DESIGN NEWS
A selection of news related to interior design, architecture, product design and art, from a wide range of international publications.
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ARCHITECTURE
Tadao Ando: Iwaki Museum. The Pacific Ocean as perseverance and danger, pride and presence. Stoic, hard features, from the heavy labor of dealing with a nature that cannot be tamed.
from Interni
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INTERIOR DESIGN
Princi Bakery Duomo. Claudio Silvestrin, in a long narrow space with just two shop windows, has created an environment rich in symbolic values associated with the basic historical value of the principal food of western civilization: bread. from Interni
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DESIGNERS
Ettore Sottsass .This is an interview from september 7 2000.
from designboom
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ART
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama
YBCA First Floor Galleries
Dec 1, 2007–Mar 16, 2008
Curated by Randy Rosenberg and organized by the Committee of 100 for Tibet and The Dalai Lama Foundation. Works by more than 88 artists from 30 countries in a landmark exhibition that offers up art as a lens through which we experience our common humanity. Established and emerging artists, celebrities and others, have been invited to create works that capture the essence of His Holiness and his mission of peace. The exhibition, which has been attracting large crowds at every tour venue from Los Angeles to New York, has an explicitly moral and educational purpose: to promote engagement with essential questions of values and ethics. Artists include Marina Abramovic, Seyed Alavi, Laurie Anderson, Richard Avedon, Sanford Biggers, Squeak Carnwath, Long-Bin Chen, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Chuck Close, Santiago Cucullu, Binh Danh, Richard Gere, Jim Hodges, Jenny Holzer, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Anish Kapoor, Kimsooja, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Michal Rovner, Sebastiao Salgado, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Mike and Doug Starn, Pat Steir, Adriana Varejao, Bill Viola, William Wiley, Negishi Yoshiro and many more. YBCA
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BOOKS
Dino Gavina
UltrarazionaleUltramobile.
This book illustrates the work of Dino Gavina, which was significant because of the pioneering role he played in international design and the contemporary nature of his constant quest for a meeting point between the forms of art and the needs of industrial production. from Compositori
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EVENTS
An exhibition of black and white photography by Pop Art icon Andy Warhol is now on at London’s Timothy Taylor Gallery until 29 February. ‘Portraits and Landscapes’ is a compilation of unseen photographs shot by the seminal artist during the last ten years of Warhol’s life and work, and coincides with the 21st anniversary of his death. from Wallpaper
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Welcome to our monthly newsletter, DZINE's attempt to bring attention to interesting projects, products and matters related to design. Our goal is to provide a 360 degree view of design, not only relating to furniture, interior design and architecture, but also art, product design and whatever else inspires us. With this newsletter we hope to inform you of new products and happenings at DZINE, but more importantly to provide another window into the design world from a different, wordly, perhaps unconventional perspective. We hope you enjoy it.
We wish everyone a prosperous and inspired 2008!
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FOCUS
This month we would like to give special attention the death of one of the masters of architecture and design, Ettore Sottsass. He died on December 31st, 2007 at his home on Via San Tomaso in Milan.
"Italian postmodernist designer who brought meaning to everyday objects" is the title of this obituary from his office Sottsass associati. Also read the interview from September 7, 2000 from designboom (see on the left) and an article on his death in The New York Times.
His last exhibition "Vorrei sapere perche`" (I'd like to know why) is going to be in Trieste at the Salone degli Incanti dell’ex Pescheria (Italy) until March 2, 2008. "I am thinking of a small exhibition, but very emotional. I'd like to see people crying, with an emotion," were his words at the presentation.
-ori.jpg) The poster for Sottsass' last exhibition.
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New at DZINE
The Universal bath line by Boffi designed by Piero Lissoni, with integrated sink and countertop in white Cristal Plant and cabinets in walnut. Also pictured are the Minimal faucet, Stage mirror and Sling chaise, all by Boffi.
  
Also new at DZINE is the Swim tub by Piero Lissoni for Boffi. Various dimensions, configurations and finishes available and the faucet from the Minimal series by Giulio Gianturco for Boffi, with spout integrated water control.
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FUTURE
This article was in the Datebook of the San Francisco Chronicle, we found it very interesting and inspiring. Also worth a little more attention.
By John King
Forty-story agricultural towers by Fougeron Architecture
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New at DZINE
The System NXT library by Porro, below, was produced for the Salone del Mobile 2007 with the limited edition orange ladder. It is currently installed at DZINE.
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