COLLECTIBLE 2022, Brussels, Belgium
The 5th edition of COLLECTIBLE was held from 20 to 22 May 2022 at the Vanderborght Building, welcoming 125 exhibitors from 17 countries and thousands of visitors included world-class collectors, representatives from major institutions, and renowned journalists, as well as design, architecture and art professionals and aficionados.
"Discarded cardboard and paper have been transformed into an opulent, two-piece furniture collection titled ‘Black Mirror’ by Vadim Kibardin. The coiffeuse table and accompanying chair are the latest iteration of this Prague-based designer’s signature ‘Black Paper’ collection and represent a shift in Kibardin’s focus of research from the inherent qualities of cardboard as material, to the exploration of its multi-functionality and aesthetics. With its many work surfaces, shelves, hangers, mirrors (both ordinary and magnifying), and range of possible lighting scenarios, the coiffeuse is the ultimate in utility, while the organic structural forms of both table and chair come straight from the pages of a Gothic fairy tale".
The Design Edit’s top five picks: Vadim Kibardin, ‘Black Mirror Coiffeuse Table and Chair’, 2022 at Mia Karlova Galerie.
The Design Edit’s top five picks: Vadim Kibardin, ‘Black Mirror Coiffeuse Table and Chair’, 2022 at Mia Karlova Galerie.
"Mia Karlova Galerie presented Vadim Kibardin’s “Black Mirror Coiffeuse,” in which a sinuous and dramatically bulging form seems to be metastasizing around a stable armature. A black paper skin covers the surface almost completely. Kibardin’s paper is not pulped, a technique which has passed through a full clean cycle of internet-accelerated trending, but instead layered in strips and sheets so that their individual fragments are visible. This gives it a nuance of surface which grows more vivid up close and disappears from afar."
DAMN°magazine
"Known for his signature work with discarded cupboards and paper,
Vadim Kibardin premieres his
Black Mirror collection. The series comprises a chair and coiffeuse table expressing a tense dialogue between function and aesthetics. Rational and emotional worlds collide to give birth to a burst of energy encapsulated in one artistic functional design object."
archipanic.com