windwood walls. design miami/ 2013
kashink
wynwood perfect for wall art concept.
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Brolab, formlessfinder, goebl, laffanour, meloche, muecke, ryan preview. Design miami/ 2013.
above/belove> jonathan muecke at volume gallery. jonathan holds ‘cs’ the coiled stool, work that was made last week. the stool is the latest of a series of studies on using textile tubes and jonathan will explain what he’s learned in the process in the upcoming interview.
cs | jonathan muecke | volume gallery | 2013
above/below> we talk to monique meloche at untitled. she will tell us about her 12 years experience at design miami and what the exhibiting experience is under the tent, on the beach, at untitled.
effigy for a new normalcy | kendell carter | moniquemeloche gallery | 2013
above/below> also at untitled, the collective brolab bridges art and design principles exploring minimalist objects where people can interact with both the artists and the work. brolab’s broad vision includes public sculpture, place making and site-specific interventions.
moses transpo & bench press redux | brolab | 2013
zoë ryan / garrett ricciardi / julian rose
above/below> at design talks zoë talks with formlessfinder and then with designapplause about what it’s like to be the curator for the second edition of the istanbul design biennial. then we talk with garret and julian about design, miami and sand.
above/below> we chat with françois laffanour about this year and charlotte perriand, louis vuitton amongst many other things.
marianne goebl, director design miami will give us a post-design miami/ 2013 wrap-up. stay tuned / keep following.
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Untitled: galerie division. Design miami/ 2013.
réminiscence 2 | nicolas baier | galerie division | 2013
loved this. black and white cloud piece at untitled a18.
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Heijdens, krzentowski, palomba and torres previews. Design miami/ 2013.
above/below> The Swarovski Crystal Palace collaborates with artist Guilherme Torres to create the installation ‘Mangue Groove’, inspired by mangrove trees to remind us of important aquatic conservation efforts surrounding mangrove ecosystems in Brazil.
guilherme torres
above/below> Perrier-Jouët collaborates with London-based Dutch designer Simon Heijdens titled ‘Phare No. 1–9’, explores light and liquid. Simon will share in our upcoming interview how the Art Nouveau aesthetic evolved with him into the 21st Century.
simon heijdens
didier krzentowski
above/below > DesignApplause combines interviews from 2012 and this year and Didier explains what amazingly happened over the past year.
poltrona gold | alessandro mendini | galerie kreo | 2013
above/below> Kartell, Laufen and Ludovica+Roberto Palomba create the ‘Palomba Collection’, a clever and beautiful bathroom ensemble. Roberto Palomba shares with us in an upcoming interview how a new and unique porcelain reinvents how to work with the traditional material.
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Swarovski crystal palace: guilherme torres. Design miami/ 2013.
event> guilherme torres: mangue groove
date> 4 > december 2013
press preview day> tuesday 3 December 3 > 9p
general> 4 december 11 > 9p | sunday 8 december noon > 6p
[ swarovski crystal palace ] is pleased to announce its sixth consecutive year as the main sponsor of Design Miami/. This year, Swarovski Crystal Palace has commissioned award-winning, Brazilian architect and designer Guilherme Torres to create an installation inspired by water conservation and stewardship. The importance of water as a resource in the crystal making process led to the creation of the Swarovski Waterschool in 1999. Currently active in many countries worldwide, the Swarovski Waterschool program will expand to Brazil in 2014 to teach school-aged children about water conservation.
Nadja Swarovski, Member of the Swarovski Executive Board, commented: “We are delighted to be working with Guilherme Torres to create our Swarovski Crystal Palace for Design Miami this year.”
Torres’ built environment occurs at the intersection of the natural, architectural and mathematical spheres. Inspired by Brazilian mangrove forests and the Voronoi diagram (in which space is divided into a number of cells with corresponding focal points), the structure will mathematically explore the balance between nature and science.
Mangrove forests – mangue in Portuguese – have long been considered emblematic of Brazil’s natural beauty and are essential for protecting coastal environments. Torres has deliberately placed the mangrove at the heart of his concept in order to draw attention to the growing conversation around the preservation of Brazil’s endangered aquatic ecosystems.
