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6/12/2006

Design Miami/ 2006

Different venues, Miami

The new forum for collecting, exhibiting, discussing and creating design.

Based on the tremendous success in its debut year, Design Miami/ is poised to become the most prominent and meaningful forum for international design, bringing together the most influential designers, collectors, dealers, curators and critics from around the world to further the current design culture.

Design Miami/ presents the best international design galleries exhibiting extraordinary historic and contemporary design. This unique show will be held in the Miami Design District from 8 - 10 December 2006. The Vernissage is by invitation only from 8pm until Midnight on 7 December.

In order to further dialogue about design, Design Miami/ also features Design Talks, Design Satellite Exhibitions, art/design installations, and other various collaborations with designers, critics, curators, cultural institutions, gallerists and collectors throughout the Miami Design District.

Design Miami/ is pleased to present the 2006 Designer of the Year Award to Marc Newson.

Hosts Dynamic Satellite Exhibitions By: The Georges Pompidou Art & Culture Foundation, Moss Gallery, Established & Sons, Barry Friedman Ltd. & Droog Design, R20th Century Gallery & Steuben Glass, Contrasts Gallery, Byblos Gallery And Metropolis Magazine

Design Miami/, the global forum for collecting, exhibiting, discussing and creating design, will host a series of satellite exhibitions by The Georges Pompidou Art & Culture Foundation, Moss Gallery, Established & Sons, Barry Friedman Ltd. & Droog Design, R20th Century Gallery & Steuben Glass, Contrasts Gallery, Byblos and Metropolis Magazine. The satellite exhibitions will present a diverse array of design, from rare works by pioneering French modernists to one-off and limited editions pieces by cutting-edge contemporary designers commissioned especially for Design Miami/.

The satellite exhibitions will take place in locations throughout the Miami Design District and will be on view Thursday, December 7th from 8:00pm until Midnight during the Design Miami/ Vernissage (by invitation only).

The satellite exhibitions will be open to the public Friday, December 8th from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm; Saturday, December 9th from 11:00 am to Midnight; and Sunday, December 10th from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm. Design Miami/ will run December 8 - 10 in the Moore Building, 4040 NE 2nd Avenue. Design Miami/ will host the following Satellite Exhibitions:

French Modern Design Sources
Presented by The Georges Pompidou Art & Culture Foundation
Collins Building, 139 NE 39th Street

The Georges Pompidou Art & Culture Foundation will present French Modern Sources, an exhibition of more than forty-five pieces by pioneers of French modern design from the collection of the Centre Pompidou (Muse'e national d'art moderne, Paris). For Design Miami/, the Foundation will bring significant works of French Modernism never before seen in the U.S. French Modern Sources focuses on the work of members of the French Union of Modern Artists (U.A.M.), a group formed in the late 1920s in reaction to the prevailing conservative design aesthetic. Celebrated architects and designers such as: Le Corbusier, Pierre Chareau, Jean Prouve', Eileen Gray and Charlotte Perriand are represented by furniture, models drawings and photographs. Curated by Fre'de'ric Migayrou, head of the Architecture and Design department at Centre Pompidou, the exhibition springs from the curator's first impressions of the distinct Art Deco style of Miami's South Beach.

"Live! From Our Studios"
Presented by Moss Gallery New York
Buena Vista Building, 180 NE 39th Street, Suite 101

Moss Gallery New York will present, "Live! From Our Studios," an installation of specially commissioned, monumental pieces from seven key contemporary designers, drawing directly from one-off or limited edition studio work.

Violating the classical boundaries drawn between art and design, these studios continue, presumptuously, to expand the definition of both, forging a new 'functional expressiveness' emblematic of a cross-boarder unification of both disciplines. Moss Gallery is dedicated to exploring this shifting, evolving dialogue.

"Live! From Our Studios" will feature the work of: Studio Job (Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel), Belgium; Hella Jongerius, the Netherlands; Maarten Baas, the Netherlands; Tord Boontje, France; Fernando and Humberto Campana, Brazil; Constantin Boym, USA; and Massimiliano Adami, Italy.

Established & Sons, UK
Buick Building, 3841 NE 2nd Avenue

Established & Sons will introduce the new Black Edition Aqua Table by the pioneering architect Zaha Hadid. Established & Sons have recently produced a collection of ground-breaking limited edition designs by Hadid entitled 'Seamless' for a selling auction at Phillips de Pury & Company in New York. Direct from the recent launch of that collection, a silicone-sealed version of the spectacular Gyre chair will be on display. An exhibition of limited edition works including the wooden Drift bench by Future Systems architect Amanda Levete, and the mirror-polished aluminium Zero-In table, the first limited edition design from distinguished design practice BarberOsgerby, will also be on show.

Established & Sons were the proud recipients of the Design Miami/Basel 'Designers of The Future Award' in June 2006. The award was offered in acknowledgement of Established & Sons' success in exemplifying a new model for design companies in the 21st century.

Smart Deco
Presented by Barry Friedman Ltd. and Droog Design
Moore Building, North Wing, 4040 NE 2nd Avenue

Barry Friedman Ltd. and Droog Design present Smart Deco, a period room of the 21st century that represents an authentic expression reflecting the zeitgeist of cutting-edge design, as well as timeless necessity.

The Smart Deco period room is furnished with specially designed works, all small editions, created by 10 of Europe's most innovative designers, architects and artists, including Marcel Wanders, Joris Laarman and Atelier van Lieshout. Each participant was asked to reflect on the concept of a contemporary period room and determine which elements he or she wanted to create. Each had complete freedom to choose forms, materials and aesthetics with the final result curated by Droog Design and Barry Friedman Gallery Ltd. With a common commitment to engage the viewer and to create works of the highest quality, the installation will emphasize the blurring of boundaries between art and design, traditional fine craftsmanship and innovative high-tech concepts and materials.

