Design Dealers: Gabrielle Ammann Pushes Art Boundary
Gabrielle Ammann has collaborated with many of the major names in contemporary design, including Ron Arad, Marc Newson, and Zaha Hadid. She has more than 20 years of experience in the international...
View ArticleNordic Craft Pavilion at the Révélations Fine Crafts Fair in Paris
Owing to the relatively late industrialization of Nordic countries, Scandinavian crafts have remained more closely associated with design than in other regions. The values of traditional crafts – a...
View Article8 Furniture Exhibitions to See at Paris Design Week
September is... return from vacations, new school year, and furniture shopping. As the autumn design fairs are coming near, Parisian furniture designers and gallerists are revealing new trends.From...
View ArticlePhilipp Oswalt on Bauhaus, Design Changing Society
Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin is launching an exhibition provocatively titled Can Design Change Society?Organized by the international organization projekt bauhaus, the exhibition will be...
View ArticlePreview: National Design Exhibits at Paris Design Week
It's not only the French savoir-faire that will be on show at Paris Design Week. National design centres from Europe and beyond will be curating representative exhibitions of design from their home...
View Article5 Architecture, Design Events to See at Vienna Biennale
The first Vienna Biennale 2015, designed as the first event of this kind to combine art, design, and architecture, is entering its final month.Particularly for those interested in architecture,...
View ArticleArtketing: Lalique Gives Crystal Treatment to Yves Klein’s Blue Globe
In 1957, Yves Klein created a model globe in his signature IKB (International Klein Blue) color naming it “le Globe Terrestre Bleu”— the terrestrial blue globe. He was then photographed with the globe...
View ArticleThe Innovator: Interview with David Belt of Macro Sea
Macro Sea Inc is not your average real estate development firm.Based in New York, its work ranges from creative labs in former industrial spaces to swimming pools made from old dumpsters. It has been...
View ArticlePalladian Design Exhibition at RIBA in London
Of the many popular strands of Neoclassicism, Palladianism is often regarded as the most noble.Its progenitor, Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, laid down the principle for an architecture...
View ArticleGalerie Vallois Opens Two Exhibitions of Tribal Crafts
Galerie Vallois, a tribal art and craft gallery based in Paris's Saint-German-des-Prés, is opening two exhibitions of note this September.Together with UNESCO, as part of the Slave Route project,...
View ArticleCurator Kate Goodwin on Heatherwick Studio
Currently on display this month at PMQ, Hong Kong’s newest design hub along Hollywood Road, is a comprehensive showcase devoted to one of Britain’s most representative architectural thinkers: Thomas...
View ArticleMoMA’s “Endless House” Exhibition Misses the Mark
Pity poor Pedro Gadanho — he just can’t seem to catch a break. The outgoing curator of contemporary architecture at New York’s Museum of Modern Art has been a self-styled victim of misplaced...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Gego at Dominique Lévy
Gego made her name for lines: straight, curvy, usually vertical, just occasionally horizontal.Starting in September, Dominique Lévy is presenting a pair of exhibitions, in London and New York, and a...
View ArticleWonmin Park's HAZE Series at Carpenters Workshop
South Korean designer Wonmin Park is exhibiting his series HAZE at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris this September, including two new pieces developed at the gallery's research space in Roissy.HAZE...
View ArticleCool by Design: Ben-Tovim Brings Diamond Lights to Dubai
Design is all about making things, and the way we make things has undergone a revolution in recent years. From 3D printing to crowd-funding, there have never been more tools for enterprising designers...
View ArticleDesign Dealers: Cristina Grajales
The name Cristina Grajales is synonymous with good design. She set up her namesake gallery, specializing in 20th-century masterpieces, in 2001 after 10 years at the helm of the 1950 Gallery. She is now...
View ArticleXavier Lust: Design Stories Opens at Botanique in Brussels
Belgian furniture designer and sculptor Xavier Lust takes over Botanique in Brussels for September, holding an overview exhibition of his career thus far. Key pieces from Lust's oeuvre, characterized...
View ArticleTemporary Fashion Museum Opens in the Netherlands
What would a fashion museum look like? Many Dutch design museums include fashion in their collections: a dedicated fashion museum is yet to materialize. To imagine an answer to this question,...
View ArticleFrank Gehry Gets Reverential Treatment at LACMA
LOS ANGELES — It’s an incontrovertible fact of contemporary architecture that Frank Gehry is the most famous architect working today. The Guggenheim Bilbao, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and...
View ArticleAdam Goodrum’s Translucent Houses Win 2015 Rigg Design Prize
The National Gallery of Victoria has announced Adam Goodrum as the winner of the 2015 Rigg Design Prize, the most prestigious accolade for contemporary furniture and object design in Australia. Goodrum...
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