With Monika Sosnowska’s project Ohne Titel, 2010 (Untitled, 2010), the imposing interior courtyard of the K21 Ständehausin in Düsseldorf Germany is made available to an artistic intervention for the first time. At two-year intervals beginning in 2010, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen will be inviting internationally acclaimed artists to use the “airspace” above the piazza as the site of a contemporary intervention, each designed to heighten awareness of the museum as a “house of art” in the eyes of entering visitors.
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Firefly is an interactive lighting installation by french designers Kkristen and Vincent Moreau. It’s currently presented for the first time at Shanghai World Expo 2010 as a part of lighting design of the Urban Best Practices Area.

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Thomas Heatherwick trained in three dimensional design at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Royal College of Art. He founded Thomas Heatherwick Studio in 1994 to bring architecture, design and sculpture together within a single practice.

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On march 4, 2010 Dutch designer Joris Laarman unveiled his new work at Friedman Benda in New York. It’s his first solo exhibition in U.S. Laarman’s unique aesthetic merges cutting-edge technology and the life-sciences to create work of unexpected beauty. In 2008, Laarman’s Bone Chair and Bone Chaise, his first two works since graduating from Eindhoven, were displayed in MoMA’s exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind. This marked a major milestone in his career and the chair subsequently, was added to the museum’s permanent collection.

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_grau | 10:01 min | d 2004 | HD premiere from Robert Seidel on Vimeo.

_grau is a personal reflection on memories coming up during a car accident, where past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally … various real sources where distorted, filtered and fitted into a sculptural structure to create not a plain abstract, but a very private snapshot of a whole life within its last seconds …

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This is how Simone Micheli describes his project:

The i-SUITE interior architectural plan lies its foundations in the concept of modern luxury I developed after a thorough and targeted thinking. During the “XXX Congreso Colombiano de Arquitectura” ( 30th Colombian Architecture Convention) which took place in Barranquilla (Colombia) in 2007 I asserted: “ …the new luxury does not mean immobility or habit, but rather freedom and movement. It is a light and a stirring thought, at any moment we are able to choose where and how to live and to reinvent the environment we live in.

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DIDIER MARCEL at The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art – MUDAM LUXEMBOURG - 10.10.2009 – 03.01.2010
“It’s a question of admitting that art is not life and that art is always a difference produced between a real thing and its translation.”
Didier Marcel

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Hans-Christian Berg is one of the most interesting artists of his generation in Finland. In 2002, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department with an MA and from the University of Art and Design, Ceramics and Glass Department with an MA in Helsinki. In 2007 he has been named as the Young Artist of the Year. Berg’s primary interest is optical illusion and experimentation with perception of light and surface reflection.

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Austrian architectural firm COOP HIMMELB(L)AU presented their design for ‘Pavilion 21 MINI Opera Space’ for the Bavarian State Opera during a press conference in Munich.

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Godiva’s new concept flagship store by Tokyo based studio Wanderwall. Godiva’s idea was “treat thyself”. Wonderwall’s intention was to add a breath of fresh air to the more traditional image Godiva instill. The shop features humorous design details such as the “melting chocolate” ceiling combined with the primarily classical interior design.

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