Events / Design / January 2009
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Antoine et Manuel, un duo de graphistes
january 15 2009 -> april 12 2009
conatct presse
c@antoineetmanuel.com
Les Arts Décoratifs offrent une carte blanche au duo de graphistes Antoine et Manuel. Ils ont choisi pour cette exposition de transformer les espaces de la publicité en un lieu de vie intime. Dans les sept salles, ils recréent une partie de leur univers qu'il soit privé, professionnel ou emotionnel. |
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LES PLUS BEAUX LIVRES SUISSES
until saturday january 03 2009
ccs@ccsparis.com
Vernissage le 04.09 / 18h - 21h. |
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Design cities
until sunday january 04 2009
T : +44 020 7403 6933
Design Cities tells the story of contemporary design through seven key cities at their creative height: London (1851), Vienna (1908), Dessau (1928), Paris (1936), Los Angeles (1949), Milan (1957), Tokyo (1987) and London (2008). |
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4xBarcelona
until tuesday january 06 2009
info@arkitekturmuseet.se
Gaudì, Miralles, Cerdà, Patent Constructions. |
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Zanotta and Fabrica present Operation FZ
december 05 2008 -> january 08 2009
milanshop@zanotta.com
Zanotta presents the secondome glass collection 2008 designed by Fabrica (Valentina Caretta, Becka Citron.... |
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SAUMA - user-driven design
until friday january 09 2009
Head of exhibitions
Press contact
Main exhibition from the 20th of September. SAUMA presents innovative contemporary design by some of Finland’s new designers. |
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Swarm Chandelier
december 01 2008 -> january 09 2009
press contact
The Swarm chandelier was designed by Zaha Hadid, one of the most highly regarded architects working today. |
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Collectif Dito: appartement 101
until friday january 09 2009
Mlle Véronique Léonard / association Première rue
Vernissage le 24 Octobre 2008 à 18H30, entrée libre |
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Louidgi Beltrame - Brasilia / Chandigarh
until saturday january 10 2009
art@jousse-entreprise.com
Two capitals, on the one hand, Brasilia, Brazil's administrative capital built by Oscar Niemeyer in the late 1950s, on the other, Chandigarh, built at more or less the same time by Le Corbusier, in India. So here we have two iconic cities introduced in a film-cum-exhibition. |
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Pierre Paulin/ Inédité
until saturday january 10 2009
Directeur
Press contact
Perimeter art-design et Nicolas Hug, ex-Directeur de la Galerie Scandinave, grand collectionneur et ami de Pierre Paulin, sont heureux de présenter l’exposition : Pierre Paulin/ Inédité. |
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Architecture in Scotland 2006-2008
until sunday january 11 2009
enquiries@thelighthouse.co.uk
The latest biennial review of Scottish architecture presents recent Scottish projects alongside European examples from Austria, Switzerland and Norway. This exhibition seeks to place Scottish buildings in an international context exploring issues such as the culture of place, regional identity and globalisation, to discover the story of each building. |
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The spirit of “Mingei” in Japan: folk art design
until sunday january 11 2009
conatct presse
Frédéric Pillier / Pierre Laporte Communication
This exhibit is based on a specific case-that of thinker Yanagi Soetsu, promoter of the “Mingei” movement, and his son, Yanagi Sori, who was a premier post-war designer. The exhibit causes one to reflect on the relationship, established during the 20th century, between the rediscovery of certain traditional arts and international modern art through design. |
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Petits bouleversements au centre de la table
november 27 2008 -> january 11 2009
presse@lesartsdecoratifs.fr
relations presse Bernardaud
Après 4 mois à Limoges, l’exposition de la Fondation d’entreprise Bernardaud sera exposée aux Arts Décoratifs jusqu'en janvier. |
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Alfred Nobel, au service de l'innovation
until sunday january 11 2009
press contact
Conçue par le Musée Nobel de Stockholm, cette exposition s'ouvrira le jour de l'annonce des prix Nobel 2008 à Stockholm. |
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ID LAB
until sunday january 11 2009
listasafn@reykjavik.is
Public relation director
ID LAB is an exhibition presenting works by artists who explore the ´zeitgeist´ of our times by using the powerful concepts of fashion and design. The works present ideas and impulses that reach beyond external influences and explore traditions, processes and the cultural construction of identity. |
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Cold War Modern: Art & Design in a Divided World 1945 - 1975
until sunday january 11 2009
Press contact
Concentrating on the highly volatile years from 1945 to 1975, the exhibition will examine the key themes of the period including the task of reconstruction in Europe after the war and the rise of consumerism. The strong influence of the Cold War upon popular culture will be shown through graphics, fashion, film and product design. |
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Ryoji Ikeda & Benedict Gross
until monday january 12 2009
Press contact
info@lelaboratoire.org
Le Laboratoire is pleased to present, for the first time in Europe, a solo exhibition of the Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda. |
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Design & kitchen
until thursday january 15 2009
Directrice
To discover and by special objetcs dedicated to kitchen, designed by european and japonese's designers and architects. |
