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2012 BraunPrize
GERMANY
01-Oct-11> 31-Mar-12 |
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The new BraunPrize 2012 is embracing the increased relevance of well-designed products that help improve all aspects of everyday life. With most people’s daily challenges becoming increasingly complex and demanding, Braun is relying on ubiquitous technology, highly connected social structures and our ability to cope with a fast, 24/7 lifestyle.
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EXHIBITION
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Bivouac
FRANCE
07-Oct-11> 30-Jul-12 |
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The exhibition shows their projects made during the last 15 years, presented over 1000 sq. m.
Centre Pompidou-Metz
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Brancusi-Serra
SPAIN
08-Oct-11> 15-Apr-12 |
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This is the most ambitious exhibition to date dedicated to Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), the precursor of modern sculpture, and Richard Serra (1938), one of the leading exponents of contemporary sculpture. The exhibition examines the relationship between these two pioneers, focusing on the development of modern sculpture, spanning over a century.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
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COMPETITION
Memorabilia - designing souvenirs
BELGIUM
10-Oct-11> 15-Mar-12 |
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Memorabilia - designing souvenirs wants to be a call for the evocative power of the objects which have the ability to stimulate our memory. The memory creates a time reciprocity, between past, present and future, and a space reciprocity, between here and elsewhere. The aim of this call and of the exhibition Memorabilia - designing souvenirs is to gather a selection of objects which contain representative and recognizable traces of the history of each designer, of his/her place of birth or living, of his/her ethnic group, of his/her cultural background, in order to offer the public a mosaic of little hints of souvenirs, of ways to the memories.
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Rudolf Steiner - Alchemy of the Everyday
GERMANY
15-Oct-11> 01-May-12 |
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Rudolf Steiner is regarded as one of the most influential - and also one of the most controversial - reformers of the twentieth century. He founded the Waldorf schools and advocated a holistic view of humanity which shows its influence in many areas of our lives today - including bio-cosmetics, a heightened environmental consciousness and biodynamic agricultural products, to name a few examples. Steiner inspired artists such as Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky and Joseph Beuys. He was one of the founders of "organic architecture" and also developed a unique stylistic idiom in the area of furniture design. The Vitra Design Museum exhibition "Rudolf Steiner - Alchemy of the Everyday" is the first major retrospective on this universal thinker and artist.
Vitra Design Museum
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COMPETITION
The Green Design Competition
NETHERLANDS
29-Oct-11> 10-Feb-12 |
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Applicants for The Green Design Competition can be individuals, teams or recently established brands based anywhere in the world. They should be able to design a product (which will significantly contribute to sustaining biodiversity, either by concept, design and production, or usage) and have entrepreneurial aspirations within the design industry. Sustaining our world’s biodiversity should be part of their vision, integrated in their company’s functioning.
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Design Brazil
BELGIUM
12-Nov-11> 05-Feb-12 |
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In the context of Europalia Brazil, Design Flanders is presenting a selection of products designed by the famous Brazilian designers Fernando & Humberto Campana for Edra, as well as the Alegria - Design Contemporâneo Brasileiro exhibition, curated by Tulio Mariante.
Design Flanders Gallery
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Terence Conran - The Way We Live Now
UNITED KINGDOM
16-Nov-11> 04-Mar-12 |
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The Design Museum marks Sir Terence Conran’s 80th birthday with a major exhibition that explores his unique impact on contemporary life in Britain. Through his own design work, and also through his entrepreneurial flair, Conran has transformed the look of the British home. He has established a design studio and an architectural practice with a worldwide reach. He was the founder of Habitat and a pioneer of the new restaurant culture driven by a passion for simplicity. The Way We Live Now explores Conran’s impact whilst painting a picture of his design approach and inspirations. The exhibition traces his career from postwar austerity through to the new sensibility of the Festival of Britain in the 1950s, birth of the Independent Group with its flare for the avant-garde and the Pop Culture of the 1960s, to the design boom of the 1980s on to the present day.
Design Museum
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Beauty in All Things: Japanese Art and Design
UNITED STATES
22-Nov-11> 03-Jun-12 |
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In Japan, beauty can be found in objects from the most refined to the most humble, often with standards very different from those in the Western world. Drawn largely from the MAD collection, Beauty in All Things features contemporary Japanese artists and designers who create innovative works within these ideals of beauty. Some push traditional techniques and materials in new directions, and others experiment with new technologies and materials within the context of historical practice.