Torres’s design will incorporate Swarovski’s lead-free Advanced Crystal that will fill synthetic tubes, linked by geometric joints and lit with energy efficient LEDs. The structure itself will resemble a mangrove forest, with the joints at intervals throughout the space that follow the naturally occurring Voronoi diagram. Visitors will navigate through the space by walking on pathways of certified and reclaimed wood, in between the rising mangrove structures positioned above a shallow pool. Torres’s concept will artistically reflect Swarovski’s commitment to conservation.
“I am always studying nature and science – these are things that fascinate me!” says Torres. “Mathematics is part of my creative process and I feel privileged to be working with Swarovski Crystal Palace. This project has allowed me to think outside of the box and explore the combination of crystals, nature and science.”
To maximize the interplay between the varied shapes and materials, Mangue Groove will be an immersive experience, experimenting with the introduction of light and sound. Each day at 5:00pm, a dynamic mixture of light patterns and sound recordings will slowly grow in movement and tempo, until the environment is marked by the symbols of an Amazonian sunset.
“Torres’ piece is a reflection on the topic of conserving natural resources, a central theme of Swarovski’s newly created foundation. He has brought to life the powerful but fragile beauty of Brazil’s endangered mangrove forests in a resonantly beautiful and inspiring work, continuing his design vision with Swarovski crystal,” says Nadja Swarovski.
[ swarovski crystal palace ]
Now in its eleventh year, Swarovski Crystal Palace is a groundbreaking project which enables creative visionaries to push the boundaries of design, art, architecture and technology, and redefine the possibilities of crystal. Founded by Nadja Swarovski in 2002, Swarovski Crystal Palace has commissioned design, architecture, and art luminaries including Ron Arad, Zaha Hadid, Tom Dixon, John Pawson, Ross Lovegrove, Tokujin Yoshioka, Tord Boontje, Arik Levy, Yves Béhar, Fredrikson Stallard, and Gaetano Pesce. Their passion, creativity and innovation has delivered a spectacular body of work which provides a snapshot of the most exciting and creative minds of the first decades of the 21st century. Swarovski Crystal Palace has been a Main Sponsor of Design Miami/ since 2008 as part of its mission to promote talent in the worlds of art, architecture, design and technology, while redefining the use of crystal as a material for expression.
image credits> mangrove morest: eduardo banderas g.| voronoi’s cell: guilherme torres
Galerie downtown: charlotte perriand. Design miami/ 2013.
Charlotte Perriand’s start to shine brightly with multiple exhibitions
event> charlotte perriand | a house in montmartre
venue 1> laffanour galerie downtown gallery // design miami tent | booth g10
venue 2> raleigh hotel // 18th and beach entrance
date> 4 > 8 december
[ official press release ]
Laffanour – Galerie Downtown / Paris, the gallery that has created the market for the original works of Charlotte Perriand, will present an extraordinary solo exhibition of the architect and designer’s work at Design Miami/ 2013. “Charlotte Perriand – A House in Montmartre” created in the 1950s will bring together a selection of rare designs created for Maison Borot, the residence of the industrialist Jean Borot, which brilliantly encapsulates the breadth of Charlotte Perriand’s work.
In addition to the exhibition, the gallery will show original Perriand designs at the Louis Vuitton boutique located in the Miami Design District, in conjunction with the LVMH tribute to Charlotte Perriand’s “Maison au bord de l’eau” (House by the water’s edge), a Design Miami/ satellite. On view at The Raleigh Hotel in Miami Beach, this project reconstructs Perriand’s never-realized holiday house according to the original plans, and will be furnished with reproduction furniture that Perriand designed for this house. As the largest holder and premiere source for the designer’s work, Galerie Laffanour was asked to participate in this unique project.
Highlights on view at Design Miami/ from Maison Borot will be a bookcase – the culmination of her life-long research and interest in bookcase design, a white lacquered wood hanging system, a mahogany console table and two one-off pieces including a ceiling lamp and settee. The Borot House, one of Perriand’s last works, completely captured the zeitgeist of her time. The exclusive pieces showcased in the exhibition offer a never-before-seen glimpse into the exceptionally sophisticated and comprehensive vision of Charlotte Perriand.
