands and Her Majesty Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan. Born in Lima, Peru, Mario Testino studied economics, law and later international relations before moving to London where he discovered photography. His photographic career of the last two decades has resulted in numerous international exhibitions such as his critically-acclaimed show "Portraits" at The National Portrait Gallery, London that to date remains their most successful exhibit. Over the next four years the exhibition toured to Milan, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Tokyo and Mexico City and has recently shown in Lima. Other exhibitions by Mario Testino at Phillips de Pury & Company include "Out of Fashion" in 2006 at Phillips de Pury & Company in New York and Paris and "Obsessed by You" in 2008 at Phillips de Pury & Company in London. Some of Mario Testino's most recent publications include Diana Princess of Wales by Mario Testino at Kensington Palace (Taschen, 2005); Let Me In! (Taschen, 2007); Lima, Peru (Damiani, 2007) and Mario de Janeiro (Taschen, 2009). Opening in September 2010 'Todo o Nada' 'All or nothing' is Testino's first exhibition in Spain, at the Museo Thyssen Bornemisza in Madrid. It will feature 54 works that have been largely taken from shoots for Vogue, Vanity Fair, V Magazine, Allure and The Face, but also included are a number of personal works, edited from his archives and some new portraits created specifically for the exhibition. Testino has created a series of images which tells an unfolding story of his relationship to his female sitters. All the photographs in Todo o Nada are of women, from the glamour of great models dressed in extravagant couture, to the edgy and humourous nude of the model, Patricia Schmidt, apparently drinking a bottle of Chanel No 5 from a straw like a carton of juice.

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