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Casa Vicens, the first house designed by Antoni Gaudí in 1888, is in the midst of a renovation in order to be converted into a museum-house. The building, which has been on Unesco’s world heritage list since 1984, is due to open to the public for the first time in autumn 2016.

The Andorran bank MoraBanc acquired Casa Vicens in March 2014, with the aim of making the building accessible to the public, La Vanguardia reports.

The colorful, stained-glass effect decor items produced by Tiffany Studios represent some of the most beautiful and quintessential specimens of pre-war design such as the Oriental Poppy lamp, which sold for $1.1 million at Sotheby’s in New York this past May. As a painter, Louis Comfort Tiffany was fascinated with the interplay of light and color, and using opalescent glass as his canvas, created masterful renderings of nature — such as flowers or landscape scenes — and decorative geometric patterns in lampshades and leaded-glass windows that popped with color and texture.

Charles Pavarini III’s design roots run deep. His grandfather, Charles Pavarini, Sr., founded the Pavarini Construction Company, best known for creating such landmarks as the Seagram Tower and the United Nations. Charles, who has cultivated a singular style that deftly blends traditional and contemporary elements, reinterpreted this rich family legacy with the founding of the architecturally-based interior design firm, Pavarini Design.  

Headquartered in New York City, Pavarini Design often steps in during the pivotal construction planning stages, seeing nearly all projects through decoration and art selection. This start-to-finish approach ensures that...

The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft announces a major renovation plan to be completed in Spring 2016. After 35 years of artist support, exhibitions, educational programs, and community building, the newly designed museum will increase public space and open opportunities for continued growth.

Renovation plans aim to meet ambitious 2016 goals to engage 10,000 more children in educational programs, double the average visitor duration, grow with downtown development and Museum Row expansion, and double capacity for events. The design includes redesigned education space, expanded MakerSpace, and a new café.

A major exhibition at Vitra Design Museum will for the first time present a comprehensive overview of design at the Bauhaus.

Opening on September 26 in Weil am Rhein, the exhibition The Bauhaus #itsalldesign, sponsored by Hugo Boss, will encompass a variety of rare exhibits from the fields of design, architecture, art, film and photography. Some of the works seen in the exhibition, which comes from the collection of the Vitra Design Museum as well as significant pieces from private collections and exhibitions houses worldwide, will have never been exhibited before.

George Washington University has appointed Sanjit Sethi as the first director of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, which became part of the university’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences last year.

Sethi comes to Washington from the Santa Fe Art Institute, where he has served as director for the past two years. An artist and teacher, Sethi has worked at the Center for Art and Public Life at the California College of the Arts, MIT and St. Mary’s College in Indiana.

Connoisseurs of Vermont antiques have long sought to dispel notions that the furniture is rustic, and that the makers were eccentrics living on the edges of the wilderness. In the last few decades, historians and collectors have unearthed evidence that the state’s early woodworkers, even those farming in remote spots, kept up with trends in design, materials and tools. An exhibition surveying these sophisticated pieces, “Rich and Tasty: Vermont Furniture to 1850,” opens on July 25 at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont.

Although most buildings in the Near East from late antiquity and the early Islamic period (between around 500 and 1000) do not survive fully intact, the fragments that do remain help shed light on the ingenious ways that artisans transformed architectural surfaces to create sumptuous interiors and monumental façades. Three aesthetic principles that were especially important to the design of architectural ornament in the Byzantine, Sasanian, and early Islamic traditions are highlighted in the exhibition Pattern, Color, Light: Architectural Ornament in the Near East (500–1000), opening July 20 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

London is set to get its own international design biennial, based on the model of the Venice art and architecture biennales, and directed by former Icon editor Christopher Turner.

The inaugural London Design Bienniale will open to the public on September 15, 2016, with exhibitions and installations from international participants on the theme Utopia by Design.

The leading interior designer Frank de Biasi has cultivated a singular aesthetic that is firmly rooted in his passion for art, history, and design -- a love that was forged during his time as an appraiser at Christie’s New York. Following his tenure at the inimitable auction house, de Biasi was named the Director of Interiors for the iconic architect Peter Marino. After twelve years with Marino, de Biasi founded Frank de Biasi Interiors. Since launching in 2006, the New York-based firm has become synonymous with an eclectic yet impossibly chic aesthetic.

de Biasi, who has helmed commercial and residential projects in in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, works closely with his clients to...