Design Miami/ to host Design Collaborations with Audi, Swarovski, Fendi and Perrier-Jouët as well as a Pacific Northwest-themed Collectors Lounge designed by Olson Kundig Architects

November 2014 – Displays by 35 leading design galleries from around the world will form the centerpiece of an inspiring celebration of creativity and collecting this December. Design Miami/ is delighted to announce details of talks, commissions and events taking place around the 2014 fair, including ZAHA HADID/ Ten Years On, a retrospective presented by Miami Design District that will take place on site. At the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), design fans will be able to enjoy a newly-commissioned version of Konstantin Grcic’s Netscape (2010/14) and the restored 24-foot prototype of R. Buckminster Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Dome (1977), first presented as a Design Miami/ satellite exhibit in 2011. Other notable satellite events include the public unveiling of unrealized designs by Pierre Paulin for a modular living space, produced by Louis Vuitton.

Design collaborations for Design Miami 2014/ will be presented by Audi, Swarovski, Fendi and Perrier-Jouët, underlining their ongoing engagement with collectible design. The Collector’s lounge will occupy 38 Beams, a structure founded on salvaged mid-century wooden beams commissioned from Seattle-based Olson Kundig Architects. The lounge will also host Designing Miami: Celebrating Ten Years, a portrait project with photographer Gesi Schilling documenting the designers, curators, gallerists, collectors and other prominent figures in the field as they visit the fair.

Design Miami/ 2014 Design Talks, presented by the Surf Club Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences, will take place Wednesday December 3 – Saturday December 6, and will touch on subjects including New York’s trailblazing 1980s Art et Industrie gallery, innovative retail design, the new wave of American designers and socially engaged architectural projects.

Art et Industrie/ Richard Kaufmann, Michele Oka Doner and Jim Cole/ Wednesday December 3rd at 3pm: Three leading figures of the radical 1980s Art et Industrie movement discuss the parts they played in it and how it is perceived today.

New Minimalism/ Joseph Dirand in conversation with Tom Delavan/ Wednesday December 3rd at 6pm: Architect Joseph Dirand shares with T Magazine’s design editor the evolution of his style and career.

Designing for the Environment/ Jeanne Gang and James Balog. Moderated by Joseph Grima/ Thursday December 4th at 3pm: Architect Jeanne Gang and nature photographer James Balog discuss art and design as instruments of collective salvation and the opportunities and responsibilities of designers and artists in an age of accelerated environmental change.

Convergences: Olson Kundig Architects/ Tom Kundig and Jim Olson in conversation with Pilar Viladas/ Thu December 4th at 4.30pm: From two very different modes of expression, based in a shared philosophy, the architects Jim Olson and Tom Kundig forged a lasting partnership.

Design Visionary/ Peter Marino in conversation with Rodman Primack/ Thursday December 4th at 6pm: The inaugural recipient of Design Miami’s Design Visionary award, Peter Marino, discusses his approach, his vision, his inspirations and his work.

Chicago is the Future/ David Adjaye and Theaster Gates in conversation with Joseph Grima and Sarah Herda/ Friday December 5th at 3pm: David Adjaye and Theaster Gates, two of the most prominent figures in the fields of architecture and contemporary art, discuss the relationship between architecture and social equity, their upcoming collaboration in Chicago and the city as a laboratory for innovation in honor of the 2015 inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial.

American by Design/ Jonathan Muecke, Adam Silverman, Jay Sae Jung Oh, Rebekah Frank and Matt Olson. Moderated by Glenn Adamson/ Friday December 5th at 6pm: Five contemporary American designers explore how their concepts and imaginative processes set them apart from international counterparts, their engagement with materials and physical fabrication, and the impact their work is making on the broader design scene.

Marella Agnelli: The Last Swan/ Marella Caracciolo Chia in conversation with Rodman Primack/ Saturday December 6th at 3pm: Marella Agnelli’s great niece and author of a recent book exploring her life discusses the woman who was by far one of the twentieth century’s most inspiring patronesses and muses of fashion and interior design.

Design Commissions/Commissioned works for this year’s fair include a colorful and tranquil public pavilion in front of the entrance to the fairground, and a Collector’s Lounge made using massive salvaged mid century timbers. Design Miami Pavilion (DMP) by Jonathan Muecke/ This year’s Design Commission pavilion, supported by Coastal Construction Group is conceived by Minneapolis-based designer Jonathan Muecke for the tenth anniversary of Design Miami/.

Centered around a double-layered circular structure Jonathan Muecke’s DMP is a pavilion on a human scale, rejecting monumentality in favor of lightness and variability. Light will bounce off the curved and colored surfaces of the pavilion – complementary tones of red and green within, primary blue and yellow without – creating a shifting topography of reflected color. Seamlessly shaped seating units made from composite and native Gumbo Limbo trees from Island Planning Corporation will allow visitors a moment of quiet reflection in a space conceived in part as a refuge from the hyper stimulating environment of the fair itself.

