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The annual DESIGN Canberra Festival has today announced highlights for its ninth edition, unveiling an expansive program featuring more than 200 events that will be presented across the nation’s capital celebrating it as a global city of design.

Sydney Design Week 2022, a seven-day program of exhibitions, talks, film screenings and workshops will run across the city’s design hubs from 15-22 September 2022.

Exploring the frontiers between art, design and cutting-edge craftsmanship, Gallery All is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Todomuta Studio for the 2021 edition of Design Miami.

Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904 – 1988) is one of the most experimental and important artists of the 20th century. Barbican Art Gallery is pleased to stage the first European touring retrospective of his work in 20 years.

London-based Tasmanian designer, Brodie Neill has launched his new design ReCoil, a centrepiece crafted with forgotten timber reclaimed from Tasmania’s lakes. ReCoil invites conversation, taking you on a journey of the reimagined, through the island’s rugged beauty.

From 11 September to 31 October 2021, the exhibition Glasstress. Window to the Future, organized by the State Hermitage in conjunction with the Berengo Studio of Venice, will be running in the General Staff building.

Welcoming more than 30 UK and international participants, Eye of the Collector’s inaugural edition will be held at Two Temple Place, London from 8 -11 September 2021.

The Design Museum presents a retrospective on the pioneering designer in Charlotte Perriand: The Modern Life. The exhibition charts Perriand’s journey through the modernist machine aesthetic to her adoption of natural forms, and later from modular furniture to major architectural projects.

London Design Festival returns for its 19th edition this September. The Festival will once again transform the capital’s landmarks, neighbourhoods and cultural institutions with a series of outdoor installations, exhibitions and special events that will bring people together as London continues to reopen.

Marcin Rusak Studio presents Unnatural Practice. Curated by Federica Sala, Unnatural Practice is a showcase of Rusak’s most recent works together with archival and “in progress” pieces that inform the studio’s permanent research.

Berengo Studio and WonderGlass announce a collaboration to showcase a unique exhibition of contemporary glass art and design titled GLASS to GLASS. United by their shared passion for revitalising contemporary glass the two companies will celebrate the vibrant community of contemporary artists and designers working with Murano glass today.

From 3D-printed corals and modular underwater reef structures, to robotically printed and knitted architecture, Sampling the Future, a new exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, reveals some of the extraordinary ways that advanced technologies and manufacturing are shaping our near and distant futures.

CONCRETE: art design architecture is a major exhibition exploring innovative ways that concrete is being used by artists, designers and architects in Australia in the 21st century.

The first retrospective of Margel Hinder, one of Australia’s most important and dynamic, yet underrated, modernist sculptors will be presented at Heide Museum of Modern Art. A tribute to her great, and ever-expanding, creative vision.

The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) and James Turrell have announced the new Skyspace – titled C.A.V.U. . It will augment one of the world’s most comprehensive experiences of installations by the artist while realizing a vision the artist had when visiting the museum’s campus in 1987.

Speculative design studio Superflux invites humanity to reassess its place in the natural world, emerging from the grid-like ashes of fire-blackened trees into resurgent greenery – and a glistening pool with a surprise below the surface.

Design Shanghai is Asia’s largest international design event, breaking new ground and setting a precedent in Asia’s ever-growing design community. Drawing on Shanghai's unique art and cultural landscape, the highly anticipated event celebrates its 8th year.

303 Gallery presents their first solo exhibition with Dan Graham. Treating the gallery as a kind of automobile showroom, Graham's installation of models allows the viewer to become both participant and spectator in perceiving the space physically and psychologically in relation to other spectators.

Italian design firm Salvatori presents The Village, a special initiative in collaboration with leading names from the international architecture and design worlds. Launched in March 2021, The Village is an ongoing project that will roll out in the course of the year.

