Chicago Architecture Biennial opens on September 16
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The Chicago Architecture Biennial will be running from September 16, 2017 through January 7, 2018. This year’s Biennial features over 141 practitioners from more than 20 countries addressing the 2017 theme "Make New History." Artistic Directors SharonEttore Sottsass at the Met: Inside A World of Quirks
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Master of ‘Bastard Design.’ “Godfather of Italian Cool.” “Anti Design Hero.” Ettore Sottsass, who died on New Year’s Eve in 2007 and would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year, collected many illustrious titles over the decades of his riJoep van Lieshout’s ‘Furnification’ at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris
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The exhibition titled “Furnification” featuring works of Dutch artist and sculptor Joep van Lieshout is on view at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris.The show features the artist’s new experiments to create a new material language. The selectiLadders that are both stylish and functional from Hasegawa
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Started as a family business in 1956 in Osaka, Japan, Hasegawa has gained the reputation for creating the best quality and safest tripod ladders in use today. Transcending traditional ladder designs and aesthetics, Hasegawa’s Lucano ladders won JapanThrough the Porthole: ‘(Un)Comfort Zone’ at Mazzoleni Gallery, London
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Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci of Milan based Dimore Gallery have staged a conceptual site-specific installation for Mazzoleni London titled “Mazzoleni Invites: Dimore Gallery (Un)Comfort Zone.”This project introduces a new series at Mazzoleni London enti‘(Un)Comfort Zone’ at Mazzoleni Gallery, London
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Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci of Milan based Dimore Gallery have staged a conceptual site-specific installation for Mazzoleni London titled “Mazzoleni Invites: Dimore Gallery (Un)Comfort Zone.”This project introduces a new series at Mazzoleni London entiClaudio Silvestrin’s Cannon Lane House in Hampstead
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Designed by architect Claudio Silvestrin for developer Gary Giessing, Cannon Lane house was built on a constrained site and faced important planning stipulations, without lacking in amenities.From the basement pool and spa, past a multi-level garden by ChelseHighlights of Phillips’ ‘Design’ auction in London
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Phillips’ “Design” auction will offer works by some of the most respected designers from the 20th century, comprising of 175 lots in all. Works by design icons such as Diego Giacometti, Jean-Michel Frank, Max Ingrand, Finn Juhl, Gio Ponti and Jean‘Architectural Pavilions: Experiments and Artifacts’ at Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco
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The exhibition titled “Architectural Pavilions: Experiments and Artifacts” is currently on view at Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco.The show features the presentation of digital and handmade pavilions by seven architectural studios. It focuses o
Little Sun Diamond, the latest solar jewel from Little Sun
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Celebrating Little Sun’s fifth anniversary, founder Olafur Eliasson proudly announces their latest solar jewel, the Little Sun Diamond.Robust as it is beautiful, Little Sun Diamond is pocket-sized, featherweight, and radiates a sparkling glow. Designed by aBasquiat tag uncovered on Megacollector’s building
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A line of text, what appears to be original graffiti by the duo SAMO, was found on a Lower Manhattan building owned by developer Aby Rosen. “SAMO©,” the mark of artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Al Diaz, has since the late 1970s largely vanished from downLee Broom Presents All-Black Collection at London Design Festival
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Lee Broom’s studio completes ten years and to celebrate the London-based designer has created all-black versions of his most famous furniture and lighting pieces. The collection titled “On Reflection”, will be on display at the London Design Festival frGalerie Marcilhac to exhibit PAD London 2017
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Galerie Marcilhac, Paris will exhibit at the PAD London 2017 art fair a selection of eclectic works in the field of decorative arts from the 1930s to the 1960s.Inspiring a unique spirit of collecting, PAD epitomizes how modern art, photography, design, decoraDowntown Design 2017 announces its fifth edition and final exhibitor list
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Downtown Design 2017, in partnership with the Dubai Design District (d3) + Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (DCAA), announced its fifth edition and final exhibitor list. Downtown Design, the anchor event for Dubai Design Week, recently announced its la‘Cranbrook: A New Domestic Landscape’ at Cranbrook Art Museum
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The exhibition titled “Cranbrook: A New Domestic Landscape” is on view at Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.The show features contemporary furniture and furnishings by recent alumni and Artists-in-Residence of Cranbrook Academy of Art. TheDesigner Raphaël Van Gend’s Minimalist Home
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Belgian jewelry designer Raphaël Van Gend has turned a six-story 1920s townhouse in Brussels into his own private, uncluttered retreat. The overhaul and decoration of the house has resulted in copious negative space. The living room contains only a hanAedas Architects Nominated for WAF Awards, 2017
