In August this year, thousands of posters and banners depicting an unusual ten-legged chair appeared in Moscow. The pictures were accompanied by an invitation to visit the international Industrial Design Forum Design Act 2008 that took place in Moscow from 29 to 31 August this year. An item created by Lithuanian designers – the KU-DIR-KA chair – became the symbol of the whole exhibition. This created a significant amount of interest in the work of Lithuanian designers.

The aim of the design show, which took place in Moscow’s Vinzavod Modern Arts Centre, was to present already produced design products to the people of Russia. It gave people the opportunity to participate in a design forum, to see the work of representatives of the best designers of Russia, Europe, North America and Japan and to purchase appealing objects at the design fair. The Lithuanian design studio Contraforma was a participant at the design fair.

A representative of Contraforma, Eglė Opeikienė, says the studio presented several of its productions, but the greatest amount of attention from the people attending the fair was directed at the KU-DIR-KA rocking chair. “The picture of our chair in the Fair’s advertising material”, says Eglė, “was like a magnet that attracted visitors to come to the Fair and see the real object. We think the organisers, in choosing our product for the advertising material, wanted it to arouse surprise and raise a smile, thereby getting attention. Before we arrived in Moscow we thought that, as is usually the case with exhibitions in Russia, the show would be dominated by Russian and Italian furniture, but we were mistaken. The fair operated on the principle of ‘I came, I saw, I bought’. For the whole three days of the Fair, visitors’ interest in quality design creations was very high indeed”, said the design studio representative, concluding her comments on her impressions of the Fair.

This was the second year in a row that the Fair has been organised. Over three days it attracted about 30,000 visitors, among whom there were not only some big names in design, manufacturing and distributing, but also many ordinary people of various ages, who were attracted by the display of interesting, non-standard and, most importantly, very functional design projects.

For further information contact:

Eglė Opeikeinė
CONTRAFORMA
A. Goštauto g. 8, Vilnius
Telephone (mobile) 8 - 6599 9006
egle@contraforma.lt
www.contraforma.com