Description: "Cohousing Symposium: Building Intentional and Sustainable Communities" is a full day event with several speakers in the morning, followed by an on-site lunch, then roundtable workshops related to the many aspects of cohousing. The keynote speaker will be Charles Durret, author, architect, and the primary voice of cohousing in the U.S.
Admission: Free. $ required for lunch
For More Information: 215-965-6814
Description: Judy Gelles & Linda Brenner: You are invited to create an individual imprint of your thumb and share your stories, which will later be incorporated into drawings.
Presented by First Person Arts in collaboration with InLiquid, The Welcome House is an artist residency by day and an art installation by night. The 10' x 10' transparent cube will reside in Love Park at 15th and JFK from October 4-13, 2009. Conceived and curated by artist Marianne Bernstein, designed by Interface Studio Architects with nighttime projection by Ricardo Rivera of klip collective, 10 Philadelphia artists and designers will create new work based on their interaction with the public. The work created in The Welcome House will be exhibited at the First Person Festival at the Painted Bride Art Center, Nov. 3-8. It will remain on exhibit through Dec. 31.
Admission: Free
For More Information: Please visit www.thewelcomehouse.net or firstpersonarts.org
Description: Studio show and sale. Items include reclaimed wood tables, vintage wall art, garden trellises and planters, industrial lighting, architectural antiques and other cool curiosities.
Admission: Free
For More Information: sales@botanicalstyle.com
Description: Modern & Green Japanese products wholesaler is open to public for three day only sample sales. Up to 50% off of the retail price. Represented products are Yoko Yano Jewelry, Chikuno Cube; Bamboo Charcoal Air Freshener, Tabi-Socks, seisuke88; hand bags with Japanese vintage prints, and Kishu Lacquerware. Our products are available at major museum stores including; The Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215-238-1328
Description: Philadelphia has a growing bicycling community. The demands of bike parking needs are quickly outgrowing available sources and more unique, innovative solutions are needed. View this exhibition of proposals by designers from all over the country, with a wide range of concepts that could be implemented immediately and ideas meant to challenge the way we view the role of the bicycle in society. Judges include Charles Carmalt - Pedestrian and Bicycle Coordinator for the Philadelphia Mayor's Office; Mathieu Turpault - Director of Design at Bresslergroup; Breen Goodwin - Education Director, Bicycle Coalition; and Paul Curci - Publisher, City Paper.
All submissions will be on view as part of SP[ ]T.
The Exhibition will be installed in a parking space on Hancock Street in Northern Liberties
This competition is graciously sponsored by Bresslergroup.
Admission: Free
For More Information: www.designphiladelphia.org
Description: How do you interpret the parking spot and its fleeting accessibility? Philadelphia artists and designers claim the urban parking spot - an idle space between the bustling streets and sidewalks of the city. Join us for a series of outdoor interventions that explore the potential dynamics of this momentary urban space. SP[ ]T is a free and public exhibition and will be installed in parking spaces around The Piazza at Schmidts. An exhibition of all competition boards will also be installed at The Piazza during the week of DesignPhiladelphia.
Admission: Free
For More Information: philaspot.wordpress.com
Description: This recently opened design studio, operated by local design school graduates with backgrounds in industrial design and art, focuses on furniture, lighting, and sculpture.
Admission: Free
For More Information: buchanan.blair@gmail.com
Description: October 10-11: Studios West of Broad
Check out artist studios anywhere from Chestnut Hill to South Philly, and be sure to visit DesignPhiladelphia along the way! As the largest annual tour of visual artist studios in Philadelphia, POST brings you right to the source of our city's impressive art scene. 2009 marks our 10th Anniversary, so join us in the celebration of this milestone Tour. Plan your tour online: community partner and artist listings, images, maps, and more at philaopenstudios.org
Admission: Free
For More Information: philaopenstudios.org
Description: Philadelphia artist Andrew Jevremovic will open his studio/gallery to exhibit his work, including limited edition sustainable furniture, intelligently-crafted local interiors and children's mobile sculpture. Open Studio runs October 10th and 11th, 12-6.
Admission: Free
For More Information: info@octostudio.com
Description: This seminar will explore the relationship between form and function as it relates to the design of sports racing cars. In their zeal to win, race car designers have looked for any advantage they could find. Aerodynamics has emerged as one of the most important elements of winning race car design. Using one of the world's greatest collections of racing sports cars as examples, Museum Executive Director Dr. Frederick Simeone and photographer Michael Furman will explore this subject.
