Yesterday the art and design world lost a great mind. As the New York Times wrote in his obituary, “Tobias Wong, a designer whose outrageous sendups of luxury goods and witty expropriation of work by other designers blurred the line between conceptual art and design…” His death has been ruled a suicide. Wong described his work as “para-design,” and gained the public’s attention (and not always favorable) by blending art and design together to create witty conceptual pieces that often questioned the pretensions of their makers. One of his first stunts consisted of taking a Phillip Starck Bubble Chair, turning it into a lamp and and showing it the night before the actual Starck chair was even shown to the public for the first time.
A sad loss for the design and art world.

Courtesy of Esquire

Remote Control Switch enclose in Lucite Box

This is a Lamp, Courtesy Design Boom

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