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- Alexander Host, one of the founders of Sanitov Studio photographed in Covent Garden, London.
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- The Sanitov with a load of boxes. It is designed to carry 150kg (driver included).
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- The Sanitov with its hatch back open.
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- Another usage for the san lun che: a fruit seller in a Beijing hutong near the Bell Tower. (Ph.Lionel Derimais)
The global village, first described in Wyndham Lewis’s work and later popularized by Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian philosopher (among other things), is now more than ever a reality. These days, China, also aptly called the Middle Kingdom, plays the role of the place du village of that global village – the place where everybody meets to see what’s new and interesting. A few years ago, doing just that, Alexander Host, a young Danish designer, arrived from Copenhagen on the Trans-Siberian railway, in search of inspiration for a fashion project and came back with…a bike! In the following interview Alexander tells Nicely Made in China (NMiC) about Sanitov, and how the coolest “san lun che” (三轮车) came to life. Read the rest of this entry »
