Inlay-Arts’ Twitter Stream
Inlay-Arts has a Twitter stream going… Here are several recent tweets that I’ll use as an organizing device for this June 2011 Trend Spotting post.
Moon-Rock
The Inlay Arts star is rising in the design world and the design world is partially eclipsing the contemporary art scene. Felix Burrichter’s article “Design Miami-Basel Wrap-Up” shed’s light on this matter. Basically he says that Design Miami-Basel out-shines and out-classes Art Miami-Basel in every way. You can read it here and reach your own conclusions:
@inlayartsInlay-Arts.com
Good article about Design Miami – Basel in Design by Felix Burrichter June 21, 2011 nyti.ms/loDCJa – Mentions “Bethan Laura Wood”… 28 Jun via web - http://nyti.ms/loDCJa
- Bethan Laura Wood’s designs with Nilufar
There was a noticeable excitement in the air as this was the first Design Miami/Basel under the new directorship of Marianne Goebl. Her debut did not disappoint: a record 43 exhibitors showing everything from 20th-century classics to contemporary designers, intelligent design collaborations with corporate sponsors (take note, Art Basel V.I.P. lounge), a great bookstore (courtesy of doyoureadme?! from Berlin) and a well-curated series of talks (full disclosure: I moderated one of them). Design Miami/Basel may keep flourishing thanks to the cross-pollinating effect from the neighboring art fair(s), but judging by the increasingly educated and design-passionate public, it seems that the fair could very well stand on its own if it had to.
- “Moon-Rock” Inlays
Nina Yashar’s gallery Nilufar in Milan is equally versed in historical as well as contemporary design, and her booth in Basel this year embodied the same approach: alongside design classics by Albini, Ponti and Carlo Scarpa, Yashar brought her best contemporary design show horses out to play: Martino Gamper, Studio Nucleo, the sculptor Giacomo Ravagli and the rising star Bethan Laura Wood, whose Pyrex lamps and elaborate laminate inlay furniture had already made a big impression during Milan Design Week in April. Perhaps Nilufar’s colorful mix and the dialogue it creates between old and new is emblematic of Design Miami/Basel as a whole, a place where the laureates of the W Hotels-sponsored Designers of the Future Award — Asif Khan (UK), Mischer’Traxler (Austria)and Studio Juju (Singapore) — complement the more expected 20th-century blue-chip collectibles.
Felix Burrichter
@inlayartsInlay-Arts.comBTW Bethan Laura Wood’s home site is at woodlondon.co.uk… 28 Jun via web
A video of Bethan Laura Wood & her recent work
Vladimir Kagen’s post (bit.ly/lV36C6) resonates with Burrichter post (nyti.ms/loDCJa) w/ charming view of Design Miami Dec. 2010… 28 Jun via web
Vladimir Kagen’s Design-Miami Trilogy
The message that I got from Felix Burrichter’s Design article resonated like a tuning fork with another that I’d read in December of 2010. This was one of a trilogy of posts in Vladimir Kagen’s blog about “Design Miami – A Gem in a Parking Lot”.
The show was a sleeper!…. (We expected an ICFF type exhibit The International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York with craftsmen of diverse skills displaying their wares.)…. What we found instead was a discerning international exhibit of cutting edge, furniture, lighting and limited edition creations by 17 exhibitors.
Vladimir Kagen
Vladimir Kagen in Miami