Orange
Alert: Dutch Design in New York 2005
An unprecedented year of high-profile events and exhibitions
throughout New York City
Dear
Reader:
Dutchdesignevents.com
& Orange Alert Dutch Design will be on a brief hiatus between
February 23 and March 6, but we hope that with this newsletter
we can keep you up to date about recent and upcoming Dutch design
projects in New York.
Recent
events...
On
February 17 Travel + Leisure Magazine presented its first annual
Travel + Leisure Design Awards for the Best in Museums, Restaurants,
Hotels, Luggage, Airplanes, and more. The award for "Best
Cultural Space" went to Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Ramus for
the Seattle Central Library.
Click
here for more information and a picture
gallery
On
February 22 the wonderful exhibition "Groundswell: Constructing
the Contemporary Landscape" opened at the Museum of Modern
Art. The exhibition presents 23 landscape-design projects that
reclaim and transform urban spaces —many derelict and
in need of rehabilitation— into public parks and gardens.
It includes work by Adriaan Geuze, the principal and founder
of the Rotterdam-based firm West8.
Click here
for more information
On
February 24 the Dutch Fashion Foundation organized a press event
at Bed New York to introduce Fall 2005 lines by select Dutch
fashion designers. These lines will be on view at Space Downtown
for the whole month of March and include work by designers such
as Spijkers & Spijkers, Wolf, Keupr/Van Bentm,Oscar Suleyman,
Melanie Rozema, and others.
>>Please note that this is for press and trade only.
Call for appointments.<<
Click
here for more information
Coming
soon...
On
February 28 Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas and Mark Wigley will hold
the press conference "VE#1" to count down to VOLUME,
a project by ARCHIS + AMO + CLAB to go beyond Magazine, Office,
and School.
Click here
for more information
On
March 2, 3 and 7, Dutch designer Petra Blaisse will present
the lecture "Shifting Positions" at Columbia University,
the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and the School of
the Art Institute in Chicago. Blaisse founded Inside Outside
in Amsterdam in 1991, a firm that specializes in the rare combination
of both interior and exterior design, interweaving architecture
and landscape. She works in a multitude of creative areas, including
textile, landscape and exhibition design.
Click here
for more information
On
March 4 the exciting new exhibition "Hella Jongerius Selects
from the Permanent Collection" will open at Cooper-Hewitt
Museum National Design Museum. Jongerius will guest curate an
exhibition of samplers from the museum’s collection of
over 1,000 samplers from Great Britain, Europe and the Americas.
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here for more information
And
last bot not least, if you have not seen the first solo exhibition
of Tord Boontje in the U.S. yet, you still have a chance as
the show at the new Moss Gallery was extended until March 20.
This exhibition certainly cannot be missed; as Linda Hales so
eloquently wrote in the Washington Post, "The current moment
belongs to Tord Boontje, the Dutch-born London designer whose
exquisite lighting, exotic chairs and fantasy textiles are expanding
the definition of furniture from functional necessities to bejeweled,
petal-strewn accessories to soothe the soul."
Click
here for a picture gallery of Boontje’s
exhibition
Click here
for a full list of upcoming events
Press
The press attention for Orange Alert and related Dutch design
projects is going strong! More write-ups appeared in essential
media outlets such as The New York Times, Wireimage, The Washington
Post, Travel + Leisure Magazine, Models.com, The Architects
Newspaper, Dexigner.com and even the Australian Pol Oxygen Magazine.
Stay tuned for much more during the year, as well as an upcoming
item on RTL4 television!
Click here
for a complete overview of press attention
Be
sure to visit www.dutchdesignevents.com
regularly for up to date information about Orange Alert developments
throughout the year. Please enjoy all the events and projects.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Best regards,
Robert
Kloos, Editor
robert@dutchdesignevents.com
