5 New Design Exhibitions for March 2017
For George Orwell nothing heralded spring quite like the re-appearance of toads, emerging from their subterranean hibernation and setting off, once again, on life’s great cycle.
Our toads are the flurry of new design and architecture exhibitions which open globally every March, as the international museum and gallery community awake from their winter slumber.
Our highlights for March 2017, featuring new exhibitions in Bielefeld, Helsinki, Weil am Rhein, Utrecht and Paris
5 New Design Exhibitions for September 2016
Slowly but surely September is becoming Europe’s summer. Whereas July and August increasingly fail to produce anything even vaguely “summery”,
Design European Championship 2016: Review and Preview
After four weeks of competition at venues throughout France the 2016 Design EM prepares to bid adieu, au revoir and
5 New Design Exhibitions for May 2016
Whereas April showers tend to make you wet, grumpy and late, May showers are much more agreeable – or more
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Henry van de Velde not only helped define Art Nouveau, he was also party to Art Nouveau’s christening; even if
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“This is a job of work whose goal is precision, delicacy, amiability and attentiveness: being attentive to people, uses, buildings,
smow blog Design Calendar: January 31st 1977 – Inauguration of Le Centre Pompidou, Paris
In 1969 the then French President Georges Pompidou announced his desire that Paris should posses a large museum dedicated to
smow blog compact: Le Corbusier – The Measures of Man at the Centre Pompidou, Paris
On days when his sketches didn’t meet with his own, self-critical, approval, the Swiss architect and urban planner Le Corbusier
smow blog compact: D’Days Paris 2015
From June 1st until June 7th the 15th D’Days Paris will be staged under the theme “Experience” Which is hopefully
5 New Design Exhibitions for April 2015
“Who’s the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?” asks Obi-Wan Kenobi, more or less rhetorically, in
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Until December 20th the Paris dépendance of Galerie kreo is presenting an exhibition dedicated to the vivacious variety of contemporary
5 New Design Exhibitions for October 2014
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers” exclaims Anne Shirley in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s 1908 novel
5 New Design Exhibitions for May 2014
Mayday! Mayday! Don’t panic. It’s just a public holiday. You’ll survive. Barbecue something…… And afterwards, when everyone else is back
(smow) blog Design Calendar: April 28th 1925 – L’Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes opens in Paris
“What is the Paris Exposition?”, asked Roger Gilman in the September 1925 edition of The Art Bulletin, “It is a
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By way of unwinding ahead of his forthcoming solo exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum, German designer Konstantin Grcic is
Springtime in Paris: Ron Arad and Jasper Morrison exhibitions
The evenings are getting longer and the rain is a little warmer: Spring is unquestionably approaching. And with the rising