In conjunction with Art Basel Miami Beach and Design Miami/ 2012, the Miami Design District will stage a program of events and exhibitions that mix design, culture, fashion and performance and gather the best international talent as well as Miami-based artists and designers at the iconic Buena Vista Building as a central hub. Reflecting its status as a neighborhood that celebrates creativity in all its forms and a vibrant destination for luxury brands, the Miami Design District host a diverse array of events from a showcase for architectural structures for dogs by some of the biggest names in design, to Hermès’ collaboration with contemporary Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, to a provocative, burlesque-style circus for all the senses, adding a performance element to the District for the first time.
A series of cutting edge contemporary art exhibitions will also showcase emerging artists from Miami alongside global talent from Latin America and Europe.
Highlights of this year’s programming include:
- Architecture for Dogs installation featuring 12 leading architects
- ORCHID, a nomadic contemporary circus and entertainment experience with art direction by William Baker, installation design by Luis Pons and culinary program by chef Michelle Bernstein
- Design Miami/ Designer of the Year exhibition dedicated to Acconci Studio
- Hermès store opening and scarf collection with Hiroshi Sugimoto
- Inflated Villa, an art installation and Miami real estate commentary by Luis Pons
“I am delighted with the caliber of programming we will be bringing to the Miami Design District during Art Basel and Design Miami/. This year we are showcasing a truly diverse range of events in the Miami Design District with leading fashion brands exhibiting alongside creative installations from the worlds of design, performance and art – creating this mix and cultural dialogue is exactly what the neighborhood is all about,” says Craig Robins, President of Dacra.
DESIGN INSTALLATIONS
Architecture for Dogs presented by Kenya Hara
Buena Vista Building
180 NE 39 Street, Suite 115
Twelve leading architects from across the globe have each been assigned a dog breed for which to design an architectural structure. This dog-friendly exhibit brings together such stellar names in architecture and design as Konstantin Grcic, Kengo Kuma, Toyo Ito, MVRDV, and Shigeru Ban , among others. Each piece will be on display and an interactive digital component created by Yugo Nakamura will round out this creative exhibition honoring man’s best friend.
There will be a Press Preview at 12pm on Wednesday 6th December.
Design Miami/ Designer of the Year
Buena Vista Building
180 NE 39 Street, Suite 110
Each December, the Design Miami/ Designer of the Year Award recognize an internationally renowned designer or studio that has made a mark on design history, pushing the boundaries of the discipline through a singularly innovative and influential vision. This year’s winner is architecture and design collaborative Acconci Studio, founded by conceptual artist Vito Acconci. A special exhibition showcasing his work will take place in the Buena Vista Building from December 4th through the 9th .The Award also grants each winner a commission to create a large-scale work and over the years, Design Miami/ has seized opportunities to activate the award as a means to “give back” to the Miami community. For this year’s commission, Acconci Studio will produce Klein-Bottle Playground, a climbing-playing structure to be permanently installed in the Miami Design District by 2014.
Alessi Presents Metal Workshop
4141 N.E. 2nd Ave
Cranbrook for Alessi is an exhibition in material studies, product proposals and pre-production samples created by a mix of Cranbrook-based metal artists and designers working together on an open-ended material investigation. Four designs from the workshop are in production and will be shown along with original prototypes. All will be encased in a special display created by Cranbrook 3D Designer-in-Residence, Scott Klinker, also the co-director of the workshop. The exhibition will open December 4th and run through December 31st, 2012
Kartell
155 NE 40th St.
Kartell will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the iconic Louis Ghost chair by Philippe Starck at its Miami showroom.
Poltrona Frau- Le Corbusier: The Interior of the Cabanon
3800 NE Miami Court
Le Corbusier: The Interior of the Cabanon – First U. S. Exhibition Cassina, in collaboration with the Le Corbusier Foundation, is proud to present the first U.S. exhibition of Le Corbusier: The Interior of the Cabanon, Le Corbusier 1952 – Cassina Reconstruction 2006. This highly anticipated exhibit will take place at the Cassina Miami showroom during Design Miami 2012, running from December 6, 2012 until January 12, 2013.
