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Left: Modeled on the shape of the pelvic bone ... prototype of the "Ruby Rocking Chair" by B ... Mokhtarani. Below: Filled with wine, a ... carafe ... blood vessels. Around €2,100 ... Bottom left: Salt and p ... porcelain "Brain", around €25, Propaga ... lung-shaped "Aspira" spoils smokers' enjoyment of cigarettes ... Cheska. Her literally personal touch lends ... Seng to the "Fingerbowl" bowl.

Down to the Entrails Products literally cut to the bone when designers help themselves to the operating room and the anatomy lecture hall.

Armchairs with an upholstery print of blood vessels, chairs with covers made of human hair, stools in the shape of a brain: at the Maison & Objet trade fair this autumn, everything was under the sign of anatomy. But designers did not only decode design DNA down to the smallest detail in the trend show "Body House". The turn toward the body and its vessels currently seems to be a general topic; all trend institutes identify "health" as a groundbreaking phenomenon. François Bernard, trend scout and curator of "Body House", sees the reason in a changed view of humanity: "Nowadays, everything revolves around sensuality. The zeitgeist sees human beings as the center." That alone, however, does not yet draw any designer out from behind the stove. How to design for humans is, after all, taught at every university. The key point is rather the turn inward into human beings, literally down to the entrails. "Previously, the subject was treated in a symbolic, abstract way. Today, the body is of interest in its materiality, its forms and textures, and in a much more radical way," says Bernard. "It is like a cabinet of curiosities, but ultra-contemporary, with many unsettling objects. For young designers, the body seems to be the center of their research."

Their approach to the body opens up in very different ways: anatomically correct, ironic, purely decorative, or symbolic. Sometimes it is the skeleton that fascinates designers, then again the blood vessels. Studio D.sign 21, for example, developed "Bone", an armchair oriented toward human bone. "With Bone, the inner life is structured like the construction of a bone — material is only present in the places where it is needed," the designers explain. While the material-technical efficiency of the body is in the foreground here, others prefer a historical approach. For instance Vladi Rapaport, a Ukrainian designer based in the Netherlands, with his "Vanitas" collection from 2008. It includes an armchair in the shape of a skull, the aforementioned brain stool, as well as a spine lamp. With this collection, Rapaport cites an art tradition that originated in the Middle Ages, experienced an upswing in the Renaissance, and finally culminated in symbolic still lifes of the Baroque. "Vanitas" (Latin for vanity, transience) describes imagery here that warns of the fading of earthly goods, decay, and death. But where do today's young designers find points of connection? "The Vanitas theme is nothing new; people have been dealing with it for a long time. But I had the impression that transience has become almost a taboo today. I wanted to make the subject a theme of design again by using symbols that bring our transience before our eyes," Vladi Rapaport defines his work. "The human body is not my main topic, but it is a good means of communication because it is a familiar medium." Transience taboo, then, but the body familiar? In fact, we are currently further removed from death than ever before. Life-extending measures are — —>

Top from left: Designer Alexander Lervik placed the shade of the lamp "T 1000" on the artificial replica of a spine. Rapid manufacturing enables the free form of the "Bone" armchair; bones are its model. Prototype by d.sign21. Shannon Wright captured anatomical details of the digestive tract on wallpaper. On request, Shannon Wright. The 2007 glass heart sculpture impresses with high aesthetic quality. By Esque Studio. Bottom from left: Does one feel uncomfortable taking a seat on the "Flow" armchair? Around €3,200, AK-LH. Danish design takes a look inside the spine. "Spine" rug around €1,200, Normann Copenhagen. Sources from page 111 in the magazine.

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