Design
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
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
Pac-Man at MoMA? it’s no game
Pac-Man at MoMA? it’s no game
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
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
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
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
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
New V&A contemporary design series
Includes titles exploring fashion, photography, craft and architecture
Decorative arts today: Where to find that coffee-filter ballgown
Contemporary applied crafts on show at Sotheby’s
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
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
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
London and Provincial Antique Dealers Association’s annual show report: Grosvenor House size, Olympia prices
Affordable, good quality and diverse, it brings in all sorts
The Eames’s optimism, faith in technology and belief in design are revealed in this book of essays
Charles and Ray Eames are the American dream team
The V&A opens first gallery devoted to the history and meaning of ornament
From rinceaux to Reeboks
Art and technology combine for John Davies frames and dealer Alex Wengraf
How computers are enhancing the market for these two businesses
Pugin, founder of modernism, in a riot of polychromy at the V&A
A major survey of the high priest of the Gothic Revival