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Here are some more images of boiled leather furniture by Tortie Hoare, the winning project from New Designers Part 2 earlier this month (see our earlier story). (more…)

Representing the union of two small rivers that create the flow of the Nile, the Flow Table is more than just a piece of furniture. Its clean and cont..

Sydney Design will host one if its most dynamic programs in 14 years
with a city-wide program of more than 70 events and activities supported
by a..

SELFISH CHAIR by russian designer Dima Loginoff with russian ballet dancer Alex Torgunakov

We first marvelled at the curatorial panache of Brooke Hodge back when she was organizing stellar shows celebrating the likes of Gio Ponti, Zaha Hadid, and Rei Kawakubo in the cultural whirl of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since then, she’s taken the left coast by storm (as curator of architecture and design at MOCA) with such extraordinary exhibitions as “Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture.” Now Hodge is joining Team Philbin (Ann, not Regis) at the Hammer Museum as director of exhibition management and publications.

In her new role at the University of California, Los Angeles-operated institution, Hodge will provide management and guidance to the curatorial department, including assuming oversight of projects and administrative responsibility for the department’s staff and budget. She will also help to oversee the museum’s growing slate of exhibitions (have you seen Greg Lynn‘s “Fountain”?), programs, and publications. “I am thrilled to be joining the staff of what I think is one of the most dynamic museums in the country, and definitely in LA—and am looking forward to helping the Hammer realize its ambitious exhibition schedule and coming publication projects,” said Hodge, who Philbin described as “a colleague we have long admired,” adding, “I know that her organizational prowess and many years of institutional experience will serve the Hammer well.”

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