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  october 2008

Out There

Out There, Architecture Beyond Building - 11th International Architecture Exhibition

until sunday november 23 2008
Arsenale and Padiglione Italia at the Giardini
T : +39 041 5218711
Venice
Italy

Press Office
T : +39 041 5218849
infoarchitettura@labiennale.org
www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/

The 11th International Architecture Exhibition entitled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, will take place in Venice from Sunday, September 14th to Sunday, November 23rd 2008 in the Arsenale and Giardini exhibition venues. The preview will be on September 11th, 12th and 13th. The Exhibition is directed by Aaron Betsky and organised by the Venice Biennale presided over by Paolo Baratta.
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Prisunic

Prisunic et le design, une aventure unique

until sunday november 30 2008
Galerie VIA
Valorisation de l'Innovation dans l'Ameublement
T : + 33 (0)1 46 28 11 11
29-35, avenue Daumesnil
75012 Paris
France

contact presse
Pauline Lacoste
lacoste@mobilier.com
www.via.fr

Vernissage le jeudi 4 septembre à partir de 19h.
Le VIA célèbre le quarantième anniversaire de l'édition du premier catalogue Prisunic de vente par correspondance de mobilier contemporain accessible au plus grand nombre, à travers une exposition inédite.


Habitat

HABITAT LANCE SON E-COMMERCE

until thursday december 04 2008

Press Contact
Julia Duhamel
T : +33 1 44 09 97 02
service.presse@habitat.fr
www.habitat.fr

Habitat ouvre sa première boutique virtuelle.
Profitant du lancement de son nouveau site début septembre, Habitat franchit le cap et offre à ses clients la possibilité d’acheter sur internet. Lancée pour l’instant uniquement en France, l’expérience « e-commerce » était très attendue.


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Suite Elle Déco

La suite Elle décoration vue par Christian Lacroix

until thursday december 04 2008
Palais de Chaillot
Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine
T : +33(0)1 58 51 52 00
1, place du Trocadero
75016 Paris
France

www.citechaillot.fr

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.

Illustration : Suite Elle, décoration par Christian Lacroix, Jean-Marc Palisse photographe - Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine © Elle Décoration


Julian Opie Kids

habitat : Collections VIP & VIP Kid

until wednesday december 17 2008

Press Contact
Julia Duhamel
T : +33 01 44 09 97 02
service.presse@habitat.fr
www.habitat.fr

www.julianopie.com

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.

Image : Julien Opie


Classic Moderns

Classic Modern Originals

until tuesday december 30 2008
Bauhaus
Archive Museum of Design
T : +49 (0)30 - 25 40 02 0
Klingelhöferstraße 14
D - 10785 Berlin
Germany

bauhaus@bauhaus.de
www.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.




Josef Pohl, wardrobe for bachelors, on wheels, 1930 Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin/ Photostudio Bartsch


Hotel Everland

HÔTEL EVERLAND

until wednesday december 31 2008
Palais de Tokyo
Site de création contemporaine
T : + 33 (0)1 47 23 54 01
13, av. du Président Wilson
75016 Paris
France

Press Contact
T : + 33 (0)1 47 23 52 00
dolores@palaisdetokyo.com
www.palaisdetokyo.com

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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Happy Birthday Mr Ettore Sottsass

GoodBye! Mister Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007)

until wednesday december 31 2008

www.sottsass.it

"When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism," (...) "It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting."
Ettore Sottsass, designer, born September 14 1917; died December 31 2007


Bulthaup

BULTHAUP

until wednesday december 31 2008
co.re.am Odeon
T : + 33 (0)1 43 29 18 17
6, rue Monsieur le Prince
75006 Paris
France

contact presse
Virginie Jouve
jouve.v@wanadoo.fr
www.bulthaup.com

“bulthaup est particulièrement attentif au besoin d'individualité, à la mise en oeuvre de superbes matériaux et à l'esthétique des formes".

C'est ainsi que bulthaup vous permet de concevoir des lieux de vie qui vont bien au-delà de l'espace de la cuisine. Parlez-en avec les spécialistes de l'architecture pour la cuisine ou contactez bulthaup france au +33 3 89 23 08 16.

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1968-2008 the Sacco armchair celebrates 40 years

1968-2008 the Sacco armchair celebrates 40 years

until wednesday december 31 2008

Zanotta
T : + 39 0362 4981
communication@zanotta.it
www.zanotta.it

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.

