Design critic Glenn Adamson in conversation with Najla El Zein, who talked about her body of work, “Transition,” in which design and functionality take on rich psychological and autobiographical dimensions. Watch the conversation here: About Design in Dialogue Inaugurated in April 2020 in response to the pandemic lockdown, Design in Dialogue began as […]
Design critic Glenn Adamson in conversation with London-based designer Faye Toogood. Toogood was born in the UK in 1977 and graduated with a BA in the History of Art in 1998 from Bristol University. She founded “Studio Toogood” in 2008 and “Faye Toogood” in 2010, both in London. Watch the conversation here: About […]
Design critic Glenn Adamson in conversation with Zoë Ryan, John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design, The Art Institute of Chicago. Zoë Ryan discussed the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition “In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury.” Watch the conversation here: About […]
Chris Schanck shared the compelling story of his Detroit studio, where he creates furniture, sculpture and other objects out of salvaged and inexpensive materials. Working with a team of artisans – including women from the Bangladeshi immigrant community – he transforms these “poor” materials into works of aesthetic power and poetic resonance. Watch the […]
Misha Kahn took us behind the scenes of his exhibition “Soft Bodies/Hard Spaces,” featuring his groundbreaking and richly varied furniture designs. Explaining both the process and the inventive thinking behind these works, he described the objects as communicating a 21st century humanism, vividly departing from the modernist design legacy. Watch the conversation here: […]
By Glenn Adamson The influence of Gaetano Pesce on current design is pervasive, in a way that is impossible to miss yet difficult to track. Grasping for an image to describe his importance, I think of a river spreading into a great delta. Names can be put to the […]
Read More… from Gaetano Pesce, The Agony and the Ecstasy (2019)
