Events / Design / July 2008
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Design'in pays de la Loire présente Living Box
until sunday october 12 2008
Objets habitables pour quel espace de vie? Scénographie Matali Crasset |
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FLEXIBILITY
until sunday october 12 2008
www.torinoworlddesigncapital.it
Labyrinths of roads, agglomerations of buildings, mazes of relations. In 2050 over 90% of the world's population will live in cities, places that already today are characterised by growing complexity. |
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Petits bouleversements au centre de la table
until sunday october 19 2008
Directrice de la Fondation Bernardaud
relations presse
intitulée « Petits bouleversements au centre de la table ». Ce titre peut être lu comme une provocation, d’autant plus que la vocation de la Fondation est d’explorer les possibilités artistiques du médium porcelaine au-delà du strict et traditionnel domaine de la table… Mais le constat de voies nouvelles proposées par une génération de créateurs s’intéressant à nos rapports renouvelés à la nourriture et à l’art de vivre à table nous a incité au questionnement suivant : que sont devenus le décor de table et le cérémonial de la réception aujourd’hui ? |
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The Poetry of Shape - Japanese laquerware by Nagatoshi Onishi
until sunday october 19 2008
info@kunstindustrimuseet.dk
Nagatoshi Onishi is an internationally famous artist and an institution in Japanese laquerware both as a craftsman and as professor in the subject laquerware at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. This is his first Scandinavian exhibition. His style is characterized by simple organic shapes; vessels, bowls and objects that are very sculptural in their expression because they are not decorated, but stand as monochrome unified wholes in red or black, and sometimes gold. In connection with the exhibition rare examples of Japanese laquerware from the Museum’s own collection will be on display. |
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Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo
until sunday october 26 2008
communication@cca.qc.ca
The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Taylor and Nishizawa and reveals their ideas addressing the challenges of building homes in existing city environments. Due to their scale, extensive built environment, and existing efforts to grow the city from within, London and Tokyo face similar urban development issues but occupy cultural contexts in which themes of proximity, privacy, community, and public space take on different meanings and require distinct solutions. |
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Collectif
until sunday october 26 2008
Contact presse
Présentation presse le 3 juillet à 16h. |
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FORMLESS FURNITURE
until sunday october 26 2008
press contact
Exhibition manager
The exhibition “Formless Furniture” shows that the rule “form follows material” was also applied – and still is – in the design of everyday objects: to this day, designers playfully oppose the so-called good form and the marketing of conformity in living environments. |
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Ornament and Modernity: Joseph Hoffmann 1870-1956
until sunday october 26 2008
Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel
The presentation outlines the life and work of Josef Hoffmann on wall-high panels. Richly illustrated with 200 historical photographs from the MAK collection and relying on detailed descriptions, the show documents the biography and production of the architect and designer, introducing him to the public in the Czech Republic. The panels unfold a comprehensive survey of Josef Hoffmann’s genesis as an artist and his various activities. The exhibition has been prepared by the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art in cooperation with the Moravian Gallery in Brno and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Prague. |
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L'AFFICHE 100% FINLANDE 1907-2007
until sunday october 26 2008
contacts presse
À l'invitation des Arts Décoratifs, l'association Grafia et le musée de l'affiche de Lhati proposent de parcourir cent ans de création graphique et publicitaire en Finlande. |
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CESAR: ANTHOLOGIE PAR JEAN NOUVEL
until sunday october 26 2008
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Illustration : Giallo Naxos 594. 1998 - Courtesy : César Administration / Stéphanie Buzutil |
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Ère de repos: art et design en villégiature
until friday october 31 2008
www.cg13.fr/modes-de-vie/culture/chateau-avignon.html
cdm@designmarseille.org
Vernissage le 27 juin à partir de 18h30. |
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Intentions - Enrique Norten
until friday october 31 2008
informacion@marco.org.mx
The exhibition presents approximately thirty of TEN Arquitectos projects created by the well-recognized Mexican architect Enrique Norten. The documentation, that serves to both register and prove that the different variations of the box introduce ways of transforming the space according to the project, form part of the show giving equal importance to all phases of the process: sketches, drawings and maquettes, images of analogous things, and plan or structure analyses are presented in a way similar to the maquettes and presentation images. |
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Calder Jewelry
until sunday november 02 2008
visitorservices@philamuseum.org.
pressroom@philamuseum.org
Recognized as one of America’s most innovative modern artists, Alexander Calder (1898–1976) redefined sculpture through his iconic mobiles, stabiles, and the popular Cirque Calder. Calder’s work in metal jewelry, however, is one form of his artistic output that is less known. Throughout his life, the artist produced more than 1,800 jewelry works of art, each made entirely by hand. This is the first exhibition devoted exclusively to his unique body of jewelry work, and consists of approximately one hundred objects, including necklaces, bracelets, brooches, earrings, and tiaras. |
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My Public Space
until sunday november 09 2008
My Public Space' is a travelling exhibition that makes it clear that public space in Europe is much less public and accessible than we tend to think. How our immediate surroundings are organised is increasingly subject to privatisation, thematisation, control, commercialisation and the influence of the media. Eight correspondents carried out research on urban developments in Dublin, Copenhagen, Naples, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Tirana, Brussels and Berlin to find out how the transformation of public space has taken place. |
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Gérard Deschamps - Jeux d'eau
until sunday november 16 2008
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Les Arts Décoratifs invitent l’une des figures du Nouveau Réalisme, l’artiste Gérard Deschamps, à concevoir des installations dans la galerie des jouets du musée. Une vingtaine de structures gonflables seront présentées ainsi qu’une centaine de jouets et jeux d’eau en plastique de la collection. |
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Design : sous quel motif?
