The Month Ahead: EXPO Milano, Collective & ICFF Hit New York, and More Design World Happenings

OPENING / CLOSING

Across the U.S.:

New York

Demisch Danant’s show “Difference and Repetition” closes on the 2nd to get ready for “Pierre Paulin: L’homme moderne,” which opens on the 12th. The show will feature the designer’s best-known works of the 1960s for Artifort, as well as several pieces that were originally designed for George Pompidou’s Presidential Apartment at the Élysée Palace in Paris.

It’s also last call for “Nathalie du Pasquier: It Is Hard to Get Excited About Growth of Less Than 3% With No Sign of Imminent Improvement” which closes on the 2nd at Chamber. Next up, opening on the 14th, is “Capsule Nº 2: ‘This Is Not a Duet,’” with works by Gala Fernández Montero and Sung Jan, curated by Maria Cristina Didero and Juan Garcia Mosqueda.

Also closing on the 2nd: UrbanGlass’s show “Nick Mount: The Fabric of Work.”

The Museum of Art and Design’s exhibition “Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today” just opened on the 28th of April. Don’t miss works by greats like Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Eva Ziesel, Sheila Hicks, and more—through September 27th.

“Anton Alvarez: Wrapsody” closes on the 9th. This show is the result of the designer’s one-month residency at Salon 94’s Freeman Alley space.

David Wiseman’s “Wilderness and Ornament” at R & Company opens on the 11th and will include a complete room decorated by Wiseman within the gallery.

Another exhibition opening on the 11th is “The Team” at Johnson Trading Gallery’s 72 Franklin Street pop-up location.

“Emmett Moore: IN-SPACE” is a must-see! Patrick Parrish Gallery, in conjunction with Miami’s Gallery Diet, exhibits furniture and lighting by Moore made by 3D printing open-source files—on view through the 17th.

Miami

“Katie Stout, Docile/Domicile/Dandy,” the designer’s first solo show in Miami opens at Gallery Diet on the 8th.

Chicago

Volume Gallery hosts their first solo show of Danish designer Anders Ruhwald’s work titled “The Charred Room.”

Indianapolis

“Dream Cars: Innovative Design, Visionary Ideas” opens on the 3rd at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Bellevue, Washington

Last month, the Bellevue Arts Museum mounted a show of more than 30 emerging designers in their region called “The New Frontier: Young Designer-Makers in the Pacific Northwest,” on view through August 16th. (via Sight Unseen)

Further Afield:

London

Ceramist Johannes Nagel’s show “I Hardly Ever Thought of Flowers” has just gone on view at Gallery FUMI.

The third in a series in conjunction with the Crafts Council, What is Luxury?,” opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) last month and will be on view through September 27th.

Paris

“Identity,” a group show with works by Djim Berger, Nacho Carbonell, Ayala Serfaty, Taher Chemirik, and others, is installed at Galerie BSL’s gallery at 23 Rue Charlot.

Milan

If you’re in Milan for EXPO, check out two shows curated by Germano Celant at the Triennale Design Museum: “Arts & Food: Rituals since 1851” and “Kitchens & Invaders.”

Weil am Rhein

Closing on the 31st at the Vitra Design Museum is “Architecture of Independence: African Modernism.”

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