Video: @MetMuseum and Why I like it

Intersections International. Join international fashion icon and social entrepreneur BiBi Russell for a presentation and discussion on Doing Good in Style. Featured in Asiaweek as one of the 20 people to watch in the millennium, Bibi Russell will share her journey from global super-model to a world leader in the fashion industry, and creating the concept of “Fashion for Development.”

This installation will feature work by a wonderful artist I had the privilege of meeting last year, Azra Aksamija (http://www.azraaksamija.net/) — Penelope’s Labour — Weaving Words and Images Weavings from the collection of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini Collection shown alongside new woven works by: Azra Akšamija, Lara Baladi, Manuel Franquelo, Carlos Garaicoa, Grayson Perry and Marc Quinn. Exhibition by Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Factum Arte. Curated by Adam Lowe Tapestry is the great example of image and word transformed by the materiality of its medium. For centuries, it was valued above paintings, its precious gold, silver and silk thread combining…

Click through and see the photos. shelf-pod | Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio. Shelf-Pod is a private residence and study building, located in Osaka prefecture, Japan. The client owns an extensive collection of books on the subject of Islamic history, so he requested that we create this building with the maximum capacity for its storage and exhibition.