The ostrich pillow helps insulate wearers from the stresses of modern society.
Do you love good design? Enough to hop in bed with it?
If so, the In Bed With Designers event the weekend of Nov. 30 at Mini Hotel in Causeway Bay should be right up your alley.
The unique concept will see talented designers from ten different countries and of many specialties – stationary, furniture, home decor, lighting, and more – set up shop in a hotel room and sell their unique wares to locals in Hong Kong.
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A total of 50 designers will fill up the three floors of the hotel at the event, organized by online design shopping site buyMeDesign and part of the first ever Hong Kong Designers’ Week.
The weekend of design madness will kick of on Saturday, Nov. 30 with a PechaKucha Night followed by a “pop-up designer sleepover,” and the designers-in-residence will remain in their rooms at the Mini Hotel until Sunday night Dec. 1.
“We created this event to provide a platform to introduce innovative and creative designers to
the expanding Asian market. In bed With Designers is the physical representation of our design
curation and is the new destination in Hong Kong to discover, experience and interact with the latest
global designs and designers,” sayd buyMeDesign founder Florence Coirier Giraudon.
For a Design Talk, In Bed With Designers be welcome international industrial designer Michael Young, Project Director of Hong Kong Design Centre, William To, and fashion, design and architecture blogger Wanderlister and more.
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Designers at the event will include:
-Hubert Verstraeten will bring Bakelite accessories from his brand Tamawa (Belgium)
-There will be a fantastic range of funky stationery from Praxis Design (Hong Kong)
-Xavier Coenen’s modular furniture, Momodul, will be on display (Belgium)
-Beautiful hand-made oriental furniture from Pinwu will be showcased (China)
-Boris Design Studio’s original home decoration and lighting are coming (Sweden)
-The Ostrich Pillow by Studio Banana Things to ensure a napping sensation (Spain)
-Dsignedby will be showing their range of ultra modern furniture (Serbia)
-Cute and quirky stationery items will be on offer from Zeup Design Studio (Korea)
-Parisian sex toy, La Tour est Folle, will also be making its Hong Kong debut (France)
-Aiste Nesterovaite’s range of quizzical yet functional fashion will be showcased (Lithuania)
Coconuts Hong Kong is a media partner with In Bed With Design.
