Design Talks
Wednesday, December 2
5.30 – 6.30pm
Lee Mindel, Adam Lindemann,
George Lindemann
Thursday, December 3
5.30 – 6.30pm
Christian Louboutin, Jacques Grange,
Mattia Bonetti
Friday, December 4
5.30 – 6.30pm
Gaetano Pesce, Al Eiber
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Design Talks/ Collections, Commissions and Collaborations
The Design Miami/ 2009 Design Talks program explores the relationships that engender great design. The very purpose of each Design Miami/ show is to assemble the crucial players — designers, dealers, collectors, investors, curators and critics — that feed the design market and advance the discourse of design culture. Each role is essential to the creation of new and groundbreaking work. This year’s Talks shine a light on this fundamental goal by bringing together some of the most powerful and influential people in this arena. These luminaries all play a role in the creation of great design, either as patron or creative, or in some cases, both. The relationships that arise from this level of collaboration are what lead to history-making objects, collections and interiors.
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Biographies available on following pages
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Wednesday/ 2/ December
5.30 – 6.30pm
Lee Mindel
Adam Lindemann
George Lindemann
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Co-Founder of renowned architecture firm Shelton, Mindel & Associates, Lee Mindel received his Master of Architecture from Harvard University. His early career includes positions with the distinguished firms Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill and Rogers, Butler, Burgun. His partnership with Peter Shelton began in 1978, and today the firm is the recipient of over thirty AIA awards, seven Interiors magazine awards, seven design awards from the Society of American Registered Architects, a Progressive Architecture citation, three Roscoe awards for product design, and the 2007 Stars of Design Award for Architecture. Product design lines include collections for Knoll, Waterworks, Jack Lenor Larsen, V’Soske and Nessen Lighting. Architectural Digest has recognized SMA as one of the top 100 design firms of the last century, and Peter Shelton and Lee Mindel have both been inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame.
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Adam Lindemann is a private investor, entrepreneur, and influential collector of contemporary art. He is the author of Collecting Contemporary, which has been published by Taschen in four languages and dubbed the “most talked- about art book” of 2006. In partnership with acclaimed designer Marc Newson, Lindemann re-launched Ikepod, Newson’s Swiss watch company,
and this December, Ikepod will release their first artist-designed watch “Cannonballs” by Jeff Koons. Collaborating with British architect David Adjaye, Lindemann has recently completed two residential projects, for which Maria Pergay and Maarten Baas were commissioned to design original works. He is currently completing his second book, Collecting Design, to be released in December 2010.
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George Lindemann is a businessman and patron of the arts: General Manager of B.C. Property Investments, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Bass Museum of Art, Trustee of Miami Art Museum, Member of the Board of Directors of Miami-Dade Performing Arts Center Foundation, Member of the Board of Directors of the Miami Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Highlights from his private collection include iconic work from Mattia Bonetti, Wendell Castle, Shiro Kuramata, and Marc Newson.
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Thursday/ 3/ December
5.30 – 6.30pm
Christian Louboutin
Jacques Grange
Mattia Bonetti
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Shoe designer Christian Louboutin was born in a working-class neighborhood of Paris in 1964. Throughout the 1980s, Louboutin apprenticed and freelanced for prestigious design houses, such as Christian Dior, Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent, as well the famous music hall Folies Bergére. In 1992, he opened his own boutique near the Louvre and immediately began to attract
high-profile clients such as Princess Caroline of Monaco. Today, the inimitable style of Louboutin’s shoes with their jewel-encrusted heels, sexy designs, and iconic red soles can be found in ateliers in 46 countries around the world. Nicole Kidman, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Madonna, Tina Turner, and the Olsen sisters are all huge fans. Louboutin has collaborated with other designers like Azzedine Alaia and Diane von Furstenberg, and in 2002 he designed a shoe for Yves Saint Laurent’s final collection, holding the honor of being the first person ever to collaborate with Saint Laurent.
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Celebrated décorateur and design collector Jacques Grange studied at the famous École Boulle and École Camondo in Paris. His career began at age 20 working with design legends such as Henri Samuel, Alain Demachy and Didier Aaron. In 1970, Grange established his own firm and today is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interior designers, renowned for his superior craftsmanship and his continuance of French decorative arts traditions. In 2006, he was awarded the designation Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by the Minister of French Culture. Grange’s important monograph Jacques Grange: Interiors has just been released in English through Flammarion and Rizzoli.
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Award-winning designer Mattia Bonetti was born in Lugano, Switzerland, in 1952. He received his formal training at the Centro Scolastico per l’Industria Artistica in Lugano, and subsequently moved to Paris in 1973 to work as a textile designer, style consultant, and art photographer. Since 1979, he has focused on furniture design and decorating, creating numerous collections produced as one-off pieces or limited editions, as well as industrial products for companies such as Ricard, Christian Lacroix and Montpellier. He is also widely acclaimed for his private interiors and public spaces in France and abroad. Bonetti’s new collection is on view at Design Miami/ 2009 with Paul Kasmin Gallery, and his new monograph will be released by Rizzoli in early 2010.
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Friday/ 4/ December
5.30 – 6.30pm
Gaetano Pesce
Al Eiber
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Architect-designer Gaetano Pesce was born in 1939 in La Spezia, Italy. From his earliest manifesto at age 17, through his studies at the University of Venice Faculty of Architecture, his travels and experimentations, and his work with renowned manufacturers Cassina, B & B Italia, Bernini and Knoll, Pesce’s design innovations have always been unique and groundbreaking. Pesce’s multi-disciplinary works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria & Albert Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, Vitra Museum, Montreal Museum of Art, as well as museums in Japan, Portugal and Finland.
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Pesce taught for 28 years at the Institut d’Architecture et d’Etudes in Strasbourg, France. He has lectured at the most prominent universities and cultural institutions around the world, including the Cooper Union in New York City, where he has made his home since 1980. Pesce received the prestigious Chrysler Award for Innovation and Design in 1993 and the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Lawrence J. Israel Prize in 2009.
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Miami-based radiologist Al Eiber has been collecting twentieth-century design and decorative arts for more than two decades. Eiber’s home in South Florida is the first private residence built by legendary architect Morris Lapidus, and highlights from his personal collection include work by Gaetano Pesce, Gio Ponti, Memphis, Ron Arad, Joris Laarman and Tejo Remy. Eiber was named by the Art & Antiques among the “Top 100 Collectors in the USA.” |