Admission: Free- Donation appreciated.
For More Information: www.Simeonefoundation.org
Description: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Admission: Free
Description: Gimme Shelter is a showcase of six temporary, functional woodland shelters to enhance the experience of visitors to the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, a 350-acre nature preserve in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia. The project is meant to build awareness of the applied possibilities and meaning of sustainability, and its impact on our lives and our connection to the natural world. This curated competition encouraged collaboration between artists, designers and architects, in order to demonstrate and promote new, unique, and inspiring approaches to sustainable design and building techniques.
Admission: Free
For More Information: Contact Zoë Cohen at 215-482-7300 x113
Description: A special guided tour, with visits inside several private residences representing great modern architecture that co-exists alongside restored 18th- and 19th-century buildings in Society Hill Philadelphia. Learn how modernism and historic preservation were thoughtfully integrated in one of the greatest examples of mid-century urban renewal.
Presented by the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia in conjunction with DOCOMOMO North America Tour Day, highlighting modern architecture throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada.
*Cost: $20 general public; $10 Preservation Alliance members. Advance registration required.
Admission: Cost* RSVP required
For More Information: 215-546-1146 x3 or tours@preservationalliance.com
Description: Russel Wright as a designer paved the way for a shift to the modern taste. Beginning in the 1920's and continuing through the 1960's, Russel Wright designed items for the modern home ranging from dinnerware to appliances. The emphasis of the current exhibit at More Than Old is on dinnerware with special attention to the range of color and form that brought the American public to the modern era. This exhibition will run October 10th through October 17th. Light refreshments will be served.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215-922-0246
Description: Dialogues on Design, presented by DuPont™ Corian® and DesignPhiladelphia, is a multi series event exploring a variety of design issues facing society today. This series is graciously hosted by the Center for Architecture.
Reese Palley, Sailor, Author, Art Dealer, and Historian, will be speaking on "The Chair". Mr. Palley, who along with his wife Marilyn Arnold Palley, created the Palley Index of Danish Furniture 1900-2000 furnitureindex.dk. Reese will discuss the following: a short history of the modern chair; how to look at a newly designed chair; some objective tests of chair design; and the detection of fakes and copies.
Following the talk there will be a Q&A and reception.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.951.5338
Description: Join us as we celebrate DesignPhiladelphia at the shared offices of Moto DesignShop Inc & Pixelcraft Inc. Browse our recent & future work over cocktails & light fare – bbq and grilling, weather permitting.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215-592-9300
Description: AphroChic is excited to host a product launch event and panel discussion as we celebrate our new collection of sustainable pillows and apparel inspired by the city we love. "The Designer's Lounge: Culture & Design in the Modern Home," a specially curated event, includes an intimate conversation on the integration of culture and design in the modern home, set in a laid-back lounge atmosphere. Panelists will include some of today's hottest interior designers and bloggers who will discuss the growing trend of cultural integration in today's modern interiors. The Designer's Lounge will be outfitted in AphroChic's debut collection of pillows and apparel that is inspired by cultural heritage.
Admission: Free. RSVP required
For More Information: Please RSVP to aphrochicblog@yahoo.com
Description: The first annual Philadelphia Fashion Week will include a jam-packed schedule of fashion designers from Philadelphia and across the globe showcasing what is in style. Attendees will have the opportunity to shop with retailers on site between shows.
Philadelphia Fashion Week is a three-day event that will take place from October 8 – 10, 2009 with the following schedule each day:
5:00PM – 6:00PM – The best of student designers from area colleges
6:00PM – 8:00PM – Streetwear designers
8:00PM – 10:00PM – Contemporary couture designers
Open to the public, Philadelphia Fashion Week will offer general admission and VIP tickets in August online and by phone. Tickets will be available through advance purchase only. Student, general and VIP admissions will be offered. VIP admission will offer the exclusive opportunity to mingle with designers and experience fashion in an intimate setting.
Admission: Tickets required. (See below)
For More Information: Please visit philadelphiafashionweek.org for ticketing and additional information.
Description: Join us for a cocktail party and trunk show featuring the work of Rebecca Minkoff.
