Art/Design Moooi: Temple to Dutch Cool

July 9, 2010 - 10:22 am

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Walking into Moooi in Amsterdam is like walking into the Nubby Twiglet home planet.

Like my frequent collaborator, Moooi revels in the symphony of hard black and white.  Moooi is a top Dutch design gallery, opened in early 2009 and now weighted with awards and selling around the world.  When you step inside, you’re nearly blinded by the light coming off the shining white floors.  Then, you look again.

Table sized silkscreens.  Lamps so large they reduce you to a post-potion-quaffing Alice.  A silver horse grinning over the couch where you leaf through art books. A chandelier that’s a spiderlike Borg of a dozen desk lamps.

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