This is an entry from Andy Warhol’s

diary on March 8th, 1981. The pope of Pop Art and a leading figure of the New York underground art scene had just returned from Munich where he had had a show, and was recounting what he had seen. He really loved this story. Not surprising. He once said that he had been to thousands of parties in his life, and in the late 1970s he liked to go to New York’s Studio 54, the wildest and most theatrical club of the period (along with Le Palace in Paris), with his friends and drink Dom Pérignon.

a tribute to andy warhol by dom pérignon

Inspired by Warhol’s unconventional representation of icons, and the playful use of codes and colour in his work, Dom Pérignon commissioned the Design Laboratory at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art & Design to reinterpret its timeless bottle. The result is a unique collection of three bottles, each with its distinct label in red, blue or yellow, paying homage to Warhol’s iconic colour games.

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

As the preeminent American artist of the 20th Century, Andy Warhol challenged the world to see art differently. Warhol’s cultural legacy lives on through his artworks and the works of The Andy Warhol Foundation and The Andy

Warhol Museum. This project is produced under a license from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., a New York not-for-profit corporation which promotes the visual arts. For more information on Andy Warhol, you can visit The Andy Warhol Foundation at www.warholfoundation.org <http://www.warholfoundation.org> .

DOM PÉRIGNON VINTAGE 2002

tasting notes by richard geoffroy, chef de cave
“The first hints of fresh almond and harvest aromas immediately open up into preserved lemon and dried fruits, the whole rounded off by darker smoky and toasted qualities. The presence of the wine on the palate is immediately captivating. Paradoxically concentrated yet creamy, it is energetic and warm in the mouth, focusing on the fruit,

then gradually taking on more profound bass notes. The whole holds its note perfectly, intensively, with just a subtle, elegant hint of underlying bitterness.” Richard Geoffroy

        

This combination of contrasting and unexpected elements is one of G-Star’s key philosophies, displayed in runway shows, where destroyed denim pants are often paired with tailored jackets from the Correct Line range; and where iconic and fearless performers, such as Benicio Del Toro, interrupt proceedings to deliver spoken-word pieces in a form of ‘art-hijack.’

Already the world chess number one and described as a ‘Mozart of chess,’ Carlsen has the potential to become a similar level of icon. Becoming a Grandmaster at the age of 13 years and 148 days, Magnus is the youngest player in history to achieve the number one rank and his uncompromising approach to the game mirrors G-Star’s own hardcore design philosophy.

Hollywood actress Tyler perfectly embodies the modern G-Star woman’s combination of toughness with controlled sensuality. Her striking looks and assured, independent style have made her a globally recognized model and fashion icon. Liv returns for her second G-Star campaign, having previously presented the elegant Low-T capsule-collection.

The striking black and white images were captured by Anton Corbijn in a Miami shoot that represents his fourth major advertising campaign for G-Star.

        

A shape originally designed to accompany Bernhard Willhelm’s winter collection inspired by the 1976 Olympics, FRANZ 24k is showcasing MYKITA’s extraordinary ability to mix the past with the present.

In addition to the all gold version, a highly polished golden frame with the matching 24-karat gold-mirrored lenses, this limited edition collection sees MYKITA introducing a black FRANZ version. The matt black hand-lacquered frame enhances the gold-mirror lenses’ stand out effect even more, and plays with contrasting golden hinge detailing.

The FRANZ 24k comes with a specially designed black glasses case, as well as a hand numbered box and certificate of authenticity.

The unabashedly luxurious FRANZ 24k edition is, as all MYKITA frames, made by hand in the MYKITA HAUS located in the heart of Berlin.

        

The Name:
Italian for a precious moment of “Gioia di vivere” (love of life),  ATTIMO represents the pleasure of living every moment as if it were a precious gift, every second as a celebration. A memorable Italian name that communicates the essence of Italian chic, for a fragrance that expresses the core of Salvatore Ferragamo: innate elegance, timeless glamour and irresistible seduction.

The Campaign:

Aimed at a younger demographic, Ferragamo selected Dree Hemingway as their campaign model. Dree’s effortless chic and timeless beauty make her the perfect fit for the campaign, shot by acclaimed photographer Craig McDean in Paris. The commercial was shot in Rome by Paul Mignot.

