Thursday the 2nd Of September
Flight schedule
Flying Grass Carpet at the Red Dot Design Museum, Essen (D)
Essen, Germany From April 4 - May 4 2010 The Baby Carpet is in the Red Dot Design Museum as a part of the travelling exhibition of the finalists and winners of the Dutch Design Awards 2009. |
de.red-dot.org |
Flying Grass Carpet at Tenerife Design Festival, Santa Cruz (S)
Santa Cruz, Spain The Flying Grass Carpet had the honour to be at the first Tenerife Design Festival. The landing space was the courtyard of TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes. A beautifull building by Herzog du Meuron. |
www.tenerifedesignfestival.com |
Flying Grass Carpet at the Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL)
Eindhoven, The Netherlands From October17-25 2009 The Baby Carpet landed at the Stadhuisplein in the city centre of Eindhoven. It was a special occasion as The Flying Grass Carpet got awarded as Best Dutch Design 2009!! Open up the bottles of champagne! |
www.dutchdesignweek.nl |
Flying Grass Carpet at Matadero, Madrid (S)
Madrid, Spain During La Noche en Blanco and one week afterwards The Flying Grass carpet was in Madrid. From the 17th of September till the 27th it was party time in the cultural center Matadero. |
www.mataderomadrid.com |
Flying Grass Carpet at Wereld van Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL)
Rotterdam, The Netherlands From September 11 -13 2009 The Baby Carpet landed in front of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen at Wereld van Witte de With. |
www.festivalwww.nl |
Flying Grass Carpet at international design festival DMY, Berlin (D)
Berlin, Germany From 3 to 7 June the Flying Grass Carpet landed at the International Design Festival DMY in Berlin. We had the best spot, right behind the entrance. So the first and the last thing visitors would see was The Flying Grass Carpet. At the opening BLISS gave a BLISSful picnic. They handed out free champagne and strawberries. Despite the cold they looked amazing. www.aworldofbliss.com Flachland had arranged the music for us. Leaning back on The Flying Grass Carpet we could enjoy the following performances. a BLISSful picnic with champagne and strawberries, (http://www.aworldofbliss.com) a spontaneous performance by Tududuh (http://www.myspace.com/tududuh) very pleasant music by Nightporter (Mark Ritsema) (http://www.markritsema.nl/) relaxing with Sir Ian (http://www.myspace.com/siriansiriansirian) just loved her voice, Charlie Dee together with gitarist Martin of Calexico (http://charliedeemusic.com/html_lyl/index.php) park footbal NL-D (unfortunately no music because of the bad weather, but we did win against Germany) (www.flachlandfest.de) |
www.dmy-berlin.com |
Flying Grass Carpet at WAMP festival, Budapest (H)
Budapest, Hungary WAMP, Erzsébet square May 17 2009 At the 17th of May the Baby Carpet was at the WAMP design market in the middle of the lovely city of Budapest. |
www.wamp.hu/en/ |
Flying Grass Carpet in the Museum, Budapest (H)
Budapest, Hungary WAMP, Erzsébet square May 16 2009 At the 16th of May the Baby Carpet was at the Iparművészeti Museum Budapest (Museum of Applied Arts). There The Flying Grass Carpet Team gave a presentation at the Pecha Kucha Night. After the persentation everybody was invited to dance all night with the musical support of many DJ's. Party time! |
pecha-kucha.org/night/budapest |
Flying Grass Carpet at Schouwburgplein, Rotterdam (NL)
Rotterdam, The Netherlands Rotterdam groen jaar (Rotterdam green year), Schouwburgplein 15 August - 17 September 2008 The third destination was Rotterdam. Thanks to the financial suport of the city of Rotterdam we could enlarge the Carpet to 25 x 36 meters. |
www.rotterdam.nl |
Flying Grass Carpet at Galerie Op de Rotte, Rotterdam (NL)
The Baby Grass Carpet Rotterdam, The Netherlands Galerie op de Rotte, (Galery on the river The Rotte) 28 June – 30 September 2008 The cute and irresistible Baby Grass Carpet has started traveling as well. It has found a nice spot to land: on the quay of the river De Rotte in Rotterdam. Here the Baby Grass Carpet joins in the art festival Galerie op de Rotte. This year the festival held its 10th an- niversary and what makes this festival so special is that every year all the pieces stand in or fl oat on the water. On the Baby Grass Carpet you can enjoy the art in the river, throw a line out to catch a fi sh or contemplatively look out over the water. |
www.galerieopderotte.nl |
Flying Grass Carpet at Temporare Garten, Aachen (D)
Aachen, Germany Temporäre Gärtens (Temorary Gardens), Pferdelandpark 14-29 June 2008 The second destination was Aachen, to join in the art festival Temporay Gardens. This time the Flying Grass Carpet landed in a fi eld and the contrast between the real and the artifi cial grass made it a special experience. The Temporary Gardens covered an extensive area and visitors found the Flying Grass Carpet ideal for a having a rest before heading towards the other installations and gardens. |
www.temporaeregaerten.de |
Flying Grass Carpet at Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam (NL)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands De Kunstvlaai (the Art Pie), Westergasfabriek 10-18 May 2008 The journey has started and the Flying Grass Carpet made its fi rst stop at the internatio- nal art fair de Kunstvlaai (the Art Pie). The Flying Grass Carpet was invited by Mothership to join in this art fair. The girls from BLISS gave a nice opening performance and friendly lured everybody onto the Flying Grass Carpet for a glass of champagne and juicy straw- berries. The weather was lovely and everyday the Flying Grass Carpet was heavily used for pic- nics, sunbathing and to get together with friends. Some people even forgot to go home and slept on the Flying Grass Carpet. |
www.kunstvlaai.nl www.enterthemothership.com |
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> The Flying Grass Carpet consists of approximately 85.000.000 grass halms. The total Carpet weighs 6375 kilos (1,5 kilo/m2). > There are about 100 different types of artifi cial grass. > The fi rst artifi cial grass dates back to the late fi fties. > In 2004 130.000 km2 of land in America consisted of grass lawns and the Americans spend 30 billion dollars on the green halms. > According to Wikipedia half of the surface of the Netherlands consists of grass. Indirectly we are for 95% depending on grass for our food. |
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