A new exhibition showcases the work of female designers across diverse creative fields. :
"Furniture to fall in love with at first sight, or hate forever." This self-deprecating slugline heralds Front design's Animal Thing range. It's a surreal menagerie. Cast, life-size and uniformly black, bunnies sport lampshades like oversized fezzes and tabletops protrude from pigs like unsettling scientific experiments. Yet, straight out of the gate, led by a full-scale thoroughbred with a lamp haloing its head, the Swedish design collective's 2006 series was deluged with eager admirers. Front's four original members became the It girls of design.