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Have the private jet gassed up and ready to head off to catch the Kazuyo Sejima-curated Venice Architecture Biennale? If you’re reading this site, of course you are (we started up that system where people can only see us when logged on through a private plane’s wifi, right Stephanie?). That said, when you arrive tomorrow for the opening previews, you’ll be pleased to know that the Biennale has just launched their very own iPhone app specifically for the event. Designed by the firm Red Glasses, the apps’ purpose is to guide you around the famously confusing labyrinth that is Venice, as well as a host of other Biennale details. Here’s the rundown:

Where am I? (and what is near me right now): a detailed city map so that you can find your location, Biennale venue locations and get directions. With an inbuilt list of useful Venice locations you can also bookmark your own hotel, so you will never lose your way home.

Events: what is happening, where and when. A calendar of events with map locations

Bars and Restaurants: having visited a pavilion or attended an event, Biennale App also helps you find useful places like nearest bars and restaurants — use the restaurant booking link to make that often incredibly elusive dinner reservation

Live buzz: keep up to date with the latest news on events and exhibition openings through the BiennaleApp twitter feed

For those of you who somehow got through our security and are reading this now, even if you aren’t going to Venice, you’d likely have a good time just scrolling around seeing what’s going on. Just make sure you don’t “use the restaurant booking link” for nefarious purposes, okay?

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London designer Lee Broom will also launch two faceted pendant lights in white and gold at the London Design Festival next month (see our earlier story on his Architrave collection).

One Light Only is inspired by Art Deco jewellery and 1970s fashion photography.

The lights come with a polished gold exterior and matt-white inner surface or vice versa, and will be on display from 18 to 26 September at Broom’s new Studio in Shoreditch, east London.

Here’s some more from the designers:

LEE BROOM LAUNCHES ‘ONE LIGHT ONLY’

Award-winning British designer, Lee Broom, presents his fourth collection at this year’s London Design Festival with the launch of a new lighting range, ‘One Light Only’.

After the success of ‘Heritage Boy’ at last year’s festival, ‘One Light Only’ (OLO) is a new collection of striking pendant lighting. Drawing on Broom’s fashion background, OLO is inspired by Art Deco jewellery and fashion photography from the late 1970’s.

OLO is characterised by a jewel-like gem faceted exterior lighting shell. The lights are presented in two striking finishes, matt white or polished gold. The interior shell of each light is juxtaposed against the exterior finish; reflective gold facets shine against the subtle matt white interior finish and vice versa.

Commenting on his latest range, Broom explains why this collection marks a departure from his previous work, “With OLO, I’ve taken a different design approach; I wanted to create a range which was particularly accessible and affordable…perhaps not such an arts and crafts approach where the collections I’ve created feature significant investments pieces. OLO is more of an accessories collection; it is truly inspired by my fashion background and presents a striking lighting solution.”

OLO features two different pendant-sized lights ranging from 10cm high to 30cm high. The range is designed to work in clusters, mixing small and large pendant sizes together. OLO retails from £245.

As part of the London Design Festival (18-26 September 2010), Broom is creating an impressive illuminated OLO installation, where visitors to his new brand new studio in East London will walk through the gem-faceted pendants.

Broom’s new gallery space based in London’s dynamic Shoreditch Triangle acts as a permanent showcase to his collections. The artistic studio has been curated to celebrate his iconic designs, both past and present.

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No matter your opinion of Jeff Koons (we’re looking at you, angry French men), here’s something you’ll have to give the guy credit for. The non-profit group RxArt, which was founded by art dealer Diane Brown to help redesign hospital interiors to make them less sterile and fear inducing, had long considered Koons the one artist they’d love to work with, having already commissioned pro-bono work from people like R. Crumb and John Margolis. While they thought it would be nearly impossible to talk him into it, given his celebrity, the artist agreed readily. He began work on the CT Scanner and surrounding exam room at Advocate Hope Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois, just outside Chicago, and has since transformed it with paintings of his own work, including 2D copies of his iconic “Balloon Dog” and “Hanging Heart” pieces. Best of all, he didn’t take a dime for the effort. The RxArt site has a ton of great photos of the transition, with both before and after shots, and the York Daily Record has a behind the scenes look at how the group managed to bring Koons in and how the project was pulled off.

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