Danish fashion designer Henrik Vibskov has designed over 40 unconventional menswear and womenswear collections since founding his eponymous label 20 years ago. His visionary fashion shows, numerous conceptual installations, and impactful museum exhibitions have constantly surprised his diverse and growing fan-base. Radically experimenting with hybrid references in various fields including fashion, film, interiors, music, and […]
Rick Kaufman, founder of Art et Industrie, joined us to share the story of this legendary gallery. Founded in 1977, Art et Industrie soon became the most important venue for avant garde design in the USA. The first gallery in this country to exhibit Studio Alchymia and Ron Arad, it ultimately found its lifeblood in […]
Dutch photographer Iwan Baan gives life to the world’s most impressive contemporary architecture through pictures that depict the narrative of humanity’s role and impact on the world. Architects such as Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Diller Scofidio & Renfro, Toyo Ito, SANAA and Morphosis collaborate with Baan to give their work a […]
Andile Dyalvane, South African ceramic artist, is currently engaged in one of his most ambitious undertakings: a series of sculptural stools inspired by his lexicon of symbols entitled iThongo (Ancestral Dreamscapes). Dyalvane describes this resonant project, which draws on his work as a community healer of the amaXhosa tribe, as “a gathering of dreams – […]
Maria Cornejo’s clothes have a sleek sophistication and a visionary sense of surprise. Her independent fashion brand Zero, was established in 1998 with a pioneering point of view that developed new ways of cutting fabrics based on simple geometric forms and minimum waste. Championed by forward thinking women worldwide, Maria’s long-term commitment to responsible design […]
GT2P – Great Things to People – is a design collective based in Santiago, Chile. Tune in to hear about their experiments in parametric crafting, using such essential physical forces as heat, gravity, and mathematical curvature to shape their designs. The conversation concluded with the first public presentation of their new commission for Design Miami […]
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Marcel Wanders, a name everyone in design knows. But few comprehend the true breadth and depth of his achievement. The great luminary of Dutch design joined us to relate his early experiences in the field, as a part of the Droog Collective; his entrepreneurial ventures since, including work in product design, hospitality, brand collaborations, and […]
Hilary Sample & Michael Meredith, the founding partners of MOS Architects, are engaged in all of the possible aspects of architecture and design. From education, to writing, to drawing, to fabrication, to objects, to exhibitions, to architecture itself, the two lead an innovative and influential practice that focuses on the expansion of the typology of […]
In 1999 Clémence Krzentowski and her husband Didier founded Galerie Kreo in Paris. It immediately set a template for international design, serving as a “laboratory-space” for a newly ambitious field. Over the years since, Kreo has remained central to design discourse, presenting figures such as Virgil Abloh, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Konstantin Grcic, Hella Jongerius, […]
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Having been director of San Francisco’s 2AES/Center for Critical Architecture, New York’s Storefront for Art & Architecture, and Chicago’s Graham Foundation since 2006, Sarah Herda knows a lot about cities. As the current co-director of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, she will be in discussion with architect and 2021 CAB artistic director David Brown to discuss […]
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Suvi Saloniemi, Chief Curator at Design Museum Helsinki, is an inspirational innovator who often stages encounters between design and other art forms, such as music and contemporary art. She joined us to discuss the new architecture and design museum for Helsinki, currently in development, as well as her thoughts on curatorial response to the events […]
