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life-size sand traffic jam seen on miami beach during design miami/ 2019. leandro erlich.

life-size sand traffic jam seen on miami beach during design miami/ 2019. leandro erlich.

Nov 10, 2019

above > traffic jam (order of importance)

the beach has been a symbol of leisure and prosperity for so many years, and in particular for miami but now there is a frontline feeling about the beach. it has become a different kind of stage. ~ leandro erlich

last year at art basel 2018 in ruth benzacar‘s booth (above) a maquette of buenos aires artist leandro erlich was shown for $18,000. titled ‘traffic jam (order of importance) – the art is a miami beach-appropriate installation where cars, suv’s, taxis, etc., are moulded in sand – actually a mix of sand three types of salt which form a hardened crust. the vehicles seem to rise from nowhere, form a traffic jam, and then fade away.

erlich has a reputation for whimsical perception-bending optical-illusions. this 2018 maquette became the concept presented to the city of miami that will be shown life-size on miami beach during art basel 2019. the city has contributed $300,000 towards his most monumental work. the work will have a life of just fifteen days. but…there may be more to this concept though details are not fully available at this writing. possibly, this concept may become an off-shore reef. the reasoning comes from erlich’s interest in climate change and all that threatens humans, animals, architecture, and civilization.

his first climate related work was for the 2015 climate change summit in paris, maison fond. to evoke global warming his installation was an image of a building melting: the ground floor of this small parisian building has already almost completely disappeared.

and the world’s coral reefs are dying. this artificial structure (traffic jam) could both be a symbol as well as an artful prototype.

“the beach has been a symbol of leisure and prosperity for so many years, and in particular for miami,” says erlich. ‘but now there is a frontline feeling about the beach. it has become a different kind of stage.”

[ information ]
leandro erlich; design miami/ @designmiami #climatechange

design miami/ curio: construction deconstruction by cherine tagrabi tayeb.

design miami/ curio: construction deconstruction by cherine tagrabi tayeb.

Dec 6, 2017

the house of today curio exhibition directly parallels the organization’s main goal: raising awareness of the lebanese design world through a contemporary global platform. each facet of the curio is directly representative of lebanon’s organic masquerade of contrasting materials that come together to vocalize a cultivated, polished, and visual story, one that is rich, yet assembled out of the insignificant and the dismissible. magrabi tayeb curated the installation with three designers to be part of the curio. rami dalle is the set designer, while sayar & garibeh and khaled el mays showcase new work. these designers invite visitors to take a closer look, to explore the rawness they chose to finesse, the identity they chose to construct, and the lebanon they chose to reinterpret. their contrasting experiences debut house of today in the united states and bring together a cohesive and memorable curio space.

Alessi miami. New store opens. Celebrates 90.

Dec 6, 2011



above: invite to the grand opening of alessi miami featuring a special installation by marti guixé celebrating
90 years of alessi. the opening coincided with 2011 design miami/ and art basel miami.

espresso maker | 2006 | richard sapper | alessi

above: unveiled in 2006 this ‘entry’ level espresso maker by the german designer richard sapper recalls the expressive themes which he holds dear, reproduced here in 18/10 polished stainless steel with a handle of molded and folded plate. it’s essentially a redesign of the original 9090 espresso maker he created for alessi in 1979. there are 2 sizes available : 3 cup and 6 cup. just one of over 2,500 products created by over 200 designers.



above: alessio in town to launch new miami store. l>r: giovanni alessi (4th generation alessi, designer) | alessio (3rd generation alessi, president alessi usa | paolo cravede (managing director alessi usa) | photo taken in front of raleigh hotel south beach following designapplause interview – stay tuned.

designer: richard sapper
designer: marti guixé
producer: alessi
alessi miami venue: 4141 ne 2nd avenue | design district miami

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Top ten picks. Design miami/ 2011.

Dec 1, 2011

apache table | konstantin grcic | galerie kreo

Design Miami/ have compiled a “Top Picks” of Design Miami/ 2011, selected by interested and informed tastemakers, collectors and academics.

octopus chair | lee sam woong | gallery seomi

1951 bridge office chair | jean prouvé | galerie patrick seguin

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Ornamentum gallery. Design miami 2011

Nov 30, 2011

blue python 1/12″ | david bielander | switzerland

Ornamentum Gallery is exhibiting provocative contemporary jewelry for the first time in Miami, with a focus on silver hollowware. The silversmith has been an area of great importance in the world of precious metals… the fields of jewelry and silversmithing often overlap, with many artist / designers creating excellent examples in both mediums.

jugzilla and spoonies | david clarke | uk

On display original work from artist / designers such as Luzia Vogt (Switzerland), Gerd Rothmann (Germany), Karl Fritsch (Germany), and introducing for the first time in Miami- David Clarke “often cited as one of Britain’s most highly innovative silversmiths.” 

gerd rothmann | germany

Since the 1960s, Gerd Rothmann known for his work with the fingerprint and imprints of the skin, the jewelry of Rothmann achieves an almost iconic personal connection with the wearer.

precious plastic | jantje fleischhut | netherlands

ted noten | netherlands

Dutch Artist of the Year 2012 is Ted Noten. The iconic handbag / suitcase form made of a 5 Kg bar of silver with a handle and shoulder strap mounted upon it.

