Coral Contemporary is a new art gallery based in Miami, Florida. Founded by Isabel Tassara, the gallery specializes in the exhibition and sale of contemporary art and consulting services. Collectors and art aficionados are invited to its Grand Opening, happening on Thursday, October 24, 2019 from 6 PM. The gallery program will include exhibitions, Artist Talks, discussion panels and gallery lectures all ... +

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Top lots – Theaster Gates (B. 1973): a flag for the least of them, decommissioned fire hose. 59 7/8 by 84 5/8 in. 152 by 215 cm. Executed in 2018. Estimate: 450,000 USD — 500,000 USD – Jenny Saville (B.1970): Susanna. Signed and dated 2017-18, pastel and charcoal on watercolor paper mounted on board. 78 3/4 by 59 7/8 in. 200 by ... +

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William H. Bradley was America’s foremost graphic artist from the end of the nineteenth century into the 1930s. Derived from the Art Nouveau aesthetic, the flowing lines of his designs for advertisements, periodicals, catalogs, and posters made a marked impact on both commercial and fine art in the United States. The Wolfsonian–FIU Museum 1001 Washington Avenue Miami Beach, FL 33139 305.531.1001 www.wolfsonian.org

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This exhibition showcases the Spring/Summer 2016 collection of Fashion designer duo Abdul Abasi and Greg Rosborough inspired by East-West/West-East, a public art installation of bronze monoliths by Richard Serra in the Qatari desert. As colors and textures in the garments communicate this unique life experience, their collection is a perfect embodiment of public art inspiring the creative economy. In a recent New ... +

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From the Jane Gershon Weitzman Collection, Art & Sole: Fantasy Shoes features over 150 of the most inventive examples of these fantasy art shoes, remarkable for their imaginative construction and elaborate adornment. Art & Sole exhibition was curated by Jane Gershon Weitzman. Shoes are constructed of unexpected materials such as bronze, ceramic, wire, Plexiglas or in the case of Robert Steele, corrugated ... +

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Gallery Diet is pleased to announce Trees in Oolite, the inaugural design show in the courtyard of its new space. The first outdoor-design exhibition in the gallery’s history, eight designers and artists present an assortment of outdoor furniture, lighting, and design elements. Set within a Floridian landscape that includes mango, oak, and avocado trees, these objects complement the subtropical flora with a ... +

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From North Miami’s The Fountainhead Studios to the South’s Deering Estate at Cutler, 7 uniquely curated exhibits will represent a sample of the diversity and range of art available close to home. 22 artists along with art districts spokespersons and interior designers will be on hand to discuss how art can be used as the departure point for a design concept in ... +

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Through May 24, 2014. Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is showcasing works by Hugo Franca. Based in Brazil, Franca uses all natural materials to create functional and sustainable design pieces, often tables and seating. Each piece uses reclaimed wood from felled, burned or dead trees found in Brazil. By working them into functional designs, Franca gives new life to trees that are sometimes ... +

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October 2013. Over the summer, the online database of Miami Beach’s historic buildings doubled in size! To date, information on over 550 properties has been collected and entered into MDPL’s historic property database. Ocean Drive, Collins Avenue, Lincoln Road, Espanola Way and more locations are already online. Visit www.ruskinarc.com/mdpl to see the results for yourself. Read about a building’s architectural features, see ... +

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Opening reception: November 1, 2013, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.From November 1st through 24, 2013. BFI invites you to the opening night of URBAN_VARIANTS, an exhibit of new designs for Miami urban buildings. The works will include new prototype sketches, drawings, renderings, and models, as well as studies of existing prototypes in Miami and Savannah. The exhibit is the result of a studio ... +

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Wolfsonian Museum-FIU. October 18, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Join New York-based architect and interior designer William T. Georgis , whose work Elle Decor describes as “uptown but impertinent”, for a free book signing and reception in The Wolfsonian’s café. This first monograph on Georgis’s work, released by The Monacelli Press, presents sixteen houses and apartments in New York City, Long Island, Florida, Montana, ... +

