Urbanism 15 July: Studio Italia Giveaway
Studio Italia Giveaway
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Studio Italia's new online showroom is open — so take a look around. Online you'll be able to download the latest product catalogues, view sale items and browse the very latest furniture, wardrobe and kitchen designs from Italy. To celebrate, Studio Italia is giving away one Poliform Yard Table, designed by Paolo Piva, to a lucky Urbanism reader. To win, email urbanism@agm.co.nz with the name of another Paolo Piva-designed piece stocked by Studio Italia. |
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In a State
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Across the ditch, preparations are underway for the opening (this evening) of the State of Design Festival. Victoria’s design festival has a huge range of events and exhibitions for the public and for design professionals between now and 25 July, so make sure you check it out. Guides will be available throughout the city, or you can be thoroughly modern and download the State of Design iphone app to keep you in the know. |
Inspirational Art
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Artist Mary-Louise Browne spent the first part of 2010 on an artist's residency at the Taipei Artists Village. Working predominantly with Taiwanese greenstone, Browne explored ideas around commemoration and the memorial and souvenir — and these ideas continue to play out in her new exhibition, opening next week at Bartley + Co in Wellington. Browne says her encounter with Chinese iconography — where signs and symbols often represent ideas — led her to reading and thinking more about how things and ideas are described visually. She was also interested in the way mottoes and maxims are employed, both aspirationally and inspirationally in east and west. The exhibition comprises two related bodies of works: one is a series of maxims stitched in gold lettering on damask linen; the other is a series of ideas about representation inscribed on brass plaques. |
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That's right, it's almost sale time at Essenze. This year you can expect signature pieces, floor models, prototypes and current stocks of lighting, furniture, objects and rugs by leading New Zealand designers, such as David Trubridge, Peter Collis, Christopher Metcalfe, Fletcher Vaughan, Jo Luping, Susannah Bridges and many more… With reductions of up to 50% and a feast of products to select from, the EXCLUSIVE Preview Day for Urbanism subscribers on 23 July is a date to diarise. To participate, just turn up and mention the Urbanism newsletter. As an additional enticement, Urbanism readers who visit Essenze on preview day will go into the draw to win a classic David Trubridge 'Ruth Rocker', valued at $1,500! Urbanism preview date: 23 July. Sale open to the public from July 24 – 8 August. Essenze, 285 Parnell Road, Parnell. Phone 09 300 6238. Email: info@essenze.co.nz >> Check out the Essenze website |
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Armchair Travels
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Prefer to travel vicariously rather than fluff around with too-small seats, baggage terminals and foreign languages? Or, want to get the inside scoop on a destination before you touch down? Whatever your preference, if you’re interested in travel and design, a series of public talks hosted by Te Tuhi and the Nanette Cameron School of Interior Design will be just the ticket (geddit?). Each of the eight public talks has an eminent guest speaker from architecture, design, landscape or art, including Pete Bossley, Sue McLean, Nicky Foreman, Gill Hubble, Justin Evatt, Simon Carnachan and Tony van Raat. |
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Dance Off
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Rodney Hide is in no way related to this dance story, which is lucky for pretty much everyone (except those Hide-o-philes tucked away in leafy Epsom…). Rather, this is an acknowledgement of the skill of three altogether more coordinated and lithe dancers, who were recently celebrated with lifetime achievement awards for their Outstanding Contribution to Maori Contemporary Dance. The award recipients were Gaylene Sciascia, performing arts manager of Whitireia Community Polytechnic; Tama Huata, founder and director of Te Wananga Whare Tapere O Takitimu and CEO of Kahurangi Maori Dance Theatre; and Stephen Bradshaw, founder and artistic director of Te Kanikani o te Rangatahi and Taiao Dance Theatre. Well done folks. |
Trubridge on Show
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David Trubridge is possibly New Zealand’s most well-known designer — but have you actually seen his lights and furniture up-close and in person? An exhibition of his work, including his most recent pieces, a selection of pieces recently exhibited in Milan, and several of his most iconic pieces from the past will soon be on display for a month at Simon James Design in Auckland. Exhibition dates: 22 July – 21 August, Simon James Design, 61 Upper Queen St, Newton. |
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