NEW COLLECTIONS AND POP UPS FROM FASHION BRANDS
Hermès Editeur 3 – Hiroshi Sugimoto
The Garden Building
175 NE 40th Street, Ground Floor
Hermes is launching their new temporary store in the Miami Design District’s Terry Riley-designed Garden Building showcasing their new collaboration with Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. The third in a series of collaborations between Hermès and contemporary artists, ‘Couleurs de l’Ombre’ (Colours of Shadow) an exhibition of a limited edition of silk scarves by Sugimoto which will be open to the public.
Harper’s Bazaar presents The Bazaar Miami
Buena Vista Building
180 NE 39 Street, Suite 107
Harper’s Bazaar Magazine will bring their newly launched e-commerce store, The Bazaar, to life in the Miami Design District. The pop-up retail shop will engage visitors with a unique electronic shopping experience on customized iPads and touch screen computers.
Christian Louboutin
155 NE 40th Street
Christian Louboutin will host the latest work by Chinese artist Ye Hongxing in the purpose built gallery space, surrounding the jewel box boutique. One of China’s most unique artistic voices, Hongxing will present a solo exhibition, exploring the chaotic, isolating and often fragmentary effect of the rapid development of her homeland during fair week.
Louis Vuitton
170 NE 40th St
Synonymous with Art of Travel, Louis Vuitton is equally known for its close relationship with the world of art and culture. Making its debut in the new Louis Vuitton temporary store in the Design District this December are the Objets Nomades – a collection of the 15 travel inspired objects designed in partnership with new and established designers. From a hammock in precious “Nomade” leather to a “Maracatu” cabinet de voyage, the Objets Nomades are a mixture of foldable furniture and travel accessories, crafted in the finest materials and made as unique pieces, limited editions or experimental prototypes. They pay homage to the House’s special orders of the past with a contemporary spirit continuing Louis Vuitton’s tradition of offering its customers new visions of how to travel.
EVENTS AND PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
ORCHID
3800 Biscayne Blvd.
ORCHID is an exotic pop culture-infused cabaret and entertainment experience fusing design, high-fashion, performance art, music and food. Part Moulin Rouge and part Cabaret, ORCHID is contemporary throwback to the “pleasure gardens” of the 19th century organized by renowned director William Baker, who has worked with everyone from Rihanna to Britney Spears and Kylie Minogue. Miami based architect and design Luis Pons has created the installation design and James Beard Award winner and celebrated Florida chef Michelle Bernstein will create a special culinary program inspired by old world circus fare, with a contemporary twist.
INFLATED VILLA
79th NE 41 St.
After presenting the 2005 Fabulous Floating Villa critiquing Miami’s aggressive real estate culture, Miami-based architect and designer Luis Pons has created a follow up art installation, Inflated Villa, in a vacant lot originally intended for development in the Miami Design District. A commentary society’s reaction to the aftermath of the bursting of the real estate bubble, it reflects the deflation of our egos that occurred along with the plummeting value of our homes. The fragile structure will resemble an organism that is breathing rhythmically in and out, in sharp contrast the unfinished tempered steel columns on the unused site which house it.
Kell Muñoz Architecture Firm presents Mestizo City
FCAA Outdoor Location on 41st St.
Mestizo City will feature a series of colorful inflatable storefronts which will blend into the street and extend into an interactive courtyard installation. Designed by San Antonio-based architecture practice Kell Muñoz, Mestizo City reimagines an unexpected urban location to create a vibrant, highly interactive public space that promotes ideas of Latino Urbanism and the Mestizaje, or people of mixed heritage. With inflatable playscapes having long been a symbol of street corner entrepreneurship in Latino culture, Mestizo City employs this cultural phenomenon to provide a backdrop for the informal interactions and commerce inherent in Latino culture while its chalkboard border provides a forum for “citizens” to share ideas.