In this exhibition, specific works are highlighted that exemplify Japanese concepts of beauty, including shizen, wabi sabi, and datsuzoku.
Museum of Art and Design
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COMPETITION
Electrolux Design Lab 2012
SWEDEN
30-Nov-11> 01-Jun-12 |
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Electrolux Design Lab 2012 invites industrial design students and recent industrial design graduates (2011) to draw inspiration from professional experience creators (chefs, architects, interior designers, hotel designers etc.) to design home appliances that will provide a fuller sensory experience. It might be through state of the art technology or it might be through a clever blend of textures and surfaces. Your ideas will shape how people prepare and store food, clean and do their dishes, both within and beyond the home.
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COMPETITION
AIA New York’s annual Design Awards
UNITED STATES
01-Dec-11> 03-Feb-12 |
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AIA New York’s annual Design Awards Program recognizes outstanding architectural design by New York City architects in any location, and work in New York City by architects around the globe. The purpose of the awards program is to honor the architects, clients, and consultants who work together to achieve design excellence. The four categories for AIA New York Chapter
Design Awards are Architecture, Interiors, Urban Design, and Un-Built Work.
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The Abstract Forms of Pablo Picasso & Wendell Castle
UNITED STATES
03-Dec-11> 25-Feb-12 |
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The exhibition will feature important prints by Pablo Picasso, focusing on the master artist’s portraits of woman: his muses, models, wives, and mistresses. New work by innovative designer/maker Wendell Castle, whose sculptural approach to the functional continues to break boundaries, will also be on view.
Wexler Gallery
Philadelphia, PA |
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COMPETITION
Ceramics of Italy Design Competition 2012
UNITED STATES
08-Dec-11> 17-Feb-12 |
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The 2012 Tile Competition is open to all North American architects and designers who have used Italian ceramic tiles in their institutional, residential or commercial/hospitality projects completed between January 2007 and January 2012. The competition is completely digital and FREE to enter!
Winners in each category will receive a $4,000 cash prize + a five-day trip to Bologna, Italy to attend Cersaie in the fall.
Ceramics of Italy
New York |
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COMPETITION
Illuminate Lower Manhattan
UNITED STATES
12-Dec-11> 13-Mar-12 |
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The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is seeking responses to its Request for Proposals for the development and implementation of an innovative and engaging lighting and placemaking initiative aimed at increasing Lower Manhattan’s exposure, expanding its appeal in the evening hours, and spurring more diverse business activity by using the area’s buildings and public spaces to create a strong neighborhood identifier visible to viewers from both near and far.
New York City Economic Development Corporation
New York |
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COMPETITION
Time Design Contest
NETHERLANDS
13-Dec-11> 01-Apr-12 |
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Do you have a secretly scribbled design, a flash of inspiration or some untapped talent? Then enter the Present Time Design Contest 2012, launched to give creativity the platform it deserves. The winning design will be produced as part of one of the brands of Present Time, with Your Name listed on the packaging as the signature designer. Naturally, you will get an official contract and receive a royalty!
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COMPETITION
Buddy Media’s
UNITED STATES
15-Dec-11> 07-Feb-12 |
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Buddy Media’s "Power Your Connections" contest offers illustrators a chance to win $5,000, get exposure at SXSW and have their art featured in Buddy Media advertisement.
The contest encourages artists to interpret their message of "Power Your Connections" and bring it to life. Judges include by the Carey Brothers, Renny Maslow, Rishad Tobaccowal, Cindy Gallop and the CEO of Buddy Media.
Buddy Media
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Industrious|Artefacts, the evolution of crafts
NETHERLANDS
19-Dec-11> 12-Feb-12 |
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In this exhibition, Studio Makkink & Bey examines the development of the craft by demonstrating interrelationships between production processes from the past of the Zuiderzee and contemporary translations of tailor-made industry. In the past few years, attention has been increasingly devoted to the design process, the action. Within that process, artists and designers create their own crafts and their own small-scale industries or artefacts.
Zuiderzee Museum
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EXHIBITION
Richard Hutten - Chairisma
NETHERLANDS
19-Dec-11> 09-Apr-12 |
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The presentation shows several generations of chairs that have been sources of inspiration for Richard Hutten. Specific attention is called to the story of the development of the Zuiderzee chair, which has been especially designed by Hutten for the Zuiderzee Museum.
In the exhibition rooms there are also chairs on display by Arne Jacobsen, Gerrit Rietveld and H.P. Berlage, amongst others. A combination of chairs, prototypes and sketches offers design lovers and art connoisseurs the opportunity to take a close look at Richard Hutten’s design process. The exhibition is part of the policy of the Zuiderzee Museum to commission contemporary designers every year who use traditional techniques.
