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Documenta (13)
Fridericianum, Karlsaue park, Gloria Cinema Kassel, Germany, 09 June - 16 September 2012
Specialists adorning the list of participants: activist, advisor, agent, agro-ecologist, agricultural scientist, anthropologist, archaeologist, art historian, artist, biologist, choreographer, conservationist, critic, cultural theorist, curator, dancer, economist, editor, engineer, feminist, ...
Beaufort04
30 locations spread over the 9 coastal municipalities Belgium Until 30 September 2012
Beaufort04 is the fourth edition of the Triennial of Contemporary art by the Sea. Monumental installations and intriguing works of art are embedded in these very particular biotopes. Here the artists have responded to the environment outside the museum, sharing an imaginative and imaginary ...
Contemporary Norwegian Architecture
RIBA, London, UK, Until 15 June 2012
Reiulf Ramstad Architects and Jensen & skodvin Architects are considered two of the most high-profile and innovative practices based in norway. This exhibition explores their work, highlighting rural contemporary norwegian architecture through the scheme known as national Tourist Routes in ...
5th Iabr: Making City
Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Until 12 August 2012
‘How do we make city?’ That’s the central question here. The inevitable process of urbanisation presents a huge political, social, economic and ecological challenge. At the same time, cities offer solutions for the tasks that face us in the 21st century. The city is our future. but only if it ...
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier
de Young Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, California USA, Until 19 August 2012
Jean Paul gaultier launched his first prêt-à-porter collection in 1976 and founded his own couture house in 1997. emerging as a designer in the 1970s, he developed his own dress codes that reflected the changing world around him. This multimedia exhibition includes 140 haute couture and ...
Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada
The Costume Institute, (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)USA, 10 May - 19 August 2012
There is a striking affinity between these two italian designers from different eras. inspired by Miguel covarrubias’s ‘impossible interviews’ for Vanity Fair in the 1930s, fictive conversations between the two iconic women suggest new readings of their most innovative work. based on umberto ...
Summer Workshops Program
Domaine de Boisbuchet,Lessac,France, 10 June - 22 September 2012
Organised in cooperation with the Centre Georges Pompidou and vitra Design Museum, a series of workshops are offered during the summer months under the direction of internationally recognised artists, designers and architects. The setting is an idyllic country estate in the Southwest of France ...
Design Miami/Basel
Messe Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 12 - 17 June 2012
Design Miami/Basel is the global forum for design. Each fair brings together the most influential collectors, gallerists, designers, curators and critics from around the world in celebration of design culture and commerce. Occurring alongside the art Basel fair, Design Miami/ Basel is the ...
Light + Building 2012
Messe Frankfurt, 15-20 April 2012
The self–sufficient and sustainable use of energy is a subject of rapidly increasing importance in the modern world, and ‘the world’s biggest trade fair for lighting and intelligent buildings’ aims to focus on such. its main theme is energy efficiency – namely, the digitalisation of light and ...
CANDY
Candy Table explores the beauty and simplicity of using readily- available construction materials to make furniture.
COLETTO
The aluminium used in this table is shaped like a sheet of paper, recalling the iconic arlecchino’s collar; the colours applied to the aluminium possess metallic effects that enhance the geometries.
RABBIT
None of the tables are the same in height, dimension or shape.
PYRENEES TABLE/ CAVE LIGHT
A stackable vase with organic curves, available in various colours, Stack allows one to compose one’s own highly colourful vegetal columns.
MARNI
During Salone 2012, fashion brand Marni will exhibit 100 PvC thread-wrapped chairs at its Milan boutique, each constructed in Colombia by ex-prisoners as part of a rehabilitation programme.
PARK LIFE
This is my first outdoor collection and it has taken some time to get here: about four and a half years! it probably took that long because we needed to discover the right codes for Outdoor Furniture which is a category apart from other types of furniture. it has been an interesting process ...
DALA
Through the geometric grid of the powder-coated mesh, Dedon’s master weavers thread the colourful strands of a revolutionary new ecological fibre. Years in development, this fibre, a combination of recycled food-and drink packaging and fully recyclable polyethylene, is yet another industry ...