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At the booth of Galerie Haas & Fischer at VOLTA New York, artist Joshua Callaghan presented his new work The 100 Year Anniversary Commemorative Ford Model-T Lamp and Alarm Clock. The Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie and Flivver) was an automobile produced by Henry Ford’s Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927. [...]

Isa Genzken is the artist of the German contribution to the 52nd International Art Exhibition of the Biennale in Venice. For more than thirty years, Isa Genzken (born in 1948) has been producing a diverse oeuvre. Genzken’s extensive body of work includes sculpture and installations as well as photographs, collages and films. The title of [...]

René Burri, born in Zurich in 1933, is known world-wide as one of the most important photographers of our times. Impressions from the opening reception, October 14, 2005, Museum of Design Zurich. Click image or this link to watch video. Related Articles:VernissageTV PDF Magazine No. 1Interview with René Burri, part 1 / Museum für Gestaltung [...]

The first solo exhibition of the New York based artist Sarah Oppenheimer at Duve Berlin presents P21 x P41, two installations with periscope like structures. P41, for example, allows the viewer to peer into the private office area of the gallery. Two holes in a wall, one above the other, allow having two lines of [...]

Aqua Art Miami is a new alternative art fair in its second year, taking place concurrently with Art Basel Miami Beach, December 7-10, 2006. Organized by Seattle artists and dealers, this intimate fair features 40 contemporary art galleries from the US and Canada, with an emphasis on west coast galleries and emerging artists. (PR Aqua). [...]

Together with Jan Kaplicky Amanda Levete heads Future Systems, an architectural and design practice based in London. Future Systems realized many prestigious projects such as retails designs for Comme des Garçons in New York, Tokyo and Paris and the Selfridges department store in Birmingham. For Established & Sons Amanda Levete designed the sofa “Chester” and [...]

The Golden Lion for best artist in curator Daniel Birnbaum’s Fare Mondi / Making Worlds art exhibition at the 53rd Venice Biennale went to German artist Tobias Rehberger. Tobias Rehberger designed the cafeteria at the Biennale pavilion (formerly known as Italian Pavilion). The jury stated: “Tobias Rehberger is awarded the Golden Lion as best artist [...]

During The Armory Show Week 2010, French architect Jean Nouvel was in New York for the preview of his new and nearly completed residential tower called 100 11th Avenue. The building is located at the intersection of 19th Street and the West Side Highway, along the Hudson River in Manhattan and facing another building by [...]

For the 2009 edition of the design fair Design Miami, architect and designer Greg Lynn created the HSBC Lounge and a large installation for Swarovski Crystal Palace. Greg Lynn’s installation for Swarovski extends over 80 square metres and reaches over seven metres in heigh. The ‘walls’ and ‘ceiling’ are made of Swarovski crystal-encrusted suspended panels [...]

The new museum for modern and contemporary art, the Museion Bozen Bolzano, Italy, was designed by the Berlin-based architects KSV Krüger Schubert Vandreike. At the occasion of the inauguration of the new museum, VernissageTV met with Torsten Krüger, Christiane Schuberth, Bertram Vandreike who guided us through the Museion and explained the concept behind the building [...]

At Design Miami Basel 2009 Natalie Kovacs curated a show for Carpenters Workshop Gallery entitled Never-Ever Land. Located at the Design Miami entrance, Never-Ever land presented an alternative functional sculpture garden, “exploring the possibility for design to entertain, enliven and enlighten”. Among the pieces on display were the Sensory Deprivation Skull by Atelier van Lieshout, [...]

rAndom International is a London-based collective set up in 2002 by Stuart Wood, Flo Ortkrass and Hannes Koch. Their work explores the conflict between reinterpreting the cold nature of digital and the often hands-on approach of analogue. Most of their work is interactive with an intense curiosity applied to experimental processes. rAndom International have won [...]

The VitraHaus is the newest addition to the architecture park that the furniture company Vitra has realized during the last decades on their company site. The premises now features architecture by Nicholas Grimshaw (who realized the first building after a blaze that destroyed the old building and conceived the master plan for the site), Zaha [...]

At Design Miami 2008, industrial designer Ross Lovegrove presented a chandelier / table ensemble titled “Liquid Space” that he created for Swarovski Crystal Palace. In this conversation with Dr. Albrecht Bangert, Nadja Swarovski talks about the connection between the luxury industry and design, the aesthetics and function of Ross Lovegrove’s “Liquid Space”, the Swarovski Crystal [...]

Piero Lissoni is one of the designers who have been commissioned to give the luxury resort Dellis Cay a shape. He has designed the Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay and The Residences at Mandarin Oriental. Piero Lissoni was born in 1956 in Seregno, Italy. He studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. Piero Lissoni lives and [...]