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Design Miami / Basel
June 2-5, 2008
28 leading international design galleries are set to participate in Design
Miami/ Basel 2008
21 returning and 7 new galleries will represent the extraordinary scope
of historic and contemporary Design at Design Miami/ Basel
Design Miami/ Basel, the premier global forum for collecting, exhibiting,
discussing and creating limited-edition design, unites 28 of the world's
most illustrious design galleries to present the broadest scope of significant
furniture and objects in the show's three-year history. Each participating
gallery has been chosen for its commitment to presenting highly curated
exhibitions of historical and contemporary collectible design from an international
roster of designers spanning six continents. Promising to draw an impressive
audience of international collectors, critics, curators, designers and enthusiasts,
the show will take place at the Markthalle in Basel.
Each gallery presented at Design Miami/ Basel deals in the most sought after
design objects that blur the boundaries of art, architecture and design.
The galleries will present works in a wide variety of materials, including
ceramics, glass, concrete, bronze and polymer, created using a diversity
of techniques from rapid prototyping to traditional Danish cabinetmaking.
Visitors to the show will see the most eclectic collection of vanguard installations
the design world has to offer.
Seven galleries will make their Design Miami/ debut this June, each adding
a distinctive curatorial voice to the program. First time participants include:
Carpenters Workshop Gallery (London); Galerie Eric Philippe (Paris); Galerie
Dewindt (Brussels); Perimeter Editions (Paris); Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud
(Brussels); VIVID Gallery (Rotterdam); and Yoshii Gallery (New York).
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Carpenters
Workshop Gallery aims to bring a new perspective to Design Miami/
Basel by focusing solely on cutting-edge design-art from the likes of Jurgen
Bey, Atelier Van Lieshout and Pablo Reinoso. |
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Specializing
in contemporary ceramic, glass and objets d'art, Galerie Pierre
Marie Giraud will bring unique, museum-quality pieces from European,
American and Japanese artists. |
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VIVID
Gallery has a strong relationship with the current generation of
innovative Dutch designers and will bring selected works by Jurgen Bey,
Jaime Hayon, Richard Hutten and Ineke Hans. |
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Yoshii
Gallery is committed to exploring the relationship between modern
masters and oriental antiques, with an emphasis on work that merges the
historical and the contemporary. Exemplifying this commitment, Yoshii Gallery
will exhibit the distinctive white porcelain vessels of artist Taizo Kuroda,
presented in a unique booth designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect
Tadao Ando. |
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Galerie
Eric Philippe is dedicated to European and North American handcrafted
furniture from the 1920s to the 1980s and will bring rare pieces by Jean
Royre, Isamu Noguchi, Preben Fabricius, Frank Lloyd Wright, and George Nakashima.
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Galerie
Dewindt represents modernist and constructivist artists/designers
of the 1920s. For Design Miami/ Basel, the gallery will show French designer
Matali Crasset's new limited-edition pieces alongside works by Andrea Branzi
and Gerrit Rietveld in an environment inspired by Nana Ditzel. |
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Perimeter
Editions produces and promotes furniture and objects with a uniquely
humanist angle, working closely with living designers of different generations
Janette Laverriére to Fiel dos Santos to present sophisticated objects
that reveal the philosopher and the artist in the designer. |
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Design
Miami/ Basel's returning 21 galleries: |
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Albion
(London) |
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Antik
(New York) |
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Contrasts
Gallery (Shanghai) |
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Cristina
Grajales Inc. (New York) |
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DemischDanant
(New York) |
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Donzella
20th Century (New York) |
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Gabrielle
Ammann, Designer's Gallery (Cologne) |
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Dansk
Moebelkunst Gallery (Copenhagen, Paris) |
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Galerie
de Casson (Paris) |
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Galerie
Downtown Francois Laffanour (Paris) |
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Galerie
Italienne (Paris) |
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Galerie Patrick Seguin (Paris) |
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Galerie
Philippe Denys (Brussels) |
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Johnson
Trading Gallery (New York) |
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Jousse
Enterprise (Paris) |
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Kenny
Schachter ROVE Gallery (London) |
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Moss
Gallery (New York) |
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Nilufar
(Milan) |
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R
20th Century (New York) |
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Reform
Gallery (Los Angeles) |
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Sebastian+Barquet
(New York) |
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