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MFAH Celebrates 10 Years of the Design Council
28 Aug 2008
PRESS RELEASE
August 2008
In 1998, the MFAH founded the Design Council, a curatorial support group for the modern and contemporary decorative arts, craft, and design collections. The group´s focus stems from the knowledge that objects play a defining role in the way we live and envision our environment. By providing its members with access to distinguished experts, advice on collecting, and the opportunity to study objects first-hand in exhibitions, the museum helps broaden the greater appreciation for and understanding of these dynamic fields.
In addition to participating in events within the museum and Houston, Design Council members also help the museum´s decorative arts collection grow. Each year, using membership dues, members vote to purchase objects for the collection. Since the founding of the group, more than 40 objects dating from 1900 to the present, including furniture, glass, ceramics, metalwork, lighting, industrial design, and jewelry by internationally renowned architects, designers, and craftsman have been acquired using Design Council funds.
This exhibition celebrates the contributions that the Design Council has made to the museum´s collection over the past 10 years. Works by architects and designers including Edgar Brandt, Cesare Casati, Donald Deskey, Hella Jongerius, Ingeborg Lundin, Verner Panton, Gilbert Rhode, Hiroshi Suzuki, and Ettore Sottsass are featured.
August 2008
In 1998, the MFAH founded the Design Council, a curatorial support group for the modern and contemporary decorative arts, craft, and design collections. The group´s focus stems from the knowledge that objects play a defining role in the way we live and envision our environment. By providing its members with access to distinguished experts, advice on collecting, and the opportunity to study objects first-hand in exhibitions, the museum helps broaden the greater appreciation for and understanding of these dynamic fields.
In addition to participating in events within the museum and Houston, Design Council members also help the museum´s decorative arts collection grow. Each year, using membership dues, members vote to purchase objects for the collection. Since the founding of the group, more than 40 objects dating from 1900 to the present, including furniture, glass, ceramics, metalwork, lighting, industrial design, and jewelry by internationally renowned architects, designers, and craftsman have been acquired using Design Council funds.
This exhibition celebrates the contributions that the Design Council has made to the museum´s collection over the past 10 years. Works by architects and designers including Edgar Brandt, Cesare Casati, Donald Deskey, Hella Jongerius, Ingeborg Lundin, Verner Panton, Gilbert Rhode, Hiroshi Suzuki, and Ettore Sottsass are featured.
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Commerce Design Brussels 2008
28 Aug 2008
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Flagey - Studio 1
Brussels, Belgium
23 September 2008
Creativity and innovation in the design of points of sale can play a big role for a better economic and commercial development for Brussels, while having an impact on the quality and the improvement of urban life, the places and the attitudes of consumption and the capital's image in Belgium and abroad.
Commerce Design Brussels is an exceptional day devoted to the design of commercial spaces (shops and boutiques in all sectors, restaurants, bars, cafes, service oriented shops and shopping centres).
This colloquium proposes, through the expertise and talent of professionals and companies active in the development of commercial spaces, adequate tools and lasting solutions for the promotion and distinctive distribution of products and services.
It will allow, moreover, to connect the added value of the sales and well-being areas to the transformation of local urban spaces.
Flagey - Studio 1
Brussels, Belgium
23 September 2008
Creativity and innovation in the design of points of sale can play a big role for a better economic and commercial development for Brussels, while having an impact on the quality and the improvement of urban life, the places and the attitudes of consumption and the capital's image in Belgium and abroad.
Commerce Design Brussels is an exceptional day devoted to the design of commercial spaces (shops and boutiques in all sectors, restaurants, bars, cafes, service oriented shops and shopping centres).
This colloquium proposes, through the expertise and talent of professionals and companies active in the development of commercial spaces, adequate tools and lasting solutions for the promotion and distinctive distribution of products and services.
It will allow, moreover, to connect the added value of the sales and well-being areas to the transformation of local urban spaces.
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