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Mini #7 will be UGLY­CUTE with “Experiments in Dakota Burl” - Novem­ber 18th - 26th. There is a open­ing party from 7pm to 10pm on Tues­day the 18th.

Exper­i­ments in Dakota Burl? When we sat down and thought about making our own prod­ucts we first thought about who we would like to work with, then we thought about what we feel the world needs and then we called the Swedish design office UGLY­CUTE. We met them in 2003 and have been want­ing to work with them ever since. Can you imag­ine bring­ing together the human­is­tic touch with some­thing so con­tem­po­rary it blows you mind? It’s about open­ing the door and daring to go through it to begin again rather than peek­ing in or touch­ing the handle and going home to com­fort. Some­times you have to go against your own beliefs, what is famil­iar, to find some­thing new. Not because NEW is nec­es­sar­ily a pos­i­tive but because to con­tinue to look at form and to
re-​examine and to create is utterly essen­tial. Human­is­tic + Intrin­sic + Futur­is­tic = UGLY­CUTE = LAMP + A STOOL + A TABLE. Each object requires the user to par­tic­i­pate and be involved in the cre­ative process of making an object. Each object is made with envi­ron­men­tal materials.

These are the first prod­ucts we are pro­duc­ing under the KIOSK name. They are things we feel are needed in a world loaded with objects. We hope to pro­duce 3 - 4 items a year.

From UGLYCUTE:

“Pop­u­lar is what most con­sumers like. They like what they already know and find com­fort in - the old. Con­sumerism becomes syn­ony­mous with con­formism. Pop­u­lar rules - the open market is clos­ing its gates to the dif­fer­ent. Ugly­cute reaches into the unrec­og­niz­able and unfa­mil­iar in order to treat design as a way to visu­al­ize and com­mu­ni­cate some­thing new and dif­fer­ent. The new is vital since this system is in such a bad need for change to cope with the prob­lems our way of life is con­fronting. Ugly­cute believes that new ideas need dif­fer­ent visu­als to make people under­stand this impor­tant change”

Many thanks to the INTER­NA­TIONAL ARTISTS STUDIO PRO­GRAM IN SWEDEN:

With­out them you would not get to see this here in New York!