Zuiderzee Museum
Enkhuizen |
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COMPETITION
Design Week Awards
UNITED KINGDOM
20-Dec-11> 10-Feb-12 |
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The Design Week Awards are back, with a brand new judging panel and a unique new venue, but keeping our commitment to recognise and reward the very best in design. This is the stage for the most outstanding work across all design disciplines, from branding to interiors, products to interactive. It’s your chance to stand out in the crowd, to showcase your work in front of your peers and to wow future clients.
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EVENT
World Design Capital
FINLAND
01-Jan-12> 31-Dec-12 |
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Under the slogan ’Open Helskinki: embedding design in life’, the Finnish capital is all set to start celebrating its role as World Design Capital for 2012. New Year’s Eve marks the beginning of a year of festivities with hundreds of design-related events all around the Scandinavian city.
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COMPETITION
Designers in Residence 2012: Thrift
UNITED KINGDOM
07-Jan-12> 20-Feb-12 |
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’It is more difficult to design a product worth £10 than it is to design the same product worth £1000. The limitations of economy require resourceful, inspired and intelligent use of material and processes and a successful project is often a more creative and fully resolved outcome.
We invite product, furniture, graphic, spatial or interaction designers to explore the idea of economy and resourcefulness in an object, an environment or an experience for their Designers in Residence 2012 proposal.’
Design Museum
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EXHIBITION
Tapani Mod Collection
HONG KONG
13-Jan-12> 16-Feb-12 |
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Tapani...’s Mod collection is inspired by a playful look at contradictions in design. Taking the clean, non-complex form of the cube and applying this to modular structure, each piece is constructed with simple and strong forms. The cubes are taken further, produced with intricate detailing, rich materials and workmanship. Each cube is handcrafted at the hand of Artisans and can be twisted and turned to produce patterns while promoting interaction and creativity from the user.
ilivetomorrow
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EXHIBITION
Koenraad Dedobbeleer
SWITZERLAND
20-Jan-12> 10-Mar-12 |
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Koenraad Dedobbeleer is the 2009 recipient of the Mies van der Rohe grant of the city of Krefeld. He creates sculptures, objects, and site-related installations, which strike a chord and yet catch us off balance. His works abound in allusion, ironic commentary and art historical reference. The artist reinterprets everyday objects by subjecting them to subtle but effective modifications, for instance, by changing their size, color or material, or transplanting them into a modernist context. He draws attention to their relationship with the Modernism of the 1920s and 1930s and, at the same time, subverts it in interventions that range from near imperceptibility to large, stage-like productions.
Mai 36 Galerie
Zürich |
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EXHIBITION
DesignWorld
FINLAND
27-Jan-12> 06-May-12 |
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DesignWorld looks at international contemporary design with broad strokes, giving an overall picture of today’s design. The exhibition is divided to themes that range from ecological and sustainable design to safety and comfort.
The exhibition is accompanied by a wide range of workshops and lectures that deepen the discussion points raised at the exhibition.
Design Museum
Helsinki |
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FAIR
NYIGF Gift Fair
UNITED STATES
28-Jan-12> 02-Feb-12 |
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Drawing 35,000 attendees from all 50 states and 85 countries, the NYIGF is produced twice annually by GLM Shows and is open to the trade only. Held in January and August in New York City, the Fair hosts 2,800 exhibiting companies showcasing the very best lines across the home, lifestyle and gift spectrum.
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WORKSHOP
Glass is Tomorrow
CZECH REPUBLIC
29-Jan-12> 03-Feb-12 |
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Glass is Tomorrow is a European network which aims at establishing a more fluid exchange of knowledge and competencies between glass and design professionals in the north, south, east and west of Europe. The project brings together designers and glass makers in three workshops to co-create prototypes of utilitarian glass objects within a theme. For this second workshop, twenty glass professionals will gather in Novy Bor in collaboration with partner Verreum.
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EXHIBITION
"Formes" by Eric Jourdan
FRANCE
02-Feb-12> 07-Apr-12 |
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Marie-Bérangère Gosserez is pleased to invite you on Thursday February 2nd from 6 pm to the opening show of the design exhibition « Formes » by Eric Jourdan. The designer will be present to welcome you.