Galerie Laffanour has been the prime mover behind the huge advances in the knowledge and understanding of the true worth of the works of Charlotte Perriand for over 35 years. The gallery’s working partnership with the Perriand family has enabled them to amass an unrivaled collection of referenced works on the designs of Charlotte Perriand. Because of the gallery’s access to personal archives, they have been able to share their expertise and knowledge of her body of work with art historians and researchers.
[ laffanour – galerie downtown / paris ] exhibits architects’ furniture designs, which are now recognized as real collectors’ items. For the gallery, this furniture is the product of a debate on the nature of modernity: the attempt to find a balance between the technical and that which is driven by questions of lifestyle – the end goal being to promote something that will be of use to society as a whole. The designs in question stand out for their intellectual rigor, commitment to social change and enthusiasm – we might even say radicalism – possessed as they were of sufficient vision and courage to strike out on new paths. The place of these items of furniture in the history of 20th century art must be seen through the spectrum of this period’s many social upheavals.
An uncompromising approach to aesthetics is very much the hallmark of Laffanour – Galerie Downtown / Paris, as is vividly illustrated by its spectacular displays in art fairs, its painstaking restoration work and its gallery exhibitions. Exhibitions at the rue de Seine gallery never fail to offer an opportunity to discover the original and the remarkable – testament to the unequalled expertise of Laffanour – Galerie Downtown / Paris. They also invest the collections of furniture and extremely rare pieces on display with a sense of grandeur that goes well beyond their basic function. Laffanour – Galerie Downtown / Paris is the major exhibitor of Charlotte Perriand’s work, but it has also helped bring Jean Prouvé’s designs to a wider audience. The gallery also features work by designers from the immediate post-1950s period right up to the present-day who are interested in similar creative challenges, such as Ettore Sottsass, Ron Arad and Gaetano Pesce.
Design+world: luminaire. Design miami/ 2013.
5 december 2013 | 6 > 9p [ rsvp ]
Luminaire’s continued commitment to promoting good design and education culminate with the third installment of Design+World, a comprehensive exhibition exploring how today’s designers are interpreting materials, technologies and production methods to create work which is expanding the traditional boundaries of design. Luminaire Lab, a beacon of design excellence in Miami’s Design District, will be transformed into a design laboratory where the public can interact and explore new concepts in design. Highlighting the work of longtime friends and collaborators like Tokujin Yoshioka and Patricia Urquiola, the exhibition will also showcase Luminaire’s continued interest in glass. With Fabrica’s Drawing Glass, Nao Tamura‘s poetic glass lighting and a selection of limited edition glass pieces from our own collection, the exhibit examines the limitless possibilities and expert craft of the ancient material. Additionally, we will welcome Phaidon books to the showroom, bringing a preeminent voice in art and design to the design district.
element | tokujin yoshioka | desalto | 2013
One of the most influential creative minds living in the world today, Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka transformed the way we experience the world around us. For the past several years, he has been inspired by the random harmony of crystals, creating sculptural pieces that investigate the dependency that exists between human memories and natural phenomena. Luminaire will present the Elements Collection, launched during the Salone del Mobile 2013 and hatched from extensive research he conducted for the Crystalized Project. According to Yoshioka, the project “raises the question of how we connect our lives to the future by being exposed to the serendipitous beauty born of nature.”
chasen | patricia uriquiola | flos | 2008
On December 5th Luminaire is proud to host the incomparable Patricia Urquiola as she unveils her newest project – a book. This is Urquiola’s first monograph on her works aptly titled “Time to Make a Book.” Her eclectic approach to product design and architecture has established her as one of the key figures in contemporary design, working with great international design houses, including Moroso, De Padova, B&B Italia, Bisazza, Alessi, Driade, and Flos. This inspiring book captures the fervid energy of Urquiola’s life and work, in an unprecedented and striking design object as innovative and intimate as her body of work.
flow(t) | nao tamura | wonderglass | 2013
>moments square blue | anna torfs
utsuwa – drawing glass | ryu yamamoto | fabrica | 2013
Italian design research center Fabrica also explores a provocative balance between concept and function, translating rhapsodic ideas in three-dimension. In the U.S. debut of Drawing Glass, quick, gestural drawings from a range of designers become an ethereal series of glass objects interpreted by master glass blower Massimo Lunardon. Each artwork features the fourteen original sketches by Studio Formafantasma, Fabrica Head of Design Sam Baron along with five Fabrica designers alongside each original glass piece.
