Interesting Collection

Hat tip to BoingBoing for this link to a story in the LA Times about Sir Terence Conran and Thomas Heatherwick... bq. For each of the last 11 years, Sir Terence Conran has sent a notable figure from the world of design on a 30,000 pound ($54,000) shopping spree, in search of "things you'd like to live with" as part of the Conran Foundation Collection. When the popular 33-year-old English designer, sculptor and architect Thomas Heatherwick got the call this year, he decided to put a little extra legwork into the assignment. bq. "I wanted to see how many ideas 30,000 pounds could buy," Heatherwick said on a recent afternoon in the Design Museum caf� on the banks of the Thames, as the river sparkled blindingly outside the all-glass windows. "It turned into like kind of a TV challenge show." bq. Heatherwick hunted the street market stalls, websites, corner stores and catalogs of the world in search of nearly 1,000 objects, which are on show until Sunday at the Design Museum. Very cool idea -- the article says that the show may tour, that would be wonderful to see. This sort of collection is not unusual, in Victorian times, this was a very respected hobby.