Admission: Free with Museum admission
For More Information: 215-925-3548
Description: Fun House showcases three diverse artists/designers who actively manufacture product for the design trade. This is the first collaboration of Curio Wallcoverings artist wallpapers with Adam Wallacavage sculptural chandeliers and Wells Vissar Inc.'s scagliola architectural cast elements. Each shares the aesthetic of old world ornamentation with a new twist, and therefore, offering exposure to unconventional interiors. This installation showcases their product and aesthetic, bringing the interior design to life by allowing viewers and participants to actively experience the use of high ornamentation assimilated into the design, as well as with the materials used by the artists involved.
This installation is created to explore ornament as design in an effort to look at interiors as live spaces or places in which the ornamentation is not a backdrop, but an intuitively partnered component of the inhabited space. During the reception, all three designers will have a chance to address visitors through guided discussions on the creation of the interior. Exhibition will run October 7-13.
Join us for a cocktail party with DJ!
Curio Wallcoverings
Adam Wallacavage
Wells Vissar Inc.
Amberella Gallery
Admission: Free
For More Information: www.scagliola.com
Description: 8static is a monthly audiovisual showcase of lo-fi and 8-bit electronics. Each event features three musical performers and live visuals provided by artists worldwide. Last year was focused on the local scene, but also featured artists from New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Italy, Sweden, and the U.K. This year features a free pre-show workshop or talk by respected and talented individuals creating in these new and interactive media fields.
*Free workshop, $5 w/flyer, $8 at door.
Admission: *Free workshop, $5, $8 at door
For More Information: www.8static.com
Description: TangenT Art Collaborative - William Cromar, Yvonne Love, and Gabrielle Russomango - present 709B. Multiple video projections featuring performance artists Joel Richard Gori and Sasha Tainovch and a free art "takeaway" are just part of this TangenT production. Mapping and projection are a means by which identity and place are distilled and presented, often conveying only a strategic truth. This work is a multimedia meditation on the friction that exists between reality and its presentation to ourselves and others. Generously assisted by Alan Domb Real Estate and Parc Restaurant.
Admission: Free
For More Information: www.williamcromar.com
Description: Judy Gelles & Linda Brenner: You are invited to create an individual imprint of your thumb and share your stories, which will later be incorporated into drawings.
Presented by First Person Arts in collaboration with InLiquid, The Welcome House is an artist residency by day and an art installation by night. The 10' x 10' transparent cube will reside in Love Park at 15th and JFK from October 4-13, 2009. Conceived and curated by artist Marianne Bernstein, designed by Interface Studio Architects with nighttime projection by Ricardo Rivera of klip collective, 10 Philadelphia artists and designers will create new work based on their interaction with the public. The work created in The Welcome House will be exhibited at the First Person Festival at the Painted Bride Art Center, Nov. 3-8. It will remain on exhibit through Dec. 31.
Admission: Free
For More Information: Please visit www.thewelcomehouse.net or firstpersonarts.org
Description: Modern & Green Japanese products wholesaler is open to public for three day only sample sales. Up to 50% off of the retail price. Represented products are Yoko Yano Jewelry, Chikuno Cube; Bamboo Charcoal Air Freshener, Tabi-Socks, seisuke88; hand bags with Japanese vintage prints, and Kishu Lacquerware. Our products are available at major museum stores including; The Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215-238-1328
Description: How do you interpret the parking spot and its fleeting accessibility? Philadelphia artists and designers claim the urban parking spot - an idle space between the bustling streets and sidewalks of the city. Join us for a series of outdoor interventions that explore the potential dynamics of this momentary urban space. SP[ ]T is a free and public exhibition and will be installed in parking spaces around The Piazza at Schmidts. An exhibition of all competition boards will also be installed at The Piazza during the week of DesignPhiladelphia.
Admission: Free
For More Information: philaspot.wordpress.com
Description: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Admission: Free
Description: Gimme Shelter is a showcase of six temporary, functional woodland shelters to enhance the experience of visitors to the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, a 350-acre nature preserve in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia. The project is meant to build awareness of the applied possibilities and meaning of sustainability, and its impact on our lives and our connection to the natural world. This curated competition encouraged collaboration between artists, designers and architects, in order to demonstrate and promote new, unique, and inspiring approaches to sustainable design and building techniques.