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September 2013. More than three dozen new objects, along with two new special installations, are part of the recently updated Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection (ADMA). The updated installation retains the exhibition’s core themes and overall structure while refreshing its graphic identity, refining the exhibition design, revising text panels, and introducing new material. ADMA showcases ... +

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August 2013. The month of July was a turbulent one for Miami Beach historic preservation. While the wide spread destruction of historic homes continues unabated through out the city, Miami Design Preservation League’s continued efforts to keep a bright light on this issue has helped create some positive results. The City Commission responded to the urgency of the problem at its July ... +

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June 2013. Creative Jessy Nite is opening the Nite Writer, a typographic studio dedicated to hand-lettering, type and illustration. Launching at NiteWriter.co, Nite has produced an interactive pan and scan portfolio that allows viewers to explore the gamut of her hand-drawn typeface and design capabilities. Best known for her fine and public art projects, Nite Writer was conceived as an extension of ... +

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April 2013. Imagine a center that fostered peace by incorporating elements of different religions in one space. That’s what Miami Dade Colleges (MDC) architecture students did recently for eight weeks. The team won a competition sponsored by the Key Biscayne Community Foundation and Global Education Foundation in March. The winning design is also being considered as a model for an actual peace ... +

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June 2013. One Eyed Robot, a South East-based Award Winning animation and design studio is excited to announce it will be setting up shop in the Miami area this June 2013. Opening a South Florida office is part of One Eyed Robot’s bigger plan to offer their animation and design services to the many networks and local ad agencies in the area ... +

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April 23, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Cannonball and Architecture Design Studio invite you to experience the final Spring 2013 Studio Brief, where architecture students propose innovative projects to local developers. This event is free and open to the public. Funded by Tony Goldman, Architecture Design Studio is a platform for architecture students and landowner/developers to collaborate in reinventing the Miami urban landscape. Since ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. April 15, 2013, 8:00 p.m. In this illuminating volume, acclaimed architect Kenneth Treister brings a unique perspective to the physical remains of the ancient Maya cities. Through his knowledgeable treatment of construction methods and materials, Treister discusses the balance of form and function in Maya buildings and their integration of art, architecture, and society. He also reveals ... +

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From April 5 through June 2, 2013. The Anthony R. Abraham Family Gallery at the Coral Gables Museum is presenting When in Rome: a selection of drawings and photographs by students enrolled in the University of Miami School of Architecture Rome Program, curated by Carmen Guerrero. This exhibit displays the work produced in the architectural drawing and design courses of the Rome ... +

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March 2013. Drawing inspiration from Gaia, Greek goddess of the earth, Miami Dade College’s (MDC) interior design students from the School of Architecture and Interior Design created a porcelain tiled dress that won an award for “Most Historical” concept at the March 16 International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Design Mix show. The event was held at the Crandon Golf Key Biscayne Club ... +

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Wolfsonian Museum – FIU. March 2013. Eighteen FIU architecture graduate students are spending a good deal of their spring semester closely examining objects from the Wolfsonian museum’s collection as part of their coursework for Space, Society and the Digital: Virtual Worlds and Visual Aesthetics, taught by Winifred E. Newman, associate professor in the College of Architecture + the Arts. While this is ... +

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Presented by Miami Design Preservation League. Through May 9, 2013. MDPL’s Spring 2013 Lecture Series kicked off on Tuesday, March 26th with Jorge Kuperman discussing Louis Kahn. The lecture is titled, Inspiration and Realism in the Practice of Architecture. Kuperman talked about Louis Kahn’s principles. He discussed samples of Kahn’s work and express his inspiration derived from Kahn’s work and how reality ... +

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From March 22 through May 12, 2013. View the prize-winning installation of the 2012 DawnTown design/build competition at HistoryMiami. For the past five years, DawnTown’s annual design ideas competition has attracted designers from around the world to present new and creative possibilities for Miami. This year’s winning design Up-Downtown is an international collaboration between Jacob Brillhart (Miami, FL) and Manuel Clavel-Rojo (Murcia, ... +