Galerie Gosserez
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SYMPOSIUM
Sustaining Sustainability
UNITED STATES
03-Feb-12> 03-Feb-12 |
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The accelerating transformation of the natural environment by humans suggests that the built environment is now becoming the context for ecosystems. It may no longer be possible to consider the built environment as merely asserting negative impact on the natural environment; instead, built and natural environments need to be equally considered as habitats for biodiversity. It now seems necessary to shift toward a nonanthropocentric model that favors the interaction of species with the built environment. On an urban scale, such efforts have long taken shape in the interdisciplinary work of urban ecology, yet on a building scale new methods are not yet clear. In light of shifts in ecological thinking, how can architecture develop to include the necessary insights, knowledge, concepts, and working methods? This symposium looks to further discussion about this changed culture of environment.
Department of Architecture, Cornell University
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EXHIBITION
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec - Album
GERMANY
03-Feb-12> 28-May-12 |
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The brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec rank among the most influential contemporary designers. Their ideas are often inspired by shapes and structures of nature. The exhibition presents sketches and conceptual drawings of the Bouroullecs and draws attention towards the medium of drawing itself, which has kept its importance even in times of computer visualizations. This offers fascinating insights into the inspirations of the designers, but also in some preliminary stages of their final creations.
Vitra Design Museum
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FAIR
SuperBodies
BELGIUM
04-Feb-12> 27-May-12 |
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SuperBodies, the 3rd Hasselt triennial explores the fascination of many artists and designers for the way in which our body secretly moulds and shapes our experiences. This exhibition does not just re-present the body. It presents the body in all of its often half-conscious operations. A large, interactive ensemble of works from visual artists, choreographers and (fashion-) designers makes us see and feel the body as the source of our thoughts and emotions. Upcoming and internationally established artists and designers operate on the boundaries between disciplines to unravel the mysteries of the body. The whole of the city of Hasselt will qualify as a stage, but the main focus will be on larger venues such as the Cultural Center, the house for contemporary art Z33, the Fashion Museum, CIAP and the city Museum Het Stadsmus.
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FAIR
Spring Fair International
UNITED KINGDOM
05-Feb-12> 09-Feb-12 |
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Taking place at a key time for buyers, Spring Fair is where the retail industry comes to do business. With all types of home and gift products available at one time, in one place, this is the ultimate opportunity for suppliers to showcase their current ranges, launch new products and meet those all important customers - both current and new.
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WORKSHOP
FormaFantasma
ITALY
06-Feb-12> 08-Feb-12 |
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The Italian designers Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin (www.formafantasma.com) will hold a three-day workshop "Harvesting Nature" at Fabrica. Participation is free and open to a maximum of 10 external participants, and will be determined by review of CV and portfolio that must be both emailed by January 25 to: [email protected] and [email protected] External candidates must demonstrate product design training.
Fabrica
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Stockholm Design Week
SWEDEN
06-Feb-12> 12-Feb-12 |
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This is the week of the year that means Design with a capital D. We take pleasure and pride in the ever expanding range of events and exhibits in the city - a week-long design spectacular centred around the Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair.
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LECTURE
Jonathan Olivares, "Working with Jonathan Olivares"
UNITED STATES
07-Feb-12> 07-Feb-12 |
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A self-described autodidact, Jonathan Olivares will discuss the process and thinking behind three of his office’s projects: A Taxonomy of Office Chairs published by Phaidon Press; Smith, a multi-purpose home-office cart designed for Danese Milano in 2007; and the exhibition "Useless: An Exploded View," curated and designed for the EXD design Biennial in Lisbon.
DCrit
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FAIR
Stockholm Furniture Fair
SWEDEN
07-Feb-12> 11-Feb-12 |
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The fair is the world’s biggest meeting place for Scandinavian design. Here you will find the most comprehensive range of furniture, lighting, offices, design, textiles and other interior design for both the home and the public environment. The fair is now considered to be one of the most interesting design fairs in the world. Inga Sempé is Guest of Honour 2012.
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Northen Light Fair
SWEDEN
07-Feb-12> 11-Feb-12 |
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The lighting and lamp trade fair Northern Light Fair is arranged alongside the Stockholm Furniture Fair in association with Föreningen Hemljus. Here, around 100 exhibitors present the very latest designs in domestic lighting, LEDs, halogen lamps, glass-fibre lights, and glittering chandeliers. Amongst them are just over 20 exhibitors from Germany, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Italy.