Illustration : Architects Gatti, Paolini and Teodoro with Sacco armchairs, 1968

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The new Museum of Art and Design

The Museum of Arts and Design at 2 Columbus Circle

until wednesday december 31 2008
Museum of Arts and Design
T : +1 212.299.7777
2 Columbus Circle
NY-10019 New York
United States

Public Relations Office
Heidi Riegler
heidi.riegler@madmuseum.org

info@madmuseum.org
www.madmuseum.org

The new Museum of Arts and Design at 2 Columbus Circle will open to the public in September 2008. Located at the southwest corner of Central Park, where four subway lines and seven bus lines intersect, the Museum's new home is well-positioned to serve over 500,000 visitors annually.

photo courtesy David Heald

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LES PLUS BEAUX LIVRES SUISSES

until saturday january 03 2009
du mercredi au dimanche de 13h à 20h
Centre Culturel Suisse
T : +33 (0)1 42 71 44 50
32 et 38, rue des Francs-Bourgeois
75003 Paris
France

ccs@ccsparis.com
www.ccsparis.com

Vernissage le 04.09 / 18h - 21h.
Depuis 1999, la section Art et design de l'Office fédéral de la culture (OFC) organise le concours "Les plus beaux livres suisses". Pour la cinquième année consécutive, la bibliothèque du CCSP présente les lauréats de l'édition 2007 pour laquelle 408 ouvrages étaient en lice.


Design Cities

Design cities

until sunday january 04 2009
Design Museum
T : +44 0870 833 9955
28 Shad Thames
SE1 2YD London
England

T : +44 020 7403 6933
info@designmuseum.org
www.designmuseum.org

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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Sauma

SAUMA - user-driven design

until friday january 09 2009
Dansk Design Center
T : +45 3369 3369
HC Andersens Boulevard 27
DK 1553 Copenhagen
Denmark

Head of exhibitions
Maria Elskær
T : +45 3369 3332
mel@ddc.dk

Press contact
Susanne Søndahl Wolff
T : +45 3369 3309
ssw@ddc.dk
www.ddc.dk

Main exhibition from the 20th of September. SAUMA presents innovative contemporary design by some of Finland’s new designers.

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Cold War Modern

Cold War Modern: Art & Design in a Divided World 1945 - 1975

until sunday january 11 2009
Victoria and Albert Museum
V&A South Kensington
T : +44 (0)20 7942 2000
Cromwell Road
London
United Kingdom

Press contact
T : + 44 (0)20 7942 2502
press.office@vam.ac.uk
www.vam.ac.uk

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.


Illustration : Eero Aamio, Globe Chair


Id Lab

ID LAB

until sunday january 11 2009
The Reykjavik Art Museum
Hafnarhus
T : + 354 590-1200
Tryggvagata 17
121 Reykjavik
Iceland

listasafn@reykjavik.is
www.artmuseum.is

Public relation director
soffia.karlsdottir@reykjavik.is

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.

The Icelandic Love Corporation, 2008.


Esprit Mingei

The spirit of “Mingei” in Japan: folk art design

until sunday january 11 2009
musée du quai Branly
galerie Jardin
T : +33 (0)1 56 61 70 00
37, quai Branly
75007 Paris
France

conatct presse
Anne-Sylvie Capitani
anne-sylvie.capitani@quaibranly.fr
www.quaibranly.fr

Frédéric Pillier / Pierre Laporte Communication
T : +33 (0)1 45 23 14 14
frederic@pierre-laporte.com

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.

Ticket office online


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Serrurier

Gustave Serrurier-Bovy (1858-1910) - Acteur du futur

until sunday january 18 2009
Du mardi au dimanche : 10h-18h. Clôture vente des billets : 17h. Fermé le lundi et les 1/11, 2/11,11/11, 24/12, 25/12 et 1/1.
MAMAC
Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain
T : + 32(0)4 343 04 03
3, parc de la Boverie
4020 Liège
Belgium

info@caracascom.com
www.mamac.be

www.liege.be

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.

Illustration : Gustave Serrurier-Bovy, entre 1900 et 1910, Collection Ville de Liège (Don de Mme Soyeur-Delvoye)


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House Proud

House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection

until sunday january 25 2009
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
T : +1 (0)212.849.8400
2 East 91st Street
NY 10128 New York
United States

press contact
T : +1 212 849 8420
cooperhewittpress@si.edu
cooperhewitt.org

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.

