December
8-10, 2006
Design Miami/,
the global forum for collecting, exhibiting, discussing and
creating design, today announced an expanded program for its
second annual Miami show. The 2006 program will feature 19 of
the world's leading historical and contemporary design galleries,
dynamic satellite exhibitions curated by leading design institutions
and galleries, and design talks covering the current design
culture. Design Miami/ will also present its 2006 Designer of
the Year Award to iconic designer Marc Newson.
Design Miami/
will take place in the Miami Design District (Moore Building,
4040 NE 2nd Avenue) and will be presented in conjunction with
Art Basel Miami Beach. The Design Miami/ Vernissage (Thursday,
December 7th, 8:00 pm) is by invitation only. The show will
be open to the public Friday, December 8th from 1:00 pm to 7:00
pm; Saturday, December 9th from 8:00pm to midnight; and Sunday,
December 10th from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm. HSBC Private Bank is
the Principal Sponsor of Design Miami/ Miami 2006. Its generous
support has made Design Miami/ possible and is in keeping with
the bank’s “Assume Nothing” philosophy, which
emphasizes novel approaches to age-old financial solutions.
“Design
Miami/ has created a global forum for the leaders, innovators
and voices of design. For quite some time now, the design community
has been looking for a truly international opportunity for the
exchange of ideas and the study of our discipline. Design Miami/
is filling this void,” said Ambra Medda, Director and
Co-Founder of Design Miami/. “So far, we have been thrilled
with the response to our shows in Miami and Basel and we look
forward to expanding our brand further.”
Debuting
this year at Design Miami/ are Sebastian + Barquet, (New York),
Espasso (New York) and Phurniture, Inc. (New York). Returning
galleries include Antik (New York); Demisch Danant (New York);
Barry
Friedman Ltd. (New York); Magen H. Gallery (New York); Nilufar
(Milan); Galerie Italienne (Paris); R 20th Century (New York);
David Gill Galleries (London); Galerie
Kreo (Paris); Galerie Patrick Seguin (Paris); Jousse Entreprise
(Paris); Cristina Grajales (New York); Contrasts Gallery (Shanghai);
Galerie Downtown François Laffanour (Paris). Philippe
Denys (Brussels) and Galerie Dansk Møbelkunst (Paris)
made their debut this past June at Design Miami/ Basel and will
now join the roster for the Miami show.
Through a series of three
talks, Design Miami/ will address the current state of the
design market and the diverse approaches of today’s foremost
designers. Design Miami/ Designer of the Year, Marc Newson will
be the featured speaker at “Art Loves Design” talk
on Saturday, December 9th. This design talk will kick-off the
“Art Loves Design” street party on Saturday, December
9th in the Miami Design District and is co-sponsored by Art
Basel Miami Beach and Design Miami/.
Design Miami/
will also host a series of satellite exhibitions by The Georges
Pompidou Art & Culture Foundation, Moss
Gallery, Established & Sons, Barry
Friedman Ltd. & Droog Design, R20th Century Gallery
& Steuben Glass, Contrasts Gallery, Byblos and Metropolis
Magazine. The satellite exhibitions will present a diverse array
of design, from rare works by pioneering French modernists to
one-off and limited editions pieces by cutting-edge contemporary
designers commissioned especially for Design Miami/.
The satellite
exhibitions will take place in locations throughout the Miami
Design District and will be on view Thursday, December 7th from
8:00 pm until Midnight during the Design Miami/ Vernissage (by
invitation only). The satellite exhibitions will be open to
the public Friday, December 8th from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm; Saturday,
December 9th from 11:00 am to Midnight; and Sunday, December
10th from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm. Design Miami/ will run December
8 – 10 in the Moore Building, 4040 NE 2nd Avenue.
Design
Miami/ will host the following Satellite Exhibitions:
French
Modern Design Sources
Presented by The Georges Pompidou Art & Culture Foundation
Collins Building, 139 NE 39th Street
The Georges
Pompidou Art & Culture Foundation will present French Modern
Sources, an exhibition of more than forty-five pieces by pioneers
of French modern design from the collection of the Centre Pompidou
(Musée national d’art moderne, Paris). For Design
Miami/, the Foundation will bring significant works of French
Modernism never before seen in the U.S. French Modern Sources
focuses on the work of members of the French Union of Modern
Artists (U.A.M.), a group formed in the late 1920s in reaction
to the prevailing conservative design aesthetic. Celebrated
architects and designers such as: Le Corbusier, Pierre Chareau,
Jean Prouvé, Eileen Gray and Charlotte Perriand are represented
by furniture, models drawings and photographs. Curated by Frédéric
Migayrou, head of the Architecture and Design department at
Centre Pompidou, the exhibition springs from the curator’s
first impressions of the distinct Art Deco style of Miami’s
South Beach.
