From 20 February until 1 March, Sotheby’s, London will surrender its galleries to a selling exhibition of contemporary decorative arts and design - CDA, which enters its sixth year in 2002.
CDA pulls together the work of young designers from all over Europe to produce a wildly varied exhibition.
Some highlights include the work of Polish furniture designer Dorota Koziara’s bold 3m high throne-like chairs, made of gathered dried branches which result in towering, gracious, dancing forms entitled ‘twelve angels’. The chairs are made from rescued tree branches, and when seen from a distance appear to be made from hair rather than wood. On the other end of the material spectrum, designer Alexander Taylor has created something in the form of a sliced shelving system, table and seat made from acrylic-based materials.
Other furniture designers with work on display at CDA include Christophe Delcourt, Matt Sindell and Abdi, Norwaysays, Kazuhiro Yamanaka, David Langburn and Stephen Richards.
Other areas of focus for CDA change every year, and this year, Sotheby’s has discovered some highly creative glass, silver, metalwork and textiles designers. Some of the products appearing almost defy description, including a series of decorative vessels made of hundreds of tiny folds of linen cloth sewn together with wisps of transparent threads by Laura Callinan, ‘Mickey Mouse’ glass jugs by Takahide Sano and silver and bronze vessels by Junko Mori, which appear as mini explosions.