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Haresh Lalvani: Mass Customization of Emergent Designs / Moss Gallery / Design Miami 2011
“Form is Process”. “Mass Customization”. “Infinite Infinities”. “Number is All”. “The Moral Justification for Modernist Standardization… is no more”. “Professor Lalvani is continuing to explore the fundamental principles of geometry where Fuller left off”. This is what Design Miami visitors could read on the walls of the booth of the design gallery Moss from New [...]
Design Miami 2011
A day before the Vernissage of Art Basel Miami Beach, the design fair Design Miami has again invited design lovers to its Preview Day. The fair presents a newly expanded gallery program with exhibitors from America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Among this year’s highlights are a solo exhibition of the work by architect, sculptor, inventor [...]
Studio Job: Containers II / VIVID Gallery, Design Miami 2011
For Design Miami 2011, Galerie VIVID of Rotterdam realized its second solo presentation with works by Studio Job. The main attraction of the presentation are five new unique pieces, Containers II. In this video, VIVID Gallery Co-Founder Aad Krol talks about Studio Job and their new works. In 2010 Studio Job created Piece for Peace [...]
Matti Suuronen’s Futuro at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
In 2007, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam / Netherlands came into possession of the prototype of a quite spectacular piece of architecture: Finnish architect Matti Suuronen’s Futuro: house of the future. With its distinctive flying saucer like shape Suuronen’s Futuro is an icon of 1960s design. In 1965 Matti Suuronen was commissioined to design [...]
Aquariva by Marc Newson: US Sea Launch. Interviews with André Balasz and the Designers Sergio Beretta and Mauro Micheli (Officina Italiana Design)
For the “Aquariva by Marc Newson”, Marc Newson has partnered with Riva and their official designers, Officina Italiana Design, to reinterpret the “Aquariva” speedboat. Riva is an Italian boat-maker that became famous for its mahogany range of boats. Riva produced boats that were the equivalent to luxury cars such as Ferrari or Rolls-Royce and were [...]
Oggetti e Progetti – Alessi. Storia e futuro di una fabbrica del design italiano / Thirty Years of Italian Design
One of the really great figures of design – Alessandro Mendini – is curating and designing a retrospective of the last 30 years of Italian design specially for Die Neue Sammlung. Alessandro Mendini focuses his exhibition on a key player in the design world: the Alessi company, which has very successfully morphed from a small [...]
Design Miami/ Basel 2010 / Collectors Preview and Vernissage
This year’s Design Miami/ Basel moves even closer to the art fair Art Basel. The design fair takes place in Hall 5 of Messe Basel, with a direct passage to Art Basel’s Art Unlimited sector. The marketplace for limited-edition design features design galleries such as Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai; Droog, New York; Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London; [...]
Interview with Designer Nacho Carbonell at Design Miami/ Basel 2010
Among the clients of designer Nacho Carbonell are collectors and celebrities such as Brad Pitt. A brand new piece that he presented at the booth of Galleria Rossana Orlandi is his “Bush of Iron”, a chair / desk combination in afro style, build with thousands of iron wires. “Bush of Iron” belongs the Nacho Carbonell’s Diversity [...]
Design Lounge by Florian Borkenhagen / Cologne Fine Art & Antiques / Interview
With the 2010 edition Cologne Fine Art & Antiques introduced a new sector to the fair: contemporary design. One of the highlights is the Design Lounge that was conceived by the German designer and artist Florian Borkenhagen (represented by Gabrielle Ammann Gallery, Cologne). For the fair, he created some kind of Luna Park centered around [...]
MINILAND at Mitterrand + Cramer Design, Geneva
Galerie Mitterrand + Cramer in Geneva Switzerland, in collaboration with StonetouCH, an exclusive Swiss company working uniquely with Swiss stone, have put together the exhibition MINILAND, proposed by designer Claudio Colucci. Artists Pierre-André Bohnet, Claude Colucci, Vincent Du Bois, Sylvie Fleury, Christian Ghion and Atelier Oï contributed their artistic approaches to the theme and chosen [...]
Design Miami 2010
Design Miami calls itself the Global Forum For Design. This year, the fair has moved near the Convention Center, where Art Basel Miami Beach takes place. But the fair still takes place in a tent, this time the facade of Design Miami has been designed by Moorhead & Moorhead. There’s also Design Miami’s Designer of [...]
Interview with Konstantin Grcic, Designer of the Year 2010 / Design Miami, Miami Beach
The design fair Design Miami has selected the German designer Konstantin Grcic as this year’s recipient of the Designer of the Year Award. The fair has commissioned him to produce a new piece for the fair, and presented an exhibition of highlights from Konstantin Grcic’s career, curated by Grcic himself. In this conversation with VernissageTV’s [...]
The Wolfsonian-FIU Art Basel Miami Beach Reception 2010: Speed Limits. Seduce Me.
For this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach Reception, the Wolfsonian-FIU design museum presented the exhibition “Speed Limits” and the performance art collaboration “Seduce Me” by Isabella Rossellini, Andy Byers, and Rick Gilbert. In this video we focus on the reception and the exhibiton “Speed Limits” and exchange a few words with Cathy Leff, Director of [...]
Aquariva by Marc Newson: Sea Trials
Yes, this is not the typical VernissageTV style video. But with this nasty weather here in Switzerland, we enjoyed producing something that reminded us of our sunny days in Miami Beach. So in this video, there’s sun, palm trees, water, and a beautiful speedboat. The speedboat is a Riva, the Aquariva by designer Marc Newson [...]
Seduce Me by Isabella Rossellini at The Wolfsonian-FIU
During Art Basel Miami Beach 2010, The Wolfsonian-FIU design museum in Miami Beach was showcasing the temporary exhibition “Speed Limits” and “Seduce Me”, an installation / presentation by Isabella Rossellini, Andy Byers, and Rick Gilbert. After her highly praised “Green Porno”, Isabella Rossellini’s Award-winning comical series on how animals mate, she and her collaborators Andy [...]