DANISH DESIGN REVIEW NEW YORK

Parsons The New School for Design, Danish Design Centre and Consulate General of Denmark Present Symposium Featuring Rising Stars of Danish Design

Design Review Led by Paola Antonelli, Museum of Modern Art; Presentation on Restoration of Finn Juhl's Trusteeship Council Chamber at United Nations

Danish Design Review New York
"Living the Legacy—Designing the Future"
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
66 Fifth Avenue, New York
www.newschool.edu/parsons/events.aspx
Free and Open to the Public

NEW YORK, November 6, 2012—Parsons The New School for Design is partnering with the Danish Design Centre and Consulate General of Denmark to present Danish Design Review New York: "Living the Legacy—Designing the Future."

This daylong symposium will feature presentations by eight young designers from Denmark, winners and nominees of the Danish Design Award 2012, who will be led through a design review by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art. The designers will also present their work in a moderated discussion with Rama Chorpash, Director of Product Design at Parsons, and Nille Juul Sorenson, Director of the Danish Design Centre in Copenhagen.

The featured designers will include Thea Ubbe Ebbesen, Anne Danielsen, Johannes Grove, Anders Backe, Mads Kjøller Damkjær, Amanda Betz, Søren Rose, and Troels Grum-Schwensen.

The symposium will also include a presentation on the current restoration of the Trusteeship Council Chamber at United Nation, designed by the preeminent Danish architect and designer Finn Juhl in early 1950s, which is considered a masterwork of mid-century modern design. The Danish designers Kasper Salto and Thomas Sigsgaard were selected through a design competition to design new furnishings for the chamber, as part of a desire on the part of Denmark to restore the chamber as both an example of the Danish design tradition, but also showcasing the best of contemporary Danish design.

For more information, and program details visit the Parsons events page.

Danish Design Review New York is co-sponsored by Republic of Fritz Hansen, the Danish Agency for Culture and the AIA New York Chapter.

Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School for Design is a global leader in design education, with programs that span the disciplines of design and the fine arts. Parsons prepares students to creatively and critically address the complex conditions of contemporary global society. Its curriculum is geared toward synthesizing rigorous craft with cutting-edge theory and research methods, and encourages collaborative and individual approaches that cut across a wide array of disciplines. The School of Constructed Environments at Parsons is the only integrated school of interior design, lighting design, product design and architecture in the country. For more information, please visit www.newschool.edu/parsons/sce.

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Ulla Dubgaard, Consulate General of Denmark
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