The Blue Room, Schloss Fischbach.Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Klose (German, 1804–after1863) Germany, 1846.Brush and watercolor, graphite on white paper. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Thaw Collection, 2007-27-39. Photo: Matt Flynn

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Inauguration de l'exposition

400 years of telescopes

until sunday february 01 2009
Zeeuws Museum
Abdij (The Abbey)
T : +31 (0) 118 65 30 00
Middelburg PO Box 378
4330 AJ Middleburg
The Netherlands

info@zeeuwsmuseum.nl
www.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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Modern Times Powerhouse

Moderm Times - The untold story of modernism in Australia

until sunday february 15 2009
Powerhouse Museum
T : (+61 2) 9217 0111
500 Harris Street Ultimo, PO Box K346 Haymarket
NSW 1238 Sydney
Australia

Media Officer
Mandy Campbell
T : +61 2 92170551
www.powerhouse.com

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.



Australia Square, 1968. Photo by Max Dupain. Courtesy Max Dupain and Associates

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Nakashima

Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection

until sunday february 15 2009
Museum of Arts and Design
T : +1 212.299.7777
2 Columbus Circle
NY-10019 New York
United States

Public Relations Office
Heidi Riegler
heidi.riegler@madmuseum.org

info@madmuseum.org
www.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.

Harumi Nakashima, Struggling Form (from the Ecstatic Series), 2002. Glazed stoneware, 40 x 18 x 18 in.
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2004
Photo: Ed Watkins


Suh  Do Ho Metal Jacket

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

until sunday february 15 2009
Museum of Arts and Design
T : +1 212.299.7777
2 Columbus Circle
NY-10019 New York
United States

Public Relations Office
Heidi Riegler
T : +1 212-229-7713
heidi.riegler@madmuseum.org

info@madmuseum.org
www.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.

Do Ho Suh. Metal Jacket, 1992-2001. 3,000 dog tags on U.S. military jacket fabric liner. 60 x 50 x 15 in.
Courtesy of Danielle and David Ganek
Photo: Courtesy of the artist; Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York



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Kristian Solmer Vedel - Pair of children chairs

Curators Select: Recent Acquisitions, 2003–2008

until sunday march 01 2009
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
T : +1 (0)212.849.8400
2 East 91st Street
NY 10128 New York
United States

press contact
T : +1 212 849 8420
cooperhewittpress@si.edu
cooperhewitt.org

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.

Pair of children’s chairs with adjustable parts,designed by Kristian Solmer Vedel (Danish, 1923–2003). Manufactured by Torben Ørskov
Denmark, designed 1951–53, produced 1957. Painted beech plywood. Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2007-37-1,2
Photo: Matt Flynn



Rem Koolhaas - Dreamland

Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s

until monday march 02 2009
Open daily except tues from 10:30am to 5:30pm, friday until 8:00pm
MoMA
The Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries, third floor
T : +1 (212) 708-9400
11 West 53 Street (between Fifth and Sixth avenues)
NY 10019-5 New York
United States

info@moma.org
www.moma.org

pressoffice@moma.org

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.

Illustration : Plan of Dreamland (1977) de Rem Koolhaas - Watercolor and ink, 41 3/4 x 22" (106 x 55.9 cm) - Gift of Frederieke S. Taylor © 2008 Rem Koolhaas

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Atelier Jean Prouvé - Moma

Ateliers Jean Prouvé

until monday march 30 2009
MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art
T : +1 (212) 708-9400
11 West 53 Street (between Fifth and Sixth avenues)
NY 10019-5 New York
United States

info@moma.org
www.moma.org

This exhibition examines Prouvé's collaborations within his Ateliers Jean Prouvé from idea to finished product.

Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Nicolas Schöffer. Maison de la Tunisie Bench-Bookshelf. 1952. Lacquered steel, aluminum and pine, 63 x 139 3/8 x 20 1/8" (160 x 354 x 51.1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Architecture & Design Purchase Fund.


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Poster thermoformé

Tribute to Ettore Sottsass

until tuesday march 31 2009
Centre Pompidou
T : +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33
Place Georges Pompidou
75004 Paris
France

press contact
Quentin Farella
quentin.farella@centrepompidou.fr
www.centrepompidou.fr

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.

Ettore Sottsass. Poster thermoformé de la machine à écrire Valentine, 1969 © Coll. Centre Pompidou / photo J.Faujour

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GEORGE NELSON

GEORGE NELSON

until wednesday april 01 2009
Vitra Design Museum
T : + 49 (0) 7621 702 3200
Charles-Eames-Strass 1
D-79576 Weil am Rhein
Germany

T : + 49 (0) 7621 702 3590
info-weil@design-museum.de
www.design-museum.de

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.


