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Design Museum Brussels
Design Museum Brussels is a museum located in Heysel Park, Brussels, Belgium. The space focuses on design works from the 20th and 21st centuries. History Arnaud Bozzini is the director of the museum. The museum was established in 2015 through the purchase of a private collection. It was previously known as The ADAM (Art and Design Atomium Museum). In 2015 the museum opened The Plasticarium which focuses on the use of plastic in the design industry the mid-20th century through to the present day. The collection includes works by: Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Anna Castelli-Ferrieri, Apple Industrial Design Group, Apple Design Team (Jony Ive, Jonathan Ive), Evelyne Axell, Joe Cesare Colombo, Joe Colombo, Ruth Francken, Konstantin Grcic, Quasar Khanh, Shiro Kuramata, Cesare Leonardi and , Verner Panton, Gaetano Pesce, Ettore Sottsass and Perry King, Philippe Starck, Studio 65, and Roger Tallon. In 2016 the museum exhibited 240 previously unseen photographs by Charles and Ray Eames ...
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Brussels, Belgium
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country and is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, but is separate from the Flemish Region (within which it forms an enclave) and the Walloon Region. Brussels is the most densely populated region in Belgium, and although it has the highest GDP per capita, it has the lowest available income per household. The Brussels Region covers , a relatively small area compared to the two other regions, and has a population of over 1.2 million. The five times larger metropolitan area of Brusse ...
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Quasar Khanh
Nguyen Manh Khanh (1934 in Hanoi – June 30, 2016 in Ho Chi Minh City), also known as Quasar Khanh, was a Vietnamese engineer, an inventor, and a designer. The Vietnamese and French community significantly recognizes him for his inflatable furniture line Aerospace. At the age of fifteen, Khanh moved to Paris, and established himself as the most significant Vietnamese furniture designer of the 20th century. He was one of a handful of designers whose shocking products, in color and in form, were in touch with the renegade spirit of the 1960s. Biography During Khanh’s early adulthood he studied engineering at the National School of Bridges and Roads (1955-1958) in Paris. There, he met the beautiful and talented French fashion designer Emmanuelle. They married in 1957 and later had their daughter Atlantic Khanh. In this same year Nguyen Manh Khanh began going by the name Quasar Khanh, before he started his career in design. Before his death he moved back to Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh Cit ...
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Museums In Brussels
This is a list of museums in Brussels, Belgium. It includes museums situated in any of the municipalities of the Brussels Capital Region. Former museums * Underwear Museum - Moved to Lessines, Hainaut in 2016 * Scientastic Museum - Closed in 2012 * Charles Debuer Fencing Museum - Closed * NAM-IP Computer Museum - Collection moved to Namur, Wallonia in 2015 * Museum of Letters and Manuscripts in Brussels - Closed References External links *{{commonscatinline, Museums in BrusselsOfficial site of the Brussels council of museums Brussels Museums in Brussels Museums Museums in Brussels This is a list of museums in Brussels, Belgium. It includes museums situated in any of the municipalities of the Brussels Capital Region. Former museums * Underwear Museum - Moved to Lessines, Hainaut in 2016 * Scientastic Museum - Closed in ...
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Museums With Year Of Establishment Missing
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that Preservation (library and archival science), cares for and displays a collection (artwork), collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, culture, cultural, history, historical, or science, scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through display case, exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. The largest museums are located in major cities throughout the world, while thousands of local museums exist in smaller cities, towns, and rural areas. Museums have varying aims, ranging from the conservation and documentation of their collection, serving researchers and specialists, to catering to the general public. The goal of serving researchers is not only scientific, but intended to serve the general public. There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums, and children's museums. Ac ...
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Charles And Ray Eames
Charles Eames ( Charles Eames, Jr) and Ray Eames ( Ray-Bernice Eames) were an American married couple of industrial designers who made significant historical contributions to the development of modern architecture and furniture through the work of the Eames Office. They also worked in the fields of industrial and graphic design, fine art, and film. Charles was the public face of the Eames Office, but Ray and Charles worked together as creative partners and employed a diverse creative staff. Among their most recognized designs is the Eames Lounge Chair and the Eames Dining Chair. Background Charles Eames secured an architecture scholarship at Washington University, but his devotion to the practices of Frank Lloyd Wright caused issues with his tutors and he left after just two years of study. He met Ray Gayber at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1940. Charles arrived at the school on an industrial design fellowship as recommended by Eliel Saarinen, but soon became an instructor. Ray enr ...
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Roger Tallon
Roger Tallon (6 March 1929 – 20 October 2011) was a French industrial designer. Biography After studying as an engineer (1944–1950), Tallon was employed by Caterpillar France and DuPont. In 1953, he joined Technès, the technical and aesthetic studies office founded in 1949 by the father of industrial aesthetics, Jacques Viénot and Jean Parthenay. Being rapidly promoted to technical and artistic director at the agency, he became the sole director after Viénot's death in 1959. In 1957 he enrolled at the ("School of Applied Arts") in Paris, and put in place the first design course in the country. In 1963, he set up the Design Department of the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris. As a consultant for the US company General Electric, Tallon designed refrigerators and washing machines and set up the Design Department of the American company. In 1966, the Téléavia P111 portable television was put on the market against the advice of the Bo ...
