Coco Chanel’s Giacometti Chairs Headline Christie’s May Design Sale
It was at the Beau-Rivage Palace Hotel, on the shores of Lake Geneva in Lausanne, Switzerland, that iconic fashion designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel used to escape to for months at a time, so enamored...
View ArticleMilan Triennale Puts Spotlight on Women Designers
“Twentieth-Century Italian design was patriarchal design,” says a panel at the entrance of “W. Women in Italian Design,” the exhibition that marks the ninth edition of Triennale Design Museum in...
View Article10 Upcoming Zaha Hadid Buildings
Architecture is a long game, a slow art. The time it takes to master this composite craft, as well as the time to complete major projects, is long, and many architects – including those we celebrate as...
View ArticleRare and Precious Jade Pieces Smash Records in Bonhams Sale in Hong Kong
Since the Neolithic period, jade has always been regarded by Chinese scholars as a stone possessing a spiritual significance and cultural resonance that has no parallel in the West. Carved into various...
View ArticleCorporate Apartments (Finally) Get a Design Makeover
The day has come. You’ve been angling for an expat package for years. Finally, those long-awaited words “we’re relocating you” are floating from your boss’s lips like a pencil cartoon balloon.Where...
View ArticleCrystal Meets Graffiti in Daum's New Collaboration with Kongo
French graffiti artist Cyril Phan, aka Kongo, has teamed with French crystal company Daum to create spray-paint cans made of “pate de cristal”.As one of the major representatives of the street art...
View ArticleAtelier Swarovski Home’s Dazzling Launch with All-Star line-up
At the Salon del Mobile design fair in Milan next week, Swarovski will be debuting a new branch of its business: Atelier Swarovski Home, offering a range of home decor products.Launched in 2007,...
View ArticleMilan Triennale “Sempering” Show Takes a New Look at Design
The Milan Triennale has an intriguing exhibition titled “Sempering.” The word, meant to apply to design and architecture, comes from a verb “to semper,” itself a neologism from the surname of the...
View ArticleDesign Dealers: Philippe Jousse, Jousse Entreprise
Philippe Jousse began as a photographer (working with Guy Bourdin, among others), before developing a passion for post-war French furniture design through the discovery of work by Jean Prouvé. In the...
View ArticleDatebook: Salone Internazionale del Mobile
The Salone Internazionale del Mobile, or International Furniture Fair, was founded in 1961 by Italy’s wood and furniture industry to boost exports and has since grown into a vigorous international...
View ArticlePop Designer Eero Aarnio Retrospective At Design Museum Helsinki
Eero Aarnio’s designs captured the imagination of the trend-setters in the 1960s. With bold colors, round curves, and forms inspired by pop culture, Aarnio was at the forefront of a time when the use...
View ArticleVIDEO: Fernando Campana Talks Design, Materials and More
Celebrated for their whimsical designs, the Campana Brothers (Fernando, b. 1961 and Humberto, b. 1953) have made a career transforming ‘everyday’ ready-made materials into objects of desire.The...
View ArticleFondation Louis Vuitton Announces Installation by Daniel Buren
A site-specific work by the French artist Daniel Buren, titled “Observatory of Light,” will be staged at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris on May 11, the foundation announced April 11.To be...
View ArticleFarrells Celebrates 25 Years of Iconic Hong Kong Architecture
In celebration of its 25th anniversary, British design firm Farrells is launching two exhibitions in Hong Kong that highlight its influence on the city’s iconic skyline.Farrells, which works primarily...
View ArticleEye on Design: 6 Tastemakers Discuss Where the Market is Headed
For Art+Auction’s design issue, six international tastemakers—Marcel Wanders, Lukas Machnik, Juan Garcia Mosqueda, Gina Diez Barroso, Etel Carmona, and Julie Hillman—share their takes on where the...
View ArticleOf Sublime Beauty and Sustainable Design: An Interview with Designer Tony Chi
Designers must know how to live, according to renowned New York-based hospitality designer Tony Chi.Speaking to Blouin Artinfo recently while he was in Singapore to attend Maison&Objet Asia, he...
View ArticleNike Exhibits “The Nature of Motion” at Milan Design Week
Sportswear giant Nike has unveiled an exhibition at Milan Design Week 2016 (April 12-17), displaying works by 10 contemporary designers that explore the idea of “Natural Motion” using various...
View ArticleTop 5 Shows in April Showing the Past, Present, and Future of Homes
April has kicked off with Salone del Mobile in Milan, and a new crop of design exhibitions. For those for whom the word ‘design’ conjures a domestic space first, and things to surround ourselves with...
View Article5 Must-See Artsy Events During Milan Design Week 2016
There are a staggering 1,000 events every day surrounding Salone del Mobile, collectively named Fuorisalone. There is a full program on fuorisalone.it. Among them, there’s a handful of artsy...
View ArticleDesign Dealers: Hugues Magen, Magen H Gallery
Former principal dancer with the Dance Theater of Harlem, Hugues Magen and his wife April opened Magen H Gallery in New York with the intention of offering rare and one-off pieces that straddle the...
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