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5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for October 2022

5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for October 2022

Autumn is once more upon the Northern Hemisphere, that season of not only "mists and mellow fruitfulness", but as a John Keats also reminds us the season of harvest, be that vine fruits, apples, gourds or hazelnuts. Or the architecture and design exhibitions Keats didn't mention. If, to be fair to him, they would have been largely unknown in 1819. Unlike today; a today where after a long summer of waiting patiently, of observing from afar, and hoping, autumn traditionally presents a bountiful

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Clara Porset (1895 - 1981) (photo commons.wikimedia.org CC BY-SA 4.0, courtesy Archivo Clara Porset Dumas)
Architecture | 25.05.2021

smow Blog Design Calendar: May 25th 1895 – Happy Birthday Clara Porset!

"¿Qué es diseño?" asked Clara Porset in 1949. What is design?1 Not because she didn't know. Far from it. Over the course of the preceding two decades Clara Porset had ably demonstrated her considered, critical and responsive understandings of design; understandings that saw her develop into one of the most important, interesting and informative furniture designers in Mexico, understandings that saw her develop into one of the more important, interesting and informative protagonists in the

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