EXHIBITIONS OF GLOBAL CONTEMPORARY ART
Liquid Matter II
Buena Vista Building
180 NE 39 Street, Suite 120
Liquid Matter II explores the work of a group of Miami artists and their generation’s response to the new direction taking place in the scene of their city. The project is a collaboration between the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and the de la Cruz Collection in Miami, and artists include Loriel Beltran, Domingo Castillo, Elizabeth Condon, Naomi Fisher, Christy Gast, Nick Lobo, Justin Long, Robert Lorie, Hugo Montoya, Christina Lei-Rodriguez, Carlos Rigau and Viking Funeral.
De la Cruz Contemporary Art Space
23 NE 41st Street
This year we gave considerable thought to the different ways on how we could re-imagine our space. The walls and open space of the first floor with its massive volume became the perfect setting for monumental installations. The second floor was transformed into an indoor sculpture garden that brings to mind the public park. And on the third floor, perhaps the most intimate space, we installed a selection of works that through nature explore themes of fragility and temporality. The installation will be on view from November 29-December 4.
Locust Projects
3852 North Miami Avenue
Chicago-based Theaster Gates’ installation Soul Manufacturing Corporation is equal parts factory and art studio. “Skilled makers” occupy four pavilions in Locust Projects’ main gallery, producing “things” such as pottery and music, as the “makers” and audience alike are tended to by a yoga instructor, a DJ, and a lecturer. Wound, Bound, Tied and Knotted-Jacin Giordano presents his first installation incorporating painting and sculpture into the architecture of a space with Wound, Bound, Tied and Knotted. Inspired by the organic dimensionality of the tree branches that form his stretchers, Giorano wraps and weaves multicolored yarn with layers acrylic paint and dye to give the impression of bas-relief sculptures. Out of the Box, The Bus Shelter Project PUBLIC ART- New York-based artist Nicole Eisenman will create a new, site-specific work to be featured on over 30 bus shelters around Miami in November/December 2012.
Mr Andre Saraiva
Buena Vista Building
André gained notice in the late 1990’s with Mr. A, a cartoonish character with a round head, a cross and a circle for his eyes, a big smile and very long legs, which he used to draw all over the streets of Paris. He was part of the early Parisian graffiti scene, and appeared in the Banksy street art movie, Exit Through the Gift Shop. His distinctive style, poetic and joyful, and his use of pink color, has made him stand out among other street/graffiti artists. Andre will utilize the Buena Vista Building to create a special project for the Miami Design District.
The Miami Design District is a unique, 18 square-block neighborhood just north of downtown Miami. A true neighborhood comprised of creative experiences and is committed to the unity of design, fashion, art and architecture. The Miami Design District is owned and visioned by Miami Design District Associates, a partnership between Craig Robins company Dacra, and L Real Estate, a real estate development and investment fund, sponsored by LVMH and Groupe Arnault.
The Miami Design District is the location of choice for exclusive retailers and fashion brands, including Cartier, Celine, Marni, Maison Martin Margiela, Christian Louboutin and En Avance and forthcoming openings from Louis Vuitton, Hermes and Dior Homme, among others. The Miami Design District also serves as a backdrop for top restaurateurs and chefs. Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink, Crumb on Parchment, Harry’s Pizzeria and the Mandolin Aegean Bistro have transformed the District into Miami’s hot new restaurant row. The Miami Design District is also home to world-renowned furniture and design companies and art galleries, including: De La Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Vitra, Driade, Luminaire Lab, Kartell, Poltrona Frau, Baxter Made in Italy, Waterworks, Holly Hunt, BasFisher Invitational, Locust Projects, 101 Exhibit, Martin Oppel Studio, and Oliver Sanchez Studio.
L Real Estate and Dacra are now working to focus the Miami Design District development towards a luxury retail precinct that was missing from Miami¹s shopping choices. The Miami Design District is set on a rapidly evolving into pedestrian-friendly community that will alter the way people shop for design, fashion and art by combining shops, showrooms and cultural exhibitions.
