Designers & Books Fair 2012 News
Designers & Books Fair 2012 is the place to be October 26–28. This weekend-long event celebrates the intersection of design—architecture and graphic, fashion, interior, product, and urban design—and books.
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The inaugural Designers & Books Fair, launching the last weekend of October in New York City—October 26–28—is growing bigger. We continue to add new programs and new exhibitors and hope you’ll plan to join us for one or more panel discussions and to take advantage of the chance to mingle with a vibrant international design community in the Exhibition Hall.
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Architectural and interior design historian Michael C. Kathrens (Newport, Rhode Island)
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Architectural and interior design historian Michael C. Kathrens discusses the newly revised edition of his book American Splendor: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer (April 2012, Acanthus Press; originally published 2002), which brings the work of one of America’s most influential residential architects of the Country House era—from the late 19th century to 1930—to a new audience.
Product designer Ronan Bouroullec: Atelier Bouroullec, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (Paris)
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Partners for over a decade, Ronan Bouroullec together with his brother, Erwan, have created innovative designs for products ranging from furniture, lamps, tableware, and textiles to architectural projects, exhibition catalogues and, recently, an iPad application.
Co-founder and Managing Director: Architecture for Humanity (San Francisco)
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Kate Stohr, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity (AfH)—a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing design solutions to humanitarian crises and challenges worldwide, including needs for housing, education, health
care, clean water, and renewable energy—discusses the new follow-up edition to AfH’s enormously successful first book. Published in May 2012 by Abrams, Design Like You Give a Damn [2] profiles more than 100 projects for reimagining community and improving lives across the globe, from a skate park in war-torn Afghanistan to innovative materials such as smog-eating concrete.
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Architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen: Jacobsen Architecture (Washington, D.C.)
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In his more than 50 years of practice, architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen has been recognized for his eloquent modern residential work (20 awards from Architectural Record alone) that draws inspiration from vernacular American forms and local sites. “I endeavor to design buildings that belong, make the site look better and, hopefully, never shout,” he writes in his “Design Philosophy.”
Architectural and landscape design historian Sam Watters (New York and Los Angeles)
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Architectural and landscape design historian Sam Watters discusses Gardens for a Beautiful America 1895–1935: Photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston, his new book published in April 2012 by Acanthus Press, in collaboration with the Library of Congress.
Fashion designer Guo Pei: Rose Studio Fashion Co. Ltd. (Beijing)
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Design writer Zara Arshad: Design China (Beijing)
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Guo Pei—who has been called China’s answer to Alexander McQueen—talks to Design China’s Zara Arshad for Designers & Books—about the role of books in the fashion designer’s life and work.
