BadKast
March 4th, 2009BadKast is a combination of a bath and a closet. Anna van der Lei was inspired by the Finish saunas who have 2 rooms, the sauna itself and a dressing room. You can open the doors on both sides and place this piece of furniture anywhere you want.
photo by Rene van der Hulst
March 5th, 2009 at 1:34 am
Sorry, but this is stupid. It doesn’t work as either a bath or a closet, so it’s basically another of these typical Dutch selfinvolved, useless objects. This is bad design.
March 5th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
You should see it for real…
It’s BEAutiful,
very nice idea!
March 6th, 2009 at 12:44 am
Giotto’s Scrovegni Chapel is beautiful. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kaufmann house is beautiful, the Gehry Wiggle Chair is beautiful, Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony 1, op9 is beautiful.
This is rubish.
March 6th, 2009 at 12:51 am
Hugo, everyone can have its own opinion right?
I think BadKast is an interesting conceptual design, nothing more nothing less.
March 6th, 2009 at 1:45 am
True, but I assumed that the Dieter Rams commandments you posted are a more or less common backbone to our thought on design, along with the Eames maniphest, Loos’s essay and others. That’s a common ground that allows us not only to form, but to share our opinions and to do so in a clear, unequivocal way.
On judging this or other objects, some criteria must be used, and as most of your selections are interesting beyond mere humour, I felt this one fell outrageously short of the mark.
March 6th, 2009 at 1:56 am
You have a point Hugo. But if I would only post things that are inline with those manifests, there wouldn’t be much to see here.
Anna van der Lei is a student at the Design Academy Eindhoven, which might explain the more art & conceptual side of this object.
March 6th, 2009 at 2:06 am
Having lived there, I guessed she was Dutch a mile away. Why the enphasis on Dutch design, anyway?
March 6th, 2009 at 2:16 am
Dutch design is excellent!
But if you would show me 10 student projects, I guess would be able to say which students come from the Design Academy.
March 6th, 2009 at 2:24 am
OK, let’s leave this one aside. We’ll (if you let me) continue this debate on another work along the road?
March 7th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
It is a bit strange to compare work of a student with such great names…
March 13th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
It looks nice and natural.
March 18th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
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