Remarkable design on location in ‘Design Of The Times’ in Roeselare

Design changes over time. The exhibition is a game of impressions in which everyone makes up their own story.

Questions about design

In the cultural center De Spil in Roeselare you will find objects, installations and furniture that attract your attention in every nook and cranny. Such as a sofa from Mali constructed with fishing equipment, or speech bubbles above the tables in the sitting area and then suddenly a forest of colorful umbrellas. All design.

Curator Janny Devriendt: “The questions we want to raise are: should design be beautiful, should it be functional, should it be expensive? What exactly is design. And what is design? We don’t answer that. We simply refuse. Then this exhibition makes no sense.”

“Design or not?”

Also an installation with 10 cheap chairs with a production cost of roughly 1 euro each. The artist painted on it and signed each chair? He is now asking 1,500 euros for it.

“It’s a bit like the artist who takes us over and laughs at us and is like: do you think it’s design or not?”

Another location is a stately villa in disrepair from the 1930s by top architect Joseph De Bruycker. In the large salon an installation with chairs according to the dimensions of Le Corbusier’s modulor. They listen to the earth.

On the first floor: rooms in all kinds of colors and shapes. Also a romantic radiator or all kinds of objects in various materials such as fabric, rubber, paper and hair.

‘Design of the Times’ in De Spil, the villa, the house Wyckehuyse and Ter Posterie runs until 8 January and is free.