Carpenters Workshop Gallery Shows New Works by Resident Designers
Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris is putting on show the newest works by those it represents, including some of the most interesting names in contemporary design.The design gallery now has spaces in...
View ArticleWallpaper From Antique, Unique to Chic Surveyed at Les Arts Decoratifs in Paris
The history of wallpaper gets a special show at Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. The museum has picked 300 wallpapers from its archive of more than 400,000 examples, one of the world’s most...
View ArticleDesign Pioneer Tõnis Käo Gets Retrospective at Red Dot Design Museum in Essen
Tõnis Käo, a pioneer in system design, is the subject of a retrospective at the Red Dot Design Museum in Essen.The Estonian-born Käo has been a jury member of the Red Dot Design Award many times. He...
View ArticleFashion Houses Find a Home at Maison & Objet Paris 2016
Missoni, Ungaro, Roberto Cavalli: The names on the booths at Maison & Objet Paris 2016, the interior design trade fair running through January 26, read like a who’s who of the fashion world.Italian...
View Article5 Artistic Collaborations at Maison & Objet Paris 2016
Collaborations with artists and well-known designers have become de rigeur for high end porcelain and crystal makers. Many have chosen the start of this year and Maison& Object Paris 2016, a large...
View ArticleRIBA Looks at Post-Catastrophe Architecture in New Exhibition
Destruction and devastation leave behind a clean slate – offering a unique opportunity to radically rethink our cities and neighborhoods. The opportunity to play, to start from first principles, is...
View ArticleDesign Gets Wild as Nature Returns: Maison & Objet Paris 2016
Is nature returning to the world of design? There are plenty of natural materials at Maison&Objet Paris. If “wild” is the overarching theme, it will not be the first time.London Design Festival...
View Article10 Interior Design Trends To Watch Out For
Maison & Objet, one of the world's biggest fairs for interior design, is a great opportunity to look out for emerging trends: here are the furnishings that will be in stylish homes across the globe...
View ArticleTour d’Argent to Sell Rare Cognac, 3,000 Pieces of Tableware at Artcurial
Tour d’Argent, the well-known Paris restaurant, is to sell more than 3,000 pieces of tableware, furniture and lots from its cellar of more than 350,000 bottles. The items are to be offered by French...
View ArticleAL(L): Michael Young at Grand-Hornu
“It is design as industrial art that interests me”, says Michael Young, “not just as a limited edition, but on a scale of mass production.”One of the leading figures of experimental design in the...
View ArticleMaison&Objet Paris 2016: Contemporary Ceramicists to Look Out For
The crafts section of Maison&Objet is as old as the fair (after all, one of the founding organizations of M&O was a French crafts body, Ateliers d'Art de France), but tends to be somewhat...
View ArticleSoccer Stadium Master Designer Pier Luigi Nervi at MAXXI
Designs for some of the world’s most impressive sports stadia, all created by Pier Luigi Nervi, are going in show at MAXXI, Museum of the 21st Century Arts, in Rome.From the Italian engineer’s first...
View ArticleSoccer Stadium Master Designer Pier Luigi Nervi at MAXXI
Designs for some of the world’s most impressive sports stadia, all created by Pier Luigi Nervi, are going in show at MAXXI, Museum of the 21st Century Arts, in Rome.From the Italian engineer’s first...
View ArticleJapanese Architecture Gets a Major Survey at MoMA
Japan can lay claim to six Pritzker Prize winners, more than any other country except the US. The influence that two of them, Toyo Ito and SANAA, have had on the next generation of Japanese architects...
View ArticleDenis Milovanov Brings Solid Oak to Armel Soyer in Paris
Denis Milovanov, whose idiosyncratic works in solid oak reference traditional Russian crafts through a radical artistic prism, has been regularly shown at Galerie Armel Soyer, and will now have a solo...
View ArticleFirst Piasa Sale of 2016 to Feature Josef Frank and Scandinavian Design
The first Piasa sale of 2016 will focus on Josef Frank, with 54 out of 200 pieces dedicated to the designer, whose work marked Swedish Modernism.The Paris auction of Scandinavian design will take place...
View ArticleInnAuction's First Sale to Highlight Scandinavian and Brazilian Design on Feb 24
InnAuction auction house, based in Innsbruck, Austria, has announced its first sale of the year. The Design Auction will take place on February 24 and present an offer of 185 lots across Brazilian,...
View ArticleStudio Mumbai’s Bijoy Jain Awarded MPavilion 2016 Commission
Indian architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai has been awarded the temporary pavilion commission for MPavilion 2016, the third edition of the unique architectural commission and design event for...
View ArticleNorwegian Postmodern Design Star Terje Ekstrøm Gets Oslo Retrospective
In an interview, designer Terje Ekstrøm recalled that he often heard the words “sit up straight boy!” “You can safely say,” he said, that the Ekstrem Chair “was created from personal experience”....
View ArticleMaison & Objet Asia Repositions Toward Tailored-designed Solutions
Now in its third edition, the Asian offspring of Maison & Objet may have found a distinctive identity by focusing on inspiring design concepts and tailor-made interior design solutions, notably for...
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