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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tonight’s Design Miami/ Design Talk hosted by W Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Stefano Tonchi was entitled Ingenious Barter. It brought together Designer of the Year David Adjaye, conceptual artist Teresita Fernandez and music composer Peter Adjaye to discuss creative collaborations that cross disciplines. David and Teresita collaborated at Princeton University where David teaches an architecture class that [...]
A visit to Jousse Entreprise’s booth is a journey through design history. From the rarest of work by Jean Prouvé to the heart of Chandigarh, India as Pierre Jeanneret imagined it, Jousse is providing Design Miami/ visitors with an extraordinary presentation of design. Front and center in ’s booth is a very rare Jean Prouvè [...]
ARTBOOK | D.A.P. works with private collectors, businesses and cultural institutions to build customized, curated libraries of the best and most collectible titles on art, architecture and design. They’ve built a custom library at Design Miami/ this year and it contains over 300 titles. ARTBOOK’s curators surveyed participating galleries to find out what they were [...]
Swing by Carpenters Workshop Gallery’s booth to see the latest chandelier in Frederik Molenschot’s CityLight series. Molenschot was inspired by the buzzing city of Shanghai where he lived in 2003. With the chandelier, Molenschot recreates the feeling of wandering the streets or driving along a city highway at night. The piece captures the hallucinogenic feeling [...]
You don’t need an advanced degree in mathematics to realize that the work Moss Gallery is presenting at Design Miami/ is beautiful, captivating and intelligent. Moss is back at Design Miami/ this year with a solo exhibition of the work by Dr. Haresh Lalvani, architect, sculptor, inventor, morphologist and Professor of Architecture at Pratt Institute. [...]
Mark McDonald Gallery specializes in mid-twentieth century decorative arts, including jewelry and furniture. The gallery is participating in Design Miami/ for the first time this December and Gallery Owner Mark McDonald has high hopes. “I’m looking forward to participating for the first time in Design Miami/. Decorative arts are a truly important art form and [...]
Established & Sons is known for its groundbreaking projects with leading designers, architects, artists and artisan studios. At Design Miami/ 2011, Established & Sons will be showcasing the acclaimed British design duo – BarberOsgerby. That’s Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. As part of the Design On/Site program, Established & Sons will present limited-edition low tables [...]
This year at Design Miami/, Fendi will return with an enchanted design performance entitled “Craft Alchemy.” The famous fashion house has challenged designer Elisa Strozyk and artist Sebastian Neeb to perform a magical material metamorphosis on antique furniture pieces from the 18th century using only Fendi discarded leather materials. Strozyk and Neeb are already hard [...]
Didier Ltd. will be participating in Design Miami/ for this first time this December. The London-based gallery is owned by Didier and Martine Haspeslagh and specializes in jewelry by leading post-war painters and sculptors. “The pieces we are showcasing at the fair are truly miniature works of art and sculpture that can be worn. They [...]
“After a long break from the international limited-edition design scene, Michael Young has been busy working on a new collection from his base in Hong Kong. The series is called ‘Works in China’ and is accompanied by a book of the same name. In my opinion, this collection is the strongest body of work I’ve [...]
Vienna-based design writer and critic Amelie Znidaric guest blogs for Design Miami/ Blog. She recently received her MFA in Design Criticism from New York’s School of Visual Arts. Her writing has appeared on the German design and architecture platform Stylepark, the Austrian daily Die Presse, and Domus online. Take a game of Mikado pick-up sticks, [...]
Zigelbaum + Coelho’s Jamie Zigelbaum guest blogs for Design Miami/ Blog. In this post, Jamie sits down with studio juju – 2011 W Hotels Designers of the Future. Jamie’s studio was honored with the award in 2010. At Design Miami/ Basel upon a second floor lacking a middle part (often called a mezzanine), I found [...]
Beta Tank’s Eyal Burstein guest blogs for Design Miami/ Blog. In this post, Eyal discovers the lighter side of Design with Asif Khan’s The Cloud. It’s exactly a year since my W Hotels Designer of the Future Award and now that I am an alumni of this wonderful club, I am pleased to see how [...]
Gallerist Pierre Marie Giraud shows us some work he likes in this video clip. His gallery specializes in contemporary decorative arts and in this interview he explains work by African designer Magdalene Odundo. (Note To Our Email Subscribers: To activate this video click on this link or go directly onto www.designmiamiblog.com).
Galerie Downtown – François Laffanour specializes in furniture and objects by European and American design masters from the twentieth century. They have a powerful roster on display at Design Miami/ Basel this year. They are showing work by Ron Arad, Choï, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Georges Jouve, Serge Mouille, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé, Jean Royére [...]
While Ornamentum has participated in several of our Miami shows, this is the first time they are joining us in Basel. The gallery showcases contemporary jewelry, as well as related objects and artworks. At Design Miami/ Basel, they are presenting work by David Bielander, Iris Eichenberg, Karl Fritsch, John Iversen, Sergey Jivetin, Jiro Kamata, Ruudt [...]
Designer Bethan Laura Wood explains her work in Nilufar Gallery’s booth at Design Miami/ Basel. (Note to Our Email Subscribers: To activate this video click on this link or go directly to www.designmiamiblog.com)
Design Miami/ Basel held its final Design Talk today and it was a chance to hear from the W Hotels Designers of the Future about their work and their diverse approaches. Moderator Joseph Grima (Editor-In-Chief of Domus magazine) kicked off the conversation by noting that “all the pieces by the Designers of the Future this [...]
If you want your fix of Max Lamb at Design Miami/ Basel, Johnson Trading Gallery will deliver. They are staging a solo show of Lamb’s work. At the fair, you will see more than 20 pieces created by Lamb in the field and in the studio. Every piece that Johnson Trading Gallery is showcasing is [...]
