Biennale Interieur in Kortrijk
As you may know, last week Kortrijk played host to one of Europe’s largest biennial design fairs, the Biennale Interieur.
Lina was selected earlier this year to be on the board of judges for the Interieur Awards who crowned Minale Maeda the winning design team for the OBJECTS category. Design duo Minale Maeda secured the title with their Keystones project that makes use of 3D printing to create a new type of structural connection for various furniture types. The Keystones table is currently being shown at Mint.
The Mint team spent time exploring the Expo site at the Biennale and then made their way to an exclusive performance of GOOSE, in the Buda Tower on the Buda Island. The intimate performance consisted of 4 band members split across 4 floors of the building allowing guests to experience ONLY one of the musicians talents live. As the performance developed a live television feed from other floors began to sync with the band member to create an simulation of the whole band playing within one space. There is a video below describing the project in further detail.
On our final evening in Kortrijk we attended the DAMN Magazine party where we were served beautiful foods freshly prepared on site accompanied by a chilled glass of wine ! We finished off the evening with a meal in the Interieur Bistro which was specially constructed for the fair.
Please continue reading for more info and a selection of photographs taken from our time in Kortrijk. Enjoy !
The Biennale Interieur in Kortrijk ran from the 17th – 26th of October 2014.
Above : The display of the OBJECT winners for the Interieur Award. If you stood at a specific point in the space you could could see a complete circle encompassing the winners products ! A very clever optical illusion.
The other award given during the Biennale was for SPACE. The brief was to create a bar space that could be enjoyed by visitors to the Expo site at the Biennale. Below are a few of the winning ideas including an Ice Cream centre and a restaurant specialising in sea food !
The ‘Theatre of everyday life’ was constructed at the centre of the Expo in Kortrijk.
Artek made a clever use of mirrors in their display at the Biennale.
On our way in . . .
Joseph Grima shortlisted a team of designers, architects & artists to participate in an artistic intervention with the Broelschool. Since it was announced that the Broelschool would be demolished at the end of the Biennale the two teams had no restrictions on the alterations made to the schools internal structure. The images below show team Dérive who concentrated on adding and transforming the existing interior of the Broelschool. The second team, Timeline, took it upon themselves to document the change in domesticity over the last 50 years. They did this by creating a route through the older, more derelict areas of the school which took visitors on a tour using diagrams and text to inform. It was a very interesting an immersive experience, one that we won’t forget anytime soon !
On our way out . . .
The quaint water tower in the background of the DAMN Magazine party.
A display of Michael Anastassiades new lighting collection at the DAMN Magazine party.
We spied our dinner early on in the DAMN Magazine party !
The Interieur Bistro where we dined on the last evening of our trip.
Some photographs of the very scenic Kortrijk City square.
