From the 2010 IKEA catalog: Gillis Lundgren designed the first BILLY 30 years ago.
“Currently it’s been sold over 41 million times throughout the world and BILLY is more present than ever.”
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Posted in Abstraction
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Tagged billy, catalog, design, DIY, flat-pack, furniture, Gillis Lundgren, Ikea, knock-down, ready to assemble furniture, rta
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Stefaan D’heedene, ‘Billy’ (2006)
Stefaan Dheedene bought a piece of furniture from the Billy series at Ikea. But the day before the exhibition opened, Dheedene took Billy back to Ikea. He received back the money he invested.
In the time before the opening the artist had hired a carpenter who reconstructed the mass-produced Billy as a unique work of art, in a slightly more expensive and nicer type of wood.
Billy’s next buyer must’ve been a happy consumer…
By mh
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Posted in Zwarte Piet
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Tagged billy, commerce, Dheedene, DIY, Ikea, relat, relational aesthetics, sculpture, stefaan d, Stefaan Dheedene, unique
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‘Artist’s Shit’ (1961) by Piero Manzoni.
Each 30-gram can was priced by weight based on the current value of gold (around $1.12 a gram in 1961).
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‘YaYoi’ (2005) by Corey McCorkle.
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Posted in Abstraction
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Tagged antwerp, ball, bling, bronze, copper, Corey McCorkle, middelheim, nature, public art, romance, sculpture, what's in a name, yayoi
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‘Ethereal Self‘ (2008) by Harm van den Dorpel.
Website reflecting its visitors in a diamond using the webcam.
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Posted in Piet
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Tagged crystal, diamond, DIY, ethereal, Ethereal self, Harm van den Dorpel, internet, light, netart, self, webcam, website
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Karl Fritsch, ‘Ring’, white gold 750 oxidised, gold 750
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Posted in Abstraction
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Tagged bling, DIY, fritsch, fuckem, fun, german, gold, jeweller, karl fritsch, nature, relational aesthetics, ring, schmuck, sculpture, white gold
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By sk
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Posted in Piet
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Tagged car, carglass, DIY, ever is over all, flower, installation, Pippilotti Rist, Rist, romance, shattered, trash, video, window
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‘Accesories #2’ (2008) by Hedwig Houben.
Pencil drawings (27 x 36 cm.)
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Tom Friedman – ‘Hot balls’
Tom Friedman, ‘Hot balls’ (1992)
A collection of differently sized and coloured balls stolen by the artist from various stores over a period of six months.