Admission: Free
For More Information: Contact Zoë Cohen at 215-482-7300 x113
Description: A special guided tour, with visits inside several private residences representing great modern architecture that co-exists alongside restored 18th- and 19th-century buildings in Society Hill Philadelphia. Learn how modernism and historic preservation were thoughtfully integrated in one of the greatest examples of mid-century urban renewal.
Presented by the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia in conjunction with DOCOMOMO North America Tour Day, highlighting modern architecture throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada.
*Cost: $20 general public; $10 Preservation Alliance members. Advance registration required.
Admission: Cost* RSVP required
For More Information: 215-546-1146 x3 or tours@preservationalliance.com
Description: Russel Wright as a designer paved the way for a shift to the modern taste. Beginning in the 1920's and continuing through the 1960's, Russel Wright designed items for the modern home ranging from dinnerware to appliances. The emphasis of the current exhibit at More Than Old is on dinnerware with special attention to the range of color and form that brought the American public to the modern era. This exhibition will run October 10th through October 17th. Light refreshments will be served.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215-922-0246
Description: AphroChic is excited to host a product launch event and panel discussion as we celebrate our new collection of sustainable pillows and apparel inspired by the city we love. "The Designer's Lounge: Culture & Design in the Modern Home," a specially curated event, includes an intimate conversation on the integration of culture and design in the modern home, set in a laid-back lounge atmosphere. Panelists will include some of today's hottest interior designers and bloggers who will discuss the growing trend of cultural integration in today's modern interiors. The Designer's Lounge will be outfitted in AphroChic's debut collection of pillows and apparel that is inspired by cultural heritage.
Admission: Free. RSVP required
For More Information: Please RSVP to aphrochicblog@yahoo.com
Description: The first annual Philadelphia Fashion Week will include a jam-packed schedule of fashion designers from Philadelphia and across the globe showcasing what is in style. Attendees will have the opportunity to shop with retailers on site between shows.
Philadelphia Fashion Week is a three-day event that will take place from October 8 – 10, 2009 with the following schedule each day:
5:00PM – 6:00PM – The best of student designers from area colleges
6:00PM – 8:00PM – Streetwear designers
8:00PM – 10:00PM – Contemporary couture designers
Open to the public, Philadelphia Fashion Week will offer general admission and VIP tickets in August online and by phone. Tickets will be available through advance purchase only. Student, general and VIP admissions will be offered. VIP admission will offer the exclusive opportunity to mingle with designers and experience fashion in an intimate setting.
Admission: Tickets required. (See below)
For More Information: Please visit philadelphiafashionweek.org for ticketing and additional information.
Description: Join us for a cocktail party and trunk show featuring the work of Rebecca Minkoff.
Admission: Free with Museum admission
For More Information: 215-925-3548
Description: Fun House showcases three diverse artists/designers who actively manufacture product for the design trade. This is the first collaboration of Curio Wallcoverings artist wallpapers with Adam Wallacavage sculptural chandeliers and Wells Vissar Inc.'s scagliola architectural cast elements. Each shares the aesthetic of old world ornamentation with a new twist, and therefore, offering exposure to unconventional interiors. This installation showcases their product and aesthetic, bringing the interior design to life by allowing viewers and participants to actively experience the use of high ornamentation assimilated into the design, as well as with the materials used by the artists involved.
This installation is created to explore ornament as design in an effort to look at interiors as live spaces or places in which the ornamentation is not a backdrop, but an intuitively partnered component of the inhabited space. During the reception, all three designers will have a chance to address visitors through guided discussions on the creation of the interior. Exhibition will run October 7-13.
Join us for a cocktail party with DJ!
Curio Wallcoverings
Adam Wallacavage
Wells Vissar Inc.
Amberella Gallery
Admission: Free
For More Information: www.scagliola.com
Description: 8static is a monthly audiovisual showcase of lo-fi and 8-bit electronics. Each event features three musical performers and live visuals provided by artists worldwide. Last year was focused on the local scene, but also featured artists from New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Italy, Sweden, and the U.K. This year features a free pre-show workshop or talk by respected and talented individuals creating in these new and interactive media fields.
*Free workshop, $5 w/flyer, $8 at door.