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Gonçalo Byrne Architectes, Portugal
december 12 2008 -> january 17 2009
mail@galerie-architecture.fr
Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos
Gonçalo Byrne est l’auteur d’une œuvre vaste, plusieurs fois récompensée au niveau national et international. Sa production se démarque particulièrement dans le domaine du patrimoine et du culturel. |
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Gustave Serrurier-Bovy (1858-1910) - Acteur du futur
until sunday january 18 2009
info@caracascom.com
Le Musée d'Art moderne et d'Art contemporain et la Ville de Liège organise la première rétrospective des oeuvres de l'architecte-décorateur Gustave Serrurier (dit Bovy), dont 2008 marque le 150ème anniversaire. |
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Alan Aldridge - the man with kaleidoscope eyes
until sunday january 25 2009
info@designmuseum.org
Alan Aldridge - the man with the Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective featuring the works of the celebrated illustrator and graphic designer Alan Aldridge. |
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House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection
until sunday january 25 2009
press contact
This exhibition showcases Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw’s collection of nineteenth-century watercolor drawings, which meticulously detail the era’s interior furnishings and document the social, cultural, and aesthetic development of European domestic life. |
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Helsinki Biennale 2008
until sunday january 25 2009
Public Relations
Head of Helsinki Biennale
Grand Opening for Helsinki Biennale's World Fair in Design Museum Friday October 24th at 6.p.m. If you are alive and in Helsinki – do not miss it! |
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Patricia Urquiola - Purely Porcelain
until sunday january 25 2009
info@designmuseum.org
One of the most active and exciting designers working today, Spanish born Patricia Urquiola will exhibit Landscape, her recent porcelain range for the ceramic manufacturers Rosenthal, at the Design Museum this Autumn. From dinnerware to tea sets as well as cutlery and glass, this exquisite design, which took over two years to develop, combines smooth simplicity with richly textured surface decoration. |
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CLOSE UP I: BIG IDEAS
until sunday january 25 2009
press contact
Close Up is the new DAC exhibition series on Danish architectural firms setting the agenda with visionary architecture and new thoughts and ideas on issues that excels much further than everyday architectural and planning matters. I |
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Arabia 135: Ceramics - Art - Industry
until sunday january 25 2009
Public Relations
info@designmuseum.fi
With what would Finns have used as coffee cups and plates over the past century if the Rörstrand porcelain factory of Sweden had not received permission in 1873 from the Imperial Senate of Finland to establish a subsidiary named Arabia in Helsinki. |
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WA: L'HARMONIE AU QUOTIDIEN - Design japonais d'aujourd'hui
until saturday january 31 2009
Relations publiques
Service de presse Observatoire
Couverts, montres, théières, sacs, bicyclette, mobilier, fourniture de bureau, mais aussi guitare silencieuse, appareil photo numérique, robot humanoïdes miniatures... C'est tout l'univers quotidien des Japonais qui est exposé à la Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris. De grands classiques d'Isamu Noguchi ou de Sori Yanagi côtoient une multitude de créations plus récentes conçues par des stars du design telles que Naoto Kukasawa, Shunji Yamanaka, Makoto Koizumi et Tokujin Yoshioka. |
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400 years of telescopes
until sunday february 01 2009
info@zeeuwsmuseum.nl
www.inventionofthetelescope.eu
October 2008 will mark precisely four centuries since the invention of the telescope. The fact that this ground-breaking invention took place right here in Middelburg inspired the Zeeuws Museum to mount an exhibition of rare telescopes from the world-famous collection of Peter Louwman. |
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ANDREA BRANZI - Open Enclosures and other works
until sunday february 01 2009
Responsable service communication
Caracas Public Relations
En collaboration avec la Fondation Cartier, Grand-Hornu Images invite le designer et architecte florentin Andrea Branzi à investir ses salles avec deux audacieuses installations créées en collaboration avec le CIRVA... |
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Unrealised Dreams. Plans for Paris (1850-1900)
until sunday february 01 2009
contact presse
The great modernisation projects of 19th century Paris left many plans unrealised, but which still influenced the architectural development of the capital. This display of drawings from the Musée d'Orsay collections presents projects put forward for public buildings (Sorbonne, Caserne des Célestins, Opéra Comique and Grand Palais) and urban planning (Tuileries, Place de la Concorde and Ile de la Cité). |
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Swiss Federal Design Grants 2008
until sunday february 01 2009
Exhibition Coordinator
This competition, organized by the Bundesamt für Kultur (Federal Office of Culture), is one of the most important instruments for the promotion of design. |
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Otto Baumberger – Advertising Pioneer
until sunday february 01 2009
Poster Collection
Head of exhibitions
Otto Baumberger (1889 – 1961) was one of the first Swiss who can be correctly described as a "poster designer," even though his personal desire for artistic recognition would remain unfulfilled. |
