A personal review of design creations
Venice Glass Week 2020 - Glass Utopia
At Venice Glass Week, DESIGN Canberra’s signature exhibition GLASS UTOPIA will be featuring 12 Italian and Australian designers in dialogue with twentieth-century design masters.
#WoodWeek - 2m26 Kyoto House
“The Japanese are a forest civilisation. Their culture, philosophy and religion are carved out of the forests that blanket the country – not to mention all manner of everyday things, from houses and shrines to walking sticks and spoons.” – Dr. Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku*
Day 6 – Kyoto House, Kyoto, Japan
#ConcreteWeek - K. Barghouti House
Thick concrete slabs running in parallel, massive structure connected to each others… the incredible lightness of concrete construction.
Day 3: Barghouti House, Jordan.
#BrickWeek 1 - Krushi Bhawan
For indoor or outdoor, for humble shelters or sophisticated homes, bricks are providing solutions for every architectural need. Today’s project involves bricks of course but much more by supporting local craftsmanship too.
Season One, Episode Three: India.
#LifeAfterLockdown - Mint Santa Teresa
Still at home and need some escape? The #LifeAfterLockdown series continues with a new destination in a country with “Playa, Montaña y Sol”…
Episode Five: Mint Santa Teresa, Costa Rica.
Carabus - Formed by Robots, Crafted by People
Dubai Design Week 2019 - Ammar Kalo combines technology with craftsmanship with his new Carabus collection.
Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council
Dubai Design Week 2019 - Crafting connections and empowering women, Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council debuts its product collection.
Charlotte Perriand: Inventing a New World
Free and independent, Charlotte Perriand was attentive to nature and combined design, architecture, urban planning, crafts and fine arts. The Fondation Louis Vuitton pays tribute to the prolific designer with an exceptional exhibition.
The Xing Kiln Museum
In the Northen Chinese county of Neiqiu, the Xing Kiln Museum pays tribute to an ancestral craft developed as refined art: white porcelain.