Paraphrasing a quote from Andy Warhol: “The most beautiful thing in New York is MoMA. The most beautiful thing in Vienna is MAK. The most beautiful thing in Seoul is the Dongdaeum Design Plaza. Berlin and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.” And London? Well, it used to have a nice little white cube at Shad Thames, which “did not meet the Design Museum’s ambitions”, as Deyan Sudijc, its director, put it. He was hired by design grandee Sir Terence Conran (who has been credited with introducing design to the British public at large), in 2006 to, among other things, find a new home for the institution. It is widely acknowledged among curators that architecture and design have been traditionally the most difficult of creative and cultural forms to display. Nevertheless, Sudijc and his team proved at their white cube on the Thames “how a permanent collection could engage with the public, how we could become a centre for learning and nurture the next generation of design talent.” After… continue
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