Attendees included:

Giovanna Ferragamo, Massimiliano Giornetti, Michele Norsa, Vincent Ottomanelli, Luciano Bertinelli, Dree Hemingway, Gaia Repossi, Fabiola Beracasa, Chiara Clemente, Lady Alice St Clair Erskine, Estelle, Sebastian Stan, Augustus Prew, Andy Valmorbida, Anouck Lepere, Tinsley Mortimer, Aimee Mullins, Vanessa Traina, Charlotte Ronson, Irina Lazareanu, Nate Lowman, Julie Macklowe, Craig & Tabitha McDean, Marco Perego, Rose Marie Bravo, Dan Abrams, Lisa Airan, Hope Atherton, Fabien Baron, Hannah Bronfman, Lisa De Kooning, Poppy De Villeneuve, Gustaf Demarchelier, Sante D’Orazio, Cody Franchetti, Nina Griscom, Zani Gugelmann, Andre Harrell, Rita Konig, Lauren Remington Platt, Karim Rashid, Amy Sacco, Charles & Olya Thompson, Vanessa Neumann, Annabel Tollman, Genevieve Jones, Sophie Auster, Casey Spooner, Klaus Biesenbach, Coco Rocha, Alexandra Richards, Nic Roldan, Lindsay Ellingson, Emina Cunmulaj

        

transforms into a single person heated tent.

Scott, the designer of the Element S coat, in working with people such as Melvin Love and Nykesha Newburn three times a week at the NSO, developed an understanding of the issues facing the homeless in Detroit.  The plan has grown far beyond the confines of a school assignment; its purpose has become crucial to the lives of others.

Element S is now up for the James Dyson Award, click here to vote.

        

Having equally eccentric, creative and talented designer parents, the girls were raised in a household where creativity and self‐expression was always encouraged. Through passions for art and design, as well as a solid education, the makings for something great was started at a young age.

Taking inspiration from new found friends, foreign beaches and distant customs and cultures, the girls decided to embark on a new adventure ‐ creating a collection of swimwear that would reflect their love of travel, one of a kind statement pieces and their appreciation for that perfect bikini. The MIKOH brand was then born.

MIKOH is synonymous with femininity, strength and beauty. MIKOH SWIMWEAR is a fusion of statement colors inspired by the world around us, luxurious fabrics and the perfect fitting pieces. Both seamless and hardware‐free as well as having the option to mix‐and‐match all of the pieces, MIKOH truly is one of a kind.

“We’ve created MIKOH for the confident, chic woman that wants to stand out and make a statement no matter where she is.

        

For more information, visit http://www.mondrian-miami.com/default.aspx#/explore/?id=aguaspa

        

Marina Bay Sands, a $5 billion, high-density, mixed-use integrated resort that brings together a 2,560-room hotel, convention center, shopping and dining, theaters, museum, and a casino across the water from Singapore’s Central Business District, opened to the public on June 23, 2010. Designed by Boston-based, internationally renowned architect Moshe Safdie for the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, the 929,000 square meter (10 million square-foot) urban district anchors the Singapore waterfront, creates a gateway to Singapore, and provides a dynamic setting for a vibrant public life. Moshe Safdie was invited to join the Las Vegas Sands Corporation in developing a competitive design proposal for Marina Bay for submission to the Government of Singapore.

“Marina Bay Sands is really more than a building project, it is a microcosm of a city rooted in Singapore’s culture, climate, and contemporary life,” says architect Moshe Safdie. “Our challenge was to create a vital public place at the district-urban scale, in other words, to address the issue of megascale and invent an urban landscape that would work at the human scale.”

Safdie designed an urban structure that weaves together the components of a complex program into a dynamic urban crossroads and public meeting place. Inspired by great ancient cities that were ordered around a vital public thoroughfare, Marina Bay Sands is organized around two principal axes that traverse the district and give it a sense of orientation placing emphasis on the pedestrian street as the focus of civic life. This new urban place integrates the waterfront promenade, a 74,000 square meter (800,000 square-foot) multi-level retail arcade, and the iconic Museum of ArtScience on the promontory. Located along the network of public paths are also two theaters with a combined 4,000 seats, a casino, a 9,000 square meter (96,000 square-foot) convention and exhibition center, and a hydraulically adjustable public event piazza of 5,000 square meters (54,000 square feet). Combining indoor and outdoor spaces and providing a platform for a wide array of activities, this vibrant, 21^st-century cardo maximus,or grand arcade, also connects to the subway and other transportation.

Layered Parks

A series of layered gardens provide ample green space throughout Marina Bay Sands, extending the tropical garden landscape from Marina City Park towards the Bayfront. The landscape network reinforces urban connections with the resort’s surroundings and every level of the district has green space that is accessible to the public. Generous pedestrian streets open to tropical plantings and water views. Half of the roofs of the hotel, convention center, shopping mall, and casino complex are planted with trees and gardens.

