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FURNITURE INSPIRED BY THE URBAN FABRIC

    Jafar Dajani is a Jordanian architect and interior designer who started his own design practice in Dubai in 2013. With a passion for art and furniture, Jafar’s designs are functional and timeless and will be exhibited for the first time at Design Days Dubai. Q: The Jabal Amman Table you presented at Amman Design Week consists of cylinders representing the route through Jordan’s capital....

TERRITOIRE(S)’ EXQUISITE FRENCH COLLECTIBLES

  Sculptress Geraldine Gonzales’ sparkling, over-sized Flying Chair light installation headlines this extraordinary exhibition of limited-edition French collectibles curated by Territoire(s). Territoire(s) brings a selection of the most beautiful and exclusive examples of French contemporary design to the Middle East for the first time. The one-off and limited edition pieces by French heritage...

THE UK CRAFTS COUNCIL RETURNS FOR A FIFTH YEAR

  The Crafts Council was founded in 1971 and granted a Royal Charter in 1982 to promote the work of high-quality British craft nationally and internationally. Exhibition Project Manager for Design Days Dubai Barbara Gunter-Jones reflects on the high-calibre designers who have been exhibited over the last five years and reveals whose work will be on show in 2017.   Q: This is the fifth year...

GLOBAL GRAD SHOW 2016

Global Grad Show is an exhibition of groundbreaking works from the world’s leading design schools, held as part of Dubai Design Week. A globally unique exhibition of innovation, inventions and technology that will transform our future, all showcased by the world’s next generation of design talent. With more than 145 projects from 50 of the leading universities in 30 countries on six continents,...

Summer School for designers at Bauhaus Design School, Berlin

Calling all designers worldwide! Explore the ground-breaking Bauhaus design movement, in the heart of Germany, through one and two week residential courses this summer. Emerging in Germany, in 1919, the Bauhaus movement set out to reimagine the material world to reflect the unity of all the arts flourished during the 1920s and early 1930s, changing the course of art, crafts, architecture, and...

KHALID SHAFAR REVEALS LATEST DESIGN PIECE

  'FORMA’, specially commissioned for Design Days Dubai, will be unveiled this evening at Nakkash Gallery’s booth, G02. Specially commissioned for Design Days Dubai's fifth edition, Khalid Shafar's FORMA presents a study of forms and shapes through a modular installation made of spherical-shaped components. Each component in FORMA is made of 39 interconnected Agaals - the black woven rope...

The world of Chicara Nagata

M.A.D. Gallery, Dubai’s first kinetic art gallery, opens Jan 10th in Alserkal Avenue with an exhibition by Japanese designer Chicara Nagata.  Bringing cutting-edge mechanical and kinetic art to the forefront, M.A.D.Gallery will exhibit works that exemplify intricacy of detail, originality of concept and exquisite craftsmanship across the field of kinetic art. M.A.D.Gallery Dubai will present...

Two Steps Forward

Peter Marigold shares his account of one evening in July where he found himself in one of the most obvious tourist points in London, Trafalgar Square, and the evolution of the Selfie Stick. One evening last month I found myself waiting for someone at perhaps the most obvious tourist point in London, Trafalgar Square. With time to kill, I just people-watched the almost entirely foreign groups as...

THE ART OF AUSTRALIAN REPLICA FURNITURE

  Australian designer Trent Jansen has an introspective look at his native furniture and design market. Can 'Replica Furniture' be the answer for an isolated continent? "Well, summer in the northern hemisphere means winter in Australia, so this diary entry was conceived just west of Sydney, on a trip to the majestic, and chilly Blue Mountains, and the Megalong Valley (yes, it is mega-long). ...