This week at Art MoCo, we featured more art that we came across in Milan, like Dejana Kabiljo’s pretty stools and poufs that look too well coiffed to be dishevelled by commonplace sitting.

Peter Jansen’s sculptures make use of rapid prototyping techniques to show us man in motion.

The Helica by Anouk Omlo was an intricate piece of ceramic work that we came upon at the Design Factory Brainport show.

Work in Turkish marble by several international designers was featured in an exhibition entitled Block and held at the Design Library.

And Erika Calesini puts the humble (and smashed) bicycle to good use. SM

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This week has been a little unusual over at Art MoCo in that the focus has been on the work featured in one particular exhibition: the cover*version show that took place in Milan during this year's Design Week.

Limited edition covers done by a variety of top artists and designers were created for the tenth anniversary celebrations of Wallpaper* magazine.

Above we have work by Michelangelo Pistoletto, Richard Patterson and Design Barcode.

Here we have a detail from the Marcel Wanders' cover and below some Jeff Koons.

All the covers from cover*version will be featured throughout the week. SM

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MoCo Loco sister site Art MoCo has some stories from Milan Design Week; Royal Tichelaar Makkum: Pyramids of Makkum contemporary riffs on a 17th century flower pyramid, Celia Suzanne Sluijter for ICE by Femke Goossens a collection of rugs inspired by a poem, Everyday Scenarios Louise Hindsgavl’s white porcelain figurines depict creatures that have distorted human bodies and heads of animals, cover* versions - Day 1 and cover* versions - Day 2 marking Wallpaper* magazine’s tenth anniversary celebrations.

Some of Richard Moon’s paintings have a dreamlike quality to them and the viewer almost wonders if he or she was part of that dream, like the one about the time they all had to learn to put on gas masks at school.

Moon’s portraits have more of an odd sort of bad dream quality about them, in that one hopes the sitters do not look quite like the portraits. Yet these paintings are haunting without us fully understanding why.

Seventeenth century flower pyramids are reinterpreted by Jurgen Bey, Hella Jongerius, Alexander van Slobbe and Studio Job for an exhibition of incredibly detailed, ornate works produced by Royal Tichelaar Makkum.

The combination of rugs, poetry and the Netherlands was the topic of the ICE exhibition in Milan last week.

Louise Hindsgavl’s series of porcelain beasties with human bodies and animal heads is creepily appealing in its mix of traditional work and contemporary discomfort. SM

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Lisa Bengtsson is known for her wallpapers, but it is also fun to browse through her portfolio full of floral hairstyles, parachuting houses and colourful peacocks.

Women display their connection to the domestic life by allowing houses to grow upon their heads in Kelie Bowman’s watercolour world, where people and objects pile up in pyramids.

Colour, swirl and line are key components of Jenny Laden’s works on mylar, paper and wood.

Kate Street’s wreaths are deceptive pieces of sculpture that lure the viewer in, then surprise with subversive elements.

The juxtaposition of modern architecture and alpine meadows or elephants amongst the pines is some thing Natasha Kissell does eerily well. SM

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Granada Design is producing Lee Jang Sub's Complexcity wall art collection inspired by the patterns found in cities and nature. Per the artist, "This project is an exploration to find a concealed aesthetic by using the pattern formed by the roads of the city which have been growing and evolving randomly through time, thus composing the complex configuration we experience today.". The ComplexCity collection will eventually include 10 famous cities that grew into complex cites starting with Paris, Rome and Seoul.

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