Contract furnishings provider, Hightower received multiple awards at NeoCon 2021, including IIDA's 'Best Small Showroom' (under 4,000 sf) and 'Best of Competition' for its newly designed Chicago showroom.
Humanscale welcomes Elizabeth Margles to its Marketing Division in the role of Chief Marketing Officer. Margles comes to Humanscale with twenty years of experience in design, fashion and retail and a background in public relations and advertising.
The exclusive relationship with Kontrol's BioCloud® Technology will provide real-time detection of airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 to help make workplaces safer as organizations return to the office.
In the last nine years imm cologne has changed appreciably under its Creative Director Dick Spierenburg. Fabian Peters spoke to the designer about innovative concepts, talented young designers and his "side job" at the Museum of Applied Art Cologne (MAKK).
Microsoft Envision 2017 showcased cutting-edge technology and its impact on the cars we drive and the places we work. Keane and Gavin showcased Creative Spaces — an ecosystem of technology-enabled spaces designed to support all the stages of the creative process including focus, co-creation, ideation, experimentation and respite. The two leaders talked about their shared mission — to help people unlock their potential. They also demonstrated how by working together their teams designed spaces that help people get the most from their technology, allowing them to easily move from one setting to another without interrupting the flow of creative work.
In an intermingling of performance art, conceptual installation, and notable design history, Thom Browne is staging a scenographic tableau of historic desks at this year’s design miami/ basel. For the fair’s annual design at large program, the American fashion designer has assembled fifteen of the most significant desks from the last century — including pieces from the likes of jean prouvé and ron arad. Positioned opposite the vast grid of furniture is a conceptual landscape of trees and fabric animals, which Browne presented at his fall/winter men’s runway show back in 2014.
American design retailer Luminaire (now part of Haworth) is presenting a retrospective of Italian architect and designer Antonio Citterio in its Chicago showroom. Coinciding with design fair Neocon, the exhibition highlights the connections between processes, products and designs in Citterio’s work, putting his pieces for brands such as B&B Italia, Vitra and Kartell in the spotlight.
Starting June 17, the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., will host “Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe”—the U.S. debut of a traveling exhibit of Girard’s work that includes furniture, textiles, graphics, architecture, sculptures, and drawings. Pieces from his collection of folk art—from which he drew inspiration—will also be on view. The exhibit is organized by the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, where it was on view last fall.
The modular furniture of influential German designer Dieter Rams is the focus of an exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein.
The Modular World exhibition is billed as the first to primarily focus on Rams' furniture – as opposed to the electrical goods he iconically designed in his 40 years as head of product design for Braun.
Beginning November 18th and running through March 12, 2017, the VITRA Design Museum is presenting an exhibition called ‘dieter rams: modular world’, showcasing the works of Dieter Rams, one of the most influential German designers. The show features a selection of the furnishings and electrical appliances designed by Rams, whose designs for the Braun company are legendary and his design principles are more relevant today than ever.
Midcentury mania is in full swing, and even the late, great Zaha Hadid couldn’t stay away. With her untimely death in March, Hadid left behind a slew of works in progress, including her final furniture collection for long-time friend and gallerist David Gill. Designed by Hadid in close collaboration with Patrik Schumacher, current principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, UltraStellar was Inspired by wooden pieces from the ‘50s and ‘60s.
Though the materials—walnut and leather—feel familiar and vintage, the forms are predictably Zaha, which is to say, out of this world. Fluidity and a sense of weightlessness pervade the series, which comprises a four-piece coffee table that encloses a hole, a large dining table with a glass eye in the middle, and arched chairs. UltraStellar is on view at David Gill Gallery in London through October 2016.
A new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), How Should We Live: Propositions for the Modern Interior, which opens this weekend, argues that the social shifts kicked off changes in our domestic spaces began in the late ‘20s and ‘30s, when a cadre of radial designers and architects, often women who haven’t fully gotten their due, reshaped space in a way that still influences modern life. Ideas of efficiency, free-flowing space, modern materials, and better design unshackling us from household drudgery—still part of the dialogue today—were pioneered generations ago.
The Modern Chair is "a tasty morsel of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago [that] reveals why architecture and design ought to be viewed together rather than in separate silos," the Chicago Tribune wrote this week. The feature, published August 26, spotlights the show of twelve chairs by modern masters—including those by Knoll designers Harry Bertoia, Eero Saarinen and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe—which anticipates the museum's first permanent architecture and design installation in an expanded suite of galleries designed by Renzo Piano, slated to reopen Fall 2017.
Small people need small chairs. Children’s furniture and design has always been an area of interest for the greats, as well as their storied or private clients; but the world of diminutive design isn’t just taking adult-size thinking and shrinking it down.
'Great child design is inspired by the needs of children; there is [a] way in which children use their bodies with furniture that adults do not even think of,' says Lora Appleton of Kinder Modern. The expertly curated gallery of 20th and 21st century children’s design has paired up with Miami’s Gallery Diet for 'Wrap Your Arms Around Me', a new exhibition running until 1 September. Children are 'physically smaller than us, playful but also in need of parameters or guidance', Appleton explains. 'The show is specifically a reference to this duality.'
As part of its Pacific Standard Time exhibition initiative, the Getty Museum enlisted renowned performer Ice Cube to make a promotional video and poster.
Designed by Quadrangle, GO AWAY! The Best of Workplace is an island of mystery and calm on the activated design show floor. It allows guests to rest, relax, recharge. A place that allows you to both be alone and to meet, furnished with the best that workplace thought leaders are offering from Haworth, Keilhauer, Steelcase, Teknion and more. The 2,000 sq. ft. space illustrates the possibilities of the ever-changing definition of workspace. This transformative installation combines elements of stage design, sight, sound, scent and interaction, challenging preconceptions of what makes a workplace. GO AWAY! is a feature, education, show and showroom experience program. No one really knows what the future workplace will be, but it will be everywhere.
From triple-screen films to plywood chairs, the multi-disciplinary careers of American Modernist design duo Charles and Ray Eames are the focus of an exhibition at London's Barbican Centre.
