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The Best of NY Design Week
New York Design Week is in full-swing with a bevy of exhibitions, installations, and events being held everywhere from pop-up tents to museums to retail stores. Design Miami/ has compiled our top picks for what to catch.
Roy McMakin
“When I started designing furniture, my explicit aim was to create pieces where time is ambiguous, so when people saw a piece they would be confused as to what point in time it was made…”
OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen
“Nature is fundamental to our work. To us it’s always about the position of architecture in relation to the reality of the world, and to life. So in that sense architecture can perhaps be understood as an organizing device…”
Jürgen Mayer H
“My personal little theory is that we’re all constantly reworking our childhoods. For me, creativity has a lot to do with recovering lost innocence…”
Rafael de Cárdenas
“Architecture with a Capital A, the way we’ve inherited it from Modernism, is a very macho practice and it has completely divorced itself from interior design and decoration.”
Daniel Arsham
“Here in Miami so many projects are being built right now and sometimes you’ll see a building that’s under construction and next to it one that’s being demolished…”
Felix Burrichter’s Favorite Work at DM/12
“Snarkitecture is a New York-based firm by architect Alex Mustonen and artist Daniel Arsham. Together they explore, push, and challenge the boundaries of material, scale, and space. Not only are they designing this year’s entry pavilion for Design Miami/ but Volume Gallery is also showing one of my favorite pieces by them: ‘Float’, a 450 lbs., 1 1/2 x 5 ft. bench-like construct made of cast marble dust.”
FELIX BURRICHTER/ Editor and Creative Director of PIN-UP Magazine
PIN-UP Magazine for Architectural Entertainment The Berlin Special, Spring/Summer 2012, #12
The latest PIN-UP issue – The Berlin special – is with its 240 pages the biggest so far, simply because “there’s so much here to write about”, as creative director Felix Burrichter puts it. Spending three months exploring the city’s creative scene has come together in an extensive guide to Berlin’s past, present and future…