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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 [...]

Galerija Skuc (Ljubljana / Slovenia), selected by the curator Zdenka Baddovinac for the invitational CITYSCAPES section of ARCO 06 Madrid offers a view of the Slovenian art scene, with two of the major new artists from that country: son:DA and Ziga Kariz. Alenka Gregoric, artistic director, ARCO / Madrid, professional visit, February 8, 2006. Click [...]

In their collective exhibition „Tut tut tut.“ the Swiss artists and sisters Claudia and Julia Müller present large-scale mural paintings, drawings and sculptures. The mural paintings, especially produced for the Bonner Kunstverein even includes figures of the rhenish carnival. For VernissageTV Christina Végh, the Director of the Bonner Kunstverein guides through the exhibition and describes [...]

“Fortunate Objects: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection” is an exhibition showcasing contemporary art inspired by everyday objects. It features works by artists such as Ai Weiwei, Damien Hirst and José Antonio Hernández-Diez. Fortunate Objects is structured around three main themes: the appropriated object, the surrogate object, and the object utilized. “Fortunate Objects proposes a [...]

During Art Basel Miami Beach Max Protetch Gallery and the Center for Visual Communication presented “A Eating Phylosophy”, a solo exhibition by the New York-based artist Mike Cloud. Held at the 5’000 square foot project exhibition space next door to the Margulies Collection in the Wynwood District, the show featured new paintings of two types: [...]

In 2007, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam / Netherlands came into possession of the prototype of a quite spectacular piece of architecture: Finnish architect Matti Suuronen’s Futuro: house of the future. With its distinctive flying saucer like shape Suuronen’s Futuro is an icon of 1960s design. In 1965 Matti Suuronen was commissioined to design [...]

The World of Madelon Vriesendorp at the Swiss Architecture Museum is an exhibition that for the first time ever brings together Madelon Vriesendorp’s wildly diverse practices from the past forty years. Madelon Vriesendorp is one of the founding members of the OMA Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975 (together with Rem Koolhaas and Elia and [...]

In the second part ot the interview with David Rogers he talks about art and architecture, the partnership with ING and the mixed-use project. David Rogers is architect and urbanist and Senior Vice President of Jerde Partnership. One of his projects, Zlote Tarasy, just won the 2006 Architectural review MIPIM Future Project Award in the [...]

Interview with Marion Kuzmany, responsible for the excursions at the Az W. The Architekturzentrum Wien is a living exhibition space with changing exhibitions and the central aim to mediate architecture as a cultural discipline, as an everyday phenomenon and as a complex process. VTV is talking with Marion Kuzmany about the center’s activities and influence, [...]

“Architecture is undergoing a crisis. Our buildings no longer satisfy people. It is necessary to start to create differently: in place of design and aesthetics to take inspiration from the deeper laws of nature.” This quote by architect Martin Rajniš illustrates the basic concept of the Pavilion of the Czech and Slovak Republic at the [...]

Norbert Wild, curator of the Design Collection, Museum fuer Gestaltung Zuerich: “As a catering concept the take away is based on speed, order and efficiency. Now a widespread form of eating with a constantly expanding culinary range – a far remove from its earlier hamburger dominated definition – the take away also makes considerable demands [...]

Johannes Grenzfurthner talks about monochrom’s first computer game “Soviet Unterzögersdorf“. The game was featured in BoingBoing and Edge (games magazine) chose the game as their “internet game of the month” of November 2005. Monochrom has been invited to present the game at the festival for art and digital culture, Transmediale 2006, in Berlin (project page). [...]

Ettore Sottsass, the most celebrated designer of his generation celebrates his 90th birthday in September. Best known as the founder of the groundbreaking 1980s design group Memphis, this doyen of Italian design has also designed glass and ceramics for Alessi and landmark electronic products for Olivetti. Sottsass has designed an exhibition with the Design Museum [...]

At Design Miami/ Basel 2007 we met Christian Labonte of Audi Design. Christian Labonte has been responsible for the design strategy of carmaker Audi since 2004. Christian Labonte trained as a cabinet-maker before studying architecture in Düsseldorf and industrial design in Essen. He has received many international design awards for the products of the Audi [...]

In Berlin we met the two designers Hrafnkell Birgisson and Sebastian Summa. They talk about some of their works, including “Patch up London”, a “presouvenir”; “tools you bake”, a series of six hand-spun baking bowls developed in collaboration with the metal goods factory Hugo Bräuer in Berlin; “hoch die Tassen”, unique cups made of discarded [...]