Yksi’s first Chinese exhibition in the Designhuis is titled and devoted to ‘China’s Space Soul’. During the 2008 Dutch Design Week Yksi Expo will present a Chinese interior design show in the Designhuis in Eindhoven together with Strijp S with the key words China, Modern, Space and Expression. The exhibition can be seen from 18 October 2008 until 11 January 2009.

The two exhibitions show fourteen Chinese designers attending the Dutch Design Week hailing from different regions of China. They are of different ages and have different backgrounds, design orientations and styles. They share a common characteristic however: all of their works bear a deep imprint of China and each represents the modern space design in China from a different angle. To some extent, the exhibition is a miniature: it shows how Chinese mainland designers understand and handle architecture, indoors and design in this era and towards the future.

The Chinese interior design magazine ID+C - the Chinese organizer of this show - expects to let the works speak for themselves and so do the creators: to emphasize the human existence and situation, and to transfer their design concept in a perceptual way. Coming to the Netherlands will not only present Chinese special design through these 14 "windows", but also the multi-faceted aspects of those designers' sensible, lively and colorful lives. The expression is the integration of video, characters and rhymes. It's the expression of space, and the expression of each designer.

Yksi Expo will show works by designers from Hong Kong. Both of them have an international reputation owing to their design works and their contribution to the development of Chinese design. William Lim is with CL3 Architects Limited, his project was shown in the architecture biennale Venice . Liu Xiaokang is the chairman of Hong Kong Design Centre, his chair projects show he’s deeply rooted in Chinese culture.

Chinese designers are looking forward to introducing you to Chinese modern design.


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The side-exhibition Yksi Expo next to it shows a collection of surprising objects and design inspired by the bicycle or made from bike parts: from a handbag and necklace made from tires to a chandelier built from wheels.

Design isn’t just unique designs by ‘star designers’ but covers a wide range, with products that appeal to a big as well as a smaller budget. The first Yksi exhibition focuses on design in the broadest sense. From purses to chandeliers and from cups to chair-objects. Designers handle design differently. They manufacture unique objects or in limited editions, which usually leads to a high price, but they also market their products for a wider audience, in high numbers and at a low cost price.

At the design fair in Milan last April it was observed that among Dutch designers especially there is a trend to exhibit objects priced and sold as museum pieces. There seems to be a growing demand for this kind of product, which opens up a new market. With the exhibition Top End Low End Yksi means to show the other side of this one-sided picture.

Yksi approached eight designers/studios who have designed products in both market segments: Top End and Low End. Studio Job/Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel will start and end the series which will include products by designers Richard Hutten, Piet Hein Eek, Yksi Designers/Leonne Cuppen, Kees Heurkens and Eduard Sweep, Miriam van der Lubbe and Niels van Eijk, Maarten Baas, Hella Jongerius and Wieki Somers.

The exhibition can be seen 20 October 2007 through
11 January 2008.