Admission: *Free workshop, $5, $8 at door
For More Information: www.8static.com
Description: TangenT Art Collaborative - William Cromar, Yvonne Love, and Gabrielle Russomango - present 709B. Multiple video projections featuring performance artists Joel Richard Gori and Sasha Tainovch and a free art "takeaway" are just part of this TangenT production. Mapping and projection are a means by which identity and place are distilled and presented, often conveying only a strategic truth. This work is a multimedia meditation on the friction that exists between reality and its presentation to ourselves and others. Generously assisted by Alan Domb Real Estate and Parc Restaurant.
Admission: Free
For More Information: www.williamcromar.com
Description: Philadelphia has a growing bicycling community. The demands of bike parking needs are quickly outgrowing available sources and more unique, innovative solutions are needed. View this exhibition of proposals by designers from all over the country, with a wide range of concepts that could be implemented immediately and ideas meant to challenge the way we view the role of the bicycle in society. Judges include Charles Carmalt - Pedestrian and Bicycle Coordinator for the Philadelphia Mayor's Office; Mathieu Turpault - Director of Design at Bresslergroup; Breen Goodwin - Education Director, Bicycle Coalition; and Paul Curci - Publisher, City Paper.
All submissions will be on view as part of SP[ ]T.
The Exhibition will be installed in a parking space on Hancock Street in Northern Liberties
This competition is graciously sponsored by Bresslergroup.
Admission: Free
For More Information: www.designphiladelphia.org
Description: "Cohousing Symposium: Building Intentional and Sustainable Communities" is a full day event with several speakers in the morning, followed by an on-site lunch, then roundtable workshops related to the many aspects of cohousing. The keynote speaker will be Charles Durret, author, architect, and the primary voice of cohousing in the U.S.
Admission: Free. $ required for lunch
For More Information: 215-965-6814
Description: This seminar will explore the relationship between form and function as it relates to the design of sports racing cars. In their zeal to win, race car designers have looked for any advantage they could find. Aerodynamics has emerged as one of the most important elements of winning race car design. Using one of the world's greatest collections of racing sports cars as examples, Museum Executive Director Dr. Frederick Simeone and photographer Michael Furman will explore this subject.
Admission: Free- Donation appreciated.
For More Information: www.Simeonefoundation.org
Description: Dialogues on Design, presented by DuPont™ Corian® and DesignPhiladelphia, is a multi series event exploring a variety of design issues facing society today. This series is graciously hosted by the Center for Architecture.
Reese Palley, Sailor, Author, Art Dealer, and Historian, will be speaking on "The Chair". Mr. Palley, who along with his wife Marilyn Arnold Palley, created the Palley Index of Danish Furniture 1900-2000 furnitureindex.dk. Reese will discuss the following: a short history of the modern chair; how to look at a newly designed chair; some objective tests of chair design; and the detection of fakes and copies.
Following the talk there will be a Q&A and reception.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.951.5338
Description: Studio show and sale. Items include reclaimed wood tables, vintage wall art, garden trellises and planters, industrial lighting, architectural antiques and other cool curiosities.
Admission: Free
For More Information: sales@botanicalstyle.com
Description: This recently opened design studio, operated by local design school graduates with backgrounds in industrial design and art, focuses on furniture, lighting, and sculpture.
Admission: Free
For More Information: buchanan.blair@gmail.com
Description: October 10-11: Studios West of Broad
Check out artist studios anywhere from Chestnut Hill to South Philly, and be sure to visit DesignPhiladelphia along the way! As the largest annual tour of visual artist studios in Philadelphia, POST brings you right to the source of our city's impressive art scene. 2009 marks our 10th Anniversary, so join us in the celebration of this milestone Tour. Plan your tour online: community partner and artist listings, images, maps, and more at philaopenstudios.org
Admission: Free
For More Information: philaopenstudios.org
Description: Philadelphia artist Andrew Jevremovic will open his studio/gallery to exhibit his work, including limited edition sustainable furniture, intelligently-crafted local interiors and children's mobile sculpture. Open Studio runs October 10th and 11th, 12-6.
Admission: Free
For More Information: info@octostudio.com
Description: Join us as we celebrate DesignPhiladelphia at the shared offices of Moto DesignShop Inc & Pixelcraft Inc. Browse our recent & future work over cocktails & light fare – bbq and grilling, weather permitting.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215-592-9300