Luminaire is also proud to announce a partnership with Phaidon, the world’s premier publisher of books on the visual arts. The partnership is a meeting of the equal belief that we must celebrate the creative, and democratize access to design and design education.
[ Luminaire ] would like to extend an invitation to the public as we host a reception to celebrate good design around the world on 4 December from 6 > 9p at our Miami Design District location, Luminaire Lab. [ rsvp ]
Be original. Design miami/ 2013.
6 december 2013 | 10a > noon
Furthering the momentum of the grassroots movement that began in 2012, Be Original Americas continues to inform, educate, and influence manufacturers, designers and the public at large on the value of original design. After successful events and exhibitions at ICFF® and WantedDesign in New York City and talks at WestEdge in Los Angeles, the Association of Contract Textile annual conference in New York City and Gensler offices in San Francisco, Be Original Americas continues to recruit followers, supporters and members and to debate the importance of authentic design as it affects the world population from an economic, sustainable, ethical and humanistic points of view.
During the week of Design Miami/ 2013, don’t miss a panel discussion moderated by Caroline Baumann, director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the panel includes Paolo Cravedi, managing director of Alessi USA; Guilio Cappellini, art director of Cappellini; John Edelman, president and CEO of Design Within Reach; and Odile Hainaut, co.founder of WantedDesign and explores the value of authenticity in the design industry. This event is hosted by Design Within Reach.
venue: dwr miami design district studio | 4141 ne second avenue | suite 101
date> 6 december 2013 | 10a > noon
[ be original ] is committed to initiating discussion on the importance and value of preserving original design across North America through informational, educational and influential marketing initiatives and consistent efforts to promote this agenda in various design contexts. Be Original founding members – including Alessi, Artek, Bernhardt Design, Cassina/Poltrona Frau/Cappellini, Emeco, Flos, Fritz Hansen, Herman Miller®, Ligne Roset and Vitra – believe that the value of authenticity cannot be underestimated or taken for granted in the marketplace. Through an aggressive program of lectures, workshops and roundtables, the movement campaigns to establish a set of industry standards that encourages consumers, the architecture and design community, producers, dealers and media partners to fully support creativity and authenticity to invest in the future of design, incentivize innovation and give back to the industry and the people it serves.
[ design within reach ] founded in 1998 and headquartered in Stamford, Conn., is the source for the best in authentic modern design. The company markets and sells its furniture and accessories to both residential and trade customers through its retail Studios in North America.
Untitled. Design miami/ 2013.
UNTITLED. pavilion, design by k/r | image courtesy of UNTITLED.
The second edition of UNTITLED., an international art fair to be held in Miami Beach will present a dynamic program of performances, talks, conversations and artist projects. Programming complements UNTITLED.’s innovative approach to the traditional art fair model.
venue> on the beach at ocean drive and 12th street
dates> 4 > 8 december 2013
private preview benefit> monday 2 december 6 > 9p (by invitation only)
vip preview> tuesday 3 december 3 > 7p (vip card holders only)
press preview> tuesday 3 > noon > 3p (pre-registration required)
admission> general admission: $25 / seniors/students): $15 / miami beach residents: $15 / groups of 15 or more: $15 per person / children under 12: free [ programming/details ]
Doctor who is 50. Google doodle.
image: google/ matthew cruickshank
In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, Google London adds the Tardis to Google Street View. And 4,000 fans petition for a Doctor Who Google Doodle. WHO Wooda Thought: Google unveils its largest ever doodle. First episode: 23 November 1963. Tonight [ USA 9/8C ] #SaveTheDay
image: google/ matthew cruickshank
the designer: matthew cruickshank WHOse full-time job is leading a team designing doodles. [ full story > the guardian ]