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Nomad St Moritz 2020

Collecting Design — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:48:18 +0000

Nomad St Moritz 2020 opens its doors today, returning to the prestigious Chesa Planta mansion in the heart of the Swiss Alps. Attendance is by invitation only (application to register on the website) which makes Nomad an exclusive and intimate design fair experience in contrast to the increasing scale of many other global fairs.

PAD London 2019

Collecting Design — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 12:06:19 +0100

PAD stands for Pavillion des Arts et du Design, for twenty years or so staring in Paris in the Tuileries gardens at the footsteps of the Louvre. A very French affair with design connecting with and elevating itself to the position of high art destined for the connoisseurial french market.

Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019

Collecting Design — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 15:45:06 +0100

The 2019 Chicago architectural biennial which is spread over roughly 40 venues, aims to serve as a hub for different and great ideas. Unlike previous iterations there is no single focus driving the event. Rather, there are 4 distinct themes behind the exhibition, “no land beyond”, “appearances and erasures”, “rights and reclamation” and “common ground”.

VOLTA Basel – Announcing new location near Voltaplatz

Collecting Design — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 07:38:01 +0100

VOLTA14 moves location for the upcoming 2018 edition, inaugurating the former COOP distribution center at Elsässerstrasse 215, adjacent to Novartis Campus, the Basel headquarters of the global healthcare company.

Pavilion of Estonia at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition

Collecting Design — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:58:46 +0100

The Estonian Centre of Architecture presents the exhibition Weak Monument in the Pavilion of Estonia at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (May 26th - November 25th, 2018), entitled Freespace, and curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara.

Collect 2018

Collecting Design — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 08:34:09 +0000

Collect brings together 40 galleries from four continents for a celebration of making, extraordinary in both scale and scope.

Operæ: Independent Design Fair

Collecting Design — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:02:54 +0000

The eighth edition of Operæ gathers the public and the experts around projects focused on materials as well as on processes and craft techniques.

Design Indaba Conference 2018

Collecting Design — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:20:23 +0000

The Design Indaba conference, taking place from 21-23 February 2018, is going beyond design to create a multi-sensory event where you can hear, see, learn and experience the future of creative thinking and design activism.

Nomad Monaco 2018: Villa La Vigie

Collecting Design — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 09:49:50 +0000

Nomad: the new traveling showcase for collectable design

Nomad revisits the classic idea of fairs and exhibitions to innovate a new format for the XXI century. A travelling event for collectable design, nomad brings together a selection of the world’s leading galleries in incredible architectural locations. Conceived by Giorgio Pace and Nicolas Bellavance-lecompte, nomad establishes a unique dialog between gallery works and a very personal context, creating a community of individuals looking for a different experience.

Serpentine Pavilion Beijing 2018

Collecting Design — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 08:28:01 +0000

Modelled on the Serpentine’s annual Pavilion commission in London’s Royal Park of Kensington Gardens, the inaugural Serpentine Pavilion Beijing will launch in May 2018 at the opening of WF CENTRAL on Wangfujing in Beijing’s Dongcheng District.