Design Museum London

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The Design Museum in London is a globally important Design Museum . It was founded in 1989 and is dedicated to the entire spectrum of design, from interior design and architecture to graphics and fashion to industrial design.

history

The predecessor of the museum, run by the purely private Conran Foundation, was the "Boilerhouse" founded by Sir Terence Orby Conran in the basement of the Victoria and Albert Museum (Conran was also the founder of the furniture retailer Habitat in 1964 ). Due to its rapid growth, the Design Museum moved in 1989 to a former banana warehouse on the Thames near Tower Bridge, which had been redesigned by renowned designers . The museum attracts over 200,000 visitors annually.

In 2011, the move of the museum from a location that had become too small, at which no permanent exhibition was possible, to the former headquarters of the Commonwealth Institute in Kensington became concrete after a building permit was granted by the building authorities and monument protection. The renovation of the institute by the architect John Pawson , which took place until 2014, was financed by a donation from Conran of £ 7.5 million, a further £ 10 million from the sale of the lease income of the previous design museum as well as donations from the income of the state lottery, donations and donations the property development company that sold part of the site as residential property.

In collaboration with London's Kingston University , the museum also offers a master’s degree for curators in the field of design. Deyan Sudjic has been the museum director since 2006 (as of February 2018).

Exhibitions

The permanent exhibition Designer Maker User , which is accessible free of charge, features around 1000 objects and provides an overview of the museum's collections and the history of the development of modern design. Popular temporary exhibitions are held every year. Works by numerous renowned contemporary designers are or were represented in the museum, such as Alvar Aalto , Archigram , Luis Barragan , Manolo Blahnik , Leopold Blaschka , Marcel Breuer , Luigi Colani , Christian Dior , Christopher Dresser , Alan Fletcher , Richard Buckminster Fuller , Eileen Gray , Konstantin Grcic , Jonathan Ive , Arne Jacobsen , Louis Kahn , Charles Rennie Mackintosh , Enzo Mari , Isamu Noguchi , Verner Panton , Charlotte Perriand , Frank Pick , Cedric Price , Stefan Sagmeister , Alison Smithson , Peter Smithson , Ettore Sottsass , Robert Wilson , Frank Lloyd Wright and others.

Design award

From 2003 to 2006, the museum awarded the “Design Museum's Designer of the Year” to British and British designers. It was endowed with £ 25,000 and considered the most important British design award. The winners were:

In particular, the award of Hilary Cottam, who also known herself not to be a designer, was controversial. After director Alice Rawsthorn left, her successor Deyan Sudjic announced a realignment. Instead, since 2008 the museum has awarded the Beazley Design of the Year award sponsored by the insurance company Beazley Group . The prize is awarded in the categories Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Graphics, Product and Transport, one of which is declared the overall winner.

Previous overall winners:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. museum-like design in: FAZ from 1 July 2011, page 37
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  4. ^ Jacopo Prisco: Forensic Architecture wins the 2018 Beazley Design of the year award . CNN November 15, 2018, accessed December 11, 2018.

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