The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum presented its sixth People’s Design Award to Design Matters, a show about design and culture, Thursday, Oct. 20, at its 12th annual National Design Awards gala in New York. White House Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard and [Read More]
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The Vitra Design Museum presents Rudolf Steiner – Alchemy of the Everyday an exhibition open 15 October 2011 – 01 May 2012. Vitra Design Museum, East Side View Rudolf Steiner is regarded as one of the most influential – and also one [Read More]
Their first major solo show in France, ov Ronan & Erwan Bouroulle, Bivouac highlights an exceptional international career, during which the two brothers have worked with some of the greatest names in design, been crowned by numerous awards and the presence of [Read More]
Bonhams are to auction a Manfred Kielnhofer Interlux Chair on 19 Oct 2011 in Knightsbridge, London. Reminiscent of American minimalist artist Dan Flavin’s fluorescent light sculptures, this unique chair literally lights up the room. Manfred Kielnhofer plays with fluorescent light and transparent [Read More]
Coincides with New Post-Modernism Exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London One of the most iconic and important post-modernist designs, Proust’s Armchair, by Italian designer and architect Alessandro Mendini, is to be sold at Bonhams as part of its Contemporary Two [Read More]
The Rijksmuseum has acquired the prototype to the now world-famous Bone Chair by Joris Laarman. Designed in 2006 by the Dutch designer Joris Laarman (1979), the Bone Chair soon became an icon. Commissioned by Droog Design and the Friedmanbenda gallery, twelve chairs [Read More]
The Gwangju Biennale Foundation and Artistic Directors, Seung H-Sang and Ai Weiwei, are pleased to announce the fourth edition of Gwangju Design Biennale, opening September 1, 2011. Titled Design is Design is not Design, the Gwangju Design Biennale will present 130 designers [Read More]
The Flux Chair, which has won the New Venture Award, the Philips Innovation Award and the Grand Designs Product of the Year Award, combines design excellence with environmental responsibility. Because the chair folds flat, it can be efficiently transported in bulk – [Read More]
Five scouts began their search for nominations for the Rotterdam Design Prize 2011. They are assisted in this by tips from the design world supplied via the new website designprijs.nl. This is the first time that the Rotterdam Design Prize has been [Read More]
The General Motors Foundation today announced a $2.5-million donation to the College for Creative Studies (CCS), strengthening a longstanding commitment to the world’s leading educator of automotive designers. CCS, a world-class school for art and design education located in the heart of [Read More]
Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory presents COHAB: an assembly of spare parts’ A project by Can Altay on view through 10 July 2011. In recent years, the so-called genre of “public art” has undergone a dematerialisation process. As the [Read More]
The Gwangju Biennale Foundation and Co-Artistic Directors Seung H-Sang and Ai Weiwei would like to announce the fourth edition of the Gwangju Design Biennale. It is most regrettable that Ai Weiwei, Co-Artistic Director of the 4th Gwangju Design Biennale, has been detained [Read More]
Several pieces of furniture designed by the Swiss sculptor and designer, Diego Giacometti (1902-1985), the younger brother of Alberto (1901-1966), are to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its sale of Post War and Contemporary Art and Design [Read More]
XtraD an exhibition of metal sculptures and designs by Haresh Lalvani, opens at Buck House, 1318 Madison Avenue, on April 6 through April 29, 2011. Collaborating with the Brooklyn-based MILGO/BUFKIN, one of the foremost fabricators of custom architectural metals and fine art [Read More]