Industrial Espacial

Vip Lounge arteBA 2014
Designed by Normal™ and Belén García Pinto
Project Directors: Arq. Martin Huberman, Arq. Bel
Garden Life.adosel Estudio & el Estudio Normal™(s que por la partes es en realidad una parte de la obra o la obra en si mismaén García Pinto
Project Team: Beatriz Palacio, Marcos Altgelt,
Collaborators: Arq. Nina Carrara, Arq. Maggie Bengolea, Arq. Arturo Peruzzotti, María Quinzio. Oficios Asociados, Garden Life.
Photos: Cristobal Palma
Programa de Espacios Comunes / Curador General Tomas Powell
La Rural, Predio Ferial
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mayo 2014

Industrial Espacial is a space that attempts to evidence independent efforts to restore the creative alliance between designers and industry by means of a collection of pieces whose origin lies in the traditional BKF chair. On the basis of a common material core, the collection consists of classic pieces, re-editions, and new designs that consciously or unconsciously pay tribute to a dialogue that is today largely extinct between those who render an idea a design and those who, through industry, execute that design. A number of series were formulated alongside this catalogue of objects in order to articulate the space. Pila, Mesada, Triombo and BKF+, for instance, are literal transpolations of industrial production filtered through the eye of the designer, constructions that act as forced dialogues of the industry+design binary that seems to have been forgotten, though not yet lost.
*Photograph by Cristóbal Palma for Estudio Palma
The 2014 edition of arteBA—the largest art fair in Latin America—was unquestionably a special one. For the first time, architecture and design had a place of their own in the fair’s common area. Under the curatorial vision of Tomás Powell, executive editor of the magazine Revista Barzón, we developed a series of pieces for different spaces in this area of the fair.