Charlotte Perriand: Designer, Photographer, Activist

16 July - 24th October '10

Museum of Design – Zurich Halle
Zurich, Switzerland

The Museum of Design – Zurich is opening an exhibition on July 16 that focuses on the life and work of 20th century design icon, Charlotte Perriand. Over the course of her career, Perriand became one of the most influential designers of the past century.

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Talk: Curator’s Walk-Through of ‘FourSite’

16 July ’10

San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design
San Francisco, California

Join  Mariah Nielson, Curator, for a lunchtime walk-through of FourSite: 4 Artists | 4 Materials | 4 Sites. Nielson will offer insights into the process of creating the site-specific works.

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Paris-Marseille

Maison Desalle manufactures the authentic chairs framed in natural rattan and assembled with hand woven Rislan* fibers.
These chairs are well knowed as the Parisian Bistro Chair.
For the event of the tweetiest Birtday of the Côté Sud Magazine, we designed a special pattern to pay tribute to the South, using one of the clichés illustrated by a cat leazily napping in the sun.

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Detnk's Must Read Book of the Month

July '10

This month, we highly recommend picking up a copy of the newly released ‘PreFab’ by Arnt Cobbers and Oliver Jahn, edited by Peter Gossel.

A Prefab is a mass produced house constructed offsite and assembled on site. Initially thought of as an affordably, easy alternative for urgent housing needs, prefab has since become an ambitious and sophisticated way to design.  

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COME IN!

14 July - 30 August ‘10

Architecture and Design Museum
Los Angeles, California

COME IN!: A Spacial Intervention is a unique forum for up and coming designers of various disciplines to COME IN and create installations with the A+D Museum as their canvas.

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The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

10 July - 17 Oct ’10

Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens, London

On the 10th of July, the Serpentine Gallery in London will official unveil their 10th annual Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, which has been designed by renowned French architec Jean Nouvel.

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SOFA West

8-11 July '10

Santa Fe Convention Center
Santa Fe, New Mexico

The second annual SOFA West (Sculpture Objects & Functional Art West) Fair will run from July 8 to 11 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Three Summer Shows in Gent

3 July - 24 Oct '10

Design Museum Gent
Gent, Belgium

This week, the Design Museum Gent is opening three exhibitions that will run concurrently from July 3 to October 24. The first is a retrospective of work by the renowned Flemish porcelain designer Piet Stockmans.

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