Collectors Lounge: 38 Beams by Olson Kundig Architects/ Seattle-based architecture practice Olson Kundig Architects aim to bring a northwest sensibility to this international event, by sourcing lighting, furniture and other design elements from makers and purveyors based in the Pacific Northwest.

38 Beams, designed in collaboration with Spearhead, is a reference to the 38 mid-century glulams (glued laminated timber) used in the structure, originally formed from wood from the Douglas fir forests of Oregon milled in the 1950s and salvaged from a building in Los Angeles.

The 38 Beams structure will be complimented by specially commissioned and curated design elements. Over the course of the fair, the space will host Designing Miami: Celebrating Ten Years, a portraiture project conceived for the space, for which photographer Gesi Schilling will document the design-world figures that pass through the lounge.

Furniture for the Collectors Lounge is provided by Artek and Vitra, official furniture sponsor of Design Miami/.

Design Collaborations/Demonstrating their close, ongoing connection to the world of design, leading brands have partnered with Design Miami/ to showcase specially commissioned collaborations that illustrate their engagement with the technical, conceptual and aesthetic cutting edge.

Audi/ The Force Within/Since 2006, each of Audi’s installations at Design Miami/ has highlighted key elements of Audi's technological advancements and married them with innovative approaches to design and architecture. The car manufacturer has commissioned leading lights in the design industry to underline the brand’s commitment to fostering design culture.

Audi's legendary quattro four-wheel-drive technology has become synonymous with perfectly balanced drive and superior handling on every terrain. At Design Miami/ the concept is translated into a monolithic installation – inspired by the idea of traditional Zen gardening. A concentric force unfolds from the center and carves its way into an abstract landscape.

This December at Design Miami/ 2014, Audi presents the first show car that bears the signature of the new Head of Design Marc Lichte. The core competencies of the brand – sportiness, lightweight design and quattro drive – are all afforded profound importance. In a new and highly emotional design idiom the vehicle design is becoming an even stronger expression of progressive technology.

A concept car derived from the dynamism of balance, shaped by the power of proportion. Heritage and future merge into an automotive sculpture — a driving force unfolds from the center.

Swarovski/ Thinning Ice by Jeanne Gang in collaboration with James Balog/In its ninth consecutive year partnering with Design Miami/, Swarovski has commissioned architect and MacArthur fellow Jeanne Gang to create an immersive experience in collaboration with award-winning filmmaker and nature photographer James Balog. The spectacular installation Thinning Ice draws attention to
the melting polar ice cap and is emblematic of Swarovski’s environmental stewardship and its longstanding international initiatives aimed at water conservation and preservation. Like Swarovski and Balog, Gang aims to bring to the fore pressing environmental issues, including the melting polar ice cap, through her work.

An installation
of ‘frozen’ Swarovski crystals suggests the rapid degradation of the world’s glaciers by creating
the illusion of melting ice. A smooth, glacier-like table positioned at the center of the space will
be punctured with voids descending into the surface’s depths, evoking the meltwater thaw holes and crystalline patterns of thinning ice. Balog’s striking photography and video footage of the world’s glaciers will wrap the walls of installation, creating a space in which visitors can reflect
on and discuss the forms and implications of receding ice sheets.

Fendi/ Roman Lounge by Dimore Studio/For the 2014 edition of Design Miami/ Fendi collaborates with the Italian-based design duo Dimore Studio. Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran offer their interpretation of an ideal, contemporary Fendi apartment in Rome, highlighting values they share with the luxury fashion house, such as excellence, creativity, mastery of materials, an appreciation for color, savoir-faire, and beautiful craftsmanship.

The space will showcase a selection of bespoke pieces underlining the bond between iconic Fendi materials such as leather and fur, the craftsmanship involved in working with such materials, and Dimore Studio’s design approach. The bespoke designs are partly conceived in homage to the origami work of Akira Yoshizawa and the steel tubing designs of Ferdinando Innocenti. The collection of works on display will comprise two different kinds of lighting, a bookcase titled Workin’ Frames that plays with a corresponding palette of colors, a grand square table with two chairs, and a day bed in shaved mink on carpet in shades of gray.

Perrier-Jouët/ Ephemerā by mischer’traxler/Perrier-Jouët continues to bring to life its Art Nouveau heritage with a new design commission by the Vienna based duo mischer’traxler. Ephemerā – a conversation between mankind and nature is the masterwork and starting point of Small Discoveries by mischer’traxler, an extended collaboration project between the designers and the Perrier-Jouët house that will run throughout the coming year. The aim of the Small Discoveries collection is to tell the story of the magical dialogue between nature and mankind, exploring the moments between the unknown and known, being and not being, and to stimulate curiosity through design pieces.

Ephemerā plays with the audience, inviting participation, discussion and questioning. Objects are set in a plain room, suggesting a deceptively simple installation. This ostensibly legible set-up acts as a scene for a delicate game of hide-and-seek, played out through a mechanical and magical ornamental garden. The audience find themselves drawn into an enjoyable, charming conversation with the work, and also with each other.

presented by
 Miami Design DistrictMiami Design District recognizes the significant contributions of Zaha Hadid to advancing the field of architecture in the ten years since she was awarded the first Designer of the Year award.

