French Design Master: "I'm a Kind of E.T."

Matali Crasset talks to FastCompany.com about her development as a designer, and how growing up on a farm keeps her ideas fresh.

Crasset with a lamp she designed of whisk wires

Matali Crasset is, undoubtedly, one of the quirkiest product designers working today. It's often hard to digest some of her quirkiest creations--which include a coat rack that transforms into a bed, goofy and futuristic interiors, and a "domestic UFO." In her native France, she's something of a national treasure.

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