Swarovski Designers of the Future Award Commissions at Design Miami/
A panel of editors turned their gimlet eyes on this year’s ICFF to select a few winning designs from among the thousands on view. Here are the winners of the ICFF Editors’ Awards in each category http://bit.ly/1egWAou
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The work of two contemporary Japanese ceramists from ippodogallery offers new insights into a form that is central to Japanese culture
New technology has begun to come into its own, offering designers opportunities to go down heretofore unexplored paths. Of particular interest are works that play on historical material or offer new forms of adornment. Read more http://bit.ly/1u2NDW1
Two museum exhibitions—MAD’s New Territories in New York and Grandes Maestros: Great Masters of Iberoamérican Folk Art, Collection of Fomento Cultural Banamex at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles — show us the remarkable range and imagination of design, art, and craft in contemporary Latin America. Read more>> http://www.modernmag.com/?p=4870
Jewelry by Gaetano Pesce will be exhibited for the first time in the United States at The Gallery at Reinstein|Ross from January 15 to February 20, 2015. For the past five years—at first for his own pleasure and now for a broader audience—the iconic Italian architect and designer Gaetano Pesce has been utilizing his signature urethane resin with a new landscape in mind. This work, a natural extension of his interest in innovation and individuality, consists of miniature sculptures designed for the body. Visit Reinstein|Ross for more information.
Artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz has created A Pause in the City That Never Sleeps. The video consists of a continuous yawn on loop, which will be shown on Times Square’s electronic billboards from 11:57 pm to midnight each night in January. This project is a part of Midnight Moment, a monthly presentation by The Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC) and Times Square Arts. The January presentation is in partnership with Performance Space 122’s COIL 2015 Festival. On Saturday, January 17, the final night of their festival, there will be a special gathering with the artist at 11:45pm on Duffy Square, inspiring a massive yawn-in.
Outdoor Sculpture in Zurich, Oklahoma and Florida http://bit.ly/1xSmh6y
Wishing you a very Happy Holiday season and a peaceful and prosperous New Year!
All Things (Eileen) Gray
The Irish-born architect and designer has enjoyed a certain amount of fame, not least because of the sale of her Dragon chair at the Yves Saint Laurent-Pierre Bergé sale in 2009. But the enormous range of her talents has long been obscured, in large part because of the jealousy of her “friend” the Swiss architect Le Corbusier. The tale of his efforts to deface and erase Gray’s reputation is the subject of The Price of Desire, a feature length film to be released early next year. Read more http://bit.ly/1sjLZyL
Amy West: RiverStones opens at The Gallery at Reinstein|Ross through January 6, 2015. The exhibition of glass works from Murano, Italy is West's first solo exhibition from her most recent body of work, entitled RiverStones. In the summer of 2015, she will be artist in residence at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York.
The work is inspired by the river Ardo, tributary to the Piave river in the Veneto. West describes the river as a source of peace, relaxation and inspiration. "The river is alive, and it makes its presence known to those paying attention,” says West. While comforting however, the river’s constancy and strength is accompanied by dramatic change and shift. All of these expressions from the river are seen by West as metaphors for how we are tumbled and shaped by life, hopefully to come out of our personal experiences as rounded and smooth as the stones of the riverbed.
Visit reinsteinross.com for more information.
Pedro Barrail: Welcome to the Jungle
There’s a streak of fearlessness in designer and architect Pedro Barrail’s work. He doesn’t shrink from unorthodox juxtapositions; in fact, he welcomes them. His handcrafted furniture comfortably marries contemporary forms with the traditional craftsmanship of his native Paraguay. For more than a decade Barrail has been working with an artisan from a village outside his hometown of Asuncion, designing wooden tables, benches, and chairs, among other objects, bearing the intricate woodcarvings of the Pai Tavytera tribe. Brought to life by pyrography, or “writing with fire,” these ancestral tattoos play off the contours of his furniture and foster what Barrail describes as a “dialogue between modern and traditional design.” Read more http://www.modernmag.com/?p=4432
Through December 19, Cristina Grajales Gallery, New York; cristinagrajalesinc.com
Source Material – a project by Morrison, Olivares and Velardi October 24 2014 – February 08 2015 at Vitra Design Museum
Source Material is an exploration of how the legacy of material culture that surrounds us affects the creative process, but also an affirmation of the potential of an object to reflect and nurture the human spirit.
Organzied by three prominent figures from the design world – designers Jasper Morrison and Jonathan Olivares as well as creative director Marco Velardi – the exhibition presents the objects, keepsakes, and references that have had a pivotal effect on the work of around 60 minds from the fields of architecture, art, cuisine, design, fashion, film, and music.
New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America November 4, 2014 to April 6, 2015
New Territories explores the collaborations between small manufacturing operations and craftspersons, artists, and designers, and demonstrates how the resulting work addresses not only the issues of commodification and production, but also of urbanization, displacement and sustainability. The exhibition will explore a number of key themes, including: the dialogue between contemporary trends and artistic legacies in Latin American art; the use of repurposed materials in strategies of upcycling; the blending of digital and traditional skills; and the reclamation of personal and public space. Visit newterritorieslab.org
Design Miami/ commissions an early-career designer, Jonathan Muecke, to build a designed environment for the entrance to the fair’s pavilion.
Jonathan’s double-layered circular structure is designed to allow light to bounce off the curved and colored surfaces of the pavilion, creating a shifting topography of reflected colors. This atmosphere will allow visitors a moment of quiet reflection in a space conceived, in part, as a refuge from the hyper-stimulating environment of the fair itself.
For more, visit DesignMiami/
Model of Design Miami Pavilion (DMP) by Jonathan Muecke/ Image Credit: Gessi Schillling