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Designer Brings the Outside In
28 Nov, 2008 LDB SolutionsDavid Font, an award-winning landscape architect, designed the interiors of the new exhibition created to complement approximately 50 design objects that will be showcased Dec. 3-6 at Design Miami 08’s “Beyond Organic: Design in the State of Nature” exhibition.
Design Miami is a prominent forum for international design, representing a convergence of commerce and culture. Its annual shows in Basel, Switzerland (June) and Miami bring together the most influential designers, collectors, dealers, curators and critics from around the world.
 Max Lamb, Ladycross Stone Chair, 2007 (left). Available through Johnson Trading Gallery, New York. Michele Oka Doner, Tara Chandelier, 2006 (right). Available through Cristina Grajales Inc, New York. |
Font designed the 6,000 sq. ft. space inside The Collins Building in Miami’s Design District where the show’s press conferences and Design Talks will take place. The design objects interpret the natural world or tie to nature through shapes and materials, such as a candelabrum cast from bronze in the form of a tree trunk, a Swarovski Crystal chandelier resembling cherry blossoms, and chairs sculpted from solid stone. Font’s exhibition design integrates these objects into an organic environment.
 Blossom Chandelier designed by Tord Boontje for Swarovski Crystal Palace, 2002. |
More than 50 yards of topsoil were used to create mounds that provide topography to the space as well as a combination of more than 700 pieces of native and exotic plant material that will be incorporated. Curved patches of grass with circular slices of tree trunks adorn a large, main wall, creating the feeling that “nature” is taking over the space.
Font formed Font Designs in 2001 after several years at multidisciplinary planning, engineering and landscape architecture firms, where he gained extensive experience in resort and commercial projects as well as single-family and multi-family residential developments.
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