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March 15, 2013, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Once the heroic image of class-consciousness and national character in the first half of the twentieth century, the worker has mainly disappeared from our contemporary visual landscape. This fast-paced program is designed to make visible the practice and process of a variety of South Florida workers, including Eleanor Hoh (wok star), Lara Stein Pardo (artist/anthropologist/Mapping ... +

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From February 9 through March 2, 2013. The course is designed for anyone who wants to know about Miami Beach’s unique architectural styles, from those Art Deco hotels to the fantastic, auto-revering hotels of the ’50s and ’60s known as Miami Modern, or MiMo. Over four Saturdays and 15 1/2 hours, historians, authors, architects, city officials, artists and veteran tour guides tell ... +

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Meet Sherry and John Petersik at Books & Books, Coral Gables. January 9,  7:30 p.m. and January 10,  6:00 p.m. John and Sherry Petersik, the husband-and-wife duo behind the DIY design blog Young House Love, had done little more than change a lightbulb when they bought their first house – a ranch-style fixer-upper in Richmond, Virginia – in the fall of 2006. ... +

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December 2012. Miami Beach residents have seen prized historic homes demolished in their city for years now. Sadly, local historic preservation laws do not adequately protect these houses which are integral to the fabric and quality of life of the community and representative of its history. Recently, MDPL noticed an alarming uptick in the number of historic homes being demolished in order ... +

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Exploring the Boundaries Between Art, Interior Design, Industrial Design, and FashionFrom November 29 through December 8, 2012. Glottman continues its tradition of celebrating the relationship between the arts and design in our contemporary lifestyle. This year he is featuring an installation in collaboration with trendsetting German/Swedish, textile firm Kinnasand (kinnasand.de) and vanguard Italian lighting company Viabizzuno (viabizzuno.com) “The Manichini Dance” is an ... +

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November 2012. Renovations have begun to the gallery’s building at 151 NW 24 Street, where the gallery has been located since 2000. When the gallery re-opens in February 2013, visitors will enter the new gallery space by walking through our adjacent lot into a new lobby on the east side of the building. To the left will be an entrance to the ... +

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December 7, 2012. 8:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. The Creative Complex, a Miami-based graphic design shop, is organizing and hosting the first ever gallery dedicated to the art of nightlife graphic design. Alex Miranda, CEO of the company, believes it’s time to unmask the artists behind great event flyers we see across Miami. Ruben Vazquez, Creative Director at The Creative Complex, will ... +

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From November 14, 2012 through February 17, 2013. Following up on a year of success, The Coral Gables Museum chose Building Bacardi: Architecture, Art & Identity as the featured exhibition to celebrate the museum’s first anniversary and the 150th anniversary of Bacardi – the family, Company and iconic brand. Building Bacardi explores the legacy of Bacardi architecture as a manifestation of the ... +

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The Works of Isabel Toledo and Ruben ToledoFrom November 9, 2012 through January 26, 2013. Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Museum of Art + Design and Terra Group in partnership with Bacardi present an evocative retrospective exhibition of the unique three-decade creative collaboration of award-winning fashion designer Isabel Toledo and her husband, artist Ruben Toledo at the Freedom Tower, the landmark Mediterranean Revival ... +

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Opening reception: October 17, 2012. 6:00 – 10:00 p.m.From October 17 through December 14, 2012. What is design? Why does design matter? The discussion continues… Join several local designers for the opening reception of Inventory Archive, an exhibition that expands on Inventory’s first two well-received design exhibitions. Check out what the buzz is about and help inaugurate Inventory’s new space in Miami’s ... +

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September 2012. MAD inItaly, owned and operated by Nadine Curmi Borgomanero, is a concept store that offers lifestyle furniture, art and home accessories handpicked from Italy. Located in the Miami Design District, MAD inItaly boasts a refreshing and modern blend of imported Italian designs that provide drama and definition, add character and expression using cutting-edge technology and quality materials for all interiors. ... +

