This is a design studio, and that means stuff lying about the place, much of it has no apparent use. Or does it? The recently opened Then-Now Show at the Aram Gallery is proof that you don't want to go throwing stuff away. My 'then' pieces were resting in the loft, dutifully not thrown away by my good parents. They were made over 20 years ago and came out of their wraps as if nothing had happened, to stand, blinking slightly, under the scrutiny of the the 2011 London design community, on Zeev Aram's hallowed floors. Other things, great and small, dropped out of that loft. I mean - what do you do with a set of Trumpton (or Camberwick Green, or whatever the hell it was) snap cards? You can't throw them away; to much of a vintagey, stomach-warming colour palette. You certainly can't play snap with them with your kids; that would be like, totally weird. I guess you can just enjoy the postures of the baker and the policeman (no riot shield!) as they look up at god knows what. And the cooky automotive styling that would look pretty good on the modern road, with a Nissan badge and battery power unit...
