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Category: Design

  • Looking Back: Design Miami 2014 and Design Miami 2013

    Looking Back: Design Miami 2014 and Design Miami 2013

    Design Miami 2014 and Design Miami 2013

    With almost 40,000 visitors, the Design Miami/ 2014 Tenth Anniversary Edition was it’s most successful iteration to date.  35 galleries from as far as Seoul, Lebanon and South Africa and, for the first time, from Miami’s own Wynwood art district, shared their distinctive individual visions and beautifully curated displays featuring the best in both vintage and contemporary collectible design.

    As fashion icon supreme Diana Vreeland said, “…The eye has to travel…” and mine sure did as you can see in the following video collection of photos I took there:

    In attendance were notable visitors including collectors like Patricia Cisneros and Adriana Cisneros Griffin, Peter Brandt, Tico Mugrabi, Aby Rosen, Barry Friedman, Beth DeWoody, George Lindemann, Paula Crown, and Svetlana Uspenskaya, architects Zaha Hadid and David Adjaye, artists Tracey Emin, Theaster Gates, Marina Abramović and Trevor Paglen, magazine editors Glenda Bailey and Margaret Russell, model and business woman Elle Macpherson, actors Owen Wilson and Jane Fonda, gallerist Emmanuel Perrotin, designer Ron Arad, musician André 3000 Benjamin and hotelier André Balazs.

    For my complete event photo/video album with over 100 photos and 3 videos, go here!

    Looking further back to 2013, it was evident that this design event had set the bar for design events in the U.S.

  • Design Calendar: Modernism Week 2016

    Design Calendar: Modernism Week 2016

    Modernism Week 2016 – February 11th – February 21st, 2016

    The coolest celebration of midcentury design and architecture, Modernism Week, takes place every February in Palm Springs, California and 2016 looks like it will be the best event ever!

  • London in September: Design x Fashion Nexus

    London in September: Design x Fashion Nexus

    This year all the design and fashion planets have aligned in London because The London Design Festival and London Fashion Week SS16 will overlap for several glorious days in September!

    London Fashion Week kicks off first from September 18th – September 22nd with The London Design Festival starting one day later from September 19th – September 27th.

    Here’s a quick look at these amazing events:

    With all the scheduled shows, programs, panels and side events, those attending better take their vitamins and  up their intake of kale smoothies cause this kind of scheduling is not for the weak!

    *Oh how I wish I could be there…

     

     

  • Design Miami Basel 10th Anniversary Edition Updates

    Design Miami Basel 10th Anniversary Edition Updates

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

    Here are the latest updates from Design Miami Basel!

    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/

    André Balazs/ Credit: Pascal Perich

    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…)

  • Cool Design Site:  Hofmann Architecture

    Hofmann Architecture inspires freedom, offering custom new and vintage travel trailer renovations and rebuilding. Airstream, Spartan, and all other brands.

    Source: Travel Trailer Renovations by Hofmann Architecture

    Love this site!

    Just some of the coolest design done by some of the coolest people on the planet. I follow them on Instagram too !

     

     

  • Upcoming Event: Design Days Dubai March 16-20

    Upcoming Event: Design Days Dubai March 16-20

    Design Days Dubai, the first and only collectible contemporary design fair in the Middle East and Asia which will run from March 16-20 alongside Art Dubai.  A record 44 exhibitors from 20 different countries will bring an impressive selection of original pieces by established and emerging designers to The Venue, the purpose-built exhibition space near the base of the iconic Burj Khalifa in Downtown Dubai.

    This year’s fair assembles some of the world’s best contemporary design galleries such as Carpenters Workshop Gallery and Southern Guild, South Africa’s leading design gallery, David Gill and Gallery FUMI, both from London plus a host of leading exhibitors who will be showing work by leading designers, architects and craftsmen and women. (more…)

  • ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST UNVEILS THEIR 13TH ANNUAL SIGNATURE GREENROOM AT THE OSCARS®

    ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST UNVEILS THEIR 13TH ANNUAL SIGNATURE GREENROOM AT THE OSCARS®

    Today Architectural Digest unveiled their signature Architectural Digest Greenroom at the Academy Awards® for 2015, created by Los Angeles-based design collective Commune. This is the 13th consecutive year that Architectural Digest has produced the exclusive backstage lounge for Oscar® presenters and honorees at the Dolby Theatre. (more…)