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September 6, 2012. 6:00 – 10:00 p.m. Emporio dei Giovani, a luxury brand bringing designs from Italy, sets the artistic trend in Miami celebrating a Fashion’s Night Out event at LMNT Gallery located in Wynwood Art District. The best showpieces of Emporio dei Giovani’s autumn collection from awarded emerging designers, spanning the peninsula from Lake Garda to Sicily, will be presented at ... +

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August 2012. Cartier is one of the first new luxury tenants to open in the Miami Design District. The new Cartier boutique will have a 4,331-square-feet store, with just under 3,000-square-feet for retail space. The boutique will feature a mix of Cartier’s jewelry, watches, accessories and fragrances. The design includes luxurious and contemporary elements with glass display cases trimmed in bronze and ... +

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August 2012. A number of local residents, business owners and developers are concerned about the number of historic Little Havana bungalows that have been razed (destroyed) in recent months – sometimes just to make way for a parking lot. Little Havana has more bungalows than any other neighborhood in Miami. Besides being an important part of Miami’s architectural history, bungalows tend to ... +

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Since its creation in 1854, Louis Vuitton has maintained a close relation with the world of art. Strengthened by this tradition, which has been intensified under the artistic direction of Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton is happy to associate itself with the first retrospective dedicated to the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. This exhibition, which invites visitors to immerse themselves into the world of ... +

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July 2012. On June 12th, the property at 1001 Lincoln Road again came before the Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board (HPB). The last time the board reviewed the plans for this property, the proposed building designed by Apple. Inc. was very controversial. The owners and Apple proposed a complete demolition of the existing structure and a new design that was incompatible with ... +

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From July 26 through October 25, 2012. What are the products we use in our everyday lives, and what impact do they have on our planet?  These are the questions proposed in Design for a Living World, an exhibit from The Nature Conservancy, opening July 26 at the Coral Gables Museum. The exhibit features intriguing works from ten of the world’s most ... +

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June 2012. At its June meeting, the Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board will be considering a new application to demolish 1001 Lincoln Road. Previously, the owners proposed to build a new Apple store on the site. That proposal never materialized. Now, over a year later, a new application has been submitted with a new building proposed to house the GAP and as ... +

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April 2012. This April, Giorgio Armani Group inaugurated its first Armani / Casa store in the Miami Design District. The Miami location is the third Armani / Casa store in the United States. The Armani / Casa Miami store in Miami covers about 1,200 square feet and features a wide spectrum of home collections range from furniture and furnishings to accessories, décor ... +

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April 2012. Offering a new vision in window decorations, this internationally recognized brand provides its clientele with different themed fabric collections including nature prints, micro prints, jacquards with fashion forward graphics and flame-retardant fabrics with a natural linen look. Coulisse also has showrooms in Mexico City and Brazil. “Window decorations are more than just products: they are an expression of style and ... +

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April 6, 2012. As part of the celebration of its 100th Anniversary, AIA Florida has launched its “Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places” competition, which identifies 100 buildings and places across the state that represent the best in architectural achievement, ranging from the Wentworth Museum in Pensacola to the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami. AIA Florida has asked the public to rank the ... +

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Through November 2012. Celebrated native Miami artist, Hernan Bas is exhibiting his piece “A Traveler” in the Louis Vuitton’s Aventura location. “A Traveler” is an original sculptural piece exploring Louis Vuitton’s legacy of the art of travel; a theme synonymous with the Maison’s heritage, tradition and creative spirit.   Using his own artistic expression to interpret the notion of travel and personal exploration, ... +

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March 8, 2012. The Betsy- South Beach will host an exhibition and book signing reception to honor the release of the Pocket Guide To Miami Architecture with author Judith Paine McBrien and illustrator John F. DeSalvo, on Thursday, March 8th at 8:00 p.m. An illustration of The Betsy’s façade is included in the book and will be on display along with drawings ... +