A renaissance of the streetscape and landscape of the District designed by Island Planning Corp is underway. New buildings have been commissioned from architects Aranda\Lasch, K|R, Suo Fujimoto, Moorhead and Moorhead, Iwatmoto Scott, Studio Gang, Leong and Leong, SB Architects and OAB.
For more information please visit www.miamidesigndistrict.net.
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MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT BRINGS TOGETHER DESIGN, FASHION AND PERFORMANCE ART FOR 2012 FAIR WEEK
A series of cutting edge contemporary art exhibitions will also showcase emerging artists from Miami alongside global talent from Latin America and Europe.
Highlights of this year’s programming include:
“I am delighted with the caliber of programming we will be bringing to the Miami Design District during Art Basel and Design Miami/. This year we are showcasing a truly diverse range of events in the Miami Design District with leading fashion brands exhibiting alongside creative installations from the worlds of design, performance and art – creating this mix and cultural dialogue is exactly what the neighborhood is all about,” says Craig Robins, President of Dacra.
DESIGN INSTALLATIONS
Architecture for Dogs presented by Kenya Hara
Buena Vista Building
180 NE 39 Street, Suite 115
Twelve leading architects from across the globe have each been assigned a dog breed for which to design an architectural structure. This dog-friendly exhibit brings together such stellar names in architecture and design as Konstantin Grcic, Kengo Kuma, Toyo Ito, MVRDV, and Shigeru Ban , among others. Each piece will be on display and an interactive digital component created by Yugo Nakamura will round out this creative exhibition honoring man’s best friend.
There will be a Press Preview at 12pm on Wednesday 6th December.
Design Miami/ Designer of the Year
Buena Vista Building
180 NE 39 Street, Suite 110
Each December, the Design Miami/ Designer of the Year Award recognize an internationally renowned designer or studio that has made a mark on design history, pushing the boundaries of the discipline through a singularly innovative and influential vision. This year’s winner is architecture and design collaborative Acconci Studio, founded by conceptual artist Vito Acconci. A special exhibition showcasing his work will take place in the Buena Vista Building from December 4th through the 9th .The Award also grants each winner a commission to create a large-scale work and over the years, Design Miami/ has seized opportunities to activate the award as a means to “give back” to the Miami community. For this year’s commission, Acconci Studio will produce Klein-Bottle Playground, a climbing-playing structure to be permanently installed in the Miami Design District by 2014.
Alessi Presents Metal Workshop
4141 N.E. 2nd Ave
Cranbrook for Alessi is an exhibition in material studies, product proposals and pre-production samples created by a mix of Cranbrook-based metal artists and designers working together on an open-ended material investigation. Four designs from the workshop are in production and will be shown along with original prototypes. All will be encased in a special display created by Cranbrook 3D Designer-in-Residence, Scott Klinker, also the co-director of the workshop. The exhibition will open December 4th and run through December 31st, 2012
Kartell
155 NE 40th St.
Kartell will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the iconic Louis Ghost chair by Philippe Starck at its Miami showroom.
Poltrona Frau- Le Corbusier: The Interior of the Cabanon
3800 NE Miami Court
Le Corbusier: The Interior of the Cabanon – First U. S. Exhibition Cassina, in collaboration with the Le Corbusier Foundation, is proud to present the first U.S. exhibition of Le Corbusier: The Interior of the Cabanon, Le Corbusier 1952 – Cassina Reconstruction 2006. This highly anticipated exhibit will take place at the Cassina Miami showroom during Design Miami 2012, running from December 6, 2012 until January 12, 2013.
NEW COLLECTIONS AND POP UPS FROM FASHION BRANDS
Hermès Editeur 3 – Hiroshi Sugimoto
The Garden Building
175 NE 40th Street, Ground Floor
Hermes is launching their new temporary store in the Miami Design District’s Terry Riley-designed Garden Building showcasing their new collaboration with Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. The third in a series of collaborations between Hermès and contemporary artists, ‘Couleurs de l’Ombre’ (Colours of Shadow) an exhibition of a limited edition of silk scarves by Sugimoto which will be open to the public.
