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In this video series, the W Hotels Designers of the Future all explain their work at the show. They were asked to create Conservation Pieces for the fair – work that would get people talking and interacting at the fair. ASIF KHAN STUDIO JUJU MISCHER’TRAXLER (Note To Our Email Subscribers: Please visit www.designmiamiblog.com directly to [...]
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, [...]
Patrick Seguin explains the Jean Prouve installation he is staging at Design Miami/ Basel 2011. (Note To Email Subscribers: Go directly to www.designmiamiblog.com to activate this video.)
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 [...]
Galerie Jacques Lacoste’s booth at Design Miami/ Basel is Royère collector’s dream. The gallery is displaying some extremely rare pieces by the designer in an elegantly designed booth by Emilie Bonaventure. Bonaventure pairs Royère’s classic work with a cork wall with gold leaf detailing. From this wall, Persane gilt-metal sconces that Royère custom-made for a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Simone Farresin and Andrea Trimarchi, the design duo known as Formafantasma, guest blog for The Design Miami/ Blog. In this piece, they discover why Mischer’Traxler was honored with the W Hotels Designers of the Future award. After making our way through some fantastic examples of historical design pieces (our favorite being the Prouvé house in [...]
Galerie Perrin specializes in furniture and objects from the end of the seventeenth century through the beginning of the nineteenth century. The Paris-based gallery sells the work of famous designers in history such as: Georges Jacob, Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, Hubert Robert, and Piat-Joseph Sauvage. This year, Perrin is showing more than thirty objects at Design Miami/ [...]
London-based gallery Spring Projects is cleaning up in the on/site section of our show. They are presenting work from Studio Makkink & Bey’s The Crate Series including the VacuumCleanerCrate. VacuumCleanerCrate was commissioned by Spring Projects, along with BathCrate, ClockCrate, VanityCrate and BedCrate. The vacuum goes for £18,000 (excluding VAT) and there are only three in [...]
Jacksons of Stockholm has amassed an important collection of Scandinavian design covering all disciplines of the 20th century. Members of the Design Miami/ Basel Vetting Committee Simon Andrews and Thomas Woodham-Smith both mentioned Jacksons as “a must see stop” for anyone visiting the fair. Their booth contains an array of rare examples of design in [...]
As you may remember, last year we honored the German-based design practice Beta Tank as a W Hotels Designer of the Future at the 2010 Design Miami/ Basel show. We spoke to Beta Tank last June about their ongoing Taxing Art project, which explores the role tax laws have on art, design and industry (Read: [...]
In this video, Maria Wettergren walks us through her on/site presentation at Design Miami/ Basel. Her gallery is showing the fiber optic marvels of Astrid Krogh.
Demisch Danant shines new light on French postwar reconstruction design in this article by Cultured magazine. The gallery is presenting a solo-show of Joseph-André Motte work at Design Miami/ Basel this year. Leave it to the French to have an entire farm team of talented mid-century designers who were, until recently, almost unknown. French superstars [...]
Nilufar has been a constant presence at Design Miami/ Basel and we are pleased to have them back again this year. They are showing approximately twenty pieces at the fair in a booth that they say “creates a conversation between historical and contemporary design.” They are showing work by Martino Gamper, Bethan Laura Wood, Joseph [...]
Galerie Patrick Seguin showcases the architecture and furniture of 20th century masters like Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret, Le Corbusier, Jean Royère, and, of course, Jean Prouvé. At Design Miami/ Basel this year, Galerie Patrick Seguin’s presentation focuses exclusively on Prouvé and it demonstrates just how much work one master can do in a day. For [...]
Reporting for Cultured magazine Rachel Wolff discovers Gerrit Rietveld’s influence goes way beyond the Zig Zag chair. His work is presented by Galerie Ulrich Fiedler at Design Miami/ Basel. Clean lines; carefully balanced asymmetry; splashes of red, blue and yellow on otherwise stark palettes; those famous zigzagging chairs… The visual language of Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964) [...]
Design Miami/ Basel held its first Design Talk today. The talk focused on the power of patronage and how private commissions can push the boundaries of design. Felix Burrichter, Editor/Creative Director of Pin-Up magazine facilitated a conversation between the designer Max Lamb and Alexander “Sandy” Rower, the President of the Calder Foundation and grandson of [...]
Mateo Kries, Director of the Vitra Design Museum, gave us his thoughts on Design Miami/ Basel 2011 and points out a few pieces he finds exceptional.
Hostler Burrows, formerly Antik, specializes in Scandinavian design and decorative arts. Its booth at Design Miami/ Basel received high praise from the Vetting Committee on Monday, so Design Miami/ Blog popped in for a quick visit to see what they had in stock. One of the most striking pieces in their booth is a pair [...]
