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French Minimalism’s Love Affair With 1950s Architecture Explored at Galerie Pascal Cuisinier

Architectural & Minimalist: French Design of the Fifties runs from October 29 through December 31, 2015 at Galerie Pascal Cuisinier, Paris.
A new exhibition at Paris-based Galerie Pascal Cuisinier examines the motivation behind the close love affair and its influence.
The new show, “Architectural & Minimalist,” highlights about 30 select pieces, among them some of the most radical and minimalist designs of the era, across furniture, chair, and lamp design.
French minimalistic design and architecture have been married for years.
The gallery champions the first generation of French industrial designers – those with works produced between 1951 and 1961.

Can Design Change Society? pop-up exhibition will run from 2 – 20 September in Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.
Can Design Change Society? It is, indeed, the big question that has plagued the design profession right from the beginning.
The pop-up exhibition will present prototypical projects, both historical and contemporary, that have tried to use design for social change.
By what means can we approach design change and the future in a new way today?
Starting with the high aspirations of Bauhaus to use rational, humanist design to transform every aspect of life, the spectre of social change continues to haunt design.