Harper’s Bazaar presents The Bazaar Miami
Buena Vista Building
180 NE 39 Street, Suite 107
Harper’s Bazaar Magazine will bring their newly launched e-commerce store, The Bazaar, to life in the Miami Design District. The pop-up retail shop will engage visitors with a unique electronic shopping experience on customized iPads and touch screen computers.
Christian Louboutin
155 NE 40th Street
Christian Louboutin will host the latest work by Chinese artist Ye Hongxing in the purpose built gallery space, surrounding the jewel box boutique. One of China’s most unique artistic voices, Hongxing will present a solo exhibition, exploring the chaotic, isolating and often fragmentary effect of the rapid development of her homeland during fair week.
Louis Vuitton
170 NE 40th St
Synonymous with Art of Travel, Louis Vuitton is equally known for its close relationship with the world of art and culture. Making its debut in the new Louis Vuitton temporary store in the Design District this December are the Objets Nomades – a collection of the 15 travel inspired objects designed in partnership with new and established designers. From a hammock in precious “Nomade” leather to a “Maracatu” cabinet de voyage, the Objets Nomades are a mixture of foldable furniture and travel accessories, crafted in the finest materials and made as unique pieces, limited editions or experimental prototypes. They pay homage to the House’s special orders of the past with a contemporary spirit continuing Louis Vuitton’s tradition of offering its customers new visions of how to travel.
EVENTS AND PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
ORCHID
3800 Biscayne Blvd.
ORCHID is an exotic pop culture-infused cabaret and entertainment experience fusing design, high-fashion, performance art, music and food. Part Moulin Rouge and part Cabaret, ORCHID is contemporary throwback to the “pleasure gardens” of the 19th century organized by renowned director William Baker, who has worked with everyone from Rihanna to Britney Spears and Kylie Minogue. Miami based architect and design Luis Pons has created the installation design and James Beard Award winner and celebrated Florida chef Michelle Bernstein will create a special culinary program inspired by old world circus fare, with a contemporary twist.
INFLATED VILLA
79th NE 41 St.
After presenting the 2005 Fabulous Floating Villa critiquing Miami’s aggressive real estate culture, Miami-based architect and designer Luis Pons has created a follow up art installation, Inflated Villa, in a vacant lot originally intended for development in the Miami Design District. A commentary society’s reaction to the aftermath of the bursting of the real estate bubble, it reflects the deflation of our egos that occurred along with the plummeting value of our homes. The fragile structure will resemble an organism that is breathing rhythmically in and out, in sharp contrast the unfinished tempered steel columns on the unused site which house it.
Kell Muñoz Architecture Firm presents Mestizo City
FCAA Outdoor Location on 41st St.
Mestizo City will feature a series of colorful inflatable storefronts which will blend into the street and extend into an interactive courtyard installation. Designed by San Antonio-based architecture practice Kell Muñoz, Mestizo City reimagines an unexpected urban location to create a vibrant, highly interactive public space that promotes ideas of Latino Urbanism and the Mestizaje, or people of mixed heritage. With inflatable playscapes having long been a symbol of street corner entrepreneurship in Latino culture, Mestizo City employs this cultural phenomenon to provide a backdrop for the informal interactions and commerce inherent in Latino culture while its chalkboard border provides a forum for “citizens” to share ideas.
EXHIBITIONS OF GLOBAL CONTEMPORARY ART
Liquid Matter II
Buena Vista Building
180 NE 39 Street, Suite 120
Liquid Matter II explores the work of a group of Miami artists and their generation’s response to the new direction taking place in the scene of their city. The project is a collaboration between the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and the de la Cruz Collection in Miami, and artists include Loriel Beltran, Domingo Castillo, Elizabeth Condon, Naomi Fisher, Christy Gast, Nick Lobo, Justin Long, Robert Lorie, Hugo Montoya, Christina Lei-Rodriguez, Carlos Rigau and Viking Funeral.
