Skip past the rows upon rows of office and hotel furniture at the Feria Habitat Valencia this week, and head for the NUDE Young Designers Fair to catch a glimpse of what the Valencian design scene might look like over the next few years. Hardly a milanese Satellite or a swedish Greenhouse, but there were definetly a few signs of promise.
Of course, the fair was keen to express it's "international" credentials. Fortunetely, this gave recent graduates from Goldsmith's College in London a chance to exhibit a few quirky pieces—a collaborative, threesome balloon and a double handed table tennis paddle being, perhaps, the most curious.
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