Tag: design

  • Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec: Rêveries Urbaines

    Dreaming of new ways to connect humans to cities, the Paris-based brothers have sidestepped architectural rhetoric to ignite imaginations with a handful of inspired, three-dimensional sketches

  • The Making of an “It” Girl

    Staging Fashion, 1880–1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New York 18 January–8 April 2012

  • Gathering into gospel order: the Shaker approach to design

    A consideration of Shaker-made architecture, furniture and commercial wares – items of remarkable beauty, durability, economy and practicality – inevitably leads to one conclusion: the story of Shaker design is inseparable from the Shakers’ identity as a distinct cultural group…

  • The Danish Gift

    In 1974, following a visit to the Furniture Fair in Copenhagen, the question was raised, How will Denmark follow the work of Borge Mogensen, Arne Jacobsen, Hans Wegner and Verner Panton, whose designs seemed so classically timeless that it was…

  • Book review: Marvellous Melbourne

    Design City Melbourne. Leon van Schaik. John Wiley & Sons, 2006. This important city monograph was first published over a year ago, but it is exemplary within the ‘World City’ genre beyond those established by Academy Group in the 1990s…

  • Maggie’s Zaha

    On 3 November, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown opened the Maggie’s Centre for Cancer Care in his own constituency at Kirkcaldy in Fife, Scotland. This building has been designed (expenses only – no fees) by Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born…

  • Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design

    No major painter in the history of art has a surviving corpus of paintings smaller than that of Leonardo da Vinci. Only a handful of paintings remain, some unfinished, some of disputed attribution, and at least one of the most…

  • Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939

    Victoria and Albert Museum, London 6 April-23 July 2006 The catalogue promotion for this remarkable exhibition of early 20th-century design pioneers suggests that the contemporary built environment was ‘largely shaped by Modernism’. This is simply not true. The reality was…

  • Eileen Gray at the Design Museum, London 2005

    Design Museum, London 17 September 2005-8 January, 2006

  • Design: Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious

    Brian Webb and Peyton Skipwith. Antique Collectors Club in Association with the Fry Art Gallery, 2005 ISBN 1851495002