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...exhibition, which runs through June 13, is a truly multimedia affair. Designed by Wanders himself, it features light, video and art installations - all anchored around a clutch of seminal Wanders furniture. "This is like nothing we've ever done before in America," explains Wanders, who received the coveted Design Excellence Award from local Philadelphia collective Collab at the show's opening (previous winners include Frank Gehry and Georg Jensen). (See the best travel gadgets...
Since opening his own Amsterdam studio in 1995, Wanders has emerged as one of Europe's most varied design talents, producing work for the likes of Flos, Puma, Boffi and Cappellini. Like his peers Philippe Starck and Karim Rashid, Wanders has a penchant for the witty and the fantastical, with an instantly recognizable aesthetic that blurs the boundaries between form and function, organic and fabricated. It also comes with a dose of Mad Hatter craziness. A Wanders chair, for instance, may be fashioned from crocheted flowers or pieces of knotted resin. A stool arrives hewn from precisely cut doilies...
...unveiled at Miami's Mondrian hotel - his first major top-to-bottom hotel project, complete with an instantly iconic black lacquer staircase at the reception. "Next we have new hotels in Amsterdam and Hong Kong and an office building in Cairo," Wanders enthuses. "Along with product- and lighting-design projects in Italy." Dealing in daydreams requires a lot of hard work, it seems. See philamuseum.org for more...
University President Drew G. Faust was joined by Harvard Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood, Harvard School of Public Health Dean Julio Frenk, and Graduate School of Design Dean Mohsen Mostafavi at the conference last weekend, which ended on Sunday...
...Friday, Harvard faculty members held their own discussion panel at the conference, focusing on issues in healthcare. Panel members included such notables as Ellwood, Frenk, School of Public Health professor David E. Bloom, Design School professor Toshiko Mori, and Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter, along with Faust...