new+notable,

Seth Kinmont … HEAVEN by Emu … NEKTON by Zaha Hadid … ANGLE LIGHT by Tom Dixon … CENTERFOLD
by DeVillain … FRUIT BASKET TEA SET by SANAA … V&A TOOLKITS by Wild & Wolf … OCEAN by Helio
By Jill Singer
In 2004, Comme des Garçonsʼs Rei Kawakubo and
Adrian Joffe plucked architecture student Christian
Weinecke to design and open CDGʼs first Guerrilla
Store in an old Berlin bookshop. Now Weinecke
works with a team to scout new locales (the more
marginal the better), cultivate local partners (most
of whom have never been involved with fashion
retail), and conceptualize interiors for the stores,
each of which closes no more than a year after it
opens. The latest site popped up this spring in a
former shoe-polish factory in Krakow, Poland. The
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250-square-foot shop, decorated only with leftover
factory provisions and secondhand Socialist furniture,
sells a mix of CDGʼs current fashions as well as
impeccable stock from past seasons. “The idea is to
forget about the connotations of old and new, this
season and last season,” Weinecke says. “We want
to present clothes the way you have them in your
cupboard: all together, the pieces you love.”
Guerrilla Store +4812, Erdal Factory, Ul. Zolkiewskiego
17, 31-539, Krakow, Poland; www.guerrillastore.com
COMME DES GARÇONS PARIS new+notable — GUERRILLA STORE by Comme des Garçons … MEDIA SKIN by Tokujin Yoshioka … STILL by

36 I.D. June 2007
5
To hear it from some, Nokiaʼs N95
may end up a usurper to the iPhoneʼs
throne: A smartphone that boasts
5 megapixels to the iPhoneʼs 2, it
has an integrated GPS system and
can be used on any network. But at
$749, can a two-way slider trump a
touchscreen? Let the games begin.
www.nseries.com
5
SoftBank, the cell-phone company
that owns Vodafone in Japan, has
teamed with Pantone to create the
812SH, a collection of fashion phones
by designer Takuya Onuki. Fancy
a phone in Hexachrome Cyan? Itʼs
there, along with 19 other shades
from mint green to magenta.
mb.softbank.jp
5
If Gordon Gekko carried a cell phone,
this would be it: With a neon stripe
circling its perimeter, Motorolaʼs
MOTORIZR Z8 oozes ʼ80s cool. The Z8
can support up to 4 GB of memory
and has nearly 16 days of standby
time, but the niftiest feature is its
slider, which angles to cradle the face
just as a normal handset does.
www.motorola.com
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5
Helio poached the designer of
T-Mobileʼs Sidekick series to create
OCEAN, an innovative dual slider.
Made of three layers, its top slides up
to reveal a keypad, and the bottom
layerʼs QWERTY keyboard slides out
like a traditional texting device. Like
all Helios, the device comes with
access to Google Maps and any
social-networking tool you can
think of; $295.
www.helio.com
5
Tokujin Yoshiokaʼs MEDIA SKIN
by KDDI, the sixth in a series that
includes phones by Marc Newson and
Naoto Fukasawa, was prototyped two
years ago and pulled into MoMAʼs
permanent collection. No wonder:
Its textured surface (the orange and
white models feature a paint thatʼs
made from the silicon particles used
in cosmetic foundations) makes it
feel more like an art piece than an
accessory. Available in Japan for
purchase, in the U.S. for dreams.
www.au.kddi.com
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38 I.D. June 2007
1
To produce this old-fashioned
STILL from heat-resistant Pyrex yet
retain its delicate form, New York–
based artist Seth Kinmont had the
glass hand-blown by the experts at
Corning. The piece can be set over
an open flame to create homemade
perfume or an eau-de-vie. Available
at Project no. 8. Includes candles and
a case of wine; $1,750.
www.projectno8.com
4
French designers Christophe Pillet
and Jean-Marie Massaud—whose
HEAVEN chair is shown here—
were recently tapped by the Italian
outdoor furnishings maker Emu to
design two new collections using
a technique that extrudes metal
sheeting into curvilinear 3-D; $398.
www.emu.it
6
Philipsʼs AMBISOUND HTS8100
combines a tuner, DVD player,
and speakers in one sleek unit; its
front- and side-channel technology
creates a surround-sound effect that
eliminates the need for additional
speakers; $799.
www.philips.com
7
Zaha Hadidʼs interlocking NEKTON
stools, originally produced in limited
numbers for a selling exhibition at
New York auction house Phillips
de Pury, are available to the masses
after being cast in less costly white
Fordacal by the British manufacturer
Established & Sons. Price TBD.
www.establishedandsons.com
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3
Tom Dixon pays homage to ʼ60s-era
Gerald Abramovitz with his
powder-coated, bent-aluminum
ANGLE LIGHT. Available in
floor and desk models.
www.tomdixon.net
3
Its neck isnʼt broken: Developed
by an airline pilot who found it
difficult to travel with his instrument,
CENTERFOLD, by the Swedish
company DeVillain, is the worldʼs
first foldable electric guitar; $3,370.
www.devillain.com
4
MADA CAIMES, a semi-acoustic
guitar by Austrian designer Adam
Wehsely-Swiczinsky, is constructed
from hemp thatʼs organically molded
rather than carved or milled; no
joints makes for clearer sound and a
smoother, rounded shape.
Available in cherry as shown or 10
other colors; $4,500.
www.madaguitars.com
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40 I.D. June 2007
4
Korinʼs Masanobu VG10 7-inch
SANTOKU knife is both lightweight
and easy to grip, thanks to an
octagonal pressed-wood shaft. Its
nickel-silver bolsters are shaped by
the same technique thatʼs used on
Formula One racing cars; $274.
www.korin.com
1
British manufacturers Wild & Wolf
pilfered the V&Aʼs William Morris
archive to find prints for its V&A
TOOLKIT collection, which turns
hammers ($20), trowels ($20), and
tape measures ($12) into stylish
accessories. Available in Cray (shown
here), Daisy, and Anemone patterns.
www.wildandwolf.com
6
Domestic asked designers to go crazy
with graphics for SURFACE 01, a
collection of white, lidded porcelain
vases that can double as cookie jars,
piggy banks, or any other secret
receptacle. Shown here are Für by
Pierre Marie and Petits Pois by French
textile design firm Maison
Georgette; $72 each.
www.domestic.fr
8
Alessiʼs FRUIT BASKET TEA SET, a
rare foray into product design by
SANAA, finds the Japanese architects
abandoning linearity in favor of
squat apple shapes. A corresponding
set of mocha cups and spoons have
branchlike handles that mimic
the slim tip of each stainless-steel
container; $860 for the set.
www.alessi.com
MARK WEISS