One of the highlights of Milan Design Week 2011 is Swedish designer Frederik Färg. His furniture collection was first wrapped in textile and leather then had rope tied around it before it was baked. During New York Design Week the whole collection will be shown at the RH-Gallery starting May 10 to June 19, 2011.
Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010
Photo by Saverio Lombardi Vallauri
Beginning tomorrow, Salone Internazionale del Mobile di Milano is on display until April 17th. Launched in 1961 by a small coalition of furniture manufacturers from within the Federlegno-Arredo trade association, the aim was to promote the exportation of Italian furniture, which soon became the most prestigious international event in the world of furniture design and production. The Salone quickly proved itself to be an excellent marketing vehicle for a highly fragmented industry that would otherwise have lacked the means to express its overall potential.
Eske Rex’s Drawingmachine is a construction involving a Renaissance technique of using weights and pendulums, each suspended from a tower construction and connected through “drawing arms” and moveable joints. A ballpoint pen resting on a drawing surface covered with paper is mounted at the point where the pendulums come together. The pendulums are set in motion by hand, and their movements are represented on the paper.
Eske’s work is now on exhibit at Mindcraft 11. b. 1977, designer and visual artist. Graduated from The Danish Design School in 2008.
“Many of my designs from 60 years ago are now categorized as Mid-Twentieth Century, which of course makes me feel rather old! People ask me if I think these designs will still be around in another 50 years. Well, I won’t be around then so I’m not too concerned about that!” Jens Risom
Beautiful “Prefab Weekend House” design by Jens Risom. Photos by John Zimmerman for Life Magazine, 1967.
Architect Alvar Aalto designed a home outside of Paris for art dealer and gallerist Luis Carré. Carré died in 1977, and the house was purchased by the Alvar Aalto Foundation. It has since received landmark status in France, and has been painstakingly preserved by the Foundation. For good reason – the home is furnished in Gesamtkunstwerk fashion, largely by Aalto originals. The images come from Israeli-French photographer Ben Sandler.
“Robin and Lucienne Day: Design and the Modern Interior”, consists of three rooms of Lucienne’s textiles and Robin’s furniture, arranged chronologically and starting with the 1951 Festival of Britain which launched their careers. This exhibition at Pallant House Gallery in Sussex, showcases Robin’s furniture for the Royal Festival Hall, and his steel and plywood creations in the Homes and Gardens Pavilion, alongside Lucienne’s textiles. One of her finest designs was Calyx, which won an award, was put into production by Heal’s and turned her into a design star.
Jeff Koons is one of the most polarizing and well known contemporary artists living today. In general, viewers love or hate Koons and his work, and that is why he was chosen as the subject matter for this video game piece. His art includes constructing large metal sculptures that resemble balloon animals, oil paintings that contain subject matter derived from digital collage, and large-scale pornographic photographs featuring the artist and his former wife, to name a few. Jeff Koons Must Die!!! is a videogame by artist Hunter Jonakin that allows the player to virtually destroy work by the artist, Jeff Koons.
Now in its second year, the Reykjavik Fashion Festival will feature a high-energy mix of fashion, design and music events throughout the city, with the aim of promoting Icelandic creativity to an international audience.
Reykjavik’s Art Museum will host the Autumn/Winter fashion show, featuring the collections of 22 of Iceland’s most inspired and talented designers.
Degenerate Art Ensemble exhibition is the culmination of a year-long dialogue between Frye Art Museum curator Robin Held and the artists of DAE. The survey of the group’s work will fill almost the entire museum, featuring 14 artists and five large scale works inspired by the ambitious all-sensory productions the group is known for creating: a Weeble Wobble princess that battles ninjas, a surgery ice cream truck, a tuning nest in a listening forest, and the Slug Princess that devours cabbages in a microscopic world. A must see.
Eduardo Souto de Moura, a Portuguese architect who has worked mainly in his native country, designing a major soccer stadium and numerous private houses.
Mr. Souto de Moura, who lives and works in the northern Portuguese city of Porto, is deeply respected in the field but is not as well known internationally as many previous Pritzker winners. He is the second Portuguese architect to win the prize; the first, in 1992, was Alvaro Siza, for whom Mr. Souto de Moura worked at the beginning of his career.
