The famous book by Lewis Carroll written in 1872, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, is often mentioned as a metaphor of a passage of state, a radical, sudden change of condition, triggering a feeling of physical and mental alteration that throws things, landscapes, personalities into a realm of paradox.
Surprisingly (but maybe not too much), the profundity of this scientific metaphor can offer a reference point for the interpretation of a phenomenon that is of increasing interest to design culture, but whose theoretical boundaries often seem to be ragged and hard to define: the intersection of art and design. A phenomenon that in our case has to do with certain young but already successful talents, European or Middle Eastern designers who thanks to a ‘voyage through the looking glass,’ from their countries of origin to the galleries of New York, have found a natural context for their work.