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Design miami/ 2011. Update 2.

Nov 23, 2011

steam_12 (2010) | bae se hwa | gallery seomi | click > enlarge images

The seventh edition of Design Miami/ is only a few days away and we are thrilled to share with you the official programming for this year’s fair.

magraet/ migrant (27 sept) | gregor jenkin | southern guild

[ highlights include ]
* Galleries // 23 of the world’s leading design galleries will present works from established and emerging design talent
* Design On/Site // 5 independent and emerging galleries will present works by individual designers or studios
* Designer of the Year Award // David Adjaye will debut ‘Genesis’ – an exclusive commission for Design Miami/ [ details ]
* Design Performances // FENDI has invited designer Elisa Strozyk and artist Sebastian Neeb to experiment with Fendi discarded leather materials to create this year’s Design Performance project: Craft Alchemy. FENDI will also host for the first time the fair’s exclusive Collectors Lounge.
* Audi // As the exclusive Automotive Sponsor Audi has teamed up with Danish architect Bjarke Ingels to bring his vision of a “digital street” to life for Design Miami/. The unique environment sets the stage for the all new Audi A2 concept car.

audi 2a concept electric car

* Swarovski // Swarovski will present Crystal Matrix II by Erwin Redl, a meditative space that will allow visitors to explore the sensory effects of crystal.
* Design Talks // W Magazine’s Stefano Tonchi will moderate a series of compelling conversations among iconic figures in the worlds of design, art, fashion and architecture
* Satellite Exhibitions // On display in the Miami Design District will be the restored 24-foot Fly’s Eye Dome by Buckminster Fuller and a reconstructed Dymaxion 4 car presented by Lord Norman Foster. The 24-foot dome is part of the Craig Robins Collection and will be installed in a pedestrian plaza in the Miami Design District.

[ design miami update 1 ] [ design miami 2011 ]

Artist vincent dubourg wins PAD inaugural award.

Nov 16, 2011

 double buffet nouvelle zéland | 2011, steel | h140 l306 w37 cm | h55 l120.5 w14.6 in | edition of 8 + 4 ap | click > enlarge

Carpenters Workshop Gallery artist Vincent Dubourg’s work, Double Buffet Nouvelle Zéland – a black steel buffet table cut and bent at one end to look frayed – has won a place in the permanent collection of the Museum of Arts and Design. The award, the first of its kind, was announced on November 10 at a dinner honoring the best of the inaugural Pavilion of Arts and Design New York fair.
 
Commenting on Dubourg’s win, Loic Le Gaillard co-founder and director of Carpenters Workshop Gallery (CWG), based in London and Paris, said of Double Buffet Nouvelle Zéland,  “It’s got everything—emotion, beautiful craftsmanship. It’s wonderful to see a piece of design can stretch way beyond what one would expect for a piece of furniture.” Carpenters Workshop Gallery is renowned as one of the world‘s foremost contemporary design-art galleries. “That’s the beauty of our mission, to really push these young guys into the spotlight. It’s a constant battle to show how great all these young artists are,” Le Gaillaird said of Dubourg and the other artists represented by CWG.
 
Double Buffet Nouvelle Zéland was designed and crafted by Dubourg in 2009. The work is more of a sculpture than a piece of furniture. Dubourg’s conversations through his sculptural works reflect a dialogue between traditions and nature. The embodiment of the materials and their synthesis of versatility in Double Buffet Nouvelle Zéland deconstruct the archetypes of furniture. By releasing their origins from their natural elements, and by directing its forms with artisanal craftsmanship, the artist presents sculptural works through an alert explosion of intention.
 
