Dan Barber, a leading voice on local food and sustainability and the ceramist Gregg Moore discussed how their conversations and Gregg’s craftsmanship draws on the materiality of the farm landscape to provide a deeply thoughtful and aesthetically resolved dining experience. Watch the conversation here: About Design in Dialogue Inaugurated on April 1, 2020, […]
Read More… from Design in Dialogue #51: Dan Barber and Gregg Moore
Montreal natives and twin brothers Byron and Dexter Peart are the founders of GOODEE, an e-commerce direct-to-consumer platform that brings together the values of good design and good purpose across the home, beauty, accessory, and design stories told on the site and embodied in the brands featured. Our conversation will span the broad range of […]
Read More… from Design in Dialogue #50: Byron and Dexter Peart
Bijoy Jain, founder of the architectural practice Studio Mumbai, shares his philosophy of practice, based in the consideration of local expertise, craft, and patterns of life. We look at a range of products from the scale of buildings to furniture, which draw creatively on a global palette of forms, materials and skills. Watch the […]
Johan Schwind is an industrial designer, programmer, and futurist. His passion for connecting engineering and design to human-friendly technological solutions is at the heart of what he does on a daily basis as design director for Urban X, the groundbreaking BMW start-up incubator in New York City. Johan’s work is extremely hands-on, driven by a […]
Dakin Hart, Senior Curator at the Noguchi Museum, offered an expert overview of Isamu Noguchi’s wide-ranging activities in design. In his conversation with Glenn Adamson, we looked in detail at several case studies over the course of his career, including his early product and furniture designs, set designs for choreographer Martha Graham, and late works […]
Architect Patricia Urquiola is one of the most successful and influential designers in the world. Since 2001, from her base in Milan at Studio Urquiola, she leads an international team of creatives that collectively work across nearly all architecture, interiors, & product categories in the luxury lifestyle sector. Her recent projects include hospitality, commercial spaces, […]
Daniel Arsham, a contemporary artist based in New York, whose multidisciplinary practice embraces painting, sculpture, and object design, spoke about his investigations of built form, often introducing temporal narratives of transience or dissolution—making architecture “do things it is not supposed to do.” Watch the conversation here: About Design in Dialogue Inaugurated in April […]
Iris Van Herpen is an unparalleled innovator in the fashion domain, celebrated for her explorations of technology in relation to the body. In this conversation hosted by Glenn Adamson, she discussed a series of wide-ranging recent collaborations, including with Benthem Crouwel Architects, choreographer Damien Jalet, and the scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. […]
As a founding partner of the critically-acclaimed architecture studio Work AC with her husband architect Dan Wood, and the first female dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning & Preservation, Amale Andraos is one of the foremost practitioners and thinkers in the fields of architecture and architectural education. Hosted by Stephen Burks, our […]
We are honored to welcome to Design in Dialogue Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, who has made Chatsworth – one of Britain’s most significant stately homes – an important platform for contemporary art and design. Hosted by Glenn Adamson, the conversation was joined by Marc Benda as a guest for this conversation, which set […]
Read More… from Design in Dialogue #42: Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire
Conceived as a project exploring design as social practice, Deem‘s first issue, Designing For Dignity, reads like a manifesto on the future through the lenses of empathy, collective consciousness, and collaboration. Stephen Burks was in dialogue with two of Deem Journal’s three founders, Marquise Stillwell and Nu Goteh, to better understand their ambitious goals: to […]
Read More… from Design in Dialogue #41: Marquise Stillwell and Nu Goteh (Deem Journal)
Berlin-based impresario Matylda Krzykowski is reinventing the very foundations of design and its curation. Her transdisciplinary, geographically mobile practice includes installations, choreography, TV game shows, theater and many other experimental formats, always undertaken with an eye towards progressive ethics. Watch the conversation here: About Design in Dialogue Inaugurated on April 1, 2020, Design […]
Joseph Walsh has established his prolific and inventive design studio in an unusually rustic place: his family’s farm in County Cork, Ireland. In his conversation with Glenn Adamson, Walsh reflected on the experience of building his creative team there, and the ideas behind his beguilingly elaborate and beautifully engineered furniture. Watch the conversation here: […]
Based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Nigerian-American designer Ini Archibong has developed a diverse portfolio of furniture, timepieces, and editioned objects. His practice draws from popular musical references, spiritual traditions, and arts of performance. Hosted by Stephen Burks, the conversation traced his arc from business studies to design practice and the hybrid output of his studio. […]
Lidewij Edelkoort, renowned trend forecaster and curator, has long been at the cutting-edge of design thinking. She shared her often provocative, sometimes counterintuitive, yet always persuasive view of the future – including the new possibilities that the volatile year of 2020 has unleashed. Watch the conversation here: About Design in Dialogue Inaugurated on […]