“Live!
From Our Studios”
Presented by Moss Gallery New York
Buena Vista Building, 180 NE 39th Street, Suite 101
Moss Gallery
New York will present, “Live! From Our Studios,”
an installation of specially commissioned, monumental pieces
from seven key contemporary designers, drawing directly from
one-off or limited edition studio work. Violating the classical
boundaries drawn between art and design, these studios continue,
presumptuously, to expand the definition of both, forging a
new 'functional expressiveness' emblematic of a cross-boarder
unification of both disciplines. Moss Gallery is dedicated to
exploring this shifting, evolving dialogue. “Live! From
Our Studios” will feature the work of: Studio Job (Job
Smeets and Nynke Tynagel), Belgium; Hella Jongerius, the Netherlands;
Maarten Baas, the Netherlands; Tord Boontje, France; Fernando
and Humberto Campana, Brazil; Constantin Boym, USA; and Massimiliano
Adami, Italy.
Established
& Sons, UK
Buick Building, 3841 NE 2nd Avenue
Established
& Sons will introduce the new Black Edition Aqua Table by
the pioneering architect Zaha Hadid. Established & Sons
have recently produced a collection of ground-breaking limited
edition designs by Hadid entitled ‘Seamless’ for
a selling auction at Phillips de Pury & Company in New York.
Direct from the recent launch of that collection, a silicone-sealed
version of the spectacular Gyre chair will be on display. An
exhibition of limited edition works including the wooden Drift
bench by Future Systems architect Amanda Levete, and the mirror-polished
aluminium Zero-In table, the first limited edition design from
distinguished design practice BarberOsgerby, will also be on
show. Established & Sons were the proud recipients of the
Design Miami/Basel ‘Designers of The Future Award’
in June 2006. The award was offered in acknowledgement of Established
& Sons’ success in exemplifying a new model for design
companies in the 21st century.
Smart
Deco
Presented by Barry Friedman Ltd. and Droog Design
Moore Building, North Wing, 4040 NE 2nd Avenue
Barry Friedman
Ltd. and Droog Design present Smart Deco, a period room of the
21st century that represents an authentic expression reflecting
the zeitgeist of cutting-edge design, as well as timeless necessity.
The Smart Deco period room is furnished with specially designed
works, all small editions, created by 10 of Europe’s most
innovative designers, architects and artists, including Marcel
Wanders, Joris Laarman and Atelier van Lieshout. Each participant
was asked to reflect on the concept of a contemporary period
room and determine which elements he or she wanted to create.
Each had complete freedom to choose forms, materials and aesthetics
with the final result curated by Droog Design and Barry Friedman
Gallery Ltd. With a common commitment to engage the viewer and
to create works of the highest quality, the installation will
emphasize the blurring of boundaries between art and design,
traditional fine craftsmanship and innovative high-tech concepts
and materials. The products are smart and decorative. The result
is Smart Deco. All works will be available through Barry Friedman
Ltd. in the United States and Droog Design in Europe.
NEW
OBJECTS: USA
Presented by R20th Century Gallery and Steuben Glass
Mosaic Building, 155 NE 40th Street
NEW OBJECTS:
USA will present new work by four eminent American designers
carrying time honored techniques of handmaking into the 21st
century. Advancing a new vision of organic Modernism and proving
craft a radical approach to contemporary art and design, Wendell
Castle, Michele Oka Doner, Ted Muehling and Jeff Zimmerman abstract
forms and phenomena found in nature to produce to objects of
extraordinary power and elegance. Presented by R20th Century
and Steuben Glass, NEW OBJECTS: USA refers to the intentions
and surprises of the legendary landmark museum exhibition “Objects:
USA,” mounted in 1969 by the Smithsonian Institution to
reveal the profound relationship between Modern design and craft
in America. Two of the artists presented in that historic exhibition
– Castle and Oka Doner – will be shown together
again for the first time in NEW OBJECTS: USA, each debuting
important new collections in Miami.
