Urbanism 06 May: Alexander McQueen Puma Giveaway
Alexander McQueen for Puma – Giveaway
Fashion meets sport and tradition meets technology – and Alexander McQueen is making the introductions. McQueen’s Puma collection, the SS10 Vulcanizo Satin Wn’s (rrp $310), blends high fashion with sporting form and function. Puma says that ‘power’ is the DNA of this collection and now, people, the power can be yours.
To win one of two pairs of shoes (one black and one gray) email urbanism@agm.co.nz with word ‘power’ in the subject line. Entries close 20 May.
Play On
To replay the past is to come to terms with it, apparently, and the Adam Art Gallery sets out this Saturday to illustrate this point. ‘Play On’ brings together for the first time four important art installations from the 1990s and a special new work commissioned especially for the occasion. All the pieces, such as Michael Parekowhai’s Patriot: Ten Guitars (right) have a musical theme. The other works on display are: Julian Dashper’s The Big Bang Theory, Slave Piano’s Slave Pianos (of the Art Cult) and Terry Urbahn’s The Karaokes. The new piece is Ava Seymour’s 11 Bars of Oboe.
People in Your Neighbourhood
The British Council describes People in Your Neighbourhood (henceforth PIYN) as its annual showcase of urban diversity. Launched a couple of days ago, PIYN bunches together street-wise UK urban performers with local talents – Charlie Dark and members of the Urban Soul Orchestra, for example, alongside locals such as Submariner and David TaayNinh Wright from Electric Wire Hustle (as an aside, check out the Hustle’s excellent album art here).
Expect looped spoken word and string dynamics, modern urban dance, Vietnamese opera, a Brazilian songstress, livestreaming with cool visuals, and the backing of Trinity Roots rhythm section. Check out the May programme for People in Your Neighbourhood 2010, with workshops and performances in Auckland, Taupo and Wellington.
Nice Cube
Just in time for Mother’s Day, Glengarry has imported these exclusive Veuve Clicquot Ice Cubes, designed by FA Porsche, which holds four cunningly concealed champagne flutes (and a bottle, naturally). The Ice Cube can chill a bottle of Veuve in 20 minutes flat and keep it at the perfect chill for four hours (despite the fact that in good company a bottle of bubbly might last just four minutes…). The Ice Cube is a little too rare to give away, but Urbis does have one eco-packaged bottle of Veuve up for grabs. Email urbanism.co.nz with the word Veuve in the subject line to go into the draw.
>> Visit www.glengarry.co.nz
It’s a Wrap
Milan might be the global home of furniture fashions but a little closer to home is designEX, which details the newest directions, innovations and products to market in contemporary design and interior architecture. This year, the 2010 designEX and Form & Function exhibition attracted 14,500 visitors. Always hotly contested, this year’s best stand winners were Hafele (over 70m2), Abet Laminati (30-70m2), and Minka Joinery (under 30m2). The 2011 designEX will be held at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre from 13-15 April.
>> Visit www.designex.info
Australian Art Design
Speaking of Milan, any brave souls venturing to sunny Queensland might care to drop past this exhibition by recent Milan exhibitor Darcy Clarke, at the Edwina Corlette Gallery in New Farm. Clarke, a self-taught furniture maker and lighting designer, has a background in architecture and fine art. His woven works are comprised of natural materials that “suggest their own form”, he says.
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