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There’s a fine line between collector and hoarder… perhaps there isn’t one at all, a horder may simply be someone who collects useless crap, a collector one whose collection is structured, and usually coming at some considerable cost. 39 year-old Düsseldorfer (with Turkish roots) Selim Varol fits firmly into the latter category, this is not a crazy old man with penchant for newspapers and cereal boxes.
收藏家和贮藏者之间有着很明显的区别，也许不仅仅只有一点，一个贮藏者可能收集意义不大的废品，而一个收藏家的藏品通常是一个很大的成本。39岁的Dusseldorfer Selim Varol （有着土耳其人血统）就是典型的后一类，稍稍有些疯狂地钟情于报纸和谷类食品盒。
With some 15,000 plastic and vinyl figurines, Varol has one of the largest contemporary toy collections in the world, there’s not a limited edition art collab this boy hasn’t got his hands on! But an obsessed hoarder, I mean collector, can’t stop there… oh no. Staying firmly on hipster blogosphere trend, Varol is an avid art collector too; art with roots in street art and popular culture.
His collection is bursting at the seams with work from “embarrassed” Obama artist Shepard Fairey, whilst equally-hip New Yorker KAWS is heavily represented too. Banksy, D*Face, Nigo, Futura and Jamie Hewlett also pop-up. Varol’s collection is basically a living embodiment of a cap-wearing, Tokyo-teenager’s über-cool Hypebeast-inspired design blog, and it’s overwhelming in its breadth.
Varol是世界上收藏当代玩具最多的人之一，他约有15000个塑料和乙烯树脂雕刻工艺品，几乎没有一款限量版艺术品没被他得到。但是一个痴迷的贮藏者，我的意思是收藏家，不能停留在那里，在博客圈保持严严实实的潮人趋势下，Varol 也是一个狂热的艺术收藏家。艺术的源头在街头艺术和流行文化中。他这么多的收藏在很大程度上也代表着同样是纽约时尚人KAWS的工作，因为有些是从奥巴马“embarrassed”艺术家Shepard Fairey处得到的。Banksy, D*Face, Nigo, Futura 和 Jamie Hewlett 当然也有出现。Varol的收藏就像是一个戴帽族的一个生活体现，东京尤伯杯凉爽的Hypebeast 的设计灵感博客和它压倒性的宽度。
Oh, and why are we telling you all this? The aptly named Me Collectors Room Berlin has played host to much of this inspired collection for the past few months, and this weekend (Sunday 16th September, to be precise) is your last chance to catch it. So, if you’re in town, make sure you do. It’s mightily impressive.
我为什么告诉你这一切呢？恰当的命名Me Collectors Room Berlin 已经容纳了很多这种灵感的集合，在过去的几个月中，本周末（确切地讲，9月16号，周日）是你最后的机会，抓住它吧。如果你是在城里，就一定要做，因为这太令人印象深刻了。