March 8-June 21, 2009
Clowes Gallery in Wood Pavilion

This exhibition is the first critical survey of contemporary Western European decorative and industrial design, organized by IMA Design curator R. Craig Miller. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue will present 250 seminal works including furniture, ceramics, metalwork, glass and product design that reveal the extraordinary creativity of two generations of designers in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Scandinavia, Spain and the United Kingdom. The European Design exhibition reflects an important initiative by the IMA in the area of 20th- and 21st-century design. The project, which has required six years of extensive research, has been organized in cooperation with the Denver Art Museum and Kingston University, London. The show will travel to a number of American museums and potentially to Europe and Asia. A scholarly catalogue will be produced by Merrell Publishers, London, to be distributed internationally.

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Save the date: Exhibition Opening Event on Thursday, March 5

Image credit: Mathias Bengtsson, Danish (b.1971), resides United Kingdom and Sweden. Slice Lounge Chair, 1999, aluminum. Manufacturer: Mathias Bengtsson. Photo credit: Martin Scott-Jupp.