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IKAT III Presented By Galerie Maria Wettergren At Design Miami/ 2011
In Basel this past June, Galerie Marie Wettergren participated in our On/Site program with a show dedicated to the work of Astrid Krogh. Her work with illuminating optic fibers stopped fairgoers in their tracks.
Galerie Maria Wettergren is participating in our U.S. show for the first time this year and is presenting new work by Krogh. At Design Miami/, you can experience IKAT III, a 6 meter long unique wall piece. Krogh graduated from the Danish Design School in 1997 and is one of the first textile designers to mix high-tech materials such as optic fibers with traditional textile techniques.
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Light By Kwangho Lee Presented By Johnson Trading Gallery
Design Miami/ Blog caught up with designer Rafael de Cárdenas on the show floor. His designs are being shown by Johnson Trading Gallery at Design Miami/. We asked Rafael to take a walk around the fair and to tell us what he liked best. Rafael couldn’t pick just one. He had two favorites: a standing light by Kwangho Lee (shown by Johnson Trading Gallery) and a wooden chair by Pierre Paulin (shown by Demisch Danant). Here’s what Rafael told us about the two pieces.
“I love how fragile and delicate Kwangho Lee’s lights look. Each appears to be made of found branches lashed together by string with a seemingly heavy and intricately crocheted electrical wire fabric thrown over it. The top-heavy lights’ structural frames are actually cast bronze, and though they tremble a bit if moved, they are quite heavy and immobile. The densely woven canopy allows only a whisper of light to peek through the tiny openings in the weave.”
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Body of Work Presented By Cristina Grajales Gallery At Design Miami/ 2011
Artist Ross Bleckner mentored Sebastian Errazuriz when he was a student in New York University’s MFA program. Since then the two have become close friends and have often talked about creative ideas and concepts. This year at Design Miami/, Cristina Grajales Gallery is showing the first ever collaboration by the duo. It’s a unique piece called Body of Work and it marries Ross Bleckner’s art with Sebastian Errazuriz’s furniture design.
“The work breaks the barriers of art and design. It’s a wonderful convergence of the two,” says Lindsay Johnson with Cristina Grajales Gallery.
Inside a coffee table designed by Sebastian lives four original self portrait paintings by Ross. The coffee table is made with walnut wood and finished with white lacquer. It has a clear glass top through which you can see Ross’s portraits. The coffee table almost looks like Snow White’s glass coffin when you see the paintings inside that depict a corpse like human figure. The first portrait shows Ross naked – almost fully exposed -and in each subsequent portrait more of the human body is covered up. The top portrait shows human eyes peering out of the darkness. The portraits can live stacked in the table or be taken out and hung on the wall. The portrait photographed here is the third layer. The fourth layer is displayed out of the case leaning against the wall in Cristina Grajales’s booth.
Visit: www.cristinagrajalesinc.com and www.designmiami.com.
Pierre Marie Giraud's Booth At Design Miami/ 2011
Specializing in contemporary decorative arts, Pierre Marie Giraud represents international artists working with glass, ceramics and silver, and collaborates with designers for the production of unique objects and limited editions. The gallery has been a regular participant in Design Miami/ Basel but this is their first year in the U.S. edition of the show. For their debut, they are showing 145 pieces and all of them are unique.
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Take a trip with Vernissage TV as they go to the Miami Design District to see the Design Miami/ Satellite Exhibition Architecting the Future: Buckminster Fuller & Lord Norman Foster.
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Magen H Gallery's Booth At Design Miami/ 2011
When visiting Design Miami/ this week, be sure to swing by Magen H Gallery’s booth. Magen H is staging a group show entitled: The Individual and The Collective, 1920-1970. The exhibition includes pieces by Alain Douillard, Jean Prouvè, Charlotte Perriand, Georges Jouve, Jean Royère, Gustave Tiffoche, Le Corbusier, Ceramics of LaBorne and Pierre Jeanneret.
While some of these names are staples at Design Miami/, Alain Douillard is a fairly elusive and curious talent for this circuit. “Alain’s sophisticated creations are a bit of a phenomenon due to his reclusive lifestyle. Preferring to stay in the small town of Nantes as opposed to adopting the path of other artists of the time period who migrated to Paris and enjoyed the cross cultural collective of others in the same location, his work is nonetheless innovative and intellectual,” says Gallery Owner April Magen.
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Caroline Van Hoek's Booth At Design Miami/ 2011
Caroline Van Hoek specializes in contemporary art jewelry and silver by international artists. The gallery exhibits the creative potential of the artist in its entirety through unique and specially commissioned pieces. At the fair, the gallery is showing a very wide range of work by celebrated artists, designers and silversmiths.
You will see door handles by Beatrice Brovia and Nicolas Cheng, mirrors by StudyOPortable, typography designs by Gerard Unger and jewelry by Ruudt Peters, Seth Papac, Lisa Walker, Giampaolo Babetto and Robert Smit. You will also see the incredibly detailed work of silversmith David Huycke.
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Designs By Gregor Jenkin
Design Miami/ newcomer Southern Guild showcases the work of South African designers, including Gregor Jenkin, whose new collection of furniture is seen here. Cultured magazine caught up with the young designer to get his take on South Africa’s place in the international design dialogue.
You’ve trained as an industrial engineer, an architect, and did a stint as a prop maker. How does this background inform your process and the work you make?
All of these professions are similar in the sense that they share a relationship between a concept, a manufacturing process and the context into which the finished product is released. It’s the differences between them, however, that was of interest to me in my education. On the most fundamental level, these differences relate to the scale at which the various practitioners work: industrial engineering is often a matter of refining a level of detail within the realms of physics and economics, architectural training frequently deals with hypothetical thinking on a domestic and urban scale. Both of these are important ways of thinking about design. When I was younger, I didn’t really see working as a prop maker as anything more profound than a fun job and a way to broaden my skills and make things.
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Konstantin Grcic Design Shown At Luminaire Lab
When visiting the Design Miami/ Satellite Exhibitions in the Miami Design District, we suggest you also swing by Luminaire Lab to check out DesignLove. The exhibition is a part of Luminaire’s Love Series, which is an ongoing initiative to fight cancer using the transformative power of design.
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