My  favourite exhibition from this year’s festival is The Everyday Life Collector, organised by Apartamento and Max Lamb. It’s a collection of pottery by Richard Lamb, Max’s father.

At first sight I didn’t really appreciated the collection as a whole but got into it once I had the chance to discuss a bit more with Max, about his father – in a more personal way than the introduction text let me grasp. I really enjoyed the story behind the first piece Richard had collected and this projected a whole new light on the collection presented.

I really enjoyed being told about why somehow someone would start to buy and then put purposeful objects in a trunk for a couple of years. As I listened to Max telling me about the Troika pieces, I began to understand why they had meant so much to his father and how they had changed his own perception of everyday things.

I also realised that more and more I was enjoying the objects as much as their context and the story behind them: the anecdotes from the designers and the people behind it. Maybe I even like those stories a bit more…

Jerome Rigaud, co-founder of DesignMarketo – amongst other things
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