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Maison & Objet Americas which started yesterday and will have its doors open until 15th, is gathering the best of interior design world and has everything to be one of the most remarkable trade shows of the year. During this 1st edition of Maison et Objet, a serie of speeches, discussions and workshops are one of the major interesting things of the new miami design show.
Named Interior Design & Lifestyle Summit, this talk series will gather the design expert and design lovers on engaging discussions.Listeners will have the opportunity to decode the major trends on the market today and for tomorrow, as well as to discover projects from prestigious architects from the American continent. Focus will be put on David Rockwell and Dror Benshetrit, two strong personalities who are certain to thrill their audience.
DAVID ROCKWELL Lecture: “What if?” Rethinking the collective experience
Thursday, 5/14 from 3pm to 3:45pm
What if…? There’s a question that triggers fireworks of enthusiastic ideas. For the American architect David Rockwell, it has opened the door to a world of brilliant creations since 1984, when he founded the Rockwell Group in New York. His interdisciplinary architecture and design studio quickly developed outposts in Madrid and Shanghai, today staffed by 250 people. It draws its strength from a Rockwellian vision shaped by the bohemian childhood of its leader. Born to a mother who was a dancer, as a child he was shuttled between Mexico and the United States. Today, the designer is driven by the belief that all things are possible to those who know how to watch and play. His passion for the theater and his innate aesthetic sense allow him to materialize rich worlds in such diverse projects as hotels – W, restaurants – Nobu, airport terminals, hospitals, Broadway sets and trade show design (Venice Biennale). Last November, David Rockwell decided to dedicate a book to the question that most unleashes the full scope of his creativity: What if? He will speak about the book in a highly awaited lecture, along with Cindy Allen, the influential editor of Interior Design magazine. Dining, exploring, having fun, getting together to live better… both experts will invite their audience to discover the driving, creative force of a primarily hedonistic lifestyle.
DROR BENSHETRIT Lecture: “Dreams”
Tuesday, 5/12 from 3pm to 3:45pm
In which the Israeli-American designer conjures the power of dreams in design. Trained at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands, in 2002 Dror Benshetrit founded Dror studio, a New York design studio specializing in the creation of innovative projects. His work is guided by a quest for the essence of movement, space and form. Materials, technology and geometry are called into question, tossed around, then transcended in order to give life to objects, architecture, decorative installations, and artistic worlds with their own particular DNA. The greatest names in retail have been seduced by his signature, such as Bentley, Alessi, Boffi, Bombay Sapphire, Cappellini, Kiehl’s, Levi’s, Lualdi, MaterialConneXion, Maya Romanoff, Marithé + François Girbaud, Puma, Rosenthal, Skins Footwear, Yigal Azrouël, SHVO, Swarovski, and Target. The winner of numerous international awards – GE Plastics Competition “Merging Boundaries” (2001), the iF Product Design Award (2006), the Good Design Award (2008, 2010) – the work of Dror Benshetrit has already been included in the permanent collections of major museums in North America, Europe and the Middle East.
Although this two lectures will be two of the hits, there is a lot of more things to attend in Maison & Objet Americas. We reunited below in a nutshell.
Best of Interior Design at Maison et Objet America
Get inspired by exemplary achievements of interior design. Moderated by Cindy Allen, the editor in chief of Interior Design Magazine, Paola Navone will talk about the story of the Metropolitan Como hotel and Dering Hall will be leading a conference over the secret of the Four Seasons Jumeirah Beach Dubai.
Keynot Speeches at Maison et Objet America
The lineup will include luminaries like David Rockwell, who will discuss rethinking the collective experience and the new way to live-work -play -gather-explore-dine-entertain, Zanini de Zanine, the inaugural Designer of the Year for MAISON&OBJET , and Dror Benshetrit, who will be giving a thoughtful talk on what it means to be a dreamer and how dreams can be utilized to provoke visionary ideas.
Panel Discussions at Maison et Objet Americas
Spread over four days, these conferences will allow for a dialogue between collaborators, colleagues and/ or competitors as they discuss an array of topics. Peter Sallick (Waterworks) and Lee Mindel will discuss translating design and architecture into product design, moderated by Richard Cook, Editorial Director of Wallpaper Magazine. Frank Ballabio, VP of Dering Hall will lead a panel discussion on ‘how to work with art in interiors and landscape design’. Spencer Bailey, the Editor in Chief of Surface Magazine will be creating a panel, as will Kendell Cronstrom, the Editor in Chief of NYC&G and Hamptons C&G. In addition, Craig Robins, the force behind the Design District and President and CEO of Dacra will also address the gathering.
In addition to both the fair and the summit, there will also be a plethora of events celebrating Maison & Objet Americas in multiple locations in and around Miami Beach, the Design District, Dcota and Miami Ironside.
