Ron Arad has a history of bending steel to fit his needs – in 1986 he did it for a chair and now he’s gone even further and bent sheets of steel into such a tizzy they now forms two functional bike tires. The bike was designed specifically for W Hotels and was just revealed at an event in London. For two weeks guests at the W Hotel in London could take the flowery prototype for a spin. As part of a fundraiser for the Elton John AIDS Foundation, the bike was auctioned off to one lucky cyclist along with other custom designed and constructed “WOW bikes”.
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After spending a decade avoiding her past, artist Stephanie Calvert revisited her old, abandoned home to face the thing she was so ashamed of. She turned her parents’ hoarding into a powerful series of artworks and a way to help her heal.
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