The 2011 PAD New York Jury Panel included Adam Lindemann, Collector / Writer, Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, Christophe Navarre, President of Moet-Hennessy, Anne Pasternak, Executive Director of Creative Time, Beth Rudin De Woody, Collector/ Trustee of Whitney Museum, Andre Balazs, Developer and Entrepreneur, Hamish Bowles, European Editor at Large of Vogue USA, Muriel Brandolini Developer and Entrepreneur, Decorator, Peter M. Brant Industrialist, Businessman and Entrepreneur, Miranda Brooks, Landscape Garden Designer, Michael Bruno, 1st Dibs Founder, Tory Burch Fashion Designer and Accessories, Robert Couturier, Architecture/ Decorator, Alexandra Driscoll, Collector-Historian,  Ben Genocchio Editor in Chief Art + Auction, Wendy Goodman, Design Writer ,  Bill Katz,  Architect,  Carlos Mota, International Editor at Large AD America, Rodman Primack, Art Consultant and Founder of Blacklots, Renee Rockefeller, Philanthropist, Aby Rosen, Real Estate and Collector, Allison Sarofim, Collector Opinion Maker, Sixty Six Productions, Annabelle Seldorf, Architect,  George Simon, Managing Director of Monsoon Accessories USA Inc., Stefano Tonchi, Editor in Chief of W Magazine and Alan Wasenberg Architect, Decorator and Collector. 
 
Some of the works shown by CWG at PAD New York include Sebastian Brajkovic, whose artworks are included in the permanent collection of the New York‘s Museum of Arts and Design. Brajkovic is showing new conceptions from his notorious Lathe Collection. Mathieu Lehanneur, of France, is presenting S.M.O.K.E., a glass orb that encapsulates the diffusion of a plume of smoke, and Daylight Dome, a state-of-the-art light-sculpture/chandelier. Dutch design duo Lonneke Gordijn & Ralph Nauta continue with their wildly successful Fragile Futures series showcasing Fragile Futures 3.10 light sculptures. Multidisciplinary art collective, Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL) is presenting Jubilee Tree and two pieces from their latest series of sculptural design objects including the lighting piece Jewel and dressoir Forest.

[ vincent dubourg ] [ carpenters workshop gallery ] [ cwg at 2011 design miami ]

Pappa Mamma Lamp by Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL) was also a Jury Panel favorite. AVL is merging art and life, using it as a tool to explore the idea of conception through the Pappa Mamma Lamp, complete with Penis, Vagina and Foetus. This lamp is a provocative illustration of the beginnings of human life. An oversized cross-section of reproductive organs is the substance of Pappa Mamma Lamp. It rests on the scrotum and ovaries as the phallussits inside the vagina and a growing baby lies curled up in the womb from which the lamp is powered. [ avl ]


2009 nylon resin | h32 l41 w32 cm | h12.8 l16.4 w12.8 In | edition of 7 + 5 ap | click > enlarge

Interactive art installation at miami international. Christopher janney.

Nov 3, 2011

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Harmonic Convergence, the newest, large-scale art installation by artist, architect and composer Christopher Janney, is nearing completion at the Miami International Airport. Janney terms Harmonic Convergence “an abstraction of South Florida in color and sound.” The official dedication of Harmonic Convergence will take place in conjunction with Art Basel Miami Beach and Design Miami 2011.


Harmonic Convergence features a 72-foot-long glass window wall utilizing over 150 transparent colors. The project is part of Miami-Dade County’s Art in Public Places program and located in the connector walkway that is the entrance into the airport. As travelers enter the space, they’ll hear a complex set of sounds Janney recorded during trips to the Florida Everglades, scuba dives in the ocean, and other natural environments of South Florida. In addition, two video cameras installed in the ceiling feed information to the computer regarding the pedestrian activity within the space, influencing the density of the sound-score. At the top of each hour, a short composition with percussion instruments plays, marking the time of day. “This is my fifth project in South Florida,” Janney states. “It is one of my favorite places in the world. I love the sounds of the subtropics most particularly the Everglades, the ocean shore and underwater sounds, especially sounds both real, as in whales and porpoises, and imagined, i.e. mermaids and Atlantis.”

Harmonic Convergence replaces Janney’s 1997 airport commission Harmonic Runway, removed after changes to the airport due to 9/11 security. That former artwork had become an icon of South Florida, featured in magazines and films including Harrison Ford in, “Random Hearts” and Nicholas Cage in, “8MM.”
 
[ events ]
29 november > 4 december | architecture of the air | janney traveling exhibit | 10a – 10p
2 december | janney studio music with other musicians from boston and new york | 9p
3 december | panel discussion – moderator beth dunlop, janney, gustavo metamoros, vito acconci | 3p
3 december | movie screening of janney’s “what is a heart?” | live music | 9p
venue: moore space | 4040 ne 2nd avenue | miami design district

[christoper janney ]
Trained as an architect and jazz musician, Janney is an American artist whose work explores the relationships between sound and architecture, often-transforming otherwise ordinary spaces into “hyper-reality” environments. Educated at Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Janney has explored the intersection of architecture, creating temporary and permanent installations throughout the United States and Europe. Soundstair on the Spanish Steps in Rome; Sonic Forest at the Bonnaroo and Glastonbury Music Festivals. He’s well known to Miami sports fans for his Turn Up the Heat interactive “anemone” scoreboard created for the Miami Heat’s American Airlines Arena. [ christoper janney ]
 

Chat with designer wendell castle. Design miami 2010.

