the design must look at the perfumes

To understand what happens in the design must look at the perfumes. The Bouroullec brothers tell it well: "Before the women reached a scented to announce their presence. They wanted everyone to admire whirl. Now those charged perfumes are no longer sold. Women do not need all rotation. Have been become more selective. Something similar is happening to the design. " 2010 no year has been a cloying fragrance. Rather, in these months we have tried to bring more truth to perfume the design. This has involved some nudity of the group of entrepreneurs and designers against provocative exhibitionism previous years. http://buscatuperfume.blogspot.comب

At the fairs has been less: less nuance unnecessary, but also less surprising mills. Have continued to submit chairs, but has drawn a lot of wardrobe: as fashion, design begins to have passed to go fishing.

In architecture, the show has been relegated to the halls notable EMBT Heatherwick and the Shanghai Expo. Moreover, the zero degree has succeeded. The maximum severity. On of the more demanding. Whether because of the crisis or the cows come home, cosmetics have been completed. The Pritzker Prize this year has turned out to sow hope. After the last granted to Peter Zumthor, the Japanese Kazuyo Sejima has managed to drag your partner Nishizawa. And unlike other awards, such as Robert Venturi, who forgot his partner, co-author and wife (Denise Scott-Brown) at the time of receiving the award, "the two architects of Sanaa received him as equals. Although only a decade has passed since Sejima Nishizawa reached.

Another pair of architects, the Swiss architects Herzog and De Meuron, has been successful in building VitraHaus a friendly cosmopolitan icon with the mountains and the houses of the German people Weil am Rhein. But in the search for truth without resigning to the risk that points to an optimism more than survival, perhaps the building of the year has been the Center Hepworth, David Chipperfield. It is an emblem that reads like one and many unique and flail to the work of Barbara Hepworth and other collections of the City of Wakefield, in the UK. Chipperfield he finished and delivered this year, but will open in May next.

Spanish architecture has also shown that they can extract oil from budget adjustments. Zafra (Badajoz), Enrique Krahe up a splendid theater generously squeezing talent, resources and commitment. And in Ripoll (Girona) study RCR Ter crossed the river with a bridge-stage from which you can see how the ducks swim beneath the feet of which crosses through the slats of Corten steel.

This year has also been able to enjoy true that some are able to extract more fair budgets. The story of official protection and Leclerc Coll opened in Pardinyes (Lleida) were designed without spatial hierarchies without thinking about the media image, and standing in the shoes of those who must live in them. Design of closed doors, as much out of doors that makes a difference in a lot of social housing in the last decade.

Among those trying to give new life to fluorescent light bulbs, lamp Siluet Ramón Benedito, illuminates a path. Also Curro Claret proposals, noting how the design, as well as psychologists, can improve people's lives, take opposing pieces to museums to design art that occupied the galleries in past seasons. During the Valencia Furniture Fair, the show made a hole Souk projects Londoners Oscar Díez-bag-made tapes Glueline illustrated the swimmer-hop collective with seats that produces Sancal-Chat and showed that the alternatives benefit everyone: the fair, visitors and good no-budget young designers to exhibit in the official enclosure Nude. In the international sphere, Antonio Citterio made clear to the series of sofas Suita (Vitra) that not everything is invented in the world of the seats, playing with desks in the back and with different heights and widths, and Germany's Stephan Diez explained that he works the millimeter to show that his idea of design is more about adjusting to occupy a seat cover of a magazine.