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Design Days Dubai launches with 22 galleries from 14 countries presenting the best of modern and contemporary collectable design.

Visitors to Design Days Dubai, which runs from March 18-21, 2012, in a custom-designed structure in Emaar’s Downtown Dubai, will see many of the world’s most prestigious galleries showcase important 20th and 21st century design, along with new limited series works commissioned exclusively for the fair.

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above: double buffet nouvelle zélande 2010 | vincent dubourg | carpenters workshop gallery


above: mermaid bench 2011 |myungsun kang | gallery seomi


above: ariane 3 | jedd novatt | galerie diane de polignac


above: coletivo | leo capote 2 |amo de madre

Says Fair Director, Cyril Zammit. “From French and Italian mid-century modern to Korean craft to modern Arabesque to cutting-edge contemporary work, Design Days Dubai’s gallery programme will be a balanced mix of both historic and contemporary design.”

[ participating galleries ]

CARPENTERS WORKSHOP GALLERY, LONDON/PARIS
 
CARWAN GALLERY, BEIRUT

COLETIVO AMOR DE MADRE, SAO PAULO

_CROFT, SEOUL

FRANZISKA KESSLER GALLERY, ZURICH

GALERIE BEATRICE SAINT-LAURENT, PARIS

GALERIE DIANE DE POLIGNAC, PARIS

GALERIE DOWNTOWN – FRANÇOIS LAFFANOUR

GALERIE NATIONALE, PARIS

GALLERY SEOMI, SEOUL

MARIAM AL NASSAR 20TH CENTURY DECORATIVE ARTS, UK/KUWAIT

NAKKASH GALLERY, DUBAI

NILUFAR, MILAN

GALLERIA COLOMBARI, MILAN

PRIVEEKOLLEKTIE CONTEMPORARY ART | DESIGN, HEUSDEN

R 20TH CENTURY, NEW YORK CITY

SARAH MYERSCOUGH FINE ART, LONDON

SECONDOME, ROME

SMOGALLERY, BEIRUT

SOUTHERN GUILD, SOUTH AFRICA

STILWERK LIMITED EDITION DESIGN GALLERY, HAMBURG

VICTOR HUNT DESIGNART DEALER, BRUSSELS

[ design days dubai schedule of events ]
Sunday 18 March – Wednesday 21 March, 2012
Public Hours of Admission
Sunday, 18 March, 4 – 10 pm
Monday, 19 March, 4 – 10 pm
Tuesday, 20 March, 12 – 6 pm
Wednesday, 21 March, 2 – 8 pm

[ about design days dubai ]

The first design fair of its kind in the Middle East and South Asia, Design Days Dubai will be an annual event in the international art and design calendar attracting influential galleries, collectors, designers, critics and curators from around the world with its exclusive showcase of collectible and limited edition design and cultural and educational programme.

Design Days Dubai is held in partnership with Dubai Culture & Arts Authority and will be located in Emaar’s Downtown Dubai – the city’s premium lifestyle community – by the base of the world’s tallest tower, Burj Khalifa, and a short walk from Address Hotels (where the fair’s launch event will be held), The Dubai Mall, the world’s largest shopping and entertainment destination that houses the region’s prime retail outlets, and some of the city’s best restaurants and nightlife