Founded by Ifeanyi Oganwu, Expand Design Ltd is a London-based studio engaging in architecture and furniture design by investigating the correlation between history, base materials and opportunities presented by state-of-the-art fabrication techniques. Through our projects, we unearth unidentified typologies that are inspired by the past, grounded in the present, and on a journey to a new aesthetic domain.
The illustrated exhibition catalogue accompanying Vitra’s survey ‘The Bauhaus itsalldesign’ is available to purchase online.
http://shop.design-museum.de/en/Publications/Das-Bauhaus-allesistdesign.html
Edited by Mateo Kries and Jolanthe Kugler, the catalogue includes contributions by Lord Foster, Jasper Morrison, Joseph Grima, with essays by Arthur Rüegg and Jan Boelen, among others.
Autonomous Rex, 2006
Wonderfully tongue-in-cheek video tour of PDLEN starring model turned real estate broker Trish Goff.
Felix Burrichter. “Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau: A 21st Century Show Home.” Episode 187, W Magazine Fashion Films, November 6, 2015
http://video.wmagazine.com/watch/trish-goff-swiss-institute
Installation Detail, BULGY Inverted at Design Miami/Basel 2015
Photo, Fred Biver
Acoustic Stories, a new feature on fakeormistake photo blog features audio interview covering BULGY Inverted following its DMB 2015 presentation by Galerie Armel Soyer.
Fred Biver. “Histoires Acoustiques – Ifeanyi Oganwu | Expand Design LTD.” fakeormistake, June 2015
http://fakeormistake.net/frdbvr-photography/histoires-a-tiroirs-acoustiques/
Detail, BULGY Inverted at Swiss Institute.
Photo Sasa Stucin, courtesy Soft Baroque.
The reviews are in for ‘Pavillon de L’Espirit Nouveau’ at Swiss Institute.
Coverage spans Alldayeveryday’s extensive 3-part feature which includes a curator interview as well as others with some of the designers exhibited through to TL Magazine, Wallpaper and Purple.
“Maybe this is contemporary design’s fifteen minutes?” Asks W Magazine’s Kat Herriman in writing about the exhibition. Please see below for more.
Kat Herriman. “Just Innovate. Felix-Burrichter Makes His Curatorial Debut.” W Magazine, September 23, 2015
http://www.wmagazine.com/culture/2015/09/felix-burrichter-swiss-institute/
Adrian Madlener. “Pavillon de L’Espirit Nouveau at Swiss Institute.” TL Magazine, September 29, 2015
http://tlmagazine.com/pavillon-de-lesprit-nouveau-at-swiss-institute/
Brook Mason. “Modern Spirit: The Swiss Institute Gives Corbusier Icon a Millennial Twist.” Wallpaper, October 5, 2015
http://www.wallpaper.com/design/swiss-institute-millennium-twist-on-le-corbusier-icon
“2nd Edition ‘Pavillon de L’Espirit Nouveau: A 21st Century Show Home’ Curated by Felix Burrichter at the Swiss Institute, New York.” Purple Magazine, October 9, 2015
http://purple.fr/diary/2nd-edition-pavillon-de-lesprit-nouveau-a-21st-century-show-home-curated-by-felix-burrichter-at-the-swiss-institute-new-york/
“PAVILLON DE L’ESPRIT NOUVEAU: A 21st Century Show Home. Part 2: A Physical Experience.” Alldayeveryday, September 23, 2015
http://www.alldayeveryday.com/articles/a-21st-century-show-home/a-physical-experience#article
BULGY Inverted, 2014
PDLEN, Installation View
BULGY Inverted is featured in the Swiss Institute’s Annual Architecture and Design Series: 2nd Edition.
The exhibition titled “PAVILLON DE L’ESPRIT NOUVEAU: A 21st Century Show Home,” is curated by Felix Burrichter and revisits Le Corbusier’s 1925 project to propose radical domestic environments for the 21st century.
The show takes a critical view on technology and domesticity assembling works by over 30 designers in a conceptual show home designed by Shawn Maximo where visitors are transported to virtual environments also by the architect.
PAVILLON DE L’ESPRIT NOUVEAU: A 21st Century Show Home
Curated by Felix Burrichter
September 25 – November 8, 2015
Exhibition essay by Carson Chan available via:
https://www.swissinstitute.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Exhibition-Essay-Carson-Chan.pdf
For additional details and installation views please visit:
https://www.swissinstitute.net/exhibition/swiss-institute-annual-architecture-and-design-series-second-edition-pavillon-de-lesprit-nouveau-a-21st-century-show-home-curated-by-felix-burrichter/
Photos by Daniel Pérez, courtesy Swiss Institute.
Autonomous Rex, 2006
Autonomous Rex – a speculative architectural project from 2006 which envisions a radical extension to Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, is included in Vitra Design Museum’s broad survey of the Bauhaus.
The exhibition titled ‘The Bauhaus #itsalldesign’ is curated by Jolanthe Kugler and offers a contemporary reading of this historical institution.
The Bauhaus #itsalldesign
Curated by Jolanthe Kugler
September 26, 2015 – February 28, 2016
The show travels to Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn in Spring 2016.
For additional details please visit:
http://www.design-museum.de/en/exhibitions/detailseiten/bauhaus.html
Blue Milk is featured in Dan Rubinstein’s editor’s letter published in Departures Home + Design Fall 2015 Issue.
Dan Rubinstein. “Out of (and Into) Africa.” Departures, Home + Design, October 2015
Feature available to download via link below:
Additional slideshow accompanying feature viewable via link below –http://www.departures.com/lifestyle/home-design/african-designs-new-wave
Illustrated exhibition catalogue accompanying ‘Making Africa’ available to purchase online
http://shop.design-museum.de/en/Publications/Making-Africa-A-Continent-of-Contemporary-Design.html
Edited by Amelie Klein and Mateo Kries, the publication includes contributions by Okwui Enwezor, Koyo Kouoh and Edgar Pieterse, among others.
he publication was curated by Chus Martínez and commissioned by the Department of Cultural Affairs Basel-Stadt. Vitra Design Museum’s ‘Making Africa’ exhibition is covered by Edgar Pieterse and Tau Tavengwa’s contribution to the project.
Pieterse, Edgar and Tau Tavengwa.”Making Africa.” The Future is Here, Mousse Magazine, no 49. June 2015
Feature available to download via link below:
Galerie Armel Soyer has recently published a mini monograph built on the exhibition catalogue accompanying Look Mum, No Hands solo presentation at the gallery in 2013.
Publication includes essay by design historian and Sorbonne professor Stéphane Laurent.
Copies are now available through the gallery.
http://www.armelsoyer.com/contact-1/contact-hours/
Bulgy Inverted featured in DMB 2015 press coverage by Designboom and Blouin Artinfo.
Nina Azzarello. “galerie armel soyer interprets a neo-classical room at design miami/basel 2015.” Designboom, June 11, 2015
http://www.designboom.com/design/galerie-armel-soyer-design-miami-basel-06-11-2015/
Jana Perkovic. “Sneak Peek: 7 Mind-Blowing Ways to Use Technology at Design Miami/ Basel.” Blouin Artinfo, June 08, 2015
http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1172272/sneak-peek-7-mind-blowing-ways-to-use-technology-at-design#
Bulgy Inverted, interior photo by Fred Biver as seen on fakeormistake.net
For the tenth anniversary edition of Design Miami/ Basel, Armel Soyer featured Bulgy Inverted in a salon-themed presentation which grouped a selection of works from gallery artists.
Booth installation.
Bulgy Inverted, 2014.
Photos by James Harris
