17 Design Exhibitions to See This Spring and Summer
Original article posted at Architectural Digest by Alia Akkam.
Far and wide, museums and galleries are blissfully springing back to life. And though there’s no shortage of compelling summer exhibitions to entice visitors, a certain subset of design-focused shows has captured our attention. Below, we’ve rounded up 17 such exhibitions that are worth a wander.
“Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne: Nature Transformed” at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts
“David Hockney: Ma Normandie” at Pace Gallery in East Hampton
“Samantha Bittman & Chris Beeston” at Patrick Parrish Gallery in New York
“Inside~Out in the Garden” at Saint Marks Place in Brooklyn
“ART+NATURE+HOME” at Foreland in Catskill, New York
“Charlotte Perriand: The Modern Life” at the Design Museum in London
“Chris Gustin” at Donzella Project Space in New York
“Éternel” at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York
“Elemental Folds” at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris
“Craft Front & Center” at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York
“Cast Iron” at Emma Scully in New York
“Fire and Vine: The Story of Glass and Wine” at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York
“Night Fever: Designing Club Culture” at the V&A Dundee in Dundee, Scotland
“In Good Company” at Liaigre in Miami
“Hialeah Eléctrica: Metavector” at the Bass Museum in Miami
“Noguchi: Useless Architecture” at the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in Long Island City, New York
“With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932” at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan