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Going Live Today: A New Layer II

November, 30 2017

The second phase of the Taiwan-based A New Layer project, featuring contemporary design objects and furniture made with traditional local craftsmanship, goes live today

Everything We Touch in Dubai

November, 29 2017

The most recent version of Paula Zuccotti’s series, a pop-up installation during the Dubai Design Week, highlighted the city’s position as a cross-cultural hub

Paola Navone Does Stockholm

November, 28 2017

The Italian designer is the guest of honour of the 2018 Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair. We discussed the inspiration behind the installation that will occupy the fair’s entrance hall.

The Silent Call of Emirati Design

November, 27 2017

In terms of international visibility, Dubai-born designer Khalid Shafar is leading the pack: Czech brand Lasvit recently unveiled a prayer-inspired light installation, their first collaboration together

Frank Stella at NSU Art Museum

November, 24 2017

The NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale opened a comprehensive Frank Stella exhibtion earlier this month….

Jewelry of Ideas at Cooper Hewitt

November, 23 2017

Leading New York art and design world figure Susan Grant Lewin gifts key works from her seminal jewellery collection to the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum. An honorary exhibition runs till 28 May 2018.

Konekting New York’s Chinatown

November, 23 2017

Mother-daughter design duo Helena and Natasha Sultan have set base in New York’s Chinatown with a showroom for their artisanal furniture brand Konekt

Rent the Place DIY – Wypożycz sobie local – Katowice

November, 23 2017

A social campaign for the return of empty buildings in Katowice city centre to urban life in Katowice, Poland Fundacja Napraw Sobie Miasto (“Fix Your City” Foundation) addressed the issue of empty buildings in 2013,

The Timeless Appeal of Christa Reniers

November, 22 2017

Christa Reniers designs jewellery with one person in mind: herself. And yet, some of her pieces have become timeless classics for women of several generations. How come?

Abwab: Opening Doors for MENASA Designers

November, 21 2017

At this year’s Dubai Design Week, the Abwab exhibition showcased the work of more than 40 regional designers who use objects to blend the past and present of their countries

A New Bohème Auction Style at Leclere

November, 20 2017

Bohème reflects the contemporary vision of Leclere, mixing and matching all kind of materials, prints and patterns, with no decorative codes nor chronological order.

An Invitation from Lænd

November, 19 2017

Anne Masson, Eric Chevalier and Diane Steverlynck meet at the crossroads of carpets, blankets and mirrors in a new exhibition at the Valerie Traan Gallery in Antwerp

Bec Brittain’s Resolute

November, 17 2017

New York’s Future Perfect mounts an exhibition of Bec Brittain’s latest Resolute lighting series – a continuation of the celebrated designer’s wildly successful SHY series.

Maastricht: The Materiality of the Invisible

November, 16 2017

This autumn, three Maastricht institutions mounted a joint exhibition, exploring the potential of artistic interpretation as a viable means of digging up archaeological truth. TLmag spoke to Van Eyck artistic programme director and co-curator Huib Haye van der Werf about the transcendent showcase.

Émaillerie Belge Shines On

November, 16 2017

In 2016, the last of the Belgian enamelling companies was slated to shut down. That is, until Tanguy Van Quickenborne and Vincent Vanden Borre walked in and were amazed by what they saw.

Thomas Lerooy’s Playground

November, 15 2017

The Brussels-based artist is presenting Playground, a set of double-take-inducing sculptures and drawings, at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

Human Cities Bilbao Event 2017

November, 15 2017

Human Cities _Challenging The City Scale/ Event Bilbao 2017
Bilbao 15-18 November 2017
The travelling Human Cities exhibition in 2016-2018 presents the process and results of co-creating activities in the experimental Labs of all the Human Cities partners in ten different European cities.

Up Next: Light + Building 2018

November, 14 2017

Maria Hasselman, the director of Brand Management of the Light + Building trade fair, shines a light on the building automation market and the upcoming trends in both sectors

A+Z Goes from the Shadows to the Light

November, 13 2017

Geneviève Levivier had been working in the shadows of the fashion industry for nearly a decade. Now’s the time for A+Z Design, her own studio, to step into the light.

Simone Pheulpin’s World of Folds

November, 12 2017

The textile sculptor is presenting a series of raw cotton pieces in Within the Folds, a new retrospective exhibition at the Expiatory Chapel in Paris

SuperDesign at R&Company

November, 10 2017

R & Company gallery teams up with curator Maria Cristina Didero to mount the SuperDesign exhibition – highlighting iconic masterpieces and supporting ephemera from the Radical Italian Design period.