De la Cruz Contemporary Art Space
23 NE 41st Street
This year we gave considerable thought to the different ways on how we could re-imagine our space. The walls and open space of the first floor with its massive volume became the perfect setting for monumental installations. The second floor was transformed into an indoor sculpture garden that brings to mind the public park. And on the third floor, perhaps the most intimate space, we installed a selection of works that through nature explore themes of fragility and temporality. The installation will be on view from November 29-December 4.
Locust Projects
3852 North Miami Avenue
Chicago-based Theaster Gates’ installation Soul Manufacturing Corporation is equal parts factory and art studio. “Skilled makers” occupy four pavilions in Locust Projects’ main gallery, producing “things” such as pottery and music, as the “makers” and audience alike are tended to by a yoga instructor, a DJ, and a lecturer. Wound, Bound, Tied and Knotted-Jacin Giordano presents his first installation incorporating painting and sculpture into the architecture of a space with Wound, Bound, Tied and Knotted. Inspired by the organic dimensionality of the tree branches that form his stretchers, Giorano wraps and weaves multicolored yarn with layers acrylic paint and dye to give the impression of bas-relief sculptures. Out of the Box, The Bus Shelter Project PUBLIC ART- New York-based artist Nicole Eisenman will create a new, site-specific work to be featured on over 30 bus shelters around Miami in November/December 2012.
Mr Andre Saraiva
Buena Vista Building
André gained notice in the late 1990’s with Mr. A, a cartoonish character with a round head, a cross and a circle for his eyes, a big smile and very long legs, which he used to draw all over the streets of Paris. He was part of the early Parisian graffiti scene, and appeared in the Banksy street art movie, Exit Through the Gift Shop. His distinctive style, poetic and joyful, and his use of pink color, has made him stand out among other street/graffiti artists. Andre will utilize the Buena Vista Building to create a special project for the Miami Design District.
The Miami Design District is a unique, 18 square-block neighborhood just north of downtown Miami. A true neighborhood comprised of creative experiences and is committed to the unity of design, fashion, art and architecture. The Miami Design District is owned and visioned by Miami Design District Associates, a partnership between Craig Robins company Dacra, and L Real Estate, a real estate development and investment fund, sponsored by LVMH and Groupe Arnault.
The Miami Design District is the location of choice for exclusive retailers and fashion brands, including Cartier, Celine, Marni, Maison Martin Margiela, Christian Louboutin and En Avance and forthcoming openings from Louis Vuitton, Hermes and Dior Homme, among others. The Miami Design District also serves as a backdrop for top restaurateurs and chefs. Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink, Crumb on Parchment, Harry’s Pizzeria and the Mandolin Aegean Bistro have transformed the District into Miami’s hot new restaurant row. The Miami Design District is also home to world-renowned furniture and design companies and art galleries, including: De La Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Vitra, Driade, Luminaire Lab, Kartell, Poltrona Frau, Baxter Made in Italy, Waterworks, Holly Hunt, BasFisher Invitational, Locust Projects, 101 Exhibit, Martin Oppel Studio, and Oliver Sanchez Studio.
L Real Estate and Dacra are now working to focus the Miami Design District development towards a luxury retail precinct that was missing from Miami¹s shopping choices. The Miami Design District is set on a rapidly evolving into pedestrian-friendly community that will alter the way people shop for design, fashion and art by combining shops, showrooms and cultural exhibitions.
A renaissance of the streetscape and landscape of the District designed by Island Planning Corp is underway. New buildings have been commissioned from architects Aranda\Lasch, K|R, Suo Fujimoto, Moorhead and Moorhead, Iwatmoto Scott, Studio Gang, Leong and Leong, SB Architects and OAB.
For more information please visit www.miamidesigndistrict.net.
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