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French Alliance. February 28, 2012. 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Next Tuesday at the French Alliance just west of downtown on Calle Ocho, Pecha Kucha Miami will feature six local speakers whose computer animation, motion graphics, and programming skills are nationally and internationally recognized. Everywhere Studio’s team of presenters is bond to impress with their national and international work for The Discovery Channel. ... +

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Florida State University. Through March 16, 2012. An award-winning exhibit of classic Herman Miller furniture on display at Florida State University through March 16 is revealing just how timeless good design can be. Curated by the FSU Department of Interior Design, the “Classic Herman Miller” exhibition contains around 25 pieces of Herman Miller furniture from the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s. Among the ... +

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February 2012. “Can posters stop a disease? Obviously not! But depending on where they are made and who they impact, they can make a huge difference. They may only be paper, but they are tough and durable,” wrote art director and author Steven Heller in the exhibition catalog for Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters, 1985 – 2010, organized ... +

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November 29 – December 4, 2011 For almost three decades, the American artist Christopher Janney has created public interactive sound/light artworks and performances throughout the world. His work forges a unique path between sound and space by approaching the traditional aspects of architecture through his musical training. The exhibit highlights projects from his three principal areas of focus: “Urban Musical Instruments”, “Physical ... +

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Wolfsonian Museum – FIU. Oct 28, 2011. 7:00 p.m. “Digital design is not simply a means to an end, but is opening doors for different kinds of sensibility of design – it is opening up a Pandora’s box of new possibilities for architecture,” says Eric Goldemberg, author of the newly published book Pulsation in Architecture. Goldemberg presents his book as part of ... +

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Oct 2011. Miami Beach’s Collins Waterfront Architectural District is one step closer to being listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The State of Florida’s Historic Preservation Review Board voted unanimously to recommend that the federal government list the district on its prestigious register. The effort to obtain the listing was the result of the hard work of many dedicated historic ... +

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UM School of Architecture. From Oct 5 through 28, 2011. The University of Miami School of Architecture announced the upcoming exhibition “Less Than Forty Years Old: Young Florida Architects,” which will showcase the best in Florida architecture and design. The selected entries will be on display from October 5 through 28 in the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Irvin Korach Gallery on ... +

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Summer, 2011. Louis Vuitton is opening a temporary location in the Aventura Mall this summer, which offers a full array of Louis Vuitton product categories and collections. A permanent Louis Vuitton store at Aventura Mall, adhering in design to the Maison’s latest global store concept, is scheduled to open in the Fall of 2012. Underscoring Louis Vuitton’s long-standing relationship with contemporary art, ... +

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Apr 28, 2011. As Brazilians pour into Miami, one of the original pioneers to bring the country’s influence to market celebrates culture and style at the new Artefacto Aventura showroom. An arrival inspired by Copacabana Sidewalk in Rio, flanked by models in Zingara’s sophisticated Brazilian cut bathing suits, will welcome guests into 40,000 square feet of contemporary luxury. Artefacto’s expansive showroom in ... +

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Deadline: May 30, 2011. WAN Interiors + Design Lighting Awards 2011 are now open for entries. The award celebrates and promotes the best in international lighting products and projects, attracting entries from all over the world and providing a global platform to showcase new designs. The WAN Interiors + Design Lighting Awards showcase the best from within the lighting industry. The award ... +

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May 2, 2011. DawnTown, the annual international architectural competition, announces that the awards ceremony for the Miami Marine Stadium Floating Stage Design Competition will be held on May 2nd at the Rusty Pelican restaurant on Virginia Key. The event will feature a display of all of the contest entries as well as the announcement of the winner and semi-finalists. This year’s competition ... +

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Mar 30, 2011. 7:30 p.m. MIYO Home will be presenting its Chair-ity cocktail event on Wednesday, March 30th, with proceeds benefiting the Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation. To celebrate the launch of the virtual boutique, MIYO Home has commissioned eight local artistic visionaries along with a celebrity interior designer to create a customized MIYO Home Chair. Artists were invited to translate their visions ... +

