French Design Forum 2009

French Design Forum

3rd March '09, 3:00-5:30pm

Design Centre at Chelsea Harbour
411 The North Chambers, Chelsea Harbour, London

The French Embassy is delighted to be hosting a forum considering new directions for French Manufacturing at the Design Centre at Chelsea Harbour.  

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The Lightbox Gallery 2008 - Photo by Peter Cook

The Art Fund Pavilion Architectural Competition

LAST CHANCE TO SUBMIT – 3rd March '09

Tent London and The Lightbox have launched THE ART FUND PAVILION architecture competition.

This unique opportunity to design a semi-permanent pavilion to sit alongside a RIBA award-winning building by Marks Barfield Architects is open to all and will be judged by an elite international panel, including Wayne Hemingway and Kieran Long.

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Alberto Alessi - Times Talks 2009

Times Talks: A Conversation with Alberto Alessi

3rd March '09, 8:00pm

The Times Center
242 West 41st Street, New York City

As part of Times Talks, Pilar Vilada, Design editor of T, The New York Times Style Magazine, will interview Alberto Alessi, CEO and Director of Marketing Strategies and Design Management at Alessi, about the evolution of the Italian design firm.

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LC4, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand, Collection 'Cassina I Maestri'

Le Corbusier – il Maestro: An Exhibition of Furniture from Cassina

5th March - 28th April, 09

RIBA
Gallery 1, 66 Portland Place

As part of the surrounding events for Le Corbusier: The Art of Architecture The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) presents Le Corbusier – il Maestro: An Exhibition of Furniture from Cassina.

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Designers Accord

Town Hall: Designer’s Accord

5th March ’09, 6-9pm

Smart Design
601 W. 26th Street, NY

Designers Accord will host their very own Town Hall Meeting this March in New York with hopes of providing inspiration and enrichment on the topic of acting in socially and environmentally responsible ways.   

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Marcel Wanders Sponge Vase, 1997 Photo Credit: Maarten van Houten

European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century

8th March - 21st June '09

Indianapolis Museum of Art
4000 Michigan Road, Indianapolis, Indiana

Revealing the extraordinary creativity of two generations of designers in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Scandinavia, Spain and the United Kingdom, ‘European Design Since 1985’ is the first critical survey of contemporary Western European design.

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Nendo: Ghost Stories - Cabbage Chair

Nendo: Ghost Stories

27th February - 28th March '09

Friedman Benda Gallery
515 W 26th Street, NY

Friedman Benda presents Ghost Stories, the first New York exhibition by the Tokyo-based architecture and design group, nendo.

The exhibition will feature forty sculptural works known as Cabbage chairs in a dreamlike interior landscape.

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LAR/Fernando Romero – Soumaya Museum, Irrigación, Mexico City 2007 – ongoing.  Courtesy the architect

Laboratory of Architecture/Fernando Romero

28th February - 31st May '09

Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA

The Heinz Architectural Center presents the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the ambitious work of young Mexican architect Fernando Romero and his Mexico City based practice, LAR (Laboratory of Architecture),

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Mariann Jorgenson, Pink M.24 Chafee, 2006 (Glenn Adamson: Craft in the 21st Century)

Talk: Glenn Adamson, Craft in the 21st Century

21st February '09, 2:30pm

White Stag Block at University of Oregon,
70 NW Couch Street, Portland, Oregon

The Museum of Contemporary Craft in association with the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon present ‘Craft in the 21st Century: Directions and Displacements’, a talk by Glenn Adamson, Deputy Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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non-places: introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity - Marc Augé – ICA Talk

Talk: Non-Places

25th March '09, 7:00pm

Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA)
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

More and more we spend our lives in supermarkets, airports and hotels, staring at computers or at cash machines. This colonisation of our world by “non-places” Augé argues, changes us in subtle ways.

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Pair of Iron Lounge Chairs Lot #238

Rago Arts Auction: Real Modern, Stickley to Starck

14th February, 10:00am

Rago Arts
333 Main St. Lambertville, New Jersey

From iconic to obscure, Rago Arts upcoming Real Modern auction includes over 700 lots of great works from all genres of modern design.

The sale will be offering an excellent selection of masterworks by modern and post-modern 20th century designers including Alvar Aalto, Ettore Sottsass and Philippe Starck.

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Bless, no 35 automatica remote services mini cars ©bless

Nullpunkt: Nieuwe German Gestaltung

14th-19th February ’09

MARTa Herford
Goebenstraße 4 - 10, 32052 Herford, Germany

The exhibition shows a subjective selection of the current groundbreaking design positions currently being produced in Germany.

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Photo: Cabanon reconstruction: Andrea Ferrari

Le Corbusier's Cabanon 1952/2006 – The Interior 1:1

5th March - 28th April '09

RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects)
66 Portland Place, London

The Royal Institute of British Architects and Cassina present Le Corbusier’s Cabanon 1952/2006. The Interior 1:1.

The exhibition features a 1:1 reconstruction of the actual interior of the Cabanon that Le Corbusier planned and built in 1952 for his holidays at Cap-Martin.

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Table Lamp/Lamp by Thomas Kral - Aram Gallery  Photo Credit:Shira Klasmer

Prototypes & Experiments

12th February - 11th April '09

Aram Gallery
110 Drury Lane, London

The Aram Gallery is continuing its selling exhibition featuring prototypes and experimental designs sourced directly from designers’ studios.

As critical elements in the development process of any new design, both prototypes and experiments hold a rare charm and closeness to the designer’s imagination.

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Kiosco m.poli, v1 by Brut Deluxe Arquitectos, photo: miguel de guzman

Talk: Brut Deluxe Architects + Alberto Mozo Studio

17th February '09, 6:30pm

RIBA
66 Portland Place, London

The tenth Architectural Review Awards for Emerging Architecture recognises excellence in realised work by architects under 45. As part of the celebration of the Awards RIBA is hosting a series of talks by eight of the winning and commended architects.

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