Exhibition: Menagerie at The Jones
Dezeen is curating a design exhibition at The Jones hotel in London this September and October, exploring contemporary designers’ fascination with animals, including the Eames House Bird and Harry Allen’s Bank in the Form of a Pig
Exhibition: Menagerie at The Jones, curated by Marcus Fairs and Rupinder Bhogal, September 16th to October 19th, at The Jones London, United Kingdom
Via: dezeen
Domain Series, Human Forms by Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley makes sculptures from welded mild steel rod. “There was a lot of experimentation, but the Domains really got going when I realised I could describe the space of the body as a matrix formed from eight lengths of stainless steel in a reversal of the Greek pointing system, with rods resting on the internal surface of the body”.
Domain Series, by Antony Gormley
Exhibit: A Survey of Current German Design
A new exhibit offers a thematic cross-section of classic and contemporary ideas by German designers and companies. The exhibits are arranged in rigorous German fashion: structured and linked in “Werkbund Crates”, organized by theme: material, position, function, system or tool.
Exhibition: Design Deutschland. case study 08, from July 25 – Oct. 5, 2008, Neues Museum Nuremberg, Germany
Kids on a Tomb, Sculpture by Kevin Francis Gray
What’s this all about?
Kids on a Tomb, 2008, by Kevin Francis Gray, Exhibition at Goff + Rosenthal
Retail Design, Dior Homme Boutique
Dior Homme Boutique, Los Angeles, USA, Installations created by Daniel Arsham
Inbai Kim Move in Earnest
Inbai Kim selects images from the countless number of drawings he makes, then transforms the images into sculptural works. his sculptures are also black and white, with black pencil markings filling the spaces on his white sculptural forms.
Exhibition: Inbai Kim, Move in Earnest, at Arario Gallery
Wire Mesh at NEO Centraal Museum
For this exhibition design a concept was devised in conjunction with the artist Peter Struycken’s light plan, where a mixture of classic, eclectic, rococo, baroque, exotic and gothic objects were exhibited in a number of separate rooms and housed in steel and mesh cages. The placement of the cages facilitated different routes through the rooms. At times the visitor could walk around the cages and at other times through them, viewing the exhibits from different angles and under different lighting conditions.
Exhibition: NEO Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands, by Peter Struycken, and UN Studio
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