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February 2011. Leading international “green” architect Chad Oppenheim was selected by top Philippine developer, The Net Group, to design the nation’s first certified green project. The Net Metropolis is the flagship pilot development of the recently created Philippine Green Building Council (PHILGBC) to answer to the local environment’s specific needs. Oppenheim, who has a growing reputation for his green design work, participated ... +

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Inaugural Design Exhibition. From Feb 12 through Mar 12, 2011. Collective Inventory is opening its inaugural design exhibition, “Objects of Desire” on February 12, 2011 in the Miami Design District. The exhibition will showcase a dynamic group of progressive thinkers from the world of design that embrace the concept of limited production manufacturing. Curated by Thais Fontenelle, “Objects of Desire” features an ... +

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January 2011. International “green” architect Chad Oppenheim completed the new entrance for the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach. The rejuvenated entrance was officially unveiled during a ceremony on December 2010 celebrating the opening of Collins Park – one of the city’s new living rooms. Oppenheim’s design reconnects the museum to the community. The door literally opens it to the new ... +

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December 2010. Winners of the 2010 DawnTown architecture competition, which invited innovative designs for a seaplane terminal on an island in downtown Miami, were announced on December 3rd, at an award ceremony that featured remarks by world-famous architects Chad Oppenheim and Terry Riley. 1st Prize: Team “CA Landscape”, including Trevor Curtis and Sylvia Kim, from Seoul, South Korea, with its design entitled ... +

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Nov 18th, 2010. 7:00 p.m. Get ready and hang on as design-inspired individuals provide quick-moving visual presentations on the topics of pace and speed to complement the exhibition Speed Limits. Each presenter is permitted twenty images shown for twenty seconds each – making for “speedy” six-minute-forty-second presentations. Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture) devised Pecha Kucha, the Japanese term for ... +

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Alliance Française South Florida. Nov 17th, 2010. 6:30 p.m. After the big hurricane of 1926 which destroyed most of Miami Beach, the architects who rebuilt the city in the 30’s were mostly influenced by the Paris’s 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs Industriels et Modernes and the European Modernism a generic term for 20th Century European design styles such as Cubism, French ... +

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From Oct 22nd through Dec 17th, 2010. A collaborative project, 3rd Interpretation: The Film Poster exhibition showcases the cutting-edge work of numerous graphic designers from Mexico and from the United States. Presented by New World School of the Arts (NWSA) and Centro Cultural Español, the exhibition, comprised of 50 thought-provoking graphic interpretations of renowned books, opens in a simultaneous show with the ... +

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Books and Books. Oct 25th and 26th, 2010. Author Deborah Desilets will be discussing and signing her first-ever monograph Morris Lapidus: The Architecture of Joy on October 25th at 8:00 at Books & Boos Coral Gables and again on October 26th at 8:00 p.m. at Books & Books, Bal Harbour Shops. Known for inventing the postwar resort hotel with the Fontainebleau and ... +

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Lecture and Book Signing.Art Deco Welcome Center. Oct 21st, 2010. 7:00 p.m. “This book provides an important – and readable – addition to the bookshelf addressing the context of contemporary Miami and Miami Beach. By presenting the built environment of the Miami area for its compelling variety and unique mélange of styles, the authors go far in interpreting a long overlooked portion ... +

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Oct 21st through Nov 30th, 2010. Italian artist Andrea Sampaolo announces his first American exhibition, “I am American: so I am contemporary”, in Miami on October 21, 2010, which will debut at luxury Italian retailer Poltrona Frau’s Miami showroom in the design district. The highly anticipated presentation introduces the multimedia artist’s unique style and process—informed by an ongoing, fluid dialogue with the ... +

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Fall 2010. The Fall Lecture Series at Miami Design Preservation League’s Art Deco Welcome Center is packed with a variety of free, interesting presentations. Veronika Pozmentier, art historian, journalist and MDPL tour guide, compares our own backyard with one of Paris’ most diverse districts with her lecture “South Beach and Le Mariais: A Tale of Two Historic Neighborhoods.” It starts at 7:00 ... +

