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the design circle 2018–19
the design circle 2018 welcome
the design directors’
circle introduction
Design Patrons The Design Museum has now been open in its new
£1,000 + Kensington home for almost two years and has
welcomed more than 1.2m visitors, taught more
Membership as a Patron
than 60,000 learners in specific programmes, sold
offers behind-the-scenes
a record 290,000 tickets and raised over £8m in
access to the museum and
income from admissions, commercial activities and
to events throughout the
fundraising efforts. More recently, the Museum has
year such as curator-led
won the European Museum of the Year award,
tours, studio visits and
further building on these successes.
conversations.
This transformational achievement is the product of
Design Fellows the continuing commitment and generosity of our
£5,000 + donors and funders, an enterprising approach to
running the museum and the sustained effort of our
Membership as a Fellow staff, volunteers and trustees. We have demonstrated
offers a more exclusive level that design is as much a part of the cultural landscape
of access with tours of as contemporary art, music or theatre. We are proud
private collections, trips of these accomplishments and very grateful for
with the Directors and the your support.
chance to spend time with
some of the most creative In the next few months, our programme will continue
designers and architects in to offer a global perspective on design and architecture
the world. and challenge our audiences to look afresh at the
world around them and make it better.
Design Benefactors A particular highlight this season, created in
£10,000 + partnership with IKEA Museum, will be a major
exhibition which explores the key social and
Membership as a Benefactor
technological aspirations that have driven change in
offers a unique relationship
the home. Home Futures will feature significant
with the Directors of the
works by designers including Ettore Sottsass and
Museum and the opportunity
Enzo Mari, as well as contemporary figures such as
to make a philanthropic gift
Dunne & Raby and Rem Koolhaas.
to support our core activities
that will be recognised Thank you again for your decision to support the
accordingly against an Design Museum. We look forward to welcoming you
exhibition or programme and hope that you will enjoy many Design Circle
of your choice. At this level events this season.
we would also offer
Alice Black and Deyan Sudjic OBE
complimentary room hire
Directors
(terms and conditions apply).the design circle 2018 events
october november
Private Tour Private Reception and Studio Visit Opening Night Save the Date
events
PAD London with Architectural Visit Tom Dixon Home Futures 3rd annual
Caroline Roux Richard Rogers’ studio visit Monday 5 November 2018 Chairman’s Dinner
Wednesday 3 October 2018 Wimbledon House Monday 5 November 2018 18.15–19.00 Curator-led tour Fellow and Benefactor event
15.00–16.00 with the Friends of 10.00–11.00 19.00–21.00 Opening party Wednesday 14
Set in the vibrant heart of
the Harvard University Infamously self-taught, Home Futures is an November 2018
Art Museum exploration into the 19.00–22.30
Mayfair, PAD is one of the Tom Dixon OBE is an
leading fairs for 20th Fellow and Benefactor event internationally renowned changing nature of what the The Rt Hon. Lord Mandelson
century art, design and British Designer, Creative ‘home’ is. In major cities PC, Chairman of the Design
Friday 12 October 2018 around the world, traditional
decorative arts. Prominent Director of eponymous Museum, cordially invites
15.30–17.00 notions of home are under
international galleries from brand Tom Dixon (est. 2002). you to save the date for the
major cities across Europe, The Friends of the Harvard His works are included in pressure – from 3rd annual Chairman’s
North America and Asia University Art Museum are permanent collections of the unaffordable prices and the Dinner to celebrate the year
come together to offer an delighted to extend an world’s most prestigious shift to homes as financial and thank you for your
exceptional panorama of invitation to Fellows and museums, including the assets, from changing social support. A formal invitation
the most coveted and iconic Benefactors for a reception V&A and the MoMA. Tom behaviour and a new wave of will follow.
works available on the and private view of Richard Dixon has built his universe ‘smart’ technologies; from
market today. Art and Rogers’ ‘Wimbledon House’. through intensely diverse furniture to robotics, from
design circle
Design journalist Caroline Following extensive experiences, from music, the sharing economy to
Roux, who contributes renovations, the iconic contemporary lighting, nomadic lifestyles. The
regularly to publications house designed by Lord furniture and accessories exhibition explores new
such as the Financial Times, Rogers in the late 1960s, to high profile projects forms of domestic behaviour
Harper’s Bazaar UK and reopened last year as the including the Restaurant and the designs that
Pin-Up, is delighted to Harvard GSD’s primary at The Royal Academy in facilitate them. Join us for a
welcome Patrons for a private residence and London venue London. Join us for a private curator-led tour prior to the
tour of this landmark fair. for the Richard Rogers tour of Tom’s wonderful new opening.
Fellowship. Join us for a headquarters in King’s Cross.
rare opportunity to discover
this historic experimental
building this autumn.
