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Andy Warhol (b. 06.08.1928 in Pittsburgh, d. 22.02.1987 in New York) was uniquely able to combine opposites, change the world of art and with Pop Art create a new, independent style.

A constant characteristic of Warhol´s works was their serial reproduction, the creation and production of the same things over and over. His serial portraits of famous personalities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Mao or the reproductions of the Campbell´s soup can became world famous. The »Gems« on display at Crystal Worlds are also a part of Warhol´s »Iconography of the Everyday«.

Tord Boontje was born in 1968 Enschede in the Netherlands. He studied at the Design Academy in Eindhoven and the London Royal College of Art.

Boontje works as a furniture and industrial designer and is particularly involved in package design. As an artist he has won many awards and is well known for his interior design and various exhibitions and installations. In his works nature again and again plays a central role, although technology is always an integral component of the end product.

For Swarovski Innsbruck Tord Boontje designed the winter wonderland. The essential theme of his interpretation of a crystal landscape is the sublimity and strangeness of ice, rock, snow, clouds and water and the magic of flora and fauna represented in fantastic forms. At Crystal Worlds the installation »Silent Light«, which Tord Boontje created in collaboration with the fashion designer Alexander McQueen, is a real inspiration.