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Priveekollektie Contemporary Art / Design is known for giving emerging and established artists and designers a platform to express and experiment in their work. At Design Miami/ Basel, you will get to see some of the incredible objects that result from their collaborations with today’s talents. They have fifteen new pieces debuting at the fair [...]
Carpenters Workshop Gallery is pulling out all the stops for Design Miami/ Basel. Their presentation at the fair consists of new editions especially commissioned for debut in Basel. In Carpenters Workshop Gallery’s booth, you can see new work by talents including: Atelier van Lieshout, Sebastian Brajkovic, Ingrid Donat, Vincent Dubourg, Lonneke Gordijn, Ralph Nauta, and [...]
Jousse Entreprise is presenting an incredible example of work by Jean Prouvé at Design Miami/ Basel, a school house built in 1956. Cultured magazine spoke to gallery owner and Prouvé expert Philippe Jousse about the revolutionary designer and his contributions to modern architecture. When did you begin to collect Jean Prouvé? I started collecting and [...]
Cultured magazine sat down with Design Miami/’s new director Marianne Goebl to discuss the fair’s future, life in Miami and what’s new in Basel. What part of your new role as director are you enjoying most? I truly enjoy having direct access to this broad spectrum of exceptional design work and to the very diverse [...]
Co-Founder of the fair, Craig Robins welcomed journalists to Design Miami/ Basel today at the official press preview. Robins said the 2011 presentation “is the biggest and best show we’ve ever had. It is a testament to both the dealers we collaborate with and their rigorous efforts, as well as the leadership provided by the [...]
There is no end in sight to the marvels you can discover in Galerie VIVID’s booth at Design Miami/ Basel. The gallery has commissioned some exciting new work that it is unveiling at the fair. One of the works is from Studio Glithero and the other comes from Dirk Vander Kooij. Dirk Vander Kooij has [...]
This is the first time Galerie Doria is participating in Design Miami/ Basel. Galerie Owner and Director, Denis Doria says: “We are heading into this first experience with an open mind, hundred percent receptive to the novelty and opportunity it represents.” The Paris-based gallery specializes in works created in the first half of the 20th century [...]
One of the very first sales we reported from Design Miami/ back in December was rung up by Perimeter Art & Design. The doors had barely opened and the gallery had sold a brand new sofa from the Campana Brothers’ Mono Sushi series to an American collector for $130,000 USD. The sofa came straight from [...]
• 12:00-3:00pm Design Miami/ Basel Collectors Preview @ Hall 5, Messe Basel (By Invitation Only) • 3:00-6:00pm Design Miami/ Basel Press Preview @ Hall 5, Messe Basel (Registered Press) • 5:00-6:00pm W Hotels Designers of the Future Press Reception @ Designers of the Future Exhibition Space in Hall 5, Messe Basel (By Invitation Only) • [...]
Before the fair opens to collectors and the public, every piece on the show floor is examined and evaluated by Design Miami/ Basel’s Vetting Committee. The four-member committee comprises design industry experts Simon Andrews, Serge Maduit, Thomas Woodham-Smith and Sean Berg. Due to the sheer size of the show this year, it took the committee [...]
Dealers and designers alike were hard at work in Hall 5 putting the final touches and adjustments on their presentations for Design Miami/ Basel on Sunday. Exhibition staff was seen zooming through the hall on bicycles and scooters with plaster and hammers in hand. Max Lamb told Design Miami/ Blog he spent Saturday evening sand [...]
If children’s fantasies are primordially derived, then perhaps it’s perfectly fitting that for his first large-scale outdoor installation, Nacho Carbonell is creating a playground for Milan’s Galleria Rossana Orlandi. Taking over Design Miami/ Basel’s outdoor space, the Eindhoven-based, Spanish designer—whose surreal, tactile forms often conjure specimens that escaped from some alien natural history museum—is [...]
At Design Miami/ in December, Cultured magazine published by Whitehaus Media Group debuted at the fair. The introduction of the publication made the fair a richer experience for our visitors by providing an in-depth editorial look at the designers, the projects and the participants that collectively make up Design Miami/. We are happy to report [...]
Hella Jongerius has researched color in all its diversity since the start of her career. This research led to experiments with color using one of her existing designs – the Red White Vase in 1997. The first two series of Colored Vases were produced in 2003 and 2007, using the form of the vase as [...]
Need to revamp your work station? Gallery Seomi will be showcasing some extraordinary desks by Korean designers in Basel this year including ones by Bahk Jongsun and Bae Sehwa. The gallery has represented Bahk Jongsun for four years and the designer is known of his graceful and elegant Zen style designs that embrace a historic [...]
R 20th Century will be exhibiting a selection of exceptional works by several significant 20th and 21st century designers at Design Miami/ Basel. In their booth, you will find work by Greta Magnusson Grossman (Sweden), Jeff Zimmerman (US), Bae Sehwa (Korea) and some spectacular pieces by Brazilian talents Joaquim Tenriero and Jose Zanine. From Joaquim [...]
HELMRINDERKNECHT contemporary design gallery will take part in our On/site program. The gallery is presenting a collection of objects designed by Nicolas Le Moigne, a Swiss designer from ECAL/University of art and design Lausanne. On display will be Le Moigne’s Podium collection. It is inspired by the showmanship of art and design industry itself. The [...]
If you visited Design Miami/ Basel last year, you may remember being greeted by Miami Babel designed by Florian Borkenhagen. The massive tower sat just outside Hall 5 and was presented by Gabrielle Ammann // Gallery. The piece is an ode to the tower of Babel and Design Miami/ Basel and is made entirely of wood [...]
It sounds like Todd Merrill will be making some noise at Design Miami/ Basel with sculptures designed by Harry Bertoia. The gallery will showcase three exceptional works by Bertoia, two of which were created as part of a music-themed suite of massive works for the Grieg Concert Hall in Bergen, Norway. The Sonambient Sculpture dated [...]
Last year in Basel, D&A Lab showcased the work of artist Jonathan Monk in our On/site program. They showed Monk’s Low Table 1984 which was inspired by artist Donald Judd’s 1984 Bookshelf. The Brussels-based gallery is known for operating at the intersection between art and functionality. It works with a broad range of contemporary [...]
Karena Schuessler Gallery from Berlin will show twenty or so pieces at Design Miami/ Basel by talents like: Judith van den Boom / Studio BoomWehmeyer, Bas van Raay, Andreas Grahl, Robert Hoffmann, Lutz Hüning, Harush Shlomo, Danny Venlet, Oskar Zieta and others. Gallery Owner Karena Schuessler says: “The almost total absence of color unites all [...]
This is the first year that Galerie Maria Wettergren is presenting at Design Miami/ Basel. The gallery is taking part in the On/site program and they are planning to light up Hall 5 with Astrid Krogh’s Lightmail. The 8 x 1,5 meter unique tapestry made of optic fibers will cascade down from the ceiling of [...]
We have all talked to ourselves in the mirror, but now Mischer’Traxler is making it a dyadic conversation. In response to our brief to create modernized Conversation Pieces, W Hotels Designers of the Future Award winner Mischer’Traxler is experimenting with mirrors in a piece called It Takes More Than One. The design collective explains, “Through [...]
