The Festival Off is the heart of Madrid Design Festival. Showroomsstores, concept-stores, craft workshops, galleries and creative spaces mark the pulse of each edition of the contest with a multidisciplinary proposal of activities that exemplify the effervescence and quality of design in our city. In this context, the showroom from Rimadesio in ICONNO houses Until March 31st the Illustrated Design Library, a project that brings together a careful selection of books on contemporary design, architecture and art that show and illustrate their new dimensions and scales in all areas.
The library is made up of 30 essential volumes to understand design, architecture and art and emphasizes, especially, the still latent fascination with printed publications. It pays homage to the pleasure of turning pages, of contemplating and assimilating knowledge through the written word and images on paper.
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The library can be enjoyed at the Rimadesio Showroom in Iconno, on Calle O’Donnell, 6, in Madrid.
The exhibition, curated by the expert in global design, researcher and disseminator, Marisa Santamaría, brings together illustrated books with a profusion of images and some editorial novelties by great designers and architects such as Kengo Kuma or Tadao Ando edited by bags. Likewise, it includes special editions of the exhibitions of the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, of great artists who have had a determining influence on design, such as Sonia Delaunay or Victor Vasarely.”It is a small library that illustrates us about the different visions of today’s design and architecture.Beyond the classic coffee table book, It is a set of contemporary visual stories, from the tradition of reading and observing narrated and photographed stories, published in the format of printed, tangible and sensible books”, explains María Santamaría.
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The initiative is open to the public from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays.
As a complement to this exhibition, and under the name of Conversations in the Library, a series of conversations between the curator of the exhibition and different guests about the published presentations will be recorded and broadcast on YouTube. So about the book Sonia Delunay. Art, design and fashion (Ed. Museo Thyssen) will feature speeches by Ana Cela, Director of Publications and the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum Shop, and Clea Fitz-James Stuart, founder and creative director of the Clea Stuart brand.
For its part, the conversation around the book Living in México (Taschen) will feature the participation of Edgar González, architect, director of the School of Design at IE University, and Saskia Bostelmann, designer, expert in interior design, lighting, objects and jewelry.
The cycle of talks will close with the presentation of the book Conutryside, Future OMAby Rem Koolhass (Taschen), which will feature the intervention of Fernando Moral, architect and director of architecture and design at Nebrija University.
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