until monday november 17 2008
relations presse
L’exposition « Design : sous quel motif ? » se propose d’aborder la question de l’utilisation du motif, de l’ornement voire de l’image dans les créations de nombreux designers aujourd’hui. Le visiteur découvrira des œuvres, dont trente-sept créations issues du Fonds national d’art contemporain, d’artistes et designers aussi divers que : Arman, Matali Crasset, 5.5, ouvriers designers, Hella Jongerius, Chris Kabel, Enzo Mari, François Morellet, Borek Sipek, Wieki Somers, Ettore Sottsass, Martin Szekely, Oscar Tusquets Blanca, Marcel Wanders… |
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La suite Elle décoration vue par Christian Lacroix
until thursday december 04 2008
La Cité de L'architecture et du patrimoine accueille le magazine Elle Décoration pour faire revivre l'ancien appartement de Jacques Carlu, architecte du Palais de Chaillot dans les années 30. |
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HABITAT LANCE SON E-COMMERCE
until thursday december 04 2008
Press Contact
Habitat ouvre sa première boutique virtuelle. |
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habitat : Collections VIP & VIP Kid
until wednesday december 17 2008
Press Contact
Les collections VIP et VIP for Kids s’étoffent de nouveaux papiers peints, des collaborations avec Christian Lacroix, Marcel Wanders, Matthew Williamson, Julian Opie, Bernie Reid. |
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Classic Modern Originals
until tuesday december 30 2008
bauhaus@bauhaus.de
The Bauhaus Archive/Museum of Design in Berlin investigates and presents the 1919-1933 history and impact of Bauhaus, the 20th century's most significant school of architecture, design and art. |
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HÔTEL EVERLAND
until wednesday december 31 2008
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Le Palais de Tokyo accueille un projet exceptionnel proposé par les deux artistes suisses Sabina Lang et Daniel Baumann, qui signent leurs œuvres "L/B". Intervenant à la fois sur les territoires de l'art, du design et de la vie quotidienne, ces deux artistes aiment à placer leurs œuvres au cœur des situations les plus "réelles". |
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GoodBye! Mister Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007)
until wednesday december 31 2008
"When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism," (...) "It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting." |
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BULTHAUP
until wednesday december 31 2008
contact presse
“bulthaup est particulièrement attentif au besoin d'individualité, à la mise en oeuvre de superbes matériaux et à l'esthétique des formes". |
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1968-2008 the Sacco armchair celebrates 40 years
until wednesday december 31 2008
Zanotta
A big exhibition-event, a publication, a website, a film and other appointments all over the world. Because Sacco is maybe the most anormalous item among the design objects not only made by Zanotta : the coming of an idea, a real cult in the informal furnishing, a custom phenomenon that is winning the widest and transversal audience without interruption. |
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Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s
until monday march 02 2009
Rem Koolhaas's watercolor Plan of Dreamland (1977), a recent acquisition, is the point of departure for this presentation of selections from the Architecture and Design collection. The 1970s saw an explosion of architectural thought and experimentation—with the city, and New York especially, becoming a screen for the projection of architectural fantasies and utopias. |
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Ateliers Jean Prouvé
until monday march 30 2009
With all the excitement surrounding today's digital manufacturing technologies, it is interesting to look at an earlier historical moment of workshop mass-production, as practiced by the great French architect and designer Jean Prouvé (1901–1984). This exhibition examines Prouvé's collaborations within his Ateliers Jean Prouvé from idea to finished product. |
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FLORALS IN FLUX: Abstract, Stylized, Naturalistic
until sunday april 12 2009
The exhibition deals with the aspect of floral ornamentation in the work of the Wiener Werkstätte. Featuring 76 objects from the Wiener Werkstätte Archives and other MAK holdings – including design drawings by Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann as well as vases, jewelry, fabrics, and leatherwork made by the Wiener Werkstätte – the show highlights different approaches, whether abstract naturalistic, or stylized, that artists took to plant motifs. |
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Aussi rouge que possible
until sunday november 01 2009
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New accrochage. |
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Living in the Lowlands - The domestic scene in the Nai collection
until thursday december 31 2009
The NAI has one of the world's most important collections of archives of architecture, interiors, landscape architecture and urban planning. The permanent exhibition Living in the Lowlands reveals the collection's wealth of drawings, models and photographs. The highlights of this national treasure paint a picture of domestic life in the Netherlands over the last 150 years. Ordinary Dutch architecture whose quality is unmatched anywhere in the world. |
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Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection
until friday december 31 2010
Exhibitions Coordinator
Visitor services
This first-ever retrospective exhibition of the National Building Museum’s unique collection explores quintessentially American, 20th-century buildings from center-city mansions to main street storefronts and sleek downtown skyscrapers. Anchored by a series of large architectural elements, this walking tour of the cityscape is complemented by exquisitely detailed drawings; rare, early-20th-century photographs; and smaller-scale fragments from National Historic Landmarks—including the former U.S. Pension Building, the Museum’s extraordinary home. |
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Washington: Symbol and City
until saturday december 31 2011
Exhibitions Coordinator
Visitor services
Created by the government, for the government, Washington was bound to differ from other American cities. Here, the local needs that all cities share—for housing, transportation, water and power utilities, commercial centers, and community institutions—vie directly with national priorities. More than half a million residents now live in the District, in more than 100 neighborhoods. This exhibition explores how residents experience the city and how Washington itself expresses the tension between the demands of a working seat of government and the desire for a national symbol, and the hopes and needs of an evolving city. |
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STUDIO MUSEO ACHILLE CASTIGLIONI
until monday december 31 2012
info@achillecastiglioni.it
Free entrance: at 10.00, 11.00, 12.00 with free 60-minute guided tour.School and group bookings. |
