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- Yves Béhar showcases his sweet handmade surfboard in a temporary Miami Surf Shack Thu, 17 Dec 15, 6:30amSan Francisco designer Yves Béhar built a temporary installation as a showroom for his handcrafted surfboards in Miami Design District. The wooden Surf Shack is accompanied by an exhibition called Connecting, where the designer...
- Sebastian Errazuriz’s transforming wave cabinet opens with undulating movement Wed, 14 Jan 15, 6:30amPresented by Cristina Grajales Gallery at Design Miami in December of 2014, the beautiful cabinet is made from dozens of slats of Baltic birch and stands upright on four sturdy steel legs...
- Mischer’traxler unveils blooming kinetic installation at Design Miami Fri, 12 Dec 14, 6:00amThe Viennese designers find inspiration from vegetables and other plants. Their latest project included two mirrors with Art Nouveau-inspired botanical forms around their perimeter and trailing across their surface. The...
- Buckminster Fuller’s sparkling Fly’s Eye Dome unveiled in Miami Sat, 6 Dec 14, 4:00amBuckminster Fuller's patented prototype for low-cost portable dome housing, designed in 1965, has just been reproduced and installed in the Miami Design District for this year's Design Miami...
- Buckminster Fuller’s low-cost Flys Eye Dome recreated as a 3D parametric model in Miami Sat, 6 Dec 14, 1:27amBuckminster Fuller's patented prototype for low-cost portable dome housing, designed in 1965, has just been reproduced and installed in the Miami Design District for this year's Design Miami...
- Konstantin Grcic Constructs Mobile Prefab Pavilion from Audi TT Car Parts at Design Miami/Basel Thu, 19 Jun 14, 1:40amInspired by both the Audi TT sports car and the prefab designs of French designer Jean Prouvé, Grcic wanted to create a structure that could be quickly assembled but also exude an iconic and timeless beauty...
- Louis Vuitton Breathes Life into Charlotte Perriand’s Stunning Modernist Beach House Sat, 7 Dec 13, 1:00amPerriand originally designed La Maison au Bord de l'Eau (the house on the water) for a competition in 1934. The prefab beach bungalow was never realized, however, until eight decades later when Louis Vuitton alighted on Perriand...
- Jean Prouve’s Maison 8×8 Pioneered Affordable Prefab Design Way Back in 1948 Thu, 5 Dec 13, 5:00pmJean Prouvé's Demountable Houses were designed according to the principles of prefabrication, flexibility and mobility, as well as functionality and rational fabrication...
- VIDEO INTERVIEW: Architect Chad Oppenheim on Sustainable Architecture Fri, 15 Jul 11, 2:00pmIn this video interview Miami architect Chad Oppenheim - designer of the stunning green COR Tower for Miami – talks about the changing real estate market, the construction economy and his take on sustainability as...
- Mike Bouchet Turns Shopping Carts Into Cool Lounge Chairs Tue, 10 May 11, 12:40amShopping carts are rarely offered a second life after being spent transporting our groceries, but Frankfurt-based designer Mike Bouchet saw the hidden potential of the common cart...