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Design Miami/ 2011
David Adjaye's Genesis
ARTBOOK D.A.P.
Fendi Design Performance Craft Alchemy
Fendi Design Performance Craft Alchemy
Media Lounge
Crystal Matrix II, Swarovski Crystal Palace
Crystal Matrix II, Swarovski Crystal Palace
The Collectors Lounge Sponsored By Fendi
The Collectors Lounge Sponsored By Fendi
Galerie Patrick Seguin
Galerie Patrick Seguin
Dansk Mobelkunst Gallery
Dansk Mobelkunst Gallery
Hostler Burrows
Hostler Burrows
Mark McDonald
Mark McDonald
Galerie Downtown-Francois Laffanour
Galerie Downtown-Francois Laffanour
12:00-6:00pm DESIGN MIAMI/ DAILY SHOW HOURS
Meridian Avenue & 19th Street, Miami Beach Convention Center P-Lot
Sabina Belli, Pharrell Williams, Craig Robins, Vanessa Kay at the Veuve Clicquot champagne reception at the Designer of the Year Dinner
Last night in the Moore Building in the heart of the Miami Design District, influentials from the world of art, design, fashion and culture attended the Design Miami/ Designer of the Year Dinner in honor of David Adjaye. The event was hosted by Craig Robins, Sabina Belli, Vanessa Kay and Richard & Laurie Lynn Stark. The evening included an elegant Veuve Clicquot champagne reception, dinner on three floors and a live performance by the Scissor Sisters. Here are some photos from the event.
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Design Talk Crossing Lines
Last night’s final Design Miami/ Design Talk hosted by W Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Stefano Tonchi, Crossing Lines, brought together fashion designer Joseph Altuzarra, interior designer Rafael de Cardenas, and product designer Patricia Urquiola. The talk participants explored the intersection of design, architecture, and fashion while also delving into the unique aspects of each discipline.
“I think the boundaries are becoming more and more blurred,” Patricia Urquiola, who has designed for Kartell, B&B Italia, and many other notable companies, stated at the start of the talk. “The society we now live in encourages more crossover than ever before.”
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Buckminster Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Dome [Time lapse] from Miami Design District on Vimeo.
One of the past’s most futuristic designs has become firmly rooted in the present, with the recently-restored Fly’s Eye Dome by Buckminster Fuller in the Miami Design District. Watch this time lapse video to see the exhibition Architecting the Future: Buckminster Fuller & Norman Foster come to life.
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Morphing Platter Series Presented By Moss Gallery At Design Miami/
Moss Gallery has seen a tremendous amount of action in their booth so far this week. In fact, all 100 pieces from the Morphing Fruit Platters 1D Series 300 at the fair have sold. There are actually 1,000 variations in the series and Moss is now taking advance orders for the other 900 that are yet to be produced. Each plate is numbered and is sold with a DVD showing the animation of the morphing designs. The plates go for $700 a pop. The twelve pieces in their booth from the HyperSurface series will set you back a little more. Beans which is photographed below goes for $45,000.
Moss Gallery At Design Miami/ 2011
To read more about Moss’s exhibition entitled: Mass Customization of Emergent Designs that showcases the work of Dr. Haresh Lalvani. Click Here. To check out the activity in Moss’s booth visit the Moss blog – Bloss (http://bloss.mossonline.com/)
BIG + AUDI REALIZE “URBAN FUTURE” AT DESIGN MIAMI 2011 from BIG on Vimeo.
Audi’s installation at Design Miami/ entitled Urban Future was created by the Copenhagen-based design firm BIG. It’s the type of exhibition you need to experience in action. This video provides you with glimpse.
The 190 m2 three-dimensional LED installation provides an interpretation of the future city where the public space is shared between pedestrians and driverless cars. The entire surface would be infused with a continuous flow of information allowing for real-time interaction between vehicles and their environment. Mounted above the Design Miami installation, 3D cameras track the movement of passers-by processing the data into a generative artwork that feeds back into the LED panels.
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Jeff Zimmerman's unique Rain Drop sculptures (Photo Credit: Sherrry Griffin)
By allowing the unexpected to happen, Jeff Zimmerman harnesses every glass blower’s greatest fear—imperfection—and turns it into master craft. Cultured magazine reports.
Jeff Zimmerman likes to describe much of what he does as drawing. It might seem like an odd choice of words for a virtuosic glass blower, but in many regards, it is the perfect way to characterize Zimmerman’s ever-evolving output.
His custom light fixtures—sinewy brass vines studded with pearly glass orbs—are line drawings cutting through space; his tear-shaped iridescent light fixtures, arranged in splash-like shapes on the wall, are vibrant 3D abstractions; and his crumpled glass vases are so perfectly dented, twisted and deformed they look like they could only ever exist on a deftly-drawn sketchbook page.
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Acclaimed LED artist Erwin Redl explains his project Crystal Matrix II for Swarovski Crystal Palace. The piece is currently on display at Design Miami/.
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