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Image credit: Total Filling Station/ Jean Prouvé, 1969/ Courtesy: Galerie Patrick Seguin

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May 2015 – Under the curatorial direction of André Balazs, June’s edition of Design at Large will provide a suitably grand entrance for the 10th Anniversary edition of Design Miami/ Basel. Complete buildings, ranging from a Modernist filling station to a futuristic cave dwelling, by preeminent practitioners of architecture and design from the last century will be erected in the Event Hall. In tandem, Design Curio booths scattered around the fair’s gallery space will offer small, immersive environments showcasing intriguing curiosities of modern and contemporary design. Both programs were selected from open submissions, with Balazs making selections for the Design at Large program and Design Miami/ choosing the Curios.

The Design at Large and Design Curio programs provide spaces to consider design practice in its broadest possible applications: from the most delicate craftworks to a mass-produced industrial structure. These on-site exhibition programs allow the collectible design at the heart of the fair to be appreciated in historical, technical and aesthetic context.

DESIGN AT LARGE/

As author of some of the world’s most iconic and storied hotels, André Balazs has established a formidable reputation as an innovator and curator. An early collector of architecture and a great proponent of design, Balazs has collaborated with incredible talent over the years to create these environments. He remains a trailblazer as a collector, creator and collaborator, and was therefore considered the perfect helmsman for this year’s Design at Large program.

Within Balazs’ architectural focus, Design at Large presents a prefabricated filling station designed by Jean Prouvé; a nomadic folly imagined by Edouard François; Shigeru Ban’s elegant and light-infused paper teahouse; and a sculptural troglodyte pool house created by Atelier Van Lieshout, amongst other structures installed in the 2000 square meter Herzog & de Meuron designed Event Hall.

The structures selected for Balazs’ edition of Design at Large follow themes of demountability, modularity and environmental awareness, offering perfect examples of a growing interest in the development of manufactured, reusable, customizable and sustainable buildings. (more…)