For the inaugural Design Miami/ in 2005, Zaha Hadid Architects was commissioned to develop
the Elastika installation as part of her award. The practice’s continued experimentation and research into materials and techniques is evident
in the pieces showcased in ZAHA HADID: Ten Years On. These collaborations are experimental, quicker to execute than the architecture projects, and inspire creativity – they’re an opportunity to express ideas
at a different scale and through different media. The practice sees it as part of a continuous process of investigation in which designs become more ambitious as new possibilities in material, fabrication technologies and design are discovered.

Pierre Paulin, Playing With Shapes (1972)/presented by Louis Vuitton/Maison Louis Vuitton has brought to fruition an unrealized design project conceived in 1972 by the French designer Pierre Paulin for the American office furniture maker Herman Miller. Comprising 18 modular furniture designs aimed to be arranged in a multitude of configurations in grid-formatted living spaces, this one-of-a-kind project has not hitherto been produced.

The original maquette, which is now in the collection of the Centre Pompidou, presents six possible floor plans. Intended for serial production, level 0 (ground level) has a footprint that spans all the basic modules the occupant may assemble and disassemble to create a personal living space depending on the number of rooms desired, and with functional flexibility of use determined by the family’s needs and how those might evolve over time. Bolstered by numerous sketches and preliminary floor plans, this mockup remains the manifestation of a visionary and prescient worldview, one that is particularly well captured in Paulin’s furniture designs of the period.

Pierre Paulin, Playing with Shapes is showing in the Design District’s Palm Court 
from December 2nd to the 7th.

Konstantin Grcic/ NetscapeDesign Miami/ co-founder and Principal, Craig Robins has commissioned two distinct versions of Konstantin Grcic’s Netscape for both the Miami Design District and for the newly completed Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). Back in 2010, the German designer played off the Design Miami/ fair tent for his Designer of the Year commission, creating a six-point star-shaped structure at the entrance courtyard from which seats made of netting were suspended. The hanging chairs rocked slightly when used by visitors and created a space for guests to engage with one another before entering or leaving the fair. It quickly became apparent that this prototype piece had found a perfect home in Miami.

Buckminster Fuller/ Fly’s Eye DomeThe restored 24-foot prototype of Buckminster Fuller’s autonomous dwelling machine was displayed as part of a 2011 Design Miami/ satellite exhibit Architecting the Future: Buckminster Fuller & Norman Foster. During Design Miami/ 2014 the dome will be on view in the space between the newly built PAMM and the soon-to-open Miami Science Museum, intended as a tribute to all that is possible in design and architecture.

Perez Art Museum Miami is located at 1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33132

For Design Miami/ 2014, ARTBOOK collaborates with bibliophile Wes Del Val on a curated selection of new, recent and vintage books that represent the very best of contemporary design, art and culture publishing. The selection includes important exhibition catalogs alongside new and hard-to-find monographs from international publishers plus beautifully produced volumes from prominent galleries operating in the fields of art and design. In addition, the bookstore features an expanded selection of magazines and periodicals from the inventory of the acclaimed ARTBOOK @ MoMA PS1 Magazine Store.

Wes Del Val is Associate Publisher at powerHouse Books and lives in New York. He thinks there has never been a more exciting time to be making books.

New York- and Los Angeles-based ARTBOOK runs world renowned museum bookstores at MoMA PS1 and the Walker Art Center, a long-term serial pop-up at Swiss Institute (SI) in New York, and curated temporary stores at significant cultural events.

Artsy, the leading resource for art collecting and education, returns to host the online platform for Design Miami/, for the third year with an online preview beginning November 25. Design Miami/ online, accessible at Artsy.net and via the Artsy iPhone app, will also feature Insider’s Picks from the fair chosen by influencers in the design-world such as architect Peter Marino, artist Jennifer Rubell, and Apartamento magazine’s Marco Vilardi among others. An interview by formless finder with Jonathan Muecke, and roundups of designers to discover at the fair can also be found on the site.

The Artsy app for iPhone also functions as a personalized mobile guide for those visiting Design Miami/ and is free to download at: https://artsy.net/design-miami Counting the Rice/ Marina Abramovic Institute

The Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI) presents the Counting the Rice exercise at Design Miami/. This long durational exercise requires participants to separate rice from lentils and helps participants develop endurance, concentration, perception, self-control, and willpower.

This installation is part of a larger activation, which will see MAI hold performances and workshops in the Miami Design District, National YoungArts Foundation and Art Basel in Miami Beach. The Design Miami/ durational performance will be accompanied by two special edition design objects. The first is a concrete Counting the Rice table designed by Daniel Libeskind and the second is Patricia Urquiola’s Portal chair designed specifically for audiences of long durational performances. Both works were made in collaboration with Moroso and the proceeds of their sale will benefit MAI.