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FORUM
Designboost - Design Intelligence
SWEDEN
08-Feb-12> 09-Feb-12 |
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"Designboost - Design Intelligence" offers interesting speakers who talk about the importance of creating better design solutions. You can see the photo exhibition "Designer Fuck-ups" in which 50 world-renowned designers reason about the importance of daring to make mistakes.
Designboost
Stockholm |
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EXHIBITION
Designs of the Year 2012
UNITED KINGDOM
08-Feb-12> 15-Jul-12 |
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The Design Museum’s Design Awards, ’the Oscars of the design world’, showcases the most innovative and progressive designs from around the world, spanning seven categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics and Transport and Product. A high profile judging panel will decide the best entries in each of the seven categories. Category award winners and the overall winner of the Design of the Year Award 2012 will be announced at an Awards event in April 2012.
Design Museum
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Object Rotterdam
NETHERLANDS
09-Feb-12> 12-Feb-12 |
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The fresh ambitions of Object Rotterdam are displayed in signing on not only galleries, but designers and academies as well, in the new Committee of Recommendation, with its world famous ambassadors of Dutch art and design Joep van Lieshout, Ben van Berkel, Jurgen Bey and Marcel Wanders, and in the focus on the cutting edge between design, crafts, architecture, fashion and art.
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TRADE SHOW
Ambiente Frankfurt
GERMANY
10-Feb-12> 14-Feb-12 |
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The best ideas, the most creative impulses, the most exciting new products. As the world’s most important event for the consumer-goods sector, Ambiente puts new life into the market - and gives your business an unparalleled boost. Only there, in the Dining, Giving and Living segments,can you be sure of finding so many international exhibitors with all the latest products and trends.
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Friso Kramer and other Dutch
NETHERLANDS
10-Feb-12> 04-Mar-12 |
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In different spaces of the factory a double exhibition will be displayed.
First show is a complete overview of Friso Kramer’s oeuvre, including unique pieces, early editions and a new prototype. A second exhibition will be held on other Dutch designers and manufacturers from the same period 1950 - 1970. Friso Kramer will do the official opening of the gallery on Friday the 10th of February at 2 pm.
Artbrokerdesign
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Design > Icons
NETHERLANDS
11-Feb-12> 12-Feb-12 |
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In 2012, Holland will have its own 20th century design furniture fair! 60 dealers will gather to offer their vintage furniture. The very first edition of Design Icons will take place in Amsterdam in the venue of "Bedrijfsterrein De Overkant". The former shipyard has been completely restored into a charming event location. The industrial atmosphere is the ideal setting to showcase the design classics of the 20th century. Available on site: free kids club, restaurant and free parking.
RetroStart
Amsterdam |
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AUCTION
Design - Modern Art
GERMANY
14-Feb-12> 14-Feb-12 |
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By tradition, Italian designers dominate the furniture and lighting section. Aldo Tura and Ettore Sottsass earn special mentioning: If you feel like furnishing your whole living room with Tura pieces, a rare dining table with six chairs (Estimate € 2,500-3,500), a bar cabinet (Estimate 800-1,000) and a sideboard (Estimate € 1,500-1,800) can be purchased next to two other pieces of furniture. By contrast, the whole spectrum of Sottsass’ designs is being represented. Next to his classic ’Memphis’ ’Casablanca’ shelf, designed in 1981 (Estimate € 5,000-6,000), a range of his ceramics from the ’Yantra’ series (e. g. Y33b, 1968, Estimate € 800-900) and the ’Hollywood Collection’ from 1986 can be acquired, as well as two lots comprising three ’Hsing’ vases each, designed in 1972/73, where the white and green vases seem to be especially rare as only ten of each colour are said to have been produced (Estimate € 1,200-1,500).
Quittenbaum
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Lunchtime Q&A with Michael Kimmelman
UNITED STATES
14-Feb-12> 14-Feb-12 |
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From public housing and community development to issues of social responsibility, The New York Times’ Michael Kimmelman has already shaken up our traditional notion of what an architecture critic is supposed to cover. In this intimate lunchtime Q&A, Kimmelman will address questions relating to the role of an architecture critic, discuss the possibilities for the future of criticism, and suggest what a burgeoning generation of critics should take notice of.
DCrit
136 West 21st Street, 2nd Floor, NY,NY |
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FAIR
ARCOMadrid 2012
SPAIN
15-Feb-12> 19-Feb-12 |
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The International Contemporary Art Fair ARCOmadrid will be a meeting point for professionals of the contemporary art sector from all over the world. Talks and discussions for reflecting on art and collecting will bring together gallerists, art dealers, collectors, curators and experts, who will find at the Fair a place to meet and exchange ideas.
