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Think Green
The Kruger Collection
University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus
Lincoln, NE
March 26, 2010 – March 18, 2011

“Think Green” examines how past interior design styles parallel aspects of today’s “green” design. “Think Green” features 15 miniature rooms exploring ideals in design trends, the impact interior spaces have on the environment and eco-friendly design materials. The exhibition highlights a portion of the 20,000-piece collection of miniatures in the Kruger Collection. Lincoln resident Eloise Kruger collected the majority of these miniatures.

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Modes of Making: Contemporary Studio Furniture
The Society of Arts & Crafts
Boston, MA
June 5 – August 14, 2010

Modes of Making presents the work of eleven U.S. based practitioners – artists, craftsmen, designers who are involved in the process of bringing furniture into existence. On exhibit will be finished objects of high merit – historically, conceptually, technically and otherwise. Modes of Making seeks to shed light on the numerous ways that furniture is born and to follow that through to an examination of how the furniture gets out into the world by selecting artists who work through a variety of systems; teaching, galleries, residencies, commissions, trade/craft shows, industrial production/distribution. Exhibiting artists are: William M. Bancroft Jr. (MA), Shaun Bullens (RI), Reagan Furqueron (ME), Paula Garbarino (MA), Michael Iannone (PA), Yuri Kobayashi (RI), Thomas Moser (ME), Bart Niswonger (MA), Sylvie Rosenthal (NC), Will Tracey (NY) and Stephen Yusko (OH). (more…)

The Looking Glass
Pritam & Eames
East Hampton, NY
July 2 – August 3, 2010

Pritam & Eames presents The Looking Glass, a show of mirrors, featuring the work of Andy Buck, Tim Coleman, Michael Cullen, David Ebner, Duncan Gowdy, Alphonse Mattia, and Don Miller. “The mirrors made by these artist-craftsmen are a far cry from the pools of dark, still water that were probably the first mirrors used by people, states Bebe Johnson, gallery partner. “Like artists, furniture makers use mirrors to frame a counter world, with utility that can range from convenience to a unique perspective.” (more…)

Highlights from the Modern Design Collection: 1900 to the Present
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
Open until June 23, 2011

This installation of highlights from the Museum’s modern and contemporary design collection from 1900 to the present features forty-six objects, including Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s hand-crafted oak, tile, and glass washstand (1904); Marcel Breuer’s iconic modernist “Wassily” chair (1927); a 1985 Formica “Ivory” table by Italian designer Ettore Sottsass; and architect Zaha Hadid’s 2006 “Gyre” lounge chair, made of polyester resin and lacquer. Also presented are metalwork, ceramics, glass, jewelry, drawings, and posters. (more…)

To Love, Honor, and Obey? Stories of Italian Renaissance Marriage Chests
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
Opening July 3, 2010

In Renaissance Italy, betrothal and marriage were celebrated with a variety of events as well as commemorative works of art. Often elaborate, these objects marked the joining of a couple while symbolizing wealth and demonstrating alliances between powerful families. Particularly significant were cassoni, large storage chests produced in pairs and typically used to hold the bride’s dowry. In mid-fifteenth-century Florence, these chests were sometimes paraded through the city in wedding processions. As part of the domestic interior, the chests were designed to complement the other furnishings in the new couple’s bedchamber. (more…)

Six Degrees of Separation… From New England
Compton Gallery
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
June 10 – 30, 2010

Six Degrees of Separation is a juried exhibition of furniture from artists who currently live in New England or graduated from a school in New England (MA, CT, RI, VT, ME, NH). The exhibition is in conjunction with the 2010 Furniture Society Conference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge Massachusetts. (more…)

Outdoor Furniture: Everyone Is Welcome
Kresge Green
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
June 15 – July 31, 2010

Outdoor Furniture is one of several exhibitions held in conjunction with the 2010 Furniture Society Conference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge Massachusetts. The exhibition is located on the beautiful Kresge Green, located between two buildings designed by Eero Saarinen in the heart of the MIT campus. (more…)

Eco-regional Story
Gympie Regional Gallery
Gympie, QLD, Australia
June 16 -July 10, 2010

Craft and design are joined with landscape memoir in an exhibition by contemporary studio furniture maker Ross Annels. His work tells stories of sustainable beauty through furniture, sculpture, artists books and images. (more…)

The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946
Renwick Gallery
Washington, D.C.
March 5, 2010 – January 30, 2011

The Art of Gaman showcases arts and crafts made by Japanese Americans in U.S. internment camps during World War II. Soon after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, all ethnic Japanese on the West Coast—more than two-thirds of whom were American citizens by birth—were ordered to leave their homes and move to ten inland internment camps for the duration of the war. While in these bleak camps, the internees used scraps and found materials to make furniture and other objects to beautify their surroundings. Arts and crafts became essential for simple creature comforts and emotional survival. These objects—tools, teapots, furniture, toys and games, musical instruments, pendants and pins, purses and ornamental displays—are physical manifestations of the art of gaman, a Japanese word that means to bear the seemingly unbearable with dignity and patience. (more…)

Rick Owens: Pavane for a Dead Princess
Salon94
New York, NY
May 8 – June 25, 2010

Pavane for a Dead Princess, is renowned designer Rick Owens’ first presentation of furniture design in the United States. For this exhibition Owens transformed the gallery into a contemporary sleeping quarter based in part on his own Parisian home. It is inspired by French composer Maurice Ravel’s composition for solo piano written in 1899. (more…)