Design Days Dubai 2014 / Maserati Ghibli vs Quattroporte

My brother and I also went to Design Days Dubai, an exhibition of limited edition furnitures and design objects. This fair was more interesting to me than Art Dubai because furnitures and design objects can be actually "used" in our daily life but paintings and art can only be looked at... Sorry, for being a philistine... :-/

This cabinet called "Chartres" from Carpenters Workshop Gallery by Studio Job is made of bronze and gold-leaf and in the form of an upside-down replica of the famous cathedral. It's eye-catching and beautiful!

This light sculpture "Fragile Future III" made by the artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta is also amazing: real dandelion seeds connected to LED lights. Wow...

My favorite design object was these digital and analog clocks by Victor Hunt.

I couldn't get over my astonishment. This concept is AWESOME!!!

 

You have to see this video - it's too complicated to explain. ;-)

http://victor-hunt.com/collection/serie/million-times

To get to the venue, we used the complementary car service by Maserati. This model is called "Ghibli", the less expensive version of Maserati: starting from UAE 325.000.- (~ CHF 78'432.- ~ USD 88'459.-).

I always thought expensive sports cars are loud, small and only for show-offs... And yes, they are loud but the car itself wasn't that small, it had 4 doors, the seats were actually very comfy and not that showy. ;P I just didn't like the wine-red colored leather seats. A little too sporty for me. ;)

 

 

We also got to try "Quattroporte", the more expensive model of Maserati. The price starts from

UAE 525.000.- (~ CHF 126'699.- ~ USD 142'896.-). Quattroporte is more "classy" and not sporty like Ghibli, but also comfortable, with 4 doors and I liked the color of the interior: the leather seats were nice cream colored, called "Sabbia Leather". Very elegant!