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“A creative polymath”: Isamu Noguchi’s life explored in new Barbican exhibition

Design Week

A landscape artist? Ostende has curated the Barbican’s upcoming exhibition on Japanese-American designer and artist Isamu Noguchi. In this respect, he made his name working across lighting and furniture. Despite its light, modernist aesthetic, the story behind the Akari is a sad one, Ostende explains. A sculptor?

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Visionnaire blurs the lines between art and design

Design Wanted

And yet, for well over a century, artists and furniture designers have turned this maxim on its head, blurring the lines between art and design. The concept of art design is precisely this synergy,” says the Italian brand’s Art Director, Eleonore Cavalli. Meta-luxury” brand Visionnaire has taken up this same charge.

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From Cobblestones to Cyberspace: VMSD Celebrates Its 125th Year of Service to the Retail Industry

VMS

New York quickly became the epicenter of burgeoning new retail concepts. He wrote about fanciful props, imaginative themes and the use of color and lighting to capture the attention of passersby. In 1925, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover said, “The Midas of advertising has given artists freedom and independence.”.