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Blood, Sweat & Fears is a live magazine taking place in central London in March 2010, showcasing the best of emerging British talent from across the creative fields. Translating the concept of a magazine from the printed page to a live, interactive event, BS&F will feature artists as diverse as jellymongers, illustrators, musicians and a ‘haute coiffeur’ hairdresser. The five-day event will run from March 17th-21st at 65/67 Broadwick Street in support of Art Against Knives.
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A new body of work by Dutch designer Joris Laarman was unveiled at Friedman Benda. Laarman’s unique aesthetic merges cutting-edge technology and the life-sciences to create work of unexpected beauty. In 2008, Laarman’s Bone Chair and Bone Chaise, his first two works since graduating from Eindhoven, were displayed in MoMA’s exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind. This marked a major milestone in his career and the chair subsequently was added to the museum’s permanent collection. The show will be on view through to April 10, at Friedman Benda, 515 West 26th Street.
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THE MODERN DANISH WAREHOUSE, 6th – 27th March 2010 The Garage, North Terrace, London SW3 2BA
Nina Hertig, co-founder of Sigmar is hosting the first pop-up Modern Danish Warehouse in an impressive disused Art Deco Garage in Brompton, selling an edited selection of vintage pieces.
For three weeks, the Garage (in the heart of the Brompton Design District) will house up to 120 vintage chairs, tables, sideboards, and sofas ranging from £100 to £1500. All purchases can be taken home immediately
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The New
Designer Jonathan Nesci’s latest hyper-minimalist odes to modernism in an upcoming four-day exhibit at Chicago’s Volume Gallery

Designer Jonathan Nesci—whose Library Bookcase won recognition last year for his use of metal from Wallpaper Magazine—is back with a solo show entitled “The New” at a recently-developed design gallery in his hometown of Chicago.
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Image: © Nick Taylor
Legacy Plus, organised by The Architecture Foundation, in partnership with SPACE, is a three-day symposium that takes a creative and propositional look at the transition phase of London’s 2012 Olympic Legacy — constructively exploring the role that temporary structures and interim uses can play in influencing the future evolution of East London, both in and around the Olympic site.
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Faile are a Brooklyn-based collaborative duo and pioneers of the contemporary street art movement. Their partner for this show, long-time collaborator BAST is a fellow Brooklyn native, and an elusive character who has rarely been seen in public and whose very existence has been debated. For this show they produced an environment of 80s nostalgia with custom made arcade games.
Website:www.lazinc.com/

Image: IaN+, Villa Palladio, Next-Gen 20
For the final event in the London _ Rome’s series of talks, Luca Galofaro, founding member of Ian+, will showcase the Italian practice’s work alongside Stephen Witherford from Witherford Watson Mann. They will discuss their respective professional outputs and contributions to the London_Rome exhibitions at the British School at Rome last year, in a conversation chaired by Pippo Ciorra , architect, critic, professor of design and theory at the University of Camerino, and co-curator of the inaugural exhibition at the Zaha Hadid designed MAXXI museum in Rome.
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To celebrate the final week of Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine’s exhibition at the AF, there’s a chance to re-vist their celebrated film Koolhaas HouseLife in its entirety.
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