Floral in Flux

FLORALS IN FLUX: Abstract, Stylized, Naturalistic

until sunday april 12 2009
Mak - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
T : (+43-1) 711 36-0
Stubenring 5
A-1010 Vienna
Austria

office@mak.at

presse@mak.at
www.mak.at

The exhibition deals with the aspect of floral ornamentation in the work of the Wiener Werkstätte.

Schließe, Wien 1905. Entw.: Josef Hoffmann ; Ausf.: Wiener Werkstätte (Karl Ponocny). Silber, Opale, Malachit, Korallen.
© MAK / Georg Mayer



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Art of Drinking - V&A museum

The Art of Drinking

until sunday april 26 2009
V&A South Kensington
Victoria & Albert Museum
T : +44 (0)20 7942 2000
Cromwell Road
SW7 2RL London
United Kingdom

vanda@vam.ac.uk
www.vam.ac.uk

press contact
press.office@vam.ac.uk

Drink has stimulated a rich material culture. Specific situations and drinks require particular vessels; from stoneware beer mugs to jade cups and silver goblets.


Puzzle Jug, 1770-75. Museum No. 275-1896

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Elegant armor Mad museum

Elegant Armor: The Art of Jewelry

until sunday may 31 2009
Museum of Arts and Design
T : +1 212.299.7777
2 Columbus Circle
NY-10019 New York
United States

Public Relations Office
Heidi Riegler
heidi.riegler@madmuseum.org

info@madmuseum.org
www.madmuseum.org

The exhibition presents the major themes, materials and techniques that make contemporary jewelry visually exciting and intellectually stimulating.

Peter Chang, Bracelet, 1986. Acrylic, polyester, PVC, found objects. 2 ¾ x 6 x 6 in. Gift of Jane Korman, 2006
Photo: John Bigelow Taylor



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Red Glass

Aussi rouge que possible

until sunday november 01 2009
Les Arts Décoratifs
T : + 33 (0)1 44 55 57 50
107-111, rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
France

Press contact
Marie-Laure Moreau
T : + 33 (0)1 44 55 58 78
F : + 33 (0)1 44 55 57 93
presse@lesartsdecoratifs.fr
www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr

New accrochage.
Drawing solely from the Arts Décoratifs collections (Arts Décoratifs, Mode et Textile, Publicité), the exhibition explores numerous domains in which red is an inescapable element, and the different symbolism of this colour in all societies down the ages.

Illustration : Verre bistrot, Saara Hopea-Untracht (Finlande) - Les Arts Décoratifs. Photo : Jean Tholance


Living in the Lowlands

Living in the Lowlands - The domestic scene in the Nai collection

until thursday december 31 2009
NAI Rotterdam - Netherlands Architecture Institute
Gallery 2
T : +31(0)10-4401200
Museumpark 25
3015 CB Rotterdam
The Netherlands

info@nai.nl

press@nai.nl
www.nai.nl

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 exhibition Living in the Lowlands in Gallery 2. Photo: Ralph Kämena.

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Cityscapes

Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection

until friday december 31 2010
National Building Museum
T : +1 202.272.2448
401 F Street NW
20001 Washington DC
United States

Exhibitions Coordinator
Hank Griffith
T : +1 202.272 3700
hgriffith@nbm.org

Visitor services
John Bane
T : +1 202.272 3559
jbane@nbm.org
www.nbm.org

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 City

Washington: Symbol and City

until saturday december 31 2011
National Building Museum
T : +1 202.272.2448
401 F Street NW
20001 Washington DC
United States

Exhibitions Coordinator
Hank Griffith
T : +1 202.272 3700
hgriffith@nbm.org

Visitor services
John Bane
T : +1 202.272 3559
jbane@nbm.org
www.nbm.org

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

STUDIO MUSEO ACHILLE CASTIGLIONI

until monday december 31 2012
Monday - friday
Studio Museo Achille Castiglioni
T : + 39 (0)2 805 36 06
Piazza Castello, 27
20121 Milan
Italy

info@achillecastiglioni.it
www.achillecastiglioni.it

www.triennale.it

Free entrance: at 10.00, 11.00, 12.00 with free 60-minute guided tour.School and group bookings.

Since January 2006, the studio museum “Achille Castiglioni”, thanks to an agreement with the “Triennale di Milano”, is open to the public and at the same time, proceeds with archiving and intensive work.