Design Museum

The Design Museum in London is a globally important design museum. It was founded in 1989 and is dedicated to the full range of design, from interior design and architecture over the graphic and fashion to industrial design.

History

Predecessor of the guided and enters duty of the purely private Conran Foundation Museum ( an exception among the museums in London) was founded by Sir Terence Orby Conran "Boiler House " in the basement of the Victoria and Albert Museum ( Conran 1964 was also the founder of the furniture retail company Habitat). Due to the rapid growth drew the Design Museum in 1989 in a remodeled by renowned designers former banana warehouse on the Thames near the Tower Bridge. The museum attracts more than 200,000 visitors.

In 2011 the company moved to the museum in the former headquarters of the Commonwealth Institute in Kensington was specifically after a building permit by planning authorities and conservation has been granted. Funding for the 2014 protracted restructuring of the institute is through a donation Conran of 7.5 million pounds, another 10 million pounds from the sale of lease revenue of the previous design museum as well as donations from the proceeds of the state lottery, donations and grants by the property development company, the will sell part of the land as residential property, provided.

In collaboration with the London Kingston University, the museum also offers a master's degree for curators in the design area. Museum director Deyan Sudjic since 2006 (as of July 2007).

Exhibitions

Every year popular temporary exhibitions on offer, but for an additional permanent exhibition, the house is too small. The museum houses or were so represented works of many renowned contemporary designers, as Alvar Aalto, Archigram, Luis Barragan, Manolo Blahnik, Leopold Blaschka, Marcel Breuer, Luigi Colani, Christian Dior, Christopher Dresser, Alan Fletcher, Richard Buckminster Fuller, Eileen Gray, Konstantin Grcic, Jonathan Ive Arne Jacobsen, Louis Kahn, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Enzo Mari, Isamu Noguchi, Verner Panton, Charlotte Perriand Frank Pick, Cedric Price, Stefan Sagmeister, Alison Smithson, Peter Smithson Ettore Sottsass, Robert Wilson, Frank Lloyd Wright and others.

Design Award

Since 2003, the museum annually awards to British or originating from the UK designer the prize " Design Museum 's Designer of the Year". It is endowed with £ 25,000 and is regarded as the most important British Design Award. Among the winners were:

  • 2003: Jonathan Ive, designer of Apple products
  • 2004: Daniel Brown, Multimedia Designer
  • 2005: Hilary Cottam, Director of the Design Council
  • 2006: Jamie Hewlett, comic book artist and one of the creators of the fictional British music group Gorillaz
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