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- This blog documents the info and most up-to-date information on New York Design City, the "Design Month" of New York, coming in July, 2009
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New York Design City is proud to announce that this July there will be a ‘Design Month’. Design Month will celebrate the architects behind some of the most important buildings in New York City and their furniture.
During the month of July you will get to see a series of specially commissioned chairs which will be popping up around the city in front of buildings created by significant architect-designers.
Buildings across the city will include the Seagram Building, Whitney Museum, Lipstick Building, the Guggenheim Museum and more.
A series of lectures by current designer-architects, curators, and historians will be held throughout the month to educate the public on New York design and explain the correlation between the buildings and the furniture design.
There will also be a Auction and Gala fundraising event at the Modern in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with all proceeds benefiting Design 21: Better Design For the Greater Good, a non-profit charity associated with UNICEF.
On Sunday, June 28, 2009
1:00 pm – 2 pm
The Museum of Modern Art New York
9 West 53rd Street, New York
There will be a Panel discussion mediated by Paola Antonelli
Panelists include: Jonathan Woodham, Michael Graves, Jean Nouvel, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
Information on the panelists:
Jonathan Woodham: Professor of the History of Design and Director of the Design History Research Center at the University of Brighton.
Michael Graves: Graves was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1979. In 1999 Graves was awarded the National Medal of Arts and in 2001 the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects.
Jean Nouvel: The winner of the 2008Pritzker Architecture Prize, Wolf Prize in Arts in 2005 and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, for the Institut du Monde Arabe.
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien: Known for their design for the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. They were jointly award The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture for notable achievement in design or for distinguished contributions to the field of architecture
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