The three 55-storey hotel towers anchor the district and are connected at the top by the 1 hectare (2.5-acre) SkyPark. An engineering marvel 200 meters (656 feet) above the sea, the SkyPark spans from tower to tower and cantilevers 65 meters (213 feet) beyond. It accommodates a public observatory, gardens, a 151 meter-long (495 foot-long) swimming pool, restaurants, and jogging paths and offers sweeping panoramic views, a formidable resource in a dense city like Singapore. Shielded from the winds and lavishly planted with hundreds of trees, the SkyPark celebrates the notion of the Garden City that has been the underpinning of Singapore’s urban design strategy.

Large-Scale Public Art

Moshe Safdie selected five international artists to create eight monumental public art installations for Marina Bay Sands (James Carpenter, Antony Gormley, Ned Kahn, Sol LeWitt, and Chongbin Zheng). The artists worked closely with Safdie to ensure that the site-specific commissions complement the architecture and energize the public spaces.

“Singapore’s public art incentive program offers an extraordinary opportunity for commissioned works in which art and architecture are complementary and seamlessly integrated,” said Mr. Safdie. “It has been a privilege to collaborate with the artists to achieve installations which enrich the environment and inspire the public. Each of the works resonates in a particular way with the architecture while presenting the artists with an extraordinary palette of their creations.”

About Moshe Safdie

Moshe Safdie is a leading architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author. Embracing a comprehensive and humane design philosophy, Safdie has been a visionary force in architecture and urban planning for over forty years. Safdie is committed to architecture that supports and enhances a project’s program; that is informed by the geographic, social, and cultural elements that define a place; and that responds to human needs and aspirations. Completing a wide range of projects, such as cultural, educational, and civic institutions; neighborhoods and public parks; mixed-use urban centers and airports; and master plans for existing communities and entirely new cities, Safdie has made lasting contributions to the quality of life in cities and neighborhoods around the world.

        

During Design Miami/Basel, Droog will present Red blue Lego chair by Mario Minale, Rietveld Lego buffet and Dawn/dusk mirror by Minale-Maeda, Darwin chair by Stefan Sagmeister, Daily handkerchief by Studio Makkink & Bey, Second hand by Maarten Baas & Franck Bragigand, The Copper Collection by Aldo Bakker for Thomas Eyck, Accidental carpet by Atelier Remy & Veenhuizen, Clock inlays and Tool inlays by FormaFantasma and Chest box by Jan Konings.

Closer look on the featured products:

Rietveld Lego buffet

A playfully charming yet serious piece of adult furniture, Buffet is a re-interpretation of Rietveld’s 20th century Buffet made of approximately 26,000 Lego bricks. In line with Reitveld’s manifest for a do-it-yourself method of building furniture from standardized parts, the Minale-Maeda interpretation by its own qualities becomes autonomous and divorced from its parents; the iconic Rietveld and the iconic Lego brick. Using toys to make real furniture for grown-ups, an industrial process of standardization starts to feel more human.

Designer: Minale-Maeda, 2010

Material: LEGO® bricks, frame

Size: W 198 x D 45 x H 104 cm

Numbered edition of 5

Darwin chair

The Darwin chair utilizes a free swinging structure that includes about 200 sheets of attached prints. As the top sheet gets dirty or tired, the user can simply rip it off thereby transforming the chair’s appearance (and the remaining perforation eventually forms a comfortable head rest). All sheets are printed with intricate patterns abstracting the creation of the universe, making their way through the creation of the world, the beginning of plant, animal and human life, all the way to the digital revolution.

Designer: Stefan Sagmeister

Material: Tyvek, epoxy

Size: H 96 x D 92 x W 50 cm

Developed and produced by Grenswerk

        

Friday
Modest Mouse
Broken Social Scene
Robyn
Liars
El-P
The Tallest Man on Earth
Sharon Van Etten

Saturday
LCD Soundsystem
Panda Bear
Wolf Parade
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Raekwon
Titus Andronicus
WHY?
Delorean
Real Estate
Bear In Heaven
Free Energy
The Smith Westerns
Dâm-Funk
Kurt Vile
Freddie Gibbs
Sonny & The Sunsets **
Netherfriends

Sunday
Pavement
Big Boi
Major Lazer
St. Vincent
Lightning Bolt
Beach House
Girls
Sleigh Bells
Neon Indian
Cass McCombs
Here We Go Magic
Surfer Blood
Local Natives
Washed Out
Best Coast
Cave
Allá

Visit the 2010 PMF website for full schedule, interviews, videos, etc…