Dezeen promotion: design brand Luminaire will present pieces by designers including Angelo Mangiarotti, Gruppo T and Konstantin Grcic at their Miami showroom 29 November – 11 December. 

Top: Ad Memoriam.  Above: François Brument

Called transFORM, the show will also include work by Ad Memoriam, François Brument and Nao Tamura.

Above: Gruppo T

29 November  – 11 December, 2010
Luminaire Lab 3901 NE 2nd Avenue Miami

The information that follows is from Luminaire Lab:

Luminaire Lab is pleased to announce the exhibition transFORM, an unparalleled installation that will dramatically convert the Design District’s showroom and secure the venue as an essential stop on every itinerary. During Art Basel Miami Beach and Design Miami, the Lab will showcase work created by designers who operate outside the confines of nationality and reject traditional archetypes in an exhibition that will be experimental and multi-sensory. Going beyond form to explore how various combinations of materials, movement and sound can serve as tools of communication, the exhibition will entice visitors to experience the unlimited possibilities of design and explore its potential to inspire investigation and discovery.

Above: Konstantin Grcic

The exhibition transFORM will feature extraordinary contributions by both established and up-and-coming international design visionaries. With a career spanning over 60 years, Angelo Mangiarotti can definitively be called a living legend, having designed everything from cutlery and clocks to lighting, furniture and buildings. In celebration of the collaborative re-edition of a new furniture collection by AgapeCasa and Studio Mangiarotti, Luminaire is honored to present the work of this iconic master, whose work consistently embodies a balance of rigorous study, purity of function and sculptural elegance.

Also from Italy will be limited-edition pieces by the avant-garde collective Gruppo T. Originally conceived in 1960 and now produced by Officina Alessi, these works eschew practicality, instead variously employing kinetics and optical effects to encourage interaction with the observer and to elicit an emotive response. Luminaire Lab will also highlight masters of contemporary design who are producing work that captivates the imagination and challenges our preconceived ideas about what design can be.

Above: Angelo Mangiarotti

Examining the idea of memory and its evocation through objects, the installation of the Ad Memoriam project will comprise six works by designers including, among others, Claudio Silvestrin, Giulio Gianturco and Luca Bonato. Incorporating diverse materials, these vessels are both intimate and delicate, revealing hidden secrets and encouraging reflection.

Utilizing sound and form in his work Vase#44, François Brument will harness vocal reverberations produced by the spoken word to create images. Exploring the principle of an infinite edition of unique pieces, Brument develops these patterns into vases employing digital 3D modeling techniques. Visitors to the Lab will have the opportunity to create personalized, one-of-a-kind designs, with the proceeds going towards Luminaire’s long-standing support of cancer research. Exploring the theme of the fragility of life, Japanese designer Nao Tamura will create a site-specific installation in the Lab’s front windows in which a translucent nest of filaments supports a display of Seasons, her silicone leaves, which can be used in a variety of ways, including to serve food and to wrap small objects.

Above: Nao Tamura

Additionally, Luminaire Lab is very pleased to host an exceptional installation of designs by Konstantin Grcic. Often referred to as a minimalist, Grcic prefers to invoke the word “simplicity” when describing his design aesthetic. With a range of work that defies easy catego- rization, Grcic has consistently sought to redefine and refine everyday objects, creating designs in both limited series as well as quotidian objects such as the KB720 blender for Krups.

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