Dezeen has teamed up with Design Miami to publish the transcripts of the Design Talks programme at the Florida fair’s sister event, Design Miami/Basel 2007, which was held in Switzerland this June. More »
Design Miami Basel 07
November 10th, 2007
August 14th, 2007
Kimono Chair is a concept for creating furniture out of a flat piece of material by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka. More »
August 8th, 2007
Here is another set of photos of Vitra Edition, the collection of limited-edition pieces by famous designers including Jasper Morrison, Naoto Fukasawa and Konstantin Grcic that furniture brand Vitra launched in June, during Design Miami/Basel.
This time the photos all have captions on them so we don’t have to write them.
August 3rd, 2007
A series of design classics by Gio Ponti were destroyed and reassembled into new pieces by designer Martino Gamper in front of a live audience at the Design Miami/Basel collectors’ fair in June.
July 11th, 2007
July 1st, 2007
Basel update: Vitra have sent us new photos of Vitra Edition 2007 - a collection of limited-edition pieces by leading designers and architects that are on show at the Vitra Campus at Weil am Rhein in Germany until 22 July. More »
June 21st, 2007
Basel update: Milanese gallery Nilufar presented a limited edition series of Bookcase by Martino Gamper at Design Miami/Basel last week. More »
June 19th, 2007
Basel update: Galerie Kreo of Paris showed new furniture by Hella Jongerius (above) and the Bouroullec brothers (below) plus work by Front and Fernando Brizio, among others, at the Design Miami/Basel fair last week.
Top image: Backpack Sofa by Hella Jongerius. Above: Rice Field table by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
Above: Painting with Giotto #3 by Fernando Brizio More »
June 18th, 2007
Basel update: British artist/designer Barnaby Barford presented a new range of porcelain figurines with David Gill Galleries at the Design Miami/Basel collectors’ fair that ended on Saturday. More »
June 16th, 2007
(Almost) live from Basel: the opening party for the MyHome and Vitra Edition 2007 exhibitions at Weil am Rhein on Wednesday night saw every building on the Vitra Campus open to guests, and open-air lounges set up beneath cherry trees in a meadow.
Above: Christian Ouwens and Maarten Baas (nearest table) More »
June 16th, 2007
Live from Basel: here are some photos we took at Comme des Garçons Guerrilla Store +4161, which has been temporarily set up in an old industrial building in Basel, Switzerland. More »
June 15th, 2007
Live from Basel: here are a few snaps we took at the opening of the MyHome exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum on the Vitra Campus at Weil am Rhein on Wednesday.
The exhibition, subtitled “Seven experiments for contemporary living,” presents installations by designers Jurgen Bey (below), Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, the Campana Brothers (top image), Hella Jongerius, Greg Lynn, Jurgen Mayer H, and Jerszy Seymour (above). More »
June 14th, 2007
Live from Basel: over the last two days, designers have been creating objects live at the Design Miami/Basel fair in Switzerland.
June 14th, 2007
Live from Basel: here are some snaps from the Vitra Edition 2007 show in the Buckminster Fuller Dome at the Vitra campus at Weil am Rhein close to Basel. More »
June 13th, 2007
Live from Basel: we just arrived in Basel, Switzerland for the Design Miami/Basel fair. We’ll be here for the next few days reporting live on the show. Off to the big event at the nearby Vitra Design Museum now, more news and photos soon…
June 8th, 2007
Performance is the theme of the Design Miami/Basel collectors’ fair in Switzerland next week, with designers including Front, Tom Dixon, Maarten Baas and Max Lamb creating objects live during the event. More »
June 7th, 2007
This the third of the four new pieces Zaha Hadid is launching at Design Miami/Basel in Switzerland next week. More »
June 6th, 2007
Here is the second of the new products Zaha Hadid is launching at Design Miami/Basel next week: a table for Vitra called Mesa. More »
June 5th, 2007
Zaha’s having a busy year: this is the first of four new works the architect is presenting at the Design Miami/Basel collectors’ fair in Switzerland next week. More »
June 4th, 2007
Julie Mathias and Wolfgang Kaeppner of WokMedia will present new versions of their Made in China series of furniture at Design Miami/Basel next week. More »