Image: © Iwan Baan Image: © Hugh Stewart Image: © SO-IL Image: © Phillip Suddickthe design circle 2018 events
december january february
Private Collection The Design Museum’s Architectural visit Studio Visit Opening Night Studio Visit
Visit 2018 Christmas US Embassy, Adjaye Associates David Adjaye: Foster + Partners
Rosa de la Cruz’s Reception Nine Elms February 2019 Making Memory Tuesday 26 February 2019
home and collection RSVP essential
Tueseday 15 January 2019 Date tbc Friday 1 February 2019 18.00–19.30
Thursday 22 November 2018 Monday 3 December 2018 10.00–11.30 Sir David Adjaye OBE is 18.15–19.00 Curator-led tour Foster + Partners is an
10.00–11.00 18.45–22.30 one of the most successful 19.00–21.00 Opening party internationally acclaimed
KieranTimberlake’s concept
Rosa de la Cruz is a London- Deyan Sudjic and Alice for the new US Embassy in architects in Britain, with The exhibition explores studio for sustainable
based jewellery designer Black, Directors of the London is the result of efforts major buildings in the US, the career of Sir David architecture, urbanism and
who started her career as Design Museum warmly to resolve, in architectural Russia and Africa, and a set Adjaye OBE by presenting design, founded by Norman
a lawyer at the Guggenheim invite you for an evening to terms, what an embassy of new landmark projects seven personally selected Foster in 1967. Central to the
Museum in New York. The celebrate the end of the year aspires to be and what underway in the UK. Having projects through the practice’s ethos and success
daughter of prominent and to meet the Museum’s present realities dictate recently completed the theme of monuments is a commitment to research
Cuban art collectors and Designers in Residence. A it must do. African American Museum and memorials, whereby to stay up-to-date with new
founders of the De la Cruz formal invitation will follow. in Washington DC he is now the British architect is developments and
The expressive challenge embarking on a skyscraper techniques, and thoroughly
Collection, a 30,000 sq ft highly recognised for his
is to give form to the core in New York, as well as a new evaluate their relevance and
museum in the Design architectural approach
beliefs of democracy – home for the Studio Museum technical performance for
District in Miami, Rosa’s and spatial storytelling
transparency, openness, in Harlem. Following the individual projects. Join us
apartment in Cadogan to reflect upon history,
and equality – and do so in a opening of the David Adjaye; for an insightful tour of the
Square, displays a unique memory and the recording
way that is both secure and Making Memory exhibition, studio with a focus on their
collection of contemporary of human lives. The
welcoming. At the same Adjaye Associates are research into new materials,
art and design with works exhibition installations will
time, the building must delighted to welcome Patrons and far-reaching ideas from
by Peter Doig, Beatriz enable visitors to experience
confront the environmental for an insightful studio tour bio-inspired engineering to
Milhazes, Chris Ofili, and immerse themselves in
challenges all nations and presentation of the extra-planetary 3D printing.
Christopher Wool, the architectural projects.
face with leading edge practice’s current projects.
Charlotte Perriand, Jean Join the curator of the
sustainable design. Join
Prouvé, Jean Royère, and exhibition, Alex Newson, for
us for this rare opportunity
more. The interior is the ‘The party last night to go behind the scenes
a tour prior to the opening.
result of De la Cruz’s 20-plus was wonderful – what on a curator led tour.
years as a collector. Join us a triumph!’
for an inspiring visit to her
home this autumn. Patron Image: © Ed Reeve Image: © Alan Karchmerthe design circle 2019 events
march april
Breakfast tour Study Morning Private tour Private tour Opening Night Private Collection
and talk and Lunch Sarabande: the Lee Brompton Bike Stanley Kubrick Visit
Home Futures with Christie’s, Alexander McQueen Factory Thursday 25 April 2019 Francis Sultana’s
Iris Dunbar, Director Masterpieces Foundation Thursday 11 April 2019 home and collection
18.15–19.00 Curator-led tour
of the Interior Design of Design and Thursday 21 March 2019 14.00–16.00 19.00–21.00 Opening party Fellow and Benefactor event
School Photography Auction 15.00–17.00
The unique Brompton folding Based on the exhibition Tuesday 30 April 2019
Thursday 28 February 2019 Monday 4 March 2019 Sarabande Foundation was bike was designed and built originally created by the Evening
8.30–10.30 11.00–14.30 established by the late Lee in London in 1975 by Design German Cinema Museum
Alexander McQueen to create Museum Founding Patron, Francis Sultana is the
Iris Dunbar, the Director of Showcasing two and the Kubrick Foundation,
opportunities for artists and Andrew Ritchie, in his flat in Artistic Director of the David
the Interior Design School complementary categories, the Stanley Kubrick
designers who are creatively South Kensington. Still Gill Gallery and the go-to
and a supporter of the design and photography of exhibition at the Design
fearless. Sarabande HQ is made in London today, interior designer for
museum, is delighted to the 20th and 21st centuries, Museum will be reimagined
a converted Grade II listed Brompton makes over international collectors.