Nov 3, 2011



[DesignApplause] It’s late afternoon and the crowd has thinned out a bit in the Design Miami pavilion where ten design galleries are set up. Having just arrived I am at the moment in the Barry Friedman gallery space. Barry knows I would like to talk to a designer and introduces me to Wendell Castle who walks into the space because he and Barry are going to dinner.

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[Wendell Castle ] I’m Wendell Castle and I’m here at Design Miami right in front of four pieces of mine, two what I think of as stools and two are huge rocking chairs. I’ve really been into rocking chairs last year, about a dozen in this series that all have these very long rockers, where often you don’t know where the ideas come from for things or references, but then sometimes you do.

In this case I do. They’re automobile references, references to speed, references to a bucket seat, and references to the type of camber that early sports cars had. Where the wheels aren’t being parallel and where the bottom of the wheels are being closer together than the top of the wheels. And I also like the fact that the color of the pieces, I’ve sort of taken the natural color of the wood away, and one of them is stained black and one is stained white, which to me are very pure colors.

The little stools are like walking stools. These pieces have names and I forget their names and I have to read the labels. I don’t remember names, but the little stools are a small edition so we’re going to make more of those. But the rockers are unique. And that’s what I’m involved in on a daily basis, making furniture as art.

[DA] Where did you grow up?
[WC] Rochester, New York. Actually just outside Rochester in a little village called Scottsville.

[DA] That’s were live now?
[WC] As a matter of fact, that’s where my studio is. Though we also live part-time in New York City. And my gallery, Barry Friedman, is in New York City.

[DA] Well, I love your work. These rockers are very playful. I did think of a vintage Talbot-Lago when I look at the rockers. The wood finish is remarkable.
[WC] Thank you.

[DA] That was all the time I had with Wendell but now I recognize his work. I am a bit late with posting this chat however I was prompted as Wendell is opening a show 4 November at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London. The name of the gallery certainly alludes to the craft of Wendell for sure. And as he mentions there are over a dozen rockers out there, I’ve inserted others that were not in Miami in this post.

[ wendell castle collections ] [ 4 November | Carpenters Workshop Gallery | London ]

Art kabinett. Art basel miami beach 2011.

Nov 1, 2011

For those visiting Design Miami/ here is the lineup for sister event Art Basel Miami Beach — The Art Nova sector is a platform where emerging and established galleries present new or recent work by either two or three artists at Art Basel Miami Beach.

Conceived in 2005, this year’s edition of Art Kabinett, includes 30 galleries, more than ever before, to present tightly focused exhibitions within Art Basel Miami Beach. The strong program will include thematic group exhibitions as well as solo shows by emerging artists and historical figures.

[ Participating galleries and artists ]
303 Gallery, New York: Hans-Peter Feldmann

Adler & Conkright, New York: The Two of Us

Air de Paris, Paris: Guy de Cointet

de Alvear, Madrid: Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset

Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm: Martin Jacobson

Benzacar, Buenos Aires: Adrián Villar Rojas

Bortolami, New York: Morgan Fisher & Daniel Buren

Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo: Tiago Carneiro da Cunha

Gmurzynska, Zurich: Yves Klein and John Cage

Alexander Gray, New York: Joan Semmel

Harris Lieberman, New York: Matt Saunders

Jancou, New York: Larry Johnson

Juda, London: Sarah Oppenheimer

Kicken Berlin, Berlin: Repetitions – Art Works in Plural

Kilchmann, Zurich: Francis Alÿs

Krinzinger, Vienna: Angela de la Cruz

Lelong, New York: Nancy Spero

McCaffrey, New York: Sadamasa Motonaga

Meile, Lucerne: Ai Weiwei

mennour, Paris: Sigalit Landau

Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe: John Miller

Naumann, New York: Beatrice Wood

Nolan, New York: Alexander Ross

Praz-Delavallade, Paris: John Miller

Rumma, Milan: Vanessa Beecroft

Schulte, Berlin: Alice Aycock

Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf: Claudia Wieser

Thumm, Berlin: Anna Oppermann

Two Palms, New York: Mel Bochner

Wolff, Paris: Valérie Favre


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