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Studio 65
Studio 65 (''Studiosessanta5'') is an Italian architecture studio. It was founded in 1965 in Turin as an avant-garde experimental collective of architects, designers, poets and artists. Its founders were Franco Audrito, Roberta Garosci, Enzo Bertone, Paolo Morello, and Paolo Rondelli.  Studio 65 played an important role in the Radical period (design), Radical movement in Italian design in 1960-70s. Some of the most famous products designed by them is the ''Bocca'' sofa and ''Capitello'' chair''.  ''Other notable projects include the ''Leonardo'' sofa, which became one of the icons of the Radical Design movement, interior design of the Casa Canella apartment, the Palladian Villa, as well as the Barbarella night club. Other members of the Radical design movement from Turin were Bean bag chair, Piero Gatti-Cesare Paolini-Franco Teodoro, LIBIDARCH, Ceretti-Derossi-Rosso, Guido Drocco, Franco Mello, and Piero Gilardi. Towards the end of the seventies the collective broke up and Audrit ...
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Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck (; born 18 January 1949) is a French industrial architect and designer known for his wide range of designs, including interior design, architecture, household objects, furniture, boats and other vehicles. Life Starck was born on 18 January 1949 in Paris. He is the son of André Starck, who was an aeronautics engineer. He says that his father often inspired him because he was an engineer, who made invention a "duty". His family was originally from and lived in the Alsace region, before his grandfather moved to Paris. He studied at the École Camondo in Paris.Biography, Philippe Starck, Britannica Online


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Ettore Sottsass
Ettore Sottsass (Innsbruck, Austria 14 September 1917 – Milan, Italy 31 December 2007) was a 20th century Italian architect, noted for also designing furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting, home and office wares, as well as numerous buildings and interiors — often defined by bold colours. Early life Sottsass was born in Innsbruck, Austria, and grew up in Turin, where his father, also named Ettore Sottsass, was an architect. The elder Sottsass belonged to the modernist architecture group Movimento Italiano per l'Architectura Razionale (MIAR), which was led by Giuseppe Pagano. The younger Sottsass was educated at the Politecnico di Torino in Turin and graduated in 1939 with a degree in architecture. After the invasion of Italy by the Anglo-Americans, Sottsass enlisted in the Monterosa Division, a division of the Repubblica Sociale Italiana led by Benito Mussolini and his Republican Fascist Party, to fight in the mountains alongside Hitler's army (Sottsass tells his adve ...
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Gaetano Pesce
Gaetano Pesce (born 8 November 1939) is an Italian architect and a design pioneer of the 20th century. Pesce was born in La Spezia in 1939, and he grew up in Padua and Florence. During his 50-year career, Pesce has worked as an architect, urban planner, and industrial designer. His outlook is considered broad and humanistic, and his work is characterized by an inventive use of color and materials, asserting connections between the individual and society, through art, architecture, and design to reappraise mid-twentieth-century modern life. Architecture career Pesce studied architecture at the University of Venice, with such notable teachers as Carlo Scarpa and Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Ernesto Rogers. Between 1958 and 1963, Pesce participated in Gruppo N, an early collective concerned with programmed art patterned after the Bauhaus. Since the 1960s, Gaetano Pesce has been known to relate art to the design of interiors, products, and architecture. ''The New York Times'' cri ...
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Verner Panton
Verner Panton (13 February 1926 – 5 September 1998) is considered one of Denmark's most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers. During his career, he created innovative and futuristic designs in a variety of materials, especially plastics, and in vibrant and exotic colors. His style was very "1960s" but regained popularity at the end of the 20th century. As of 2004, Panton's best-known furniture models are still in production (at Vitra, among others). Biography Panton was already an experienced artist in Odense when he went to study architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (''Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi'') in Copenhagen, graduating in 1951. During the first two years of his career, 1950–1952, he worked at the architectural practice of Arne Jacobsen, another Danish architect and furniture designer. Panton turned out to be an " enfant terrible" and he started his own design and architectural office. He became well known for his innovative arch ...
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Cesare Leonardi
Cesare Leonardi (3 June 1935 – 4 February 2021) was an Italian architect. Biography Leonardi attended the University of Florence, where he was taught by Adalberto Libera, , and . He graduated in 1970. From 1959 to 1960, he was an apprentice in the studio of in Udine before opening his own studio with Franca Stagi in 1963. Some of their works ended up in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein. Photography allowed him to document, investigate, and plan his future blueprints for construction. He moved to the Viale Emilio Po studio in Modena in 1990, which now houses his complete archives. After 2000, he primarily devoted himself to photography, sculpture, and painting. In 2011, the Superintendent for Archival Heritage in Emilia-Romagna egl, Emigliàn (man) egl, Emiglièna (woman) rgn, Rumagnòl (man) rgn, Rumagnòla (woman) it, Emiliano (man) it, Emiliana (woman) or it, Romagnolo (man) i ...
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