Budapest, indeed Hungary as a whole, was an important centre of that which today is known as Art Nouveau, or Szecesszió to be more precise, if an expression of Art Nouveau, Szecesszió, that all too often tends to get overlooked by the expression of if its...
...Shelves are largely monosyllabic, indispensable in what they do, but not expansive in their repertoire...
...The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility opens at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2 East 91st Street, New York, New York 10128 on Friday December 14th and runs until Sunday March 31st "12 Shelves" at the Aram Gallery, London, England Arguably the fact that the smow blog office has no shelving foretold that the Aram Gallery's new exhibition would appear in this list; however, knowing the attention the Aram Gallery (generally) take when composing their exhibitions, and their promise that all 12 shelving projects presented have arisen in the past five years and therefore allow for 12 contemporary explorations of the possibilities of shelving and/or understandings of shelving, we probably would have been attracted by it even if we had a surfeit of shelving and storage space... 12 Shelves opened at the Aram Gallery, 110 Drury Lane, London, WC2B 5SG on Thursday November 29th and runs until Saturday January 19th "The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Hippies...
