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Design Miami/Basel: Designers of the Future

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A highlight of the Art Basel fair, the Designers of the Future award charges four designers to use mirror and plaster to produce an 'environment to stimulate discourse, reflection and community’. The results range from an English parlour to a Fertlity Cave. In the second of our entries from our video talent contest, Philippe Calame and Maria Nicollier of Recproduction, head to Basel to see the show, meet the designers and find out just what went on in that fertility cave.

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