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The architectural firm Aedas Architects has been nominated for the World Architecture Festival awards, 2017.Five projects from the firm have been nominated for the WAF awards. These projects include the China World Trade Center Phase 3C Development, Beijing,Galerie Marcilhac at La Biennale Paris 2017
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The Galerie Marcilhac is certainly the oldest Parisian gallery devoted to the Decorative Arts of the 20th century. Under the direction of Félix-Félix Marcilhac, the gallery presents unique works from the 1920’s to the 1940’s. The gallery organizes exhib‘Ettore Sottsass – Rebel and Poet’ at Vitra Design Museum
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The exhibition titled “Ettore Sottsass – Rebel and Poet” featuring the works of Austro-Italian designer Ettore Sottsass is on view at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany.The show includes approximately 30 of Sottsass’ furniture designs, consum‘Partners in Design: Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson’ at Grey Art Gallery - NYU, New York
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An exhibition, titled “Partners in Design: Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson” will soon be on view at Grey Art Gallery - NYU, New York.The show will highlight the collaboration between Alfred Barr, the Museum of Modern Art’s first director, and Phil‘OOPS’ at R & Company, New York
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The exhibition titled “OOPS” featuring the works of Paris-based design atelier, Pierre Yovanovitch will soon be on view at R & Company, New York.The selection of works on display feature 24 custom designs by the Yovanovitch. The show is part of the gaTrump’s $3m White House Redesign Gets a Thumbs-down
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The new look of the White House in Washington DC was unveiled recently, and it seems to have very few takers. In his review, The Guardian’s design critic calls the new carpeting “bland, forgettable and good for hiding the stains.”The 6,000 meters of neDover to welcome a new architectural walking trail along the Kent coast
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Dover Arts Development will soon unveil “CHALKUP21,” a 21st-century architectural coastal trail along the Strait of Dover. The 17-mile trail that winds along the coast between Folkestone and Deal, will connect nine buildings and public artworks, all buil‘Noordeman and Wright: Audiowear’ at Museum of Arts and Design, New York
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The exhibition titled “Noordeman and Wright: Audiowear,” featuring the works Arjen Noordeman and Christie Wright, is on view at Museum of Arts and Design, New York.The exhibition is a solo project by the designer duo and is part of “Sonic Arcade: ShapinSocial issues dominate 2017 nominations for Beazley Designs of the Year
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The nominations for 2017’s Beazley Designs of the Year awards deal with issues such as the scarcity of women in male-dominated industries, political unrest due to Britain’s Brexit vote and the power of design in bringing the world together, notes The GuarThe Sun Rain Room: Combining the Brilliance of Nature and Architecture
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Architects Anna Liu and Mike Tonkin have built a two-storey extension and restoration of their Grade-II listed Georgian townhouse in London called “The Sun Rain Room.” A coffered roof-shaped like the arc of the sun surrounds an open patio and when it rain‘Now and Here – Chengdu’ at Aedes Architekturforum, Berlin
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The exhibition titled “Now and Here – Chengdu. Liu Jiakun: Selected Works” is on view at Aedes Architekturforum, Berlin.The exhibition focuses on the issue of social concept and a respect for local context and vernacular craftsmanship. Jiakun’s works‘The Mars Pavilion’ at A+D Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles
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The installation titled “The Mars Pavilion” is on view at A+D Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles.The show raises the question of what if robots were used to build buildings alongside humans. ‘The Mars Pavilion’ combines the use of ArtificialPeter Marino on His Show at Gagosian London: Interview
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Gagosian Gallery in London is showcasing bronzes by New York architect Peter Marino this summer. The exhibition titled “Fire and Water” runs through September 8 and features sculpted bronze boxes crafted at the Atelier St. Jacques—part of the FondationKelenföld Power Plant as an Art Deco Temple in Budapest
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Once deserted and decaying century-old building of Kelenföld Power Plant is now an Art Deco Temple in Budapest. Thanks to historian Balázs Maczó, the power plant that remained hidden in Budapest’s XI District, on the banks of Danube, is now visited by to‘Utopia Now – The Story of Finnish Design’ at Design Museum, Helsinki
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The exhibition titled “Utopia Now – The Story of Finnish Design” is on view at Design Museum, Helsinki.The selection of works on display explores the history of Finnish design through the use of contemporary technologies and digital platform. The exhibiAlex Chinneck’s first permanent work debuts at Assembly London
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British sculptor Alex Chinneck has unveiled his first-ever permanent work “Six Pins and Half a Dozen Needles” at Assembly London, a multi-purpose campus in the city’s Hammersmith neighborhood. The whimsy and the illusory frequently make an appearance i‘Textile design. From Experiment to Production Line’ at Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden
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The exhibition titled “Textile design. From Experiment to Production Line” is on view at Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden.The selection of works on display features 38 projects by over 20 designers in six different categories including tradition, culture transf