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The Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects announced HOK has been selected to receive the 2010 AIA Florida Honor Award of Excellence for New Work for its work on The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum project. The Design Awards are given each year to AIA Florida/Caribbean members to encourage excellence in architecture, to elevate public consciousness of good design, ... +

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From Sept 10th through Oct 17th, 2010. ArtCenter/South Florida is hosting a series of posters produced by artist Philip Brooker for the inaugural year of the Miami Poster Project, a brand-new initiative. The exhibition opens to the public with a reception on Saturday, September 11th, 2010 from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. The show’s intent is to update Miami’s look – to provide ... +

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August 27th, 2910. 7:00 p.m. The Dynamo Museum Shop & Café presents an illustrated talk with Carie Penabad, co-author of Marion Manley: Miami’s First Woman Architect. Best known as one of the designers of the innovative University of Miami Campus built just after WWII, Marion Manley (1893-1984) successfully maintained an independent architectural practice in South Florida over much of the 20th century. ... +

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The Wolfsonian-FIU. August 18th, 2010. 7:00 p.m. Join the Wolfsonian Visionaries for an evening with Pamela Golbin, chief curator of the Fashion and Textiles Museum at the Louvre, for a talk about her recent projects, followed by a book signing of Madeleine Vionnet. The avant-garde couturier Vionnet invented the bias cut and her principles of elegance, movement, architectural form, and timeless style ... +

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Miami Beach. June 2010. Showcasing, by exclusive invitation from the American Institute of Architects, its unique take on design, Glottman flexes its muscle for curating product from some of the most innovative companies, and pushes the envelope with technology and design philosophy. Laser sintering, light as a building material, sustainability and humor come together with local culture and art at the 2010 ... +

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From Jun 15th through 19th, 2010. The global forum for design, Design Miami/ Basel, will again take place in Basel, Switzerland during the popular visual art’s fair Art Basel this summer. At the core of the Design Miami/ forum is a marketplace for limited-edition design, amid which the most reputable international design galleries present curated exhibitions of museum-quality furniture, lighting and objets ... +

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June, 2010. With great anticipation, MDPL has begun new monthly walking tours focusing on the wonderful Miami Modern architecture of Miami Beach’s recently recognized North Shore National Register District. Led by MDPL trained guides, the 90 minute tours will trace the history of MiMo design and architecture in Miami Beach and the efforts of MDPL and preservationists to insure the survival of ... +

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June 2010. Coinciding with the AIA convention is the release of    “Miami Architecture: An AIA Guide Featuring Downtown, the Beaches, and Coconut Grove.” This is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the fascinating and diverse collection of some of the nation’s most interesting architecture. Authors Allan T. Shulman, Randall C. Robinson Jr., and James F. Donnelly have all had close ties to ... +

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From Jun 9th through 12th, 2010. The great architecture of Miami is the centerpiece for the American Institute of Architects 2010 Annual Convention to be held in Miami Beach June 9th through 12th, 2010. Over 20,000 members are expected to flood the area – bringing with them an understanding of our diverse architectural history and contemporary landmarks. Miami Design Preservation League (MDPL) ... +

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June 8th, 2010. 7:00 p.m. Miami Design Preservation League presents a Photography Exhibit and Lecture with Architect Arthur Marcus. The lecture will explore issues around contemporary architecture in Miami Beach and how the tradition of the whimsical beach resort town aesthetic continues to be reinterpreted anew today.  Arthur Marcus’ Design Studio is based in Miami Beach, where it have served south Florida ... +

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May 25th, 2010. 7:00 p.m. The Miami Design Preservation League and Miami Beach Botanical Garden presents a lecture and a photo presentation by Paula Fletcher. The restored gardens at Hill Close, Warwick, saved by community preservationists, feature sixteen hedged Victorian pleasure gardens that have been reconstructed to capture the planting and personality of their original owners. The gardens date from the 1850s,  ... +

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