Design Triennial – And More – in NYC
Design mavens in New York, or visiting New York, have until August 21 to take in the fifth installment of the Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. While this elegantly mansion-housed institution exhibits design of all periods, be assured that its Triennial (like those venerable Triennales in Venice) is focused strictly on the present. Filling most of the museum, it features some 250 works created in the past three years by 63 relatively young designers. The theme of this Triennial, “Beauty,” firmly elevates aesthetic considerations over, say, function or feasibility, much less social or environmental issues. And curators Andrea Lipps and Ellen Lupton have further defined beauty by exploring it through seven adjectival “lenses”: Extravagant, Intricate, Ethereal, Transgressive, Emergent, Elemental and Transformative. Under each category, several designers are represented by a few works each. Elemental Design Most officeinsight readers are likely to prefer the “Elemental” designed objects …
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