Sydney Design Week heads west as Powerhouse eyes off future in Parramatta
A full program of talks, tours and workshops highlights the role of design in everyday life
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Sydney Design Week kicks off at the Powerhouse Museum today with a program packed with talks, workshops and tours focused on the public and personal role of design in our lives.
Along with a series of events at the Ultimo venue, Design Week will be spreading its wings across Greater Sydney, as it moves towards the opening of the $400 million Powerhouse Parramatta building in 2024.
Starting tonight with an industry event, Powerhouse Late, Design Week opens up to the wider public in coming days, with a walking tour of major new architecture around Parramatta, Making Western Sydney on Saturday a highlight. There will also be a talk about the controversial Powerhouse Parramatta site at Western Sydney University’s Innovation Hub featuring the architectural partnership of Moreau Kusunoki (Paris) and Genton (Sydney).
First nations designers Shannon Foster and Jo Kinniburgh will host a walking tour, Design Studio in Focus, departing from the Ultimo site, while designer furniture retailer, Cult, will host a workshop based on Cultivated, the restoration arm of its business, showcasing the revival of a set of Arne Jacobsen Series 7 chairs.
Film lovers can head to the Golden Age Cinema in Surry Hills to watch a series of films on designers across the decades.
Powerhouse chief executive Lisa Havilah said the Powerhouse Museum had renewed its focus on the importance of design in the modern world.
Sydney Design Week offers a dedicated platform to spotlight the incredible innovation propelling the Australian design industry, whilst also connecting audiences with the work of remarkable international designers engaging with social and cultural issues of today.”
More information: https://www.maas.museum/media-story/sydney-design-week-2022/
Chris Dixon, a partner who led the charge, says he has a ‘very long-term horizon’
Americans now think they need at least $1.25 million for retirement, a 20% increase from a year ago, according to a survey by Northwestern Mutual
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A water lily painting by Claude Monet of his Giverny gardens is expected to achieve at least US$65 million at Christie’s November sale of 20th-century art in New York
Le bassin aux nymphéas, or water lily pond, painted around 1917 to 1919, is a monumental canvas extending more than six-and-a-half feet wide and more than three-feet tall, that has been in the same anonymous private collection since 1972. According to Christie’s, the painting has never been seen publicly.
The artwork is “that rarest thing: a masterpiece rediscovered,” Max Carter, Christie’s vice chairman of 20th and 21st century art said in a news release Thursday.
A first look at this thickly painted example of Monet’s famed and influential water lily series will be on Oct. 4, when it is revealed in Hong Kong.
The price record for a Nymphéas painting by Monet was set in May 2018 for Nymphéas en fleur, another large-scale work that had been in the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller. That painting sold for nearly US$85 million.
The current work for sale is guaranteed, Christie’s confirmed. The auction house did not provide further details on the seller.
Chris Dixon, a partner who led the charge, says he has a ‘very long-term horizon’
Americans now think they need at least $1.25 million for retirement, a 20% increase from a year ago, according to a survey by Northwestern Mutual