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L'Alibi Documentaire
until monday february 02 2009
Communication, relations publiques
L’exposition envisage un croisement des regards entre architecture et photographie, un travail sur la porosité de la frontière entre les deux disciplines. |
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The Making of Architecture
until monday february 02 2009
press contact
This exhibition tells about the very different ways in which architects use their various tools, from the pencil to the computer. |
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Amerika 1928 - Photos of a Study Trip by Walter Gropius
until monday february 02 2009
bauhaus@bauhaus.de
Upon resigning as director of the Dessau Bauhaus in early 1928, Walter Gropius decided to fulfil a long-held dream. |
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Christophe Berdaguer et Marie Péjus, 7ème Continent, Lauréats du Prix Fondation d' Entreprise Ricard 2007
until monday february 02 2009
press contact
www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com
Depuis 2000, le Centre Pompidou accueille, chaque année, le Prix Fondation d'entreprise Ricard qui récompense un artiste représentatif de la jeune scène française. |
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Munio Weinraub | Amos Gitai - Architecture and film in Israel
until sunday february 08 2009
press contact
Press preview on 11-05-2008 at 11.00 and opening at 19.00. |
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Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection
until sunday february 15 2009
Public Relations Office
info@madmuseum.org
Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection presents approximately 250 works from the Museum of Arts and Design’s permanent collection. For the first time in the Museum’s 52-year history, dedicated collections galleries introduce visitors to the phenomenal ceramic, glass, wood, metal, fiber, and mixed media works in the Museum’s collections. Many of the pieces are on view for the first time. |
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Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
until sunday february 15 2009
Public Relations Office
info@madmuseum.org
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary will be the inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Arts & Design when it opens in a new building at 2 Columbus Circle in September 2008. |
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PETER KNAPP
until sunday february 15 2009
contact@galerie-anatome.com
Peter Knapp, artistic director. |
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Recollecting - Looted Art and Restitution
december 03 2008 -> february 15 2009
press contact
Press preview: tuesday, 2 December 2008, 10:30a.m.. Opening: tuesday 2 December 2008, 8:30p.m. |
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Moderm Times - The untold story of modernism in Australia
until sunday february 15 2009
Media Officer
Modern times reveals how modernism transformed life in Australia across five tumultuous decades from 1917 to 1967. The exhibition traces for the first time the impact of modernism on all aspects of Australian culture — from art, design and architecture to advertising, photography, film and fashion. |
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Head to Head – Political Portraits
until sunday february 22 2009
Communication
Head of exhibitions
This exhibition illuminates the historical roots, epochal electoral campaigns, recurring patterns of political public relations work, and the shaping of such influential figures as Lenin, Che Guevera, Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Yulia Tymoshenko. In collaboration with the Institute for Mass Communication and Media Research Zurich. |
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BIG GAME
until sunday february 22 2009
Responsable service communication
Caracas Public Relations
Pour la première exposition solo du studio BIG-GAME, Grand-Hornu Images offre un regard sur l’ensemble de leur travail. A cette occasion, ils dévoileront leurs toutes dernières créations ainsi que la collection « Ready Made » . |
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Atelier
november 29 2008 -> february 22 2009
enquiries@thelighthouse.co.uk
press contact
Atelier are fashion designer Beca Lipscome, illustrator Bernie Reid and fine artist Lucy McKenzie. |
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Design Medal 2008
until sunday february 22 2009
enquiries@thelighthouse.co.uk
press contact
An opportunity to see work by a new generation of design talent, the annual Glasgow 1999 Design Medal is a platform for designers studying at Glasgow’s Higher and Further Education institutions. |
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La faïence fine française, 1743-1843
until monday february 23 2009
musee.sevres@culture.gouv.fr
Le musée national de Céramique à Sèvres, sous l’égide de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, organise une exposition sur les origines de la faïence fine française, la première depuis quarante ans. |
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Curators Select: Recent Acquisitions, 2003–2008
until sunday march 01 2009
press contact
International in scope and possessing one of the most diverse and comprehensive collections of design works in existence, the Museum's rich holdings range from the Han Dynasty (200 B.C.) to the present day and total more than 200,000 objects. This exhibition will feature recent acquisitions to all four of the museum's collecting departments: Product Design and Decorative Arts; Drawings, Prints and Graphic Design; Textiles; and Wallcoverings. |
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Asian ceramics
until sunday march 01 2009
T : + 31 0900-8212132
The Starck Pavilion is an especial place to display highlights of the Museum’s Asian Ceramics collection. |
