London
Somerset House
Joy of Living is a charity project that unites over 100 leading lights in the design community to galvanise support for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres. Design author Max Fraser has set the challenge to a cross-section of new and established UK designers to create a desirable artwork that expresses the Joy of Living – all starting from a simple sheet of A4 graph paper.
Milan
Centre Culturel Français
Curator Cédric Morisset, in collaboration with the Centre Culturel Français, will present the "Nouvelle vague (New wave), the new French domestic landscape" exhibition with A+A Cooren, Ionna Vautrin, Pierre Favresse, Studio Nocc and Pool from 12th to 17th April at the Milan Design Furniture Fair ‘off’.
Since 1995, Design Indaba has been committed to a vision that is built on the belief that creativity will fuel an economic revolution in South Africa.
Sydney Australia
Greenhouse, by artist Joost Bakker, is an ingenious eco-friendly cafe built using recycled materials. But that’s only the beginning, at Greenhouse water is collected on site, waste is recycled, herbs and vegetables are grown on the roof and even the generator runs on cooking oil.
Minneapolis
This March, the Walker Art Centre celebrate 25 years of Insights, one of the Walker’s longest-running partnerships. The series brings leading designers and critics from down the street and around the world to the Twin Cities to share the thinking, methods, and processes behind their work.
Design Museum Holon announces its fourth exhibition POST FOSSIL: excavating 21st century creation, a dynamic new design exhibition curated by internationally renowned trend-forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort.
The exhibition was curated by Lidewij Edelkoort for 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in Tokyo, Japan, in Spring 2010 and has been redesigned and expanded for Design Museum Holon in Israel.
"Materials for consideration" is an exhibition which gathers the very last pieces by Fernando and Humberto Campana, Pierre Charpin, Olivier Gagnère, Hella Jongerius and Martin Szekely at the Galerie kreo.
Paris
From April 8th to june 4th, Frédéric Ruyant will present "Fracture" series at Tools Galerie.
Quiet, bright, large openings: the five pieces on display are perfectly domesticated. A dinner table, an occasional table, a console, a vase, a lamp: the names themselves reflect familiar typologies - a little family prevalent in tidy homes.
Rotterdam
Whether or not you are planning on making it to Object Rotterdam this year, we will make sure that you know the essentials.
Object Rotterdam has always been more 'intimate' than other design fairs. This year, out of the twenty exhibitors, I have my eye on the following:
As the Stockholm Design Week approaches, I am compiling a list of events that you should know about.
Please feel free to add your own suggestions to the list by commenting or sending me an email!
Cristina Grajales Gallery
New York City
Cristina Grajales Gallery is hosting the first exhibition in the United States by Nigel Coates entitled 'Baroccabilly'. With this show, Coates brings to life an imaginary world that evokes the opulence of the baroque, while incorporating design elements drawn from pop music culture, as well as biological and geometric influences.
Stockholm
INTERNATIONAL DESIGN IN THE SWEDISH NATURE
The exhibition, set in a natural history museum, includes 20 national and international designers from more than 15 countries; from the Netherlands to Italy, Sweden and Canada.
The National Museum in Warsaw
The exhibition 'We Want to Be Modern' opens this week at the National Museum in Warsaw. The show will explore the significance of objects of everyday use in shaping modernity and the modern Polish identity emerging during the post-thaw period.
Lisbon
Didier Faustino is presenting a series of new pieces at the Calouste Gulbekian Foundation from 14 January to 3 April '11. Five new installations produced for the exhibition immerse visitors in the permanent confrontation of the body with architecture and architecture with movement, via visual and sound tools implemented by Faustino.
Paris
The Bouroullec brothers continue their study of simplicity and elegance with their new Losanges collection, premiering at Maison & Object in Paris. In creating this rug they set about reinterpreting the traditional Persian rug using the ancient kilim technique.
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