Design Museum Brussels is a museum located in
Heysel Park
The Heysel Plateau (french: Plateau du Heysel, nl, Heizelplateau) or Heysel Park (french: Parc du Heysel, links=no, nl, Heizelpark, links=no), usually shortened to Heysel () or Heizel (), is a neighbourhood, park and exhibition space in Laek ...
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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
The Atomium ( , , ) is a landmark building in Brussels, Belgium, originally constructed for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo '58). It is located on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Laeken (northern part of the City of Brussels), where the exh ...
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,
Apple Design Team (
Jonathan Ive),
Evelyne Axell
Evelyne Axell (16 August 1935 – 10 September 1972) was a Belgian Pop painter. She is best known for her psychedelic, erotic paintings of female nudes and self-portraits on plexiglas that blend the hedonistic and Pop impulses of the 1960s. ...
,
Joe Colombo
Joseph Anthony Colombo Sr. (; June 16, 1923 – May 22, 1978) was the boss of the Colombo crime family, one of the Five Families of the American Mafia in New York City.
Colombo was born in New York City, where his father was an early member ...
,
Ruth Francken,
Konstantin Grcic
Konstantin Grcic ( sr-cyr, Константин грчић, born 1965) is a German industrial designer known for creating mass-manufactured items, such as furniture and household products. He has participated in leading design shows and his work ...
,
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 furnitur ...
,
Shiro Kuramata,
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 ...
and ,
Verner Panton,
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, u ...
,
Ettore Sottsass and Perry King,
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 ...
,
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 Berton ...
, and
Roger Tallon.
In 2016 the museum exhibited 240 previously unseen photographs by
Charles and Ray Eames.
In 2020 the museum opened Belgisch Design Belge, a permanent exhibition space dedicated to the history and practice of design in Belgium.
The size of the museum is 5,000 m2 and it received c. 126,000 visitors in 2019.
References
External Links
Design Museum Brussels
Museums with year of establishment missing
Museums in Brussels
Decorative arts museums in Belgium
Design museums
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