More than thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Vitra Design Museum presents the first panoramic overview of post-war design in the two Germanies. From 20 March to 5 September 2021, the exhibition German Design 1949–1989: Two Countries, One History will offer a comparative selection of design from East and West Germany and explore ideological and aesthetic differences as well as parallels and interrelations between East and West.

As the second temporary exhibition presented at the Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Project, “Design and the Wondrous” questions current adornment and how it relates to new digital logics for designing and producing design items. The exhibition presents more than a hundred design objects, both from the Centre Pompidou collection and contemporary Chinese designers.

Much has changed in 2020, not least our relationships with our homes. Since March, we’ve got to know them very well indeed. For months, we no longer locked the door behind us, and departed for hours, days or longer. In 2020 our homes became both sanctuary and prison; the spaces and objects within them ever more familiar, fond and important.

With 155 pieces from the United States, Europe and Venice, Venice and American Studio Glass features an extraordinary selection of glass works by American artists and designers and examines for the first time the influence of the Venetian aesthetics and traditional glass-working techniques on American Studio Glass, from the 1960s to today.

Craft + Design Centre and acclaimed Italian design consulting studio Mr.Lawrence, together with 1+1 Design Gallery, Milan, will present the collective exhibition GLASS UTOPIA as part of the international Venice Glass Week from 3 until 26 September 2020.

MPavilion, Open House Melbourne and Melbourne Music Week announced the 5 successful applicants for MERGE—a collaborative music and design initiative commissioned by MPavilion for Open House Melbourne’s July and MPavilion/Melbourne Music Week’s November 2020 program.

ICONIC Australian Design celebrates award winning and innovative Australian industrial design and features iconic pieces from the 1880s through to the present day.

Internationally celebrated Canberra-based glass maker Kirstie Rea has been announced as the 2020 DESIGN Canberra designer-in-residence. Rea was commissioned to create a new work that responds to the festival’s 2020 theme of care.

The 2020 edition of Schloss Hollenegg design exhibition titled Walden showcases a number projects by emerging artists and designers, with the aim of creating space for design research, thinking and critique. Architect Sophie Dries's collaboration with Austrian lighting company Kaia, responds to Hollenegg's 2020 theme of  Walden, with their Inner Glow Chandelier.

Todomuta are Laura Molina and Sergio Herrera - a couple in every sense of the word. Together they forge a resolute path, exploring the outer realms of disparate design and non-conformist art. It's hard to define exactly what it is they do, but the joy of their output lies in an irreverent and often random approach.

In 2020, Australia's leading annual international design event, Melbourne Design Week, presents its largest program to date, with more than 300 events over 11 days. Programmed around the theme ‘How Can Design Shape Life?’, the festival comprises 85 exhibitions, 94 talks, 15 films, 22 tours and 16 workshops celebrating the best of local, national and international design.

The Design Museum invites visitors to discover the role that design will play in humanity’s journey to the Red Planet in the exhibition ‘Moving to Mars’, which opens this October. Every detail of this extraordinary venture must be designed – from the journey (around seven months), to considering what we will wear, eat and shelter in when we get there and beyond.

Woody Allen was once quoted as saying, “you can live to be 100 if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred”. And while some may subscribe to such a contrite and tortuous renunciation, our editorial team isn’t particularly enamoured with the thought of outliving a giant Aldabra tortoise.

There is a word in Sanskrit—‘kalpa’—which means the passing of time on a grand, cosmological scale. Native speakers uphold that the movement of celestial bodies can be observed only during meditative transcendence. Horology might be a noble science, but the watchmakers on this list, who approach their work with temerity and lyricism, prove that the tradition holds something divine.

When it comes to the world of niche and artisanal perfumery, it’s easy to obsess. As perhaps one of the most elegant and esoteric nomenclatures of art and science, haute perfumery has the ability to bottle the very best of artistic human endeavour.

Doesn’t everyone collect something? In an age of ephemeral digital exchange and parallax social engagement, it’s always interesting to pause for a moment and understand if people still collect and why.

