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Just Like A Pill
A commentary on the consumer culture we live in, Tobias Wong's work crosses the divide between art and design, while his critics vehemently deny it is either. Always striving to be controversial, the young designer has a host of provocative projects under his belt, including making a notepad out of a stack of $100 bills and covering a McDonald's coffee stirrer in gold (a stirrer that was discontinued by the fast-food chain after it was allegedly being used by addicts to shovel coke with). Indeed, this man isn't afraid to push the envelope in all the wrong directions, with unashamed luxury as the pinnacle of his philosophy. Ironically, however, Wong has a love/hate relationship with the decadent concepts he proposes; tattooed on his arm is the Jenny Holzer truism 'Protect me from what I want.' Fascinated by America's obsession with all things material, Wong's work is powerful, poignant and posh, with his 24-carat gold-leaf pills at the top of our list of guilty pleasures. Of course, if you want something useful by Wong, then you could always opt for his Rubber Chandelier, which hangs on the ceiling to bring glorious, stylish light to any darkened space.
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