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Qu’une lampe, par exemple, ne ressemble surtout pas à une lampe ! Qu’elle ne ressemble à rien ! Voilà ce que souhaite toute une partie du design contemporain qui n’a plus d’aspiration, de conviction d’aucune sorte. Design désabusé avec désinvolture, nihiliste.

Forms of NothingnessThis text critically discusses a tendency in contemporary design in which objects such as a lamp must by all means be made to look like anything but a lamp, in fact like nothing. This tendency is criticised as showing a lack of aspiration and conviction and being essentially nihilist.