It is no secret that our memories are reliant on the engagement and stimulation of our senses. From the smell of our favourite perfume to the warm embrace of a loved one, our senses help us understand and classify our experiences while creating lasting and powerful cerebral embellishments. In this issue, Neue Selects highlights seven sensory agents whose work has challenged, inspired, seduced and stimulated our collective memories for decades.

Neue Luxury highlights the disruptive trajectory of seven fearless artisans who resonate with an unconventional and progressive view of the world. We explore how these luminaries have harnessed their fear and liberated their potential beyond the paradigms of possibility.

It’s 7pm in Osaka, Japan, and Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro looks in need of a nightcap. Hyperactive to the point of distraction, he zips around his apartment seemingly wired on life. One minute, the esteemed roboticist is pacing the living room floor in search of wisdom. The next, he is nervously pulling a blind up and down, peering out of a window into a void of pitch-black infinity. The man can’t settle.

Lukas Machnik is far more than the sum of his parts. In myriad ventures— interior design, furniture, objects, art—the Chicago-based Pole imbues his work with the eye of an auteur. Avant-garde, haunting, graphic, bold—these are hardly commercial adjectives, and yet this is how you might describe the Machnik aesthetic, the ability to cross-reference and stamp personality onto a project with a profound disregard for convention.

Memories are so often olfactory. Although every scent is made of a simple combination of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen and sulfur, the experience of scent is both subjective and personal. Selecting a fragrance for another is often one of life’s most intimate and difficult acts.

It was during his high school years in Montana that Lonney White became “confused by the trendiness of colour” and shunned the palette entirely from his sartorial identity. He was instead solaced by the timeless allure of monochrome, with the stylistic code since creeping into his aesthetic as a neo-minimalist painter, sculptor and furniture designer.

Encounters with chthonian spirits—who leave their subterranean dwellings only when the beasts wake them—are rare. Talking to Monika Bielskyte, the Lithuanian-born creative director, consultant, strategist and self-proclaimed “techno nomad”, is like conversing with a good friend you might have only known from a prior life. You feel in good hands with her.

One of Australian design’s most ambitious ventures, Broached Commissions is unusual in curating and commissioning its own designs. Using a core group of designers—Trent Jansen, Adam Goodrum and Charles Wilson—Lou Weis’s Melbourne-based venture is an exercise in design history. It explores how ideas arrived and evolved in Australia.

There are few sensations that speak to our collective consciousness the way perfume does—its fragile, ephemeral nuances conjuring both fantasy and memory in our minds and bodies, with layered possibilities shifting between the wearer and those who share their personal space.

Two years ago contemporary Chinese art dealer and collector Judith Neilson offered furniture designer Khai Liew perhaps the biggest private commission in Australia: 190 pieces, including a sixteen metre dining table made from Brazilian cherry wood.

The interior artefacts and objects created by Achille Salvagni are deeply moving and considered objects d’art. Poised, eloquent and unquestionably luxurious, each piece is underpinned by unwavering commitment to detail, ideas and the use of the finest materials and craftsmanship. These are not just interior decorations but timeless pieces infused with history, context and the imagination.

Prestigious porcelain company Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg looked to fashion to reprise the original avant garde status of their signature Commedia dell’Arte figurines. The Couture Edition was a gesture of rebellion in keeping with the company’s original integral focus on commissioning leading artists of the day.

Berlin is certainly no stranger to reinvention. The city’s cultural and urban redevelopment has often gone hand in hand, creating unique conditions for meaningful social, artistic and political exchange.

Every year an international skulk of art lovers, curators, artists and collectors descend upon the sun drenched streets of Miami, Florida to consume the brightest, biggest and boldest of the international art elite. With 73,000 international visitors feverishly devouring everything that Art Basel Miami Beach has to offer through its myriad of satellite fairs, sideshows and parties.