Christies
85 Old Brompton Road
South Kensington, London
Heart & Design has collaborated with some of the world’s most recognisable names in design to help raise money for The Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust.
72 Wigmore Street
London W1U 2SG
To coincide with the Victoria and Albert Museum’s exhibition Cold War Modern: Design 1945–1970, international modern-furniture company, Vitsœ, will be exhibiting the pioneering plastic furniture of German designer, Dieter Rams.
Earls Court Exhibition Centre
Warwick Road, London
100% Design is the UK’s foremost contemporary interiors event. Set in an inspirational environment, designed by Tom Dixon, the 14th edition of 100% Design will unveil new products and showcase some of the greatest designs from around the world today.
fforest farm
Cardigan, West Wales
As Dick Dastardly so poignantly stated, “Don’t just stand there, DO something’. This is precisely what the DO lectures are, well, doing.
Design Museum Design Museum
Shad Thames, London SE1 2YD
Designers in Residence is an annual exhibition that invites a group of emerging designers to transform areas of the museum. By Supporting the selected designers at an early stage of their career, it allows them to build on their current design practice and develop new or existing work.
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
A century ago Daniel Burnham commissioned noted artists to interpret his plans for the development of the city of Chicago.
This September Christie's will launch its first ever sale dedicated exclusively to works by international contemporary designers.
Offering collectors works by some of the most notable designers living and working today, the sale will include 30 lots with pieces by Marc Newson, Forret Myers, Zaha Hadid, Ron Arad, Maarten Baas, Shiro Kuramata, Ettore Sottsass and Harush Shlomo.
Design Museum Gent
Jan Breydelstraat 5, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Described as ‘a unique talent who has no rivals’ (MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli); and ‘one of the most significant designers in the world today’ (Aaron Betsky, head of the Netherlands Architecture Institute), Hella Jongerius is by no means a stranger to the world of design.
DesignGalleriet
Odengatan 21, 11424 Stockholm, Sweden
For their second year running Beefeater have launched a design challenge focusing on new design from a number of Sweden’s most exciting designers.
MU
Emmasingel 20
Eindhoven, Nederland
September will see the opening of MU's latest exhibition Neubauism, by Berlin graphic design agency Neubau.
Taking the content from their books, NeubauWelt and NeubauModul, off the page and into reality, the exhibition offers a voyage through silhouettes, typography, illustration and systems.
Museum of Contemporary Craft
724 Northwest Davis Street
Portland, Oregon
This week sees the beginning of Manuf®actured: The Conspicious Transformation of Everyday Objects, an exhibition exploring how artists are taking mass manufactured objects and transforming them by hand to create art.
Pondering what you should do this weekend, why not have a go at hacking your own IKEA flat pack.
Platform21, BRIGHT and Superuse are calling on you to hack an IKEA flat pack. Make your own design out of it with a small alteration or perpetrate an out-and-out hack that gives the object a whole new function.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
West Bretton Wakefield WF4 4LG, UK
If you are looking for a reason to get out of London this Bank Holiday weekend why not take a trip to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park where you can wander amongst the works of Isamu Noguchi, one of the great creators of the 20th Century.
Design museum Gent
Jan Breydelstraat 5 - 9000 Ghent, Belgium
As with surrealism, design sometimes tells us more than we think.
Armed with subtle irony, and humour, ‘Design with a Smile’ examines the influence surrealism has had on design.
This September the Conran Shop will premiere its specially commissioned Inspirations Collection.
As an homage to Terence Conran the shop commissioned a number of designers from the UK, France, Germany, Mexico, South Africa and Italy to create a line of products inspired by Conran himself.
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