Yasmin Ali
Urbanism // Design
Another Studio: MONUmini
December 7th, 2013
Another Studio is a London-based design company specialising in minature gifts inspired by architecture, the urban environment and gardens. They have a range of products perfect for architects' stocking fillers and Christmas gifts alike. Of their current products, the MONUmini is a range which reproduces iconic modernist architecture in fold-out minature steel kits. Examples include The Brandenburg Gate, Notre Dame, alongside London icons like Battersea Power Station (now Tate Modern), Tower Bridge and The Barbican, recently joined by the new release of the BT Tower edition. The European complement has also been joined by the new replica of the Centre Pompidou, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers' High Tech masterpiece.
The dimensionality of the Pompidou Centre makes it an interesting building to model and have as a keepsake. The model once constructed is 3 cms high x 10cms wide. It comes as a kit including a single flat sheet of etched stainless steel, with instructions on how to fold and interlock the pieces to create the model. Another Studio's kits are designed to be easy and sturdy to post and construct, and include an A5 envelope and a brief history of the building.
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The MONUmini kits are priced at £15.50 each, and retail online from Another Studio’s webshop.
There are several shop stockists of Another Studio products, including the RIBA Bookshop and The Red Door Gallery in Edinburgh.
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another studio http://www.another-studio.com/