The products are smart and decorative. The result is Smart Deco. All works will be available through Barry Friedman Ltd. in the United States and Droog Design in Europe.

NEW OBJECTS: USA
Presented by R20th Century Gallery and Steuben Glass
Mosaic Building, 155 NE 40th Street

NEW OBJECTS: USA will present new work by four eminent American designers carrying time-honored techniques of handmaking into the 21st century. Advancing a new vision of organic Modernism and proving craft a radical approach to contemporary art and design, Wendell Castle, Michele Oka Doner, Ted Muehling and Jeff Zimmerman abstract forms and phenomena found in nature to produce to objects of extraordinary power and elegance.

Presented by R20th Century and Steuben Glass, NEW OBJECTS: USA refers to the intentions and surprises of the legendary landmark museum exhibition "Objects: USA," mounted in 1969 by the Smithsonian Institution to reveal the profound relationship between Modern design and craft in America. Two of the artists presented in that historic exhibition - Castle and Oka Doner - will be shown together again for the first time in NEW OBJECTS: USA, each debuting important new collections in Miami.

Paula Hayes/Hugo Franca
Presented by R20th Century Gallery
Mosaic Building
155 NE 40th Street
R20th Century and Salon 94 will present a 2-person satellite exhibition of works by Paula Hayes and Hugo Franca.

Well-known for her use of ephemeral and organic mediums, Paula Hayes questions the idea of living plants as authored artworks with her glass terrariums and biomorphic silicone planters where plants are literally self- contained in unique hand-blown glass or silicone planters. For Design Miami/, R20th will exhibit a selection of her new glass terrariums, silicone planters as well as an installation of birdhouses from her new Blue Bird Series.

Working in the same tradition as modernist Brazilian masters such as Jose Zanine and Jorge Zalszupin, Hugo Franca is best known for his reverential use of raw materials that are characteristically Brazilian. Working only with fallen trees and old abandoned Indian canoes, Franca's exquisitely sculpted furniture are extremely labor-intensive as he favors the use of the "pequi", a gigantic oleaginous tree which averages 45 meters in height and 2 meters in girth. Franca manually crafts each of his work, sometimes opening grooves in the wood to expose features that the material is unable to express on its own, other times smoothing it to rediscover its curves that suggests its natural organic forms.

Artectonics: New Age Creativity

Presented by Contrasts Gallery
Marcy Building, 3850 North Miami Avenue

Contrasts Gallery has commissioned a number of international designers to create works in conjunction with traditional Chinese craftsmen, merging contemporary vision with a unique openness and ability to make things materialize.

This year, Contrasts will exhibit oversized, glazed vases measuring over three meters high. The vases, which merge traditional Chinese craftsmanship with a contemporary aesthetic, were originally commissioned for the exhibition La France Mandarine, which took place at the National Art Museum, Beijing, in March 2005. In addition, Contrasts will introduce the design collaborative, Wokmedia, to Miami for the first time. Contrasts commissioned these artists, who worked in collaboration with Chinese craftsmen, to create an installation of broken porcelain eggs. Within the installation, some of the porcelain eggs hang on wire from the ceiling, while others rest on the ground, and a number of the eggs are painted with illustrations on the inside. When encountered, each egg presents the viewer with a moment of discovery, confronting him/her with something unexpected. The installation gives a modern and hip shape to a traditional medium.

Out of True
Presented by Byblos
Chatham Building, 155 NE 40th Street

Byblos will present Out of True, an exhibition curated by Micaela Giovannotti and Joyce Korotkin that features the work of artists including: Eric Baudelaire, Sebastiaan Bremer, Jay Davis, Robert Lazzarini, Joshua Levine, Beatriz Millar, Enrico Tommaso de Paris, Pawel Wojtasik, Tobias Wong and Cheryl Yun, amongst others.

Out of True is an architectural term for skewed construction and highlights a vision of the contemporary world as one in which reality is no longer in alignment with expectation. As the familiar present fades before our eyes through advances in science and technology, the indeterminate future fuels anxiety about our rapidly obsolescing world.

Foreboding implications that all is neither well nor what it seems flow like an undercurrent throughout this exhibition. Such disquieting works about our increasingly misaligned world beg the question of whether or not we are in control of what we're unleashing.

Metropolis View: 25 Years Behind the Lens
Presented by Metropolis Magazine
Buena Vista Building, 180 NE 39th Street, Suite 222

Metropolis Magazine examines contemporary life through design— architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, craft, planning and preservation. Subjects range from the sprawling urban environment to intimate living spaces to small objects of everyday use. This exhibition will present the work of photographers who have collaborated with Metropolis over the past 25 years and whose work, as a group, provides a visual representation of the global metropolis.

ABOUT DESIGN MIAMI/
Design Miami/ is the global forum for collecting, exhibiting, discussing and creating design. With week-long annual shows presented in conjunction with the Art Basel fairs in Miami, Florida and Basel, Switzerland, Design Miami/ brings together the world's most influential dealers, designers, collectors, curators and critics to celebrate and explore the ever-shifting boundaries of design.

Satellite Exhibition Show Hours

Thursday, December 7, 2006 8pm - 12midnight
Design Miami/ VIP Vernissage - by invitation only

Friday, December 8, 2006 9am - 7pm

Saturday, December 9, 2006 11am - 12midnight

Sunday, December 10, 2006 11am - 7pm

Press Contact:
Michelle DiLello/Dan Schwartz Susan Grant Lewin Associates 212-947-4557

The Vernissage is by invitation only from 8pm until Midnight on 7 December. http://www.miamidesigndistrict.net

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