Barbican Gallery
London
The current exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion, explores the unique sensibility of Japanese design through its embodiment in avant-garde fashion, and is the first exhibition in Europe to comprehensively survey it’s evolution.
Paris
German designer Valentin Loellamnn presents his M&Mme collection at Gallerie Gosserez, Paris.
The collection of furniture pieces has been conceived to be an evolving family of objects, beginning with the founding members exhibited here; two distinct cabinets with drawers, and a bench, produced in bankirai wood with a polyester skin.
Design Museum
London
The Design Museum celebrates the prolific career of the Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel in this his first UK retrospective.
Regarded as one of the leading designers of the twentieth century, Crouwel embraced a new modernity to produce typographic designs that captured the essence of the emerging computer and space age of the early 1960s.
20 Dalston Lane
London
Something & Son have converted 20 Dalston Lane, a derelict shop, into London's first urban farming hub - a gallery and events venue packed to the rafters with living and breathing food - literally a farm in a shop.
Miami
Following years of planning and anticipation, Miami Art Museum has broken ground for its new Herzog & de Meuron-designed facility in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park and next to the future home of the Miami Science Museum. The groundbreaking ceremony was held November 30 '10 at the Museum’s new site overlooking Biscayne Bay. The new Miami Art Museum is scheduled to open to the public in 2013.
Rotterdam
Joost van Bleiswijk and Kiki van Eijk present new work at VIVID in Rotterdam
For this exhibition Van Bleiswijk worked only with thick steel plates and a blowtorch to create the 'no screw no glue rough' edition. These industrial pieces provide a stark contrast to Kiki's delicate objects, from the series 'Floating Frames', crafted from brass wire with ceramic elements.
Bertrand Fèvre has just won first prize at the International Creation of Limoges Porcelain for his giant sculpture “Ceci n’est pas”. Composed of 33 hanging porcelain pieces, the sculpture is a study in duality, in the positive and negative, the “tangible and intangible”.
Swarovsky Crystal Palace
Design Miami
"Falling Light" is an installation, consisting of 50 ceiling suspended mechanical devices each incorporating a custom cut Swarovski crystal optical lens, a computer programmed motor and a white LED.
The Design Museum
London
The Design Museum presents a major exhibition on John Pawson. Often labelled a ‘minimalist’, he is known for his rigorous process of design. By reducing and editing he creates architecture and product designs of visual clarity, simplicity and grace.
Salisbury Cathedral filled with light yesterday, November 29 '10, when Bruce Munro's light installation was switched on to celebrate the start of Advent.
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