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Every fair must come to an end. Today is the last day for Design Miami/ Basel 2010. If you are in Basel and you haven’t seen the show yet, get to Hall 5. If you have been following the fair remotely, we thought it would only be fitting – on closing day – to leave [...]
Design Miami/ Basel will be open 11:00am to 7:00pm. Hall 5 Messeplatz, Basel.
When you first walk into the David Gill Galleries booth, you may think he forgot to put away some of his shipping boxes. He invited me to sit down on one of them. At first, I was afraid thinking for sure the cardboard boxes would crumble with my weight. But these were actually bronze objects [...]
Magen H. Gallery is showing work by Forrest Myers, Pierre Szekely and Jean Tinguely (a Basel native) at Design Miami/ Basel this year. I sat down with Gallery Owner & Director April Magen on a sofa designed by Forrest Myers to talk about the piece. Made in 1980, the sofa is a one-of-a-kind and it [...]
D&A Lab is one of the Design On/Site exhibitors at Design Miami/ Basel. You can find them upstairs on the mezzanine in Hall 5. They are showcasing the work of artist Jonathan Monk. In their booth, you will see three variations of “Low Table 1984″ each is a limited edition of seven. Monk’s piece was [...]
Galleria Rossana Orlandi from Milan is exclusively showing works by Nacho Carbonell at Design Miami/ Basel. In her booth, you will find Nacho’s Diversity: Bush of Iron. It is debuting at the fair. The piece is the eighteenth desk and chair in Nacho’s Diversity series. The desk and chair are actually one piece attached with [...]
Last night (June 17th), W Hotels hosted a cocktail reception in Hall 5 to celebrate the W Hotels Designers of the Future: Beta Tank, rAndom International, Graham Hudson and Zigelbaum & Coelho. Here are some images from the event.
Mitterrand + Cramer is showing a variety of designers this year. But, what caught our eye was the new work by Maarten Baas that was co-produced with the gallery. It is called Grey Derivations. Grey Derivations consists of a cabinet, a bookshelf, a chest of drawers and a lamp. (There are actually two other pieces [...]
Dorte Slot, Director of Dansk Møbelkunst Gallery, says “Things are going really well. This is the best fair for us so far and we’ve been with Design Miami/ from the beginning. All of the clients we were hoping would come did, and then some.” The Finn Juhl sofa and easy chairs we had in our [...]
R 20th Century from New York is featuring four American designers at Design Miami/ Basel in a booth designed by Steven Lerner Studio. The featured American designers are: Greta Magnusson Grossman, Wendell Castle, Jeff Zimmerman and David Wiseman. In the booth, you will see examples of unique commissions from David Wiseman and extraordinary glass chandeliers [...]
Design Miami/ Basel will be open 11:00am to 7:00pm. Hall 5 Messeplatz, Basel.
Today’s talk was “The Next Generation: The Fresh Approaches of the Designers of the Future.” Journalist and curator Cedric Morisset moderated a conversation with the W Hotels Designers of the Future: Beta Tank, Graham Hudson, rAndom International and Zigelbaum & Coelho. The designers discussed their studios, their approach to design, what interests them and what [...]
Designers, gallerists, Design Miami/ staff and close friends gathered last night (June 16th) for Ambra Medda’s farewell dinner. Design Miami/ Basel 2010 will be her last show. Craig Robins and Rene Kamm toasted Ambra and her incredible contribution to building the Design Miami/ brand and to producing ten remarkable shows. The party was held at [...]
This is the first year Galerie du Passage is presenting at Design Miami/ Basel. Owner and Director Pierre Passebon told us he is very “pleased to be participating” and appreciates the “very high quality” of material on display. He also likes that there are so many other French galleries participating in the fair. It’s nice [...]
Vernissage TV covers the Design Miami/ Basel fair annually. Here’s their video tour.
Contrasts Gallery sold a hand-embroidered couch that depicts graphics from French and Chinese newspapers, magazines, and drawings. The piece, designed by Mattia Bonetti and called “Press Couch”, was sold to a Swiss collector at Design Miami/ Basel. The embroidery work took nine months to complete and then the wooden frame for the couch was hand [...]
Nilufar Gallery from Milan is showcasing an array of designers this year at Design Miami/ Basel and gallery Owner & Director, Nina Yashar reports that they are “selling well.” Central to Nina’s operation is customization – ensuring that the work she sells fits precisely within the overall aesthetic of a collector’s home. Work displayed at [...]
Carbon fiber (a.k.a. graphite fiber) is a material that furniture designers have stayed away from in the past. That has changed in the last few years says Didier Krzentowski, Owner & Director of Galerie Kreo. Kreo has some great examples of carbon fiber work at Design Miami/ Basel this year. The properties of carbon fiber [...]
This is the third time that Seomi Gallery from Korea is taking part in a Design Miami/ fair. “It’s great. We’ve been very fortunate with this fair – in both Basel and Miami,” says Gallery Director PJ Park. “Last year’s Basel show was the first time Design Miami/ showcased Korean design and it was very [...]
Design Miami/ Basel will be open 11:00am to 7:00pm, Hall 5 Messeplatz, Basel. Nocturne (Designer’s Night!) runs 7pm-9pm Hall 5 Messeplatz, Basel, by invitation only. Design Talk: At 5:30pm in the talks area, a talk entitled “The Next Generation: The Fresh Approaches of the Designers of the Future” will take place. Journalist and curator Cedric [...]
Today, journalist and curator Cedric Morisset moderated a conversation entitled “The New Wave: Trends in High-Tech Art and Design”with Bill Moggridge (Cooper-Hewitt), Tot Taylor (Riflemaker), Eric Gunther (Sosolimited) and Paul Cocksedge (Designer). Bill Moggridge described how technology is not only influencing final art and design pieces, but how all art and design is being exhibited [...]
Designers of the Future Jamie Zigelbaum & Marcelo Coelho are presenting work at Design Miami/ Basel that is quite remarkable. “Six-Forty By Four-Eighty” is something to be seen, something to be touched and something to be experienced. The piece is an interactive lighting installation “designed to reveal the materiality of computation by re-contextualizing the common [...]
W Hotels Designer of the Future Graham Hudson took me on a tour of his modular DJ booth at Design Miami/ Basel. The work is called “Renaissance: The Last Dance at the Cross.” It pays tribute to the late 80’s London club scene in Kings Cross. As the area has grown and redeveloped, these clubs [...]
This is Perry Rubenstein Gallery’s first year at Design Miami/ Basel. Perry is exclusively showing Richard Woods. You may remember Richard’s exhibition in 2009 that transformed New York’s Lever House. (If not, you should Google it.) Richard Woods creates patterns with wood block prints that clad buildings, architectural structures, walls, floors and any surface that [...]
