Yeux de Paon - Olaf Nicolai communication & design The strenght and stiffness of

The strenght and stiffness of the fibres

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Helmut Höge's investigation of a political economy of street boundary posts and other forms of urban furniture proves to be a revealing contribution to the understanding of contemporary urban development

and may yet be unasked

Yeux de Paon - Olaf Nicolai communication & design The strenght and stiffness ofOlaf Nicolais work series Yeux de Paon is an artistic examination of the processes of modernization. Nicolai takes as his starting point the peacock eyes motif, a pattern that can be traced back to traditional Bulgarian ce ramics. When the tourist industry in Bulgaria began to take off in the 1970s, this folkloric motif was used in the mass production of ceramic articles. Rather than establishing a contrast to the forces of modernization, these