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I saw the Skin + Bones exhibit last month. Brilliant.

I saw those new Lacie speakers the other day on a tech site and fell in love with them. Hopefully they sound as good as they look!

Convertible skirt/table???? Going to the bathroom or driving a car would be totally out of the question.....Who would actually shell out money for this crap????????? Get real! Surely you can find better stuff for us to want and admire....or are we just filling up space these days?

I'm with Maureen! Why do people design this crap? It's just plain stupid.

I'm disappointed to read that some here think the exploratory art-design of the Skin + Bones show is deemed mere "crap" simply because it doesn't fulfill a consumer, utilitarian need. Creativity needs the option to journey via conceptual avenues of form, function and sometimes just plain whimsy. The MOCA exhibit is not meant as a catalog of items coming to IKEA for mass merchandise. As the show title implies, this is an exhibit showcasing a marriage of the fields of art of architecture and fashion...not a West Elm or J. Crew catalog.

Other designers and artists look to these sort of unique, non-marketable ideas to give birth to the fashion, furnishings, automobiles, movies and music that enter the mainstream market later as the latest trends. But exploratory conceptual design is what motivates designers to think different, that challenges the field to innovate, so I've always found it continually disappointing the practical lot seem lost upon the idea for creatives to play with ideas because it doesn't seem to serve an obvious marketable service. Give it a chance...sometimes what is weird or "crap" upon first inspection is later appreciated with some time and thought. Or simply appreciate an idea for what it is...an idea. The world would be a sad and boring place if people only designed what we were told what we "needed" by those whose world is dictated by practicality.

Blah Blah Blah, Gregory. C'mon! A skirt/table? Really? A skirt/table? Was this the best idea at the exhibit?

(and I'm just teasing with you, Gregory--please don't take offense! :) )

Michael W.: No offense taken. Even us high falutin' designers are occasionally struck with a sense of humour. Occasionally. ;)