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- ↑ Featuring Featuring
- ↑ Designer on Holiday
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- ↑ "Paper Pulp Helmet by Tom Gottelier, Bobby Petersen and Ed Thomas". Dezeen. 21 June 2013. Retrieved February 15, 2015
- ↑ Self Unself, Central Academy of Fine Arts, China
- ↑ Self Unself (Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, 2013)
- ↑ 'Out of the Woods: Adventures of 12 Hardwood Chairs' Archived 2015-02-15 at the Wayback Machine (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2012)