
Telling Tales is a free exhibition on at the V&A, it finishes this Sunday so get down there sharp if you want to see it.
I wouldn’t say it’s worth going out of your way to see but there were a few products I liked, one of which was the Bathboat:

In the exhibition guide it says of the pieces on show, whilst originally being design objects with a use, they have been changed into an art object because of how decorative they’d become. This is precisely what made me rather ambivalent towards the exhibition – to decorate an object out of its use seems pointless to me. Good design works both aesthetically but also functionally. I like Tord Boontje‘s Midsummer lamp, in which a sheet of metal is laser cut, and you arrange it around your bulb light like a lamp, but here he showcased fairytale chairs that left me cold.
I don’t know… for once the whimsy was too whimsical, even for me.