With this phone-booth-size piece, when you sit down, the walls, with American flags printed on them, rise up around you. (Remember the Alessi coffee mug?) "I probably can't help but think of architecture as something for the body," he said.
Moved to the front of the show from Laurent Godin's booth, this comical piece by Sven 't Jolle might be appreciated by visitors eager for revenge on our captains of finance.
Some 151 galleries from 28 countries were chosen to take part this year, drawn from 450 applicants; each has a booth displaying its best pieces — or at least pieces it hoped would sell or provoke.
"You could see a piece go from booth to booth.
I took a photo in the photo booth and grabbed a piece of wood with the image of the temple: souvenirs from the grand opening and, to me, tokens of the UDV's amazing development.
Standing over a shelf of tangled chains and a lone Krugerrand, goggles perched atop his forehead, David Tal, at Booth 65, inspected my pieces, then waved them away: "There's nothing here that interests me".
Her No. 1 choice, at the Art1 booth, was a 1970s German piece made of brass, leather and glass that had "a strong, simple, streamlined shape," she said.
British general elections can, believe it or not, still be as simple as walking into a voting booth, marking X on a piece of paper and putting it in the ballot box.
Picking up a piece at a booth could set off a mini-lecture about the historical forces and peculiar personalities that shaped the original design, the enduring mysteries surrounding its production and survival, and maybe why its price is so reasonable.
When I found out she was signing small prints of her work for twenty bucks, I had to circle back to her booth to get me a piece of history in the making.
The booth attendant tells me the piece is "on hold," so he can't disclose, but offers that two significantly smaller pieces by the artist roughly the size of concert posters, and which have been tucked away in a closet so that they are barely visible these two are selling for $225,000 a piece.
