Category: Design
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Salone del Mobile 2013: Panasonic’s sustainable smart town in “Energetic Energies” Concept
Panasonic to Present “Energetic Energies” Concept with Akihisa Hirata at the Milano Salone del Mobile 2013 At this year’s Milano Salone del Mobile 2013, one of the largest and most influential design exhibitions in the world, to be held in Milan this April, Panasonic will present a new energy landscape, where energy creation (through solar…
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Guerlain and Ora Ïto reinvent Terracotta 4 Seasons
Healthy glow year-round with Guerlain Terracotta 4 Seasons French perfume house Guerlain, among the oldest in the world, has enriched its mythic Terracotta range with the Terracotta 4 Seasons line of face and body bronzing makeup tailored to women of all skin tones. The reinvented legendary Terracotta case is reborn in the imagination of the…
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David Bowie is: First international retrospective of David Bowie’s career
Shifting style across five decades The V&A museum in London houses “David Bowie is” – the first international retrospective of David Bowie’s career and a show full of clothes that have shaped fashion history. The exhibition illustrates Bowie’s immense creative influence and ubiquitous presence in music, fashion and contemporary visual and virtual culture. The V&A…
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Vatican’s contemporary art pavilion to debut at the 2013 Venice Art Biennale
Vatican to set up contemporary art pavilion in Venice For the first time in its 84-year history as an independent state, Vatican will have its own contemporary-art pavilion at the 2013 Venice Art Biennale – the major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years (in odd years) in Venice, Italy. The 2013…
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Pritzker prize, architecture’s Nobel, goes to Toyo Ito
The Pritzker jury announced the Pritzker laureate for 2013, the highest award in the profession of architecture. The the thirty-seventh recipient of the Pritzker Prize is Japanese architect Toyo Ito. Called by the Pritzker Jury “creator of timeless buildings,” Ito is the sixth Japanese architect to become a Pritzker Laureate – the first five being…
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Olivia Putman collector’s edition of L’Air du Temps
Olivia Putman redesigns Nina Ricci’s L’Air du Temps French designer Olivia Putman, daughter to Andrée Putman and heir to her mother’s design studio, Studio Putman, works range from interior architecture to scenography, and design. The latest project saw the transformation of the iconic Nina Ricci’s L’Air du Temps perfume bottle. This new interpretation remains true…