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Innovation through Tradition

Collecting Design — Tue, 14 May 2019 12:47:10 +0100

French Craft Collective, a one-day program featuring a selection of emerging and established talent in the French craft and design sectors, was held yesterday at the Institut Français in London.

ICA London: Benefit Auction 2018

Collecting Design — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Artists are at the heart of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and the support of their work forms the core of our purpose. Offered in this sale are a selection of iconic Artist’s Editions from the ICA’s Archive. We have always commissioned our Artists’ Editions as a test-site for artistic production by the most interesting artists working at the time.

Wales' oldest working Woollen Mill: Solva Woollen Mill

Collecting Design — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 18:24:54 +0100

Solva Woollen Mill claims to be the oldest working woollen mill in Pembrokeshire. There were 26 woollen mills in Pembrokeshire in 1900. Today Solva Woollen Mill is one of the two remaining woollen mills in the county.

Greenterior: Plant loving creatives and their homes published by Luster

Collecting Design — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 19:20:57 +0000

Interior features on 18 creatives from Antwerp to New York, who all have one thing common, namely a passion for plants.

Bart Kiggen and Magali Elali visited florist Mark Colle, photographer Martyn Thompson and fashion designer Christian Wijnants among others.

Man, Rock, Drill by Max Lamb for Johnson Trading Gallery

Collecting Design — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:28:04 +0000

Sometimes a show develops out of a small idea that eventually blossoms into a full scale exhibition. This is not one of those shows…

100 Chairs in 100 Days and its 100 Ways (Not Lost in Translation)

Collecting Design — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:20:23 +0000

Published in connection with Martino Gamper's exhibition at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (13 June - 23 September 2015), this volume includes text (in English and Japanese) from the original 2007 edition of the book.

Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia

Collecting Design — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 13:29:13 +0000

Hippie Modernism examines the art, architecture and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The catalogue surveys the radical experiments that challenged societal norms while proposing new kinds of technological, ecological and political utopias.

Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City

Collecting Design — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:42:21 +0000

Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City is the definitive history of the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that originated in England in the late 18th century, was quickly adopted in the United States and northern Europe, and gradually proliferated throughout the world.

Shooting Space: Architecture in Contemporary Photography

Collecting Design — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:30:12 +0000

A visual survey of contemporary artists' photography of architecture, featuring the work of Andrea Gursky, Iwan Baan, Wolfgang Tillmans, Catherine Opie, Thomas Ruff, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and more.

How We Work The Avant-garde Of Dutch Design

Collecting Design — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:35:11 +0000

Compiled and presented by photographer Inga Powilleit and styling director Tatjana Quax, who visited fifteen young Dutch design studios to discover their wildly varied ways of working, this book is a compendium of fascination and inspiration – and a reflection on how times have changed.