KiKiRiKi at Happy Street


Happy Street mini model & logo by John Körmeling

KiKiRiKi at Happy Street

Dutch Classics by Dutch Designers, curated by Edwin Vollebergh, Studio Boot.
Part of Happy Street, the Dutch Pavillion at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai, China, designed by the unsurpassed architect/artist John Körmeling.


Photo Edwin Vollebergh

In this setup which is styled as a fleamarket, my work is awkwardly hidden behind the ugly but immensely popular Phillips Senso coffeemachine (1),  a white A’dammer roll-down shutter closet (2) by Aldo van den Nieuwelaar (1944 – 2010) for Pastoe, and much other stuff.

On the bright side, at least it’s shown next to a classic Boulevard of Broken Dreams poster (4) by Marten Jongema (1951 – 2011), and Richard Niessen‘s outstanding Kong poster (3).

Jongema was one of my teachers at the Rietveld Academie. My friend Richard and me were once a design team called Golden Masters, and Van den Nieuwelaar I once met late at night in the middle of a snowstorm on the last train going to Amsterdam …

See also KiKiRiKi Tous les Soirs

May 6th, 2010
, Posted in Group Shows