Michael Thonet
Konsumstuhl Nr. 14, 1859

This reader in Whitechapel’s Documents of Contemporary Art series investigates the interchange between art and design. Since the the Pop and Minimalist eras–as the work of artists ranging from Andy Warhol to Dan Graham demonstrates — the traditional boundaries between art and architectural, graphic, and product design have dissolved in critically significant ways. Design and Art traces the rise of the “design-art” phenomenon through the writings of critics and practitioners active in both fields.

Edited by Alex Coles
With contributions by David Bourdon, Peter Cook/Archigram, Douglas Coupland, Kees Dorst, Charles Eames, Experimental Jetset, Vilêm Flusser, Hal Foster, Liam Gillick, Dan Graham, Clement Greenberg, Richard Hamilton, Donald Judd, Frederick Kiesler, Miwon Kwon, Maria Lind, M/M, N55, George L. Nelson, Lucy Orta, Jorge Pardo, Norman Potter, Rick Poynor, Paul Rand, Tobias Rehberger, Ed Ruscha, Joe Scanlan, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Superflex, Manfredo Tafuri, Rikrit Tiravanija, Paul Virilio, Joep van Lieshout, Andy Warhol, Benjamin Weil, Mark Wigley and Andrea Zittel

Thank you Tiffany!

Interesting article in the New York Times — even if you think it’s all rubbish.

Here’s some pics from Andreas Angelidakis at the “In Present Tense” exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens.
I hope all these buildings will be built some day in my life time.

Profile of Tony Wilson (RIP) on C4 TV in 1984.

Personal Blog of Toru Adachi, Bookendless. Mr. Adachi is the Editor of the books Moriyama, Shinjuku, Aaraki and Unlimited: Comme des Garçons for the Japanese Publisher (Heibonsha LTD).

Flickr page of Vitra Catalogue by Cornel Windlin.