Review
The ultimate Objet d'art, UL-2 lamp reflects [an] Architecture...resin slabs are suspended off a cast concrete base. --
Interior Design Magazine, p. 250, August, 2001Thordarson treats his work as a process... his designs are unpredictable...uncompromisingly off-kilter... and possess a sculptural quality. --
Michael Porciello, Graphis Magazine, p. 146-149, June 2001like Paul Klee...where telephone scribbles spark ideas...worm as maps of labyrinths where lines wrap rectangular compartments. --
Art Critic Halldor Runolfsson, Morgunbladid, Reykjavik, May 7, 2002
About the Author
About the authors:
George Beylerian: Olafur Thordarson.
Founder of Material-Connexion in New York. Author of Mondo Materialis and a former creative director of Steelcase Design Partnership. Organized numerous design exhibitions that have appeared around the world including the Cooper-Hewitt, and the Guggenheim Museum.
John Elder: Painting in Three Dimensions.
Owner, John Elder Gallery, New York City.
Adalsteinn Ingolfsson: Original, Counter, Spare.
Director of the Museum of Design and Applied Art, Iceland. Art historian, curator and one of Iceland's most prolific writer on art.
Lynnette Widder: Mythical Animal.
Teacher of architecture in the Graduate Departments of Columbia University and Rhode Island School of Design. A contributing writer for a number of periodicals including German Bauwelt, Dutch De Architect, Swiss Archithese and Werk. Partner aardvarchitecture,
Elena Carlini and Pietro Valle: Colored Ice.
Architects, live and work in Trieste, Italy and teach architecture at Syracuse University, NY, Ferrara University in Italy and write for Juliet Art Magazine.
Khipra Nichols: Beyond Preconception.
Department Head, Industrial Design, Rhode Island School of Design.
Skuli Sverrisson: Sound Installation.
Experimental musician, composer, bassist, attended Berklee College of Music. Sverrisson released his CD Seremonie in 1998 and recent works include a composition for 11 electric basses and extensive works with his band Pachora. Sverrisson is a Musical Director and co-writer with Laurie Anderson.
Laetitia Wolff: Manifesto for the Presence of Objects.
Founder of Futureflair, a design consultancy and Editor in Chief of GRAPHIS Magazine. Laetitia Wolff has contributed to European Design Magazines such as Interni, Intramuros and [dizajn]. She has been a book editor and curator for the Art Directors Club.
