HE GUARDIAN ABOUT LONDON’s MODERN DESIGN EXHIBITION

Wilk is determined to re-establish the crucial, and partly forgotten role of central Europe in modernism. For a short period between the two wars, Czechoslovakia saw itself as a proudly, self-consciously modern state. And in recognition of this, Wilk chose Eva Jiricna, a Czech, to design the exhibition. He has found a Tatra, one of the curiously reptilian cars engineered by Hans Ledwinka in pre-war Czechoslovakia that formed the basis for much of the thinking for the VW by Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, as well as work from Poland that is as striking as anything by Gerrit Rietveld. Full story: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1697037,00.html The Museum: http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1331_modernism/highlights.html