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Multiple City - City Concepts 1908|2008
december 04 2008 -> march 01 2009
press contact
The exhibition »Multiple City« shows current urban developments worldwide as mirrored in central urban concepts of the past 100 years. |
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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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VRROOOOM - Motorbike design
until sunday march 08 2009
info@kunstindustrimuseet.dk
From the middle of November the Danish Museum of Art & Design will roar with machine aesthetics. |
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Permis de construire, Carte blanche à Matali Crasset
until monday march 09 2009
com@citechaillot.fr
La Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine présente du 16 octobre 2008 au 9 mars 2009 une exposition-atelier pour les tout-petits (dès 4 ans), conçue sous la forme d’une carte blanche à la designer Matali Crasset. |
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L'Observeur du design 09, 10ème édition
until monday march 09 2009
contact presse
Annabelle Hagmann / Cité des sciences et de l'industrie
L'Observeur du design souffle ses 10 bougies !!!! |
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Ron Arad - No discipline
until monday march 16 2009
press contact
info@ronarad.com
For the first time in France, the Centre Pompidou is devoting a monograph to the British industrial designer and architect Ron Arad. |
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Artists in focus: #5 Heimo Zobernig - Total design
until sunday march 29 2009
In his oeuvre, which originated in work for theatres, Heimo Zobernig, who has been a key player in Austria’s art scene since the 1980s, moves along the boundaries between concepts and artifacts, models and architecture, materials and form, roles and film, signs and text. |
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2 x JAPAN - Katagami / Textiles
until sunday march 29 2009
2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Heinrich Siebold, to whom the MAK owes a large part of its Japanese collection. |
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Ateliers Jean Prouvé
until monday march 30 2009
This exhibition examines Prouvé's collaborations within his Ateliers Jean Prouvé from idea to finished product. |
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Tribute to Ettore Sottsass
until tuesday march 31 2009
press contact
Cette exposition ambitionne de refléter la richesse créative et les différents champs d'intervention dans le processus de création d'Ettore Sottsass, architecte aux facettes multiples. |
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GEORGE NELSON
until wednesday april 01 2009
T : + 49 (0) 7621 702 3590
In 2008, the American designer George Nelson (1908-1986) would have been 100 years old. In recognition of this centennial anniversary, the Vitra Design Museum is planning the first comprehensive retrospective on his work. Trained as an architect with a degree from Yale, Nelson was one of the defining figures of American design in the latter half of the 20th century. |
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Wall Stories: Children's Wallpapers and Books
until sunday april 05 2009
+1 212 849 8420
This exhibition will explore the relationship between wallpapers and books created for children through works from the permanent collection and the National Design Library. |
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Frank O. Gehry: Design Process and the Lewis House
until sunday april 05 2009
visitorservices@philamuseum.org.
pressroom@philamuseum.org
This exhibition explores for the first time how a decade-long residential commission for Peter Lewis in Lyndhurst, Ohio (1985-1995), gave Frank Gehry a unique opportunity to experiment, and in the process, achieve the formal and technological breakthroughs that have made him one of the most influential architects of our time. |
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Solos: Tulou/Affordable Housing for China
until sunday april 05 2009
press contact
In the fifth installment of the Solos series, the museum will present Tulou, a prototype for affordable housing being built in the city of Guangzhou by the Chinese architectural practice Urbanus. |
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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. |
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The Art of Drinking
until sunday april 26 2009
press contact
Drink has stimulated a rich material culture. Specific situations and drinks require particular vessels; from stoneware beer mugs to jade cups and silver goblets. |
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Shape our country - Workshop for national planning
until sunday may 03 2009
Marketing & Communication Dept
Would you like to see more greenery in your street? Do you dream of living on water? Or do you think you’ve found the solution to the traffic jam problem? Decide yourself what the Netherlands ought to look like! |
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Elegant Armor: The Art of Jewelry
until sunday may 31 2009
Public Relations Office
info@madmuseum.org
The exhibition presents the major themes, materials and techniques that make contemporary jewelry visually exciting and intellectually stimulating. |
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Aussi rouge que possible
until sunday november 01 2009
Press contact
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. |
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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. |
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Washington: Symbol and City
until saturday december 31 2011
Exhibitions Coordinator
Visitor services
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. < |
