Passionate Peccadilloes in the Design Capital

Trebnje, 10th April 2009 - Nika Zupanc is participating in the Salone del mobile for the fourth time, but now she is featuring her own exhibition pavilion, filled with objects and meanings that passionately rhyme with revolutionary songs, as a part of the project Temporary Museum of New Design , curated by Giulio Cappellini and Gisela Boriolli. Within her collection, Innovative designs by Trimo developed in partnership with Nika Zupanc, will also be presented as part of her show.
With her exhibition I Will Buy the Flowers Myself, Nika Zupanc tackles the established attributes of a socially stigmatized woman with her characteristic sincerity, which is here especially inspired by the stories of some of the most famous female literary heroines. Her display space thus opens up through a sequence of spicy comments cast in shamelessly beautiful forms.

The designer announces the basic feature of her exhibition even at the entrance to Superstudio Più, where visitors are confronted with a black, dotted architectural installation. With its chimney and pearlescent smoke, it works as a monolith that separates the world of objects from the world of forms, thus representing a passage into another dimension. Nika Zupanc designed this installation, called The Doll House, in creative cooperation with Trimo, using the numerous architectural and design options provided by the company’s latest modular facade system, Qbiss by trimo.

The pavilion’s interior is suffused with a passionate intertwining of rational and irrational features in a family of six objects (sofas, a table, a toy car, a crib, a feather duster, and the Mrs. Dalloway mini hotplate, designed for company Gorenje that can be read between the covers of The Doll House as the resistance of women chained in Romanticism that prefer to buy the flowers themselves.

However, this year Nika Zupanc will not be shown only at her own pavilion. The global super-brands Moooi and Moroso will present products with her signature as well: Moooi will present its series of her Lolita lamps, and Moroso will present her Tailored Chair.

More about project: www.nikazupanc.com