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Talk to Me	Serpentine Gallery Pavilion	Kenneth Grange: Making Britain Modern
Museum of Modern Art, New York	Serpentine Gallery, London	Design Museum, London
24 July 2011 – 7 November 2011	1 July 2011 – 16 October 2011	20 July 2011 – 30 October 2011
MoMA's summer exhibition explores the dialogue between people and things. It proposes that the digital age has created a need for designers not only to provide function and form, but also an interface for communication. Talk to Me brings together 800 practical and conceptual pieces that range from video games and websites to installations and environments. www.moma.org	Peter Zumthor will follow in the footsteps of SANAA, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and others, when his summer pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery opens this month. The Swiss architect proposes a "hortus conclusus", or enclosed garden, hidden at the centre of a timber structure shrouded with a coat of black paste. In typical Zumthor style, the architecture promises to be serene and introverted, "a place abstracted from the world of noise and traffic and the smells of London". www.serpentinegallery.org	Kenneth Grange, the designer responsible for the Kodak Instamatic camera, the Kenwood food mixers and the Parker pen, is celebrated by the Design Museum this month. One of Britain's true design legends, in the course of his extraordinary career he has been a technical illustrator for the Royal Engineers, established the world-renowned consultancy Pentagram and developed the futuristic profile of the High Speed Intercity 125 train. Grange shares his Five Most Wanted with Icon on page 022. www.designmuseum.org



Design Parade 6	Numen/For Use	New Designers
Villa Noailles, Hyères	z33, Hasselt	Business Design Centre, London
1-3 July 2011	3 July 2011 – 2 October 2011	29 June 2011 – 2 July 2011 and 6-9 July 2011
Villa Noailles, an early modernist house on the Côte d'Azur frequented in its heyday by artists such as Man Ray and Alberto Giacometti, will host Design Parade 6: an annual showcase of ten designers selected from an open competition. Alongside the main show, there's an exhibition on the history of the house and last year's winner François Dumas will be showing a series of sculptural vases (pictured) that he developed during his research scholarship at the Sèvres ceramic museum in Paris. www.villanoailles-hyeres.com	Numen/For Use is the Austrian-Croatian design collective behind Tape: the glowing, cocoon-like installation of translucent packing tape that appeared at DMY Berlin last year. This month they're in the Belgian city of Hasselt, using flexible nets to form a "floating landscape open for visitors to climb in and explore". Ranging from set design to products and art, their projects make reference to organic architecture and urban utopias, as well as being immersive and playful experiences. www.z33.be	This vibrant two-part event is a good opportunity to check out the latest offerings from UK graduates in the fields of furniture, architecture, fashion and interior design. Look out for the bright graphics of Stone and Spear (aka Simon Cook), whose punchy illustrations are influenced by nightclub flyers (pictured). There'll be a programme of talks, too, and the exhibition One Year On, a selection of 50 fledgling design businesses that have launched in the past year. www.newdesigners.com



Atsuko Tanaka	A Lasting Impression: Wilhelm Wagenfeld	Alexander Brodsky
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham	Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Dessau	Architekturzentrum, Vienna
27 July 2011 – 11 September 2011	Until 30 October 2011	Until 3 October 2011
Pioneering Japanese artist Atsuko Tanaka is famed for her Electric Dress: a spectacular costume of coloured lamps and cables made for an exhibition of the avant-garde Gutai group in 1956. Tanaka wore the piece to describe friction between tradition and technology in post-war Japan – an updated kimono for the modern world. Ikon Gallery presents the first UK retrospective of the artist's work, along with her paper collages, work on fabric and bold colourful paintings. www.ikon-gallery.co.uk	Best known for the Bauhaus lamp, German industrial designer Wilhelm Wagenfeld's legacyis celebrated at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation this month. Wagenfeld, unlike the majority of former Bauhaus students, went on to have a successful commercial career, designing Kubus glass containers for Lausitzer Glassworks in 1938, diabolo-shaped salt and pepper shakers for WMF and the Wagenfeld tea service (pictured)for Glaswerk Schott & Gen in 1932. www.bauhaus-dessau.de	Russian-born architect Alexander Brodsky rejects the "kitsch oligarch's palaces", "prefabricated high-rises" and "buildings modelled on Western standards" that he says form the landscape of his native country. Through art and architecture, he searches for a particularly Russian identity, and was a proponent of the radical Paper Architects group in the 1980s. See Brodsky's site-specific installation and a selection of his work at the Architekturzentrum until October. www.azw.at