California Design al LACMA di Los Angeles

Sino al 3 Giugno 2012 al Los Angeles County Museum of Art una ricchissima mostra dedicata alla scuola di design che esplose in California a meta' 900, e che influenzo' per una intera generazione lo stile di vita di tutta l'America; la mostra e' ospitata nel Resnick Pavillion di questo bellissimo museo nel cuore di Los Angeles, su Wilshire Blvd.

Resnick Pavilion

October 1, 2011–June 3, 2012

this exhibition is the first major study of California midcentury modern design. With more than 300 objects—furniture, ceramics, metalwork, fashion and textiles, and industrial and graphic design—the exhibition examines the state’s role in shaping the material culture of the entire country. Organized into four thematic areas, the exhibition aims to elucidate the 1951 quote from émigré Greta Magnusson Grossman that is incorporated into the exhibition’s title: California design “is not a superimposed style, but an answer to present conditions…It has developed out of our own preferences for living in a modern way."




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Nordic Light Hotel is Stockholm’s design hotel

Nordic Light Hotel is Stockholm’s design hotel – a place that comes in a sleek, stylish wrapping with a warm, generous soul inside. Our Nordic approach means we regard good design more as a way of life than the way things are.

We see it as our mission to welcome you into an environment of strong personalities and innovative design. Sense the personality of the hotel – independent and self- confident, smart, creative, flirtatious, yet above all unpretentious.Nordic Light Hotel was accepted right from the start as a member of Design Hotels. Our in-house designers Jan Söder and Lars Pihl found their inspiration in an element strongly associated with Scandinavia – light.

The special qualities of the Nordic Light are many: Maybe you have heard of the midnight sun, the lack of daylight in the winter, the Northern Lights, the long dawns and the sunsets creating innumerable shades of glowing colour?
The light can be experienced from the moment you step into our hotel. Experience a changeable atmosphere created by hundreds of different sources of light, varying in colour and intensity. The changes in seasons are automatically reflected in your surroundings, due to the carefully designed interplay of artificial and natural light.