Month of June, 2008

Design With Chandelier by Jurgen Bey for Pierre Bergé & Associés

Desk With Chandelier

Unique piece, Limited edition of 2 examples.

Part of the Exhibition Witness Flat by Jurgen Bey

London is widely considered one of the leading cultural melting pots of the world. The vast city is home to an enormous diversity of talent, all of whom are attracted by its vibrancy and ever-changing ability to push creative boundaries. London's talent is sought after and spreads its wings far and wide across the globe, but always comes back to roost.

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Jurgen Bey Dining Chair - Pierre Bergé & associés

Jurgen Bey " Witness Flat"

12th June - 30th June '08

La Galerie de Pierre Bergé & associés
Place du Grand Sablon 40 - 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

In their new gallery space uniquely devoted to Design La Galerie de Pierre Bergé & associés presents Witness Flat, an exhibition of newly commissioned work by Jurgen Bey.

ScribbleLamp

Thout

The ScribbleLamp is formed by a single cloth-sheathed cord threaded through a punctured frame. The cord functions both as the energy conduit for the bulb and as the scrim, casting a frenzy of shadows.

Thout has also created a similar more serene version called the SpoolLamp.

www.thout.ca

Please Do Not Sit

6th June - 26th July '08

ToolsGalerie
119 rue vieille du temple, 75003 Paris

ToolsGalerie presents ‘Please do not sit’ an exhibition dedicated to seating, or perhaps, as the title eludes, non-seating.

Baldaquin de Pury - Fiberglass, enamel pearlescent finish, internal steel structure - Asymptote

Atmospherics

5th June - 28th June '08

Phillips de Pury & Company, New York
450 West 15th St. New York, NY 10011

Phillips de Pury & Company, New York presents ‘Atmospherics’ a gallery exhibition of ‘Object Architecture’ by Asymptote founder Hani Rashid.

Michael Craig Martin - Sudeley Pitchfork, 2008 - Installation image, The Artists' Playground, 2008 Photography ©Duncan Ward 2008

Sudeley Castle Reconstruction #3 The Artists' Playground

1st June-31st October

Sudeley Castle
Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, UK

Leading international artists and designers including Jeppe Hein, Carsten Höller, Zaha Hadid and Arik Levy have been specially commissioned to take part in 'Artists’ Playground', an exhibition curated by Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst and Elliot McDonald and presented in partnership with Phillips de Pury & Company.

Dubai Next - Jalal Abuthina - Vitra Design Museum

Dubai Next: Face of 21st Century Culture

5th June - 14th September '08

Firestation, Vitra Campus,
Weil am Rhein

‘Dubai Next: Face of 21st Century Culture’ is the first project being developed under the auspices of the recently founded, Dubai Culture & Arts Authority.

Prototypes And Experiments

From 30th May '08

The Aram Gallery
110 Drury Lane, London, WC2B 5SG

On May 30th The Aram Gallery will open 'Prototypes And Experiments' -
a selling exhibition featuring prototypes and experimental designs sourced directly from designers’ studios.

R&Sie(n)/François Roche, Stéphanie Lavaux: Water Flux, Evolene, Schweiz (2009) ©François Roche/R&Sie(n)

Re-Sampling Ornament

1st June - 29th September '08

Swiss Architecture Museum
Steinenberg 7, Postfach 911, Basel

Exactly 100 years after Adolf Loos wrote Ornament and Crime, a manifesto that effectively relegated ornament in architecture to the peripheries of the discourse, the Swiss Architecture Museum is bringing it back to the forefront of architectural conversation with its exhibition “Re-sampling Ornament”.

Joe Colombo in Elda Lounge Chair, c. 1967 - Ignazia Favata/Studio Joe Colombo, Milan

Joe Colombo: Design and the Invention of the Future

6th June - 31st August '08

Kunsthaus Graz am
Landesmuseum Joanneum
Lendkai 1, A-8020 Graz

The exhibition "Joe Colombo - Design and the Invention of the Future" is the first international retrospective dedicated to his work.

Black Widow by Wendell Castle, 2007 - Photo Spenser Tsai

New Work By Wendell Castle

Now - 25th July '08

Barry Friedman Ltd.
515 West 26th Street, New York

From now until June 21st Barry Friedman Ltd will be presenting an exhibition of new limited edition and unique works by the celebrated American designer Wendell Castle.

FIT

15th May - 28th June '08

Fat Galerie
1 Rue Dupetit-Thouars,
Angle Rue De Picardi, Paris 3ème

Fat Galerie presents FIT, an exhibition featuring the work of Peter Marigold and Raw Edges Design Studio.

Focusing on concepts of alteration and adaptation, the exhibition will showcase a series of objects derived through a rich variety of source material and techniques.