The designer’s first museum exhibition brings together work from across her practice with new site-specific installations, making the show a substantial design and spatial experience rather than a product launch.
Location
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, Zürich, Switzerland
Organizations
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich — Exhibition venue and organizer; Mathmos — Collaborator and manufacturer of Column Lava Lamps
The opening adds a major Peter Zumthor cultural complex to Renzo Piano’s existing museum and offers unusually strong press access, image terms and an immediate opportunity to assess architecture conceived as an ensemble of art, landscape and restored historic structures.
Fondation Beyeler — Client, museum operator and project publisher; Atelier Peter Zumthor — Architect of the new Wyss Museum, Ammann Pavilion and Erlen Gatehouse; Renzo Piano Building Workshop — Architect of the existing Beyeler Museum retained within the expanded ensemble; Iwan Baan Photography B.V. — Photography
