BODUM COLLECTION 8 ABOUT GOOD DESIGN Coffee demonstration, 1958 This question requires that someone does indeed know and dares to define what good design is and show examples. The problem for the designer and producer would then be approach the concept of “good design” with his products. At BODUM’s design studio we are not trying to fulfill this concept of good design. Instead we want to give from our perspective of a living and contradictory world, where Mickey Mouse is an important as the collected work of Picasso, where the question what is genuine and false, attractive and ugly, harmonious and discordant, right and wrong, cannot be answered clearly. Thus BODUM Design is not uniform since the inspiration for the shapes and proportions of our products can as easily be from Pythagoras as from certain harmonies in McCartney’s compositions or to make a giant leap from Elizabeth Arden’s lipstick. “To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower…” — William Blake BODUM COLLECTION 9
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