welcome Patrons for a talk, this selected auction with the input of leading film
Victorian stable block on 45,000 bikes per year which Loved for his unique ability
inspired by Home Futures, features rare and major and broadcast experts
Regent’s Canal in East are exported to over 45 to merge the residential
on how we can improve our works by the major and including the BBC’s Alan
London, that has been countries. Join us for an requirements of a domestic
home environment followed influential figures of the era, Yentob and will make use of
designed with the sole insightful tour of the factory space with often large scale
by a tour of the exhibition at with estimates ranging from an immersive architectural
purpose of creating spaces in Greenford and a Q&A with visual art, sculpture and
the Design Museum. £20,000 to over £1m. Jeremy design, commissioning of
for artists and designers Managing Director Will installation pieces, his
Morrison, European Head of new displays and a
to flourish. Don’t miss this Butler-Adams OBE FRGS to properties are regularly
Design at Christie’s, is supporting programme of
insightful behind the scenes discover the fascinating featured in magazines all
delighted to welcome public events. Kubrick
tour and chance to meet history and making of the over the world. Francis is
supporters of the Design worked with a remarkable
with some of the most UK’s largest bike also Ambassador of Culture
“We’ve loved coming Museum to explore and number of designers of all
visionary creatives working manufacturer. for Malta and he sits on the
kinds who reflected the
to your “home” this handle highlights from the
in London today. board of Malta’s new museum
auction and to discuss topics design language of their
year, you’ve all done times to make each of
project, MICAS, which
of value, condition, market opens in 2021. Join us for
an amazing job” Kubrick’s films represent a
forces and trends, followed an exclusive visit of Francis’s
Patron by a lunch at Christie’s. complete, fully realised
personal collection and
world. Join us for a curator-
Image: © Christie’s home this spring.
Marc Newson, Orgone Stretch Lounge, 1993 led tour prior to the opening.
Image: © Gufram To be sold Christie’s London, March 2019the design circle 2019 art and design fairs
art and
design
may june fairs
Design Circle Members have
the opportunity to receive
tickets and VIP access to the
following art and design
fairs. Please register your
interest early with Shaun
Fradd at shaun.fradd@
designmuseum.org
Private Tour Architectural Visit Private Tour PAD London
Stanley Kubrick Walmer Yard by Peter Central Saint Martins’ Collectors Preview:
Archive, UAL Salter, Notting Hill Design Degree Show 1 October 2018
Thursday 16 May 2019 May 2019 2019 VIP Preview: 2 October 2018
10.00–11.30 Date tbc Exhibition Dates:
June 2019
1 – 7 October 2018
With the Kubrick exhibition Composed of four exquisitely Date tbc
in full swing at the Design crafted houses clustered Frieze London and Frieze
Final year degree shows are
Museum, we are delighted to around a private courtyard, Masters
an opportunity to discover
offer an exceptional visit to Walmer Yard has something the newest names in the VIP Preview: 3 October 2018
the Stanley Kubrick archive of a monastic feel; a quiet arts. Join us for a private Fair: 4 – 7 October 2018
at UAL Archives and Special refuge that engages all the tour of Central Saint Martins’ Design Miami/
Collections Centre, London senses of touch, smell, sight Design Degree Show with
VIP Preview:
College of Communication. and sound. Winner of the programme directors and
The archive spans Kubrick’s 2017 Royal Institute of 4 December 2018
students to explore the
entire career from his time British Architects London Fair: 5 – 9 December 2018
latest works in Product,
as a photographer for Look Award, this highly acclaimed Ceramic, Industrial Design, Collect
Magazine to his final film project has been widely Graphic Communication VIP Preview:
Eyes Wide Shut and includes published in the architectural Design, Architecture, 21 February 2019
scripts, research materials, press as well as the Financial Jewellery and Textiles.
Fair: 28 February –
set plans and production Times and Wallpaper
03 March 2019
documents, props, magazine. Discover this
costumes, poster designs, exceptional architectural Design Miami/ Basel
sound tapes and more. Join gem designed by legendary VIP Preview: 10 June 2019
us for an insightful tour and theorist and educator Peter Fair: 11 – 16 June 2019
discover more about the Salter, located in London’s
acclaimed filmmaker. Notting Hill. Masterpiece
VIP Preview: 26 June 2019
Fair: 27 June – 3 July 2019
Image: © Luke Potter Image: © Hélène BinetTo book your place for Design Circle events or to register your interest, please RSVP to Shaun Fradd on 020 3862 5928 or at shaun.fradd@designmuseum.org. Thank you for your support. Shaun Fradd Head of Philanthropy
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