Madrid |
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EXHIBITION
The Magic of Diversity
AUSTRIA
15-Feb-12> 25-Mar-12 |
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A conceptual working exhibition visualizes the results of the experimental project MAP - Memory and Progress. The MAK Explores Its Future, in which the museum’s cultural memory was reviewed and the proposals developed by the MAK for the coming years were debated in a number of public discussion events. Curated by the MAK and in an exhibition design by Krüger & Pardeller, this working 3 presentation provides the museum and the public with an occasion for further information and comment.
MAK
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FAIR
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair
UNITED STATES
17-Feb-12> 19-Feb-12 |
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The Palm Springs Fine Art Fair will be the buzz of the desert this winter: the most prominent and internationally respected fine art fair ever in the Coachella Valley. This elite boutique fair, limited to 50 dealers, will showcase only the highest caliber galleries featuring the best in mid 20th century through 21st century art.
Palm Springs Convention Center |
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EXHIBITION
Palm Springs Modernism Show
UNITED STATES
17-Feb-12> 20-Feb-12 |
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80 premier national and international decorative and fine arts dealers presenting all design movements of the 20th Century.
The 12th Annual Palm Springs Modernism Show & Sale is a highlight of Modernism Week featuring 10 days of celebrating everything modern with mid-century design and architecture fans, friends and aficionados from around the world. Modernism Week events include Palm Springs Art Museum films, lectures and symposium, gallery openings and art events, double-decker bus tours to mid-century architectural classics, tours of Frey House II, vintage car show, and the desert’s best retro-themed soirees and martini parties.
Dolphin Promotions
Palm Springs, CA |
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EXHIBITION
Christophe Côme - Alchemies
UNITED STATES
17-Feb-12> 21-Apr-12 |
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Hedge is presenting the first San Francisco exhibition of work by Christophe Côme, a furniture and lighting designer based in Paris. Working primarily in cast iron and glass, Côme evokes the legacy of early modern design -particularly the work of Pierre Chareau, Jean Royère, and Frank Lloyd Wright - with objects that are unmistakably contemporary and exquisitely crafted. The exhibition includes a range of objects -including cabinets, folding screens, and lighting- that share a pared-down opulence. Precise iron forms, sometimes with enameled surfaces, carry a strong graphic element offset by the imperfection and optical complexity of handcrafted or patterned industrial glass. Côme’s works express balance as they juxtapose raw and refined materials and shapes, masterfully weaving elements into a graceful rapport.
Hedge Gallery
San Francisco |
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AUCTION
Modern
UNITED STATES
25-Feb-12> 26-Feb-12 |
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The Rago Arts and Auction Center is an international leader in modern design, patronized by such great interior designers as Juan Montoya, Amy Lau and Alexander Gorlin. Each auction includes furnishings; ceramics, glass, and other decorative art; lighting and fine art. Rago’s champions studio work from craftsmen George Nakashima, Paul Evans and Wharton Esherick to ceramics by Gertrude and Otto Natzler and Peter Voulkos to metalwork by Albert Paley. It is also responsible for the resurgence of interest in furniture by interior designers including Tommi Parzinger, James Mont and Paul Laszlo. Much of the most important Modern design to come to auction has been sold by Rago’s. Catalogue online on February 9.
Rago Arts and Auction Center
Lambertville, NJ |
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AUCTION
Early 20th
UNITED STATES
25-Feb-12> 26-Feb-12 |
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Early 20th century decorative arts and furnishings, featuring work from the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau movements. Lighting by Tiffany, Handel, and Pairpoint. Furniture by Gustav Stickley and the Roycrofters. Ceramics by George Ohr, Grueby, Rookwood, Newcomb College, Saturday Evening Girls, Rhead, Zsolnay. Glass from Tiffany, Loetz, Durand, Galle, Steuben, Argy Rousseau, Lalique, wrought metal, woodblock prints, textiles and accessories and more. The first specialty at Rago’s and the most successful Arts and Crafts auctions in the field. Catalogue online on February 9.
Rago Arts and Auction Center
Lambertville, NJ |
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FAIR
Cambridge Glass Fair
UNITED KINGDOM
26-Feb-12> 26-Feb-12 |
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Leading specialist fair with around 100 exhibitors selling fine quality antique and collectable glass including contemporary artists showing their own work. Exhibitions, refreshments, free parking.
Specialist Glass Fairs Ltd
Cambridge |
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