Glutter’s Hong Kong
Michael Wolf whose work you’ve most likely seen in G.O.D furniture chain has published a new book, "Front Door/ Back Door,"
This trip through one of the most densely populated areas of the world
is also a journey through a strangely underpopulated place, inhabited
only by the traces of city
dwellers. The dark back alleys that crisscross the city are home to
objects that, at first glance, seem to be discarded—the random detritus
of the man-made world.Browse Front Door/Back Door
To Order it’s US$75: Front Door/Back Door
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 
hi, i am douglas young. i am the creative partner/co-founder of GOD. i would like to state that the GOD signature print “yaumati” is my original artwork and not a michael wolf piece. As a matter of fact, michael saw our product as used by a customer and asked her where it is from, he proceeded to contact me and we have subsequently become friends. We share a lot of common views on HK (pun unintended) and we often chat over a drink about our projects, but we are essentially working on different media. In fact, it was over coffee yesterday that michael has brought to my attention your site. You’ll notice that on his book, I have provided the text for it.
Sometimes, great ideas that are similar occur to different people who are thinking alike at roughly the same time, it is not a case of one copying another. Think Cubism of Braque and Picasso. Unfortunately in HK, chinese people (myself included) are suffering from prejudice because our cousins in the mainland have a reputation for copying, I think this is unfair to those of us who are original thinkers, mainlanders included. Flattering it maybe, both michael and i would be most grateful if your begining remark can be corrected.
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Hi Doug.
Nice to meet you. I hope too one day we can sit and have coffee and chat about work.
But Michael does have work in your store. I saw the posters there, that’s how I know that was his name.
If you look carefully at the post, I didn’t say he did “Yau Ma Tei.”
I don’t think there is anything to correct…
🙂
Yan
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Neue Photos von Michael Wolf
Wie ich bei Glutter gerade lese, hat Michael Wolf (den ich schon einmal verlinkte) ein neues Buch herausgebracht.
Hier vorbestellen. 🙂
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sorry Yan to have jumped to my conclusion, but in the context of GOD shops, our “Yaumati” prints are much more visible than Michael Wolf’s posters. People reading your remark might well be mislead into wrongly attributing my work because of the undoubted similarity upon first aquaintance.
just let me know when we can hook up sometime.
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cool!! I can’t wait.
I will give you an email later on today. I am doing a mural at yumla bar in Soho…. so maybe we can meet there in next week, you can see my painting.
🙂
🙂
Yan
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