Design

Seven of the best in Design Miami/Basel's 10th edition

The Art Newspaper's editor picks her selection from this year's fair&nbsp;<br>

Designnews

New York design dealer branches out into contemporary art

Albertz Benda, a new 2,000 sq. ft space, to focus on emerging and mid-career artists

Designs on Hong Kong

The Miami-born fair plans to keep pace with Art Basel

Director of Pushkin wants to work with London’s V&A and help Moscow’s homeless design museum

The Pushkin design satellite will have both historic and contemporary design galleries

Smithsonian Design Museum reopens with array of high-tech displays

Cooper Hewitt puts can-do spirit into the house Carnegie built

V&A Eastarchive

Will the Chancellor back V&A’s Olympian vision for a cultural quarter?

Art and design museum with space for London’s biggest exhibitions could open by 2020, subject to funding

V&A shows are Shenzhen-bound

London’s Victoria and Albert Museum will send the best of British design

Art fairsarchive

Collectors find a richer mix of art and design with PAD in Berkeley Square

The art and design fair diversifies in response to competition from Frieze Masters

Books: William Morris and creating a social fabric

An indispensable book on Morris’s revolutionary cloth designs and techniques—and the political views that inspired them

Art fairsarchive

New galleries and keen collectors at Design Miami

The modern and contemporary design fair's profile is rising

Are too many museums relying on too few architects?

Famous name or talented newcomer—how art museum architects are chosen today

Design Miami Basel embraces the modern with an increase in early-20th-century stock

The fair's effort to give a detailed insight into recent developments of design distinguishes it from competitors

Interviewarchive

Interview with Alessandro Mendini on radical design: “I’m what we Italians call a dilettantissimo”

Alessandro Mendini celebrates his 80th birthday this year—and his approach to design continues to be relevant

Art fairsarchive

Knitted lights and boiled leather chairs: a look at current trends in design, as seen at art fairs

Collectors in search of unusual materials at Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile design fair should expect the unexpected

Art marketarchive

Sale of Diego Giacometti floor lamp at TEFAF confirms that design is well and truly in vogue

Dealers cite the design section's new position as the reason for this year's exceptional sales, in proximity to contemporary art dealers

Design forgery ring uncovered in France

A Parisian artist produced fake 20th-century classics by Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Alexandre Noll and Pierre Chareau

Design Miami/Basel 2008 will look to the future of design

The fair will stray from the well-known to focus on the search for the next big thing

Art Basel/Miami Beach 2006 sees the breakdown of the binary between functional and ornamental

There has has been talk of an unusually high proportion of sales, particularly of design pieces

Collectorsarchive

Collector Bob Rubin's proves passion for Prouvé in $1 million restoration

The artist’s Maison Tropicale is on show this month at Yale

From flea market to Manhattan penthouse: the revival of Christopher Dresser

Gilbert and George and Mickey Wolfson are among the enthusiastic collectors

Booksarchive

New V&A contemporary design series

Includes titles exploring fashion, photography, craft and architecture

Art fairsarchive

Tough times at the 2002 Armory

Collectors were cautious as economic woes continue

Milan in a van at the V&A

The “hottest, newest and most influential in the design world” fitted into a furniture removal van

Utopia & Reality: modernity in Sweden 1900-60

Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts

Tatearchive

Adam Throup on the branding of the Tate

Part of the design team at Wolff Olins, he sums up the Tate's branding redesign

Books: a selection of the Art Institute of Chicago's holdings

Painting, design, and decorative arts from Colonial times until the Second World War

Tokyoarchive

Edo-period art at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum

From the ukiyo-e prints popular culture to the armour of the Shogun, this exhibition delves into the many strands of Edo period art and culture