| 2009 Tuesday Dec 1 Public Events and Private Parties |
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| Design Miami 2009 |
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| As Before, events in Red mean invitation only, or a VIP Art Basel pass, or both. Events in black are open to the public, sometimes requiring a ticket purchase. |
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| Xavier Lust, Gun Metal Bench, Zanotti |
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Tuesday, Dec 1 2009 noon
Press conference for Design Miami
Invited Press
Large Gray Ziggurat
NE 39th and NE First Court, Design District
Tuesday, Dec 1 2009 3 to 6 pm
Design Miami Collector’s Preview
Invitation Only
39th Street and 1st NE Court
Miami Design District
Tuesday, Dec 1 2009 3 pm
Transforma, celebrating pieces from the Zanotta collection and the designers Arik Levy, Xavier Lust and Jeff Miller
4141 NE Second Avenue, Design District
Tuesday, Dec 1 2009 5 pm
Invitation only, the Official Art Basel Welcome Party
the Mondrian, West Street, Miami Beach
(and no need hurrying to get to the Net Jets welcome party tonight, because there is no NetJets wilcome party this year)
Tuesday, Dec 1 2009 5:30 to 7 pm
benefit ($25 donation) for Lotus House
followed by 7 to 10:30 pm VIP/Press reception
Art Miami, the Art Miami Pavillion
NE 1st Avenue between NE 32nd and NE 31st Streets
Midtown Miami
www.art-miami.com
Tuesday, Dec 1 2009 6 to 10 pm
Opening, Friends With You boutique
3930 NE Second Avenue, Design Disrict
Tuesday, Dec 1 2009 7 to 9 pm
The MOCA / Vanity Fair International opening reception
North Miami: The Reach of Realism
Free for MOCA members, North Miami residents and City of NM employees. Otherwise you must be an Art Basel VIP or Exhibitor, or pay $25 general admission. The reception is sponsored by Vanity Fair Italy, Vanity Fair Spain, and Grey Goose Vodka. RSVP to: 305.893.6211 or rsvp@mocanomi.org
Tuesday, Dec 1 2009 7 to 10 pm
Opening reception, Bisazza flagship store, with pieces by Studio Job
3740 NE Second Avenue, Design District
Tuesday, Dec 1 2009 evening
Private invitation book signing of Antoine Vigneat's children's book "Le Corbusier -- In His Own Words" at the home of Terence Riley, NE 41st Street, Design Distict
Tuesday, Dec 1 2009 7 to 9 pm
Opening Preview of “Herd Thinner,” a show of emerging artists curated by the love-him or hate-him David Hunt at Charest-Weinberg. Artists will be there. Presumably Mr. Hunt will be too. You are warned. 250 NW 23rd Street, Space 408, Miami FL, 33127; Invitation only, but go ahead and try: RSVP to adam@susangrantlewin.com
Tuesday Dec 1 2009 6 – 10 pm
Vernissage, Design Miami Invitation only
39th Street and 1st NE Court
Miami Design District
Tuesday, Dec 1 2009 6 to 10 pm
Opening, Photo Miami
Invitation/VIP only
3401 North Miami Avenue and NW 34th Street
Wynwood Arts District
Miami, http://www.photomiami-2009.com
Tuesday, Dec 1 2009 10 pm to 1 am
invitation only, MOCA Shakers afterparty to the MOCA party
Louis at the Gansevoort Hotel, Miami Beach
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| Le Corbusier children's book signing |
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Tuesday, Dec 1 9:30 pm
The French haute-designer Jacques Grange and the gallerist Paul Kasmin (whose booth is inside the Convention Center, yo) celebrate the maverick Swiss-born, Paris-based artist-designer Mattia Bonetti with a private, invitation only, dinner at the Lido restaurant, on the water, at the Standard Hotel. See photos below so you know which balding Parisien aesthete you are gawking at.
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| Mattia Bonetti / Paul Kasmin Gallery |
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| Jacques Grange, French design star |
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