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The spotlight has recently turned on Abu Dhabi as an emerging cultural centre of the Middle East focused on developing visionary projects based on modern architecture and sustainability. Abu Dhabi's cultural focus is centered on the Saadiyat Island development which includes the first branch of the Louvre outside of Paris and the world's largest Guggenheim Museum. Appropriately, Saadiyat translates as 'Island of Happiness.' The dramatic Frank Gehry designed Guggenhei...
In the highly competitive Business Events market, hundreds of cities around the world are vying to attract global attention and a larger slice of the meetings market. Melbourne, one of the World’s Most Livable Cities – according to The Economist – has found a way to not only be noticed, but to set a global benchmark. Responding to the international call for sustainability, the Australian city has opened the ‘greenest’ convention center in the world, described in superlativ...
Work crews are having their way, respectfully, with the innards of the fabled Manhattan restaurant La Goulue. The brasserie, which has hosted everyone from actress Catherine Deneuve to rocker Bruce Springsteen, closed its doors last week and is being stripped bare of its mirrors, sconces and prized antiques. But if Jean Denoyer has his way, his beloved bistro will soon again be kicking as high as the can-can dancer that it is named for. "What I do comes from the h...
For the sixth consecutive year Design Terminal Nonprofit Ltd. organizes Budapest Design Week with the patronage of the Hungarian Patent Office between 2nd and 11th of October as an official event in the program of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation. This year’s central theme is Creative Energies. The focus is on artists’ creativity, knowledge-based products and services, new generation materials and 21st century technologies. Design today is undoubtedly a creat...
There was a lot more social consciousness than innovation on display at the August edition of the New York International Gift Fair, which closed last Thursday at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York. The organizers said 30,000 buyers from 50 states and 77 countries visited the 2,900 exhibitor stands over six days. “Companies weren’t as aggressive in terms of developing new product as in years past, because they didn’t want to lose money,” said Jack Markuse,...
The Savannah College of Art and Design announces that its interior design program leading to the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree is accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (www.accredit-id.org, 206 Grandville Ave., Suite 350, Grand Rapids, MI, 49503). CIDA’s accreditation affirms that SCAD’s interior design program meets or exceeds the rigorous standards of CIDA and ensures that SCAD interior design graduates are prepared to enter professional practice. ...
Natuzzi, Italy’s largest furniture company and the world leader in leather upholstery is commemorating its 50th anniversary with an exhibition exploring the use of leather, which will take place during the London Design Festival (19-27 September 2009). The exhibition at the flagship store on Finchley Road will see the brand collaborate with five London based artists for the first time. Each has been briefed to produce a distinctive new piece of work incorporating Natuzzi l...
The design work of NYSID students Marjorie Sobiloff and Cathy Yohay of SY Interior Designs, Inc. is being showcased at the 2009 Hampton Designer Showhouse in Watermill, NY. The showhouse, now in its ninth year, is presented by Traditional Home to benefit Southhampton Hospital and features the work of 25 interior designers. For this particular project, the pair transformed a 16' x 16' plain white space into a visually interesting room by attaching four silver-leafed an...
