Cool Hunting Video Presents: Tord Boontje

We sit down with Dutch designer Tord Boontje at the most recent ICFF, where he airs his distaste for the whole concept of furniture fairs

Our latest video spotlights Dutch-born designer Tord Boontje, looking at his relationship with nature, his dislike of furniture fairs and the new retrospective book of his work. Tord takes us on a tour of the NYC’s ICFF, sits down for an exclusive interview and has a quick chat with Tom Dixon about their shared profession. Go here to purchase the book.

FlyTower by Ackroyd & Harvey

Earlier this month, British artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey began seeding the National Theatre's Lyttelton Flytower. Working with as many as 16 helpers, the artists schlepped two and a half tons of clay up scaffolding to be slathered across the entire surface area of the 10-story tower. Once that was done, the fun began. Rather than roll ready-made sod, each artist seeded nine square …

The Borderline: Enlightenment x Towa Tei

An exhibition of new lithographs by Enlightenment's Hiro Sugiyama opens tomorrow, 26 May 2007, at the highly–acclaimed Hiromi Yoshii gallery in Kiyosumi, Tokyo. Sugiyama's lithographs are a wonderfully fresh reinterpretation of the traditional Japanese Hanga prints, with a subject matter far from the traditional. His lithographs include abstract colorful pieces as well as human skulls and imagined modern-day tribe portraits (pictured). Sugiyama works mainly as …