Paula
Hayes/Hugo França
Presented by R20th Century Gallery
Mosaic Building, 155 NE 40th Street
R20th Century
and Salon 94 will present a 2-person satellite exhibition of
works by Paula Hayes and Hugo França. Well-known for
her use of ephemeral and organic mediums, Paula Hayes questions
the idea of living plants as authored artworks with her glass
terrariums and biomorphic silicone planters where plants are
literally self-contained in unique hand-blown glass or silicone
planters. For Design Miami/, R20th will exhibit a selection
of her new glass terrariums, silicone planters as well as an
installation of birdhouses from her new Blue Bird Series. Working
in the same tradition as modernist Brazilian masters such as
Jose Zanine and Jorge Zalszupin, Hugo França is best
known for his reverential use of raw materials that are characteristically
Brazilian. Working only with fallen trees and old abandoned
Indian canoes, França’s exquisitely sculpted furniture
are extremely labor intensive as he favors the use of the “pequi”,
a gigantic oleaginous tree which averages 45 meters in height
and 2 meters in girth. França manually crafts each of
his work, sometimes opening grooves in the wood to expose features
that the material is unable to express on its own, other times
smoothing it to rediscover its curves that suggests its natural
organic forms.
Artectonics:
New Age Creativity
Presented by Contrasts Gallery
Marcy Building, 3850 North Miami Avenue
Contrasts
Gallery has commissioned a number of international designers
to create works in conjunction with traditional Chinese craftsmen,
merging contemporary vision with a unique openness and ability
to make things materialize. This year, Contrasts will exhibit
oversized, glazed vases measuring over three meters high. The
vases, which merge traditional Chinese craftsmanship with a
contemporary aesthetic, were originally commissioned for the
exhibition La France Mandarine, which took place at the National
Art Museum, Beijing, in March 2005. In addition, Contrasts will
introduce the design collaborative, Wokmedia, to Miami for the
first time. Contrasts commissioned these artists, who worked
in collaboration with Chinese craftsmen, to create an installation
of broken porcelain eggs. Within the installation, some of the
porcelain eggs hang on wire from the ceiling, while others rest
on the ground, and a number of the eggs are painted with illustrations
on the inside. When encountered, each egg presents the viewer
with a moment of discovery, confronting him/her with something
unexpected. The installation gives a modern and hip shape to
a traditional medium.
Out
of True
Presented by Byblos
Chatham Building, 155 NE 40th Street
Byblos will
present Out of True, an exhibition curated by Micaela Giovannotti
and Joyce Korotkin that features the work of artists including:
Eric Baudelaire, Sebastiaan Bremer, Jay Davis, Robert Lazzarini,
Joshua Levine, Beatriz Millar, Enrico Tommaso de Paris, Pawel
Wojtasik, Tobias Wong and Cheryl Yun, amongst others. Out of
True is an architectural term for skewed construction and highlights
a vision of the contemporary world as one in which reality is
no longer in alignment with expectation. As the familiar present
fades before our eyes through advances in science and technology,
the indeterminate future fuels anxiety about our rapidly obsolescing
world. Foreboding implications that all is neither well nor
what it seems flow like an undercurrent throughout this exhibition.
Such disquieting works about our increasingly misaligned world
beg the question of whether or not we are in control of what
we’re unleashing.
Metropolis
View: 25 Years Behind the Lens
Presented by Metropolis Magazine
Buena Vista Building, 180 NE 39th Street, Suite 222
Metropolis
Magazine examines contemporary life through design—architecture,
interior design, product design, graphic design, craft, planning
and preservation. Subjects range from the sprawling urban environment
to intimate living spaces to small objects of everyday use.
This exhibition will present the work of photographers who have
collaborated with Metropolis over the past 25 years and whose
work, as a group, provides a visual representation of the global
metropolis.
About
Design Miami/
Design Miami/ is the global forum for collecting, exhibiting,
discussing and creating design. With week-long annual shows
presented in conjunction with the Art Basel fairs in Miami,
Florida and Basel, Switzerland, Design Miami/ brings together
the world's most influential dealers, designers, collectors,
curators and critics to celebrate and explore the ever-shifting
boundaries of design.
Contact:
Michelle DiLello/Dan Schwartz
Susan Grant Lewin Associates
212-947-4557
michelle@susangrantlewin.com
www.designmiami.com
