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Form follow Idea: a new book by Maxine Naylor and Ralph Ball, which explores the author's ideas about design, art and poetics. Published by Black Dog Publishing www.bdpworld.com

Form Follows Idea book cover

'Not for nothing are Maxine Naylor and Ralph Ball widely regarded as among Britain’s most thoughtful furniture designers. They have been building up to this book for a long time, slowly and carefully generating the intellectual impetus to carry their study of the meaning of objects into the territory where design meets art. Practical philosophy could be one way to describe their approach.'
Jeremy Myerson (Professor of design studies and co-director of the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at the Royal College of Art)

Recent & Future Exhibitions

2004 Brilliant V and A Museum London
Salone Satellite Milan International Furniture Fair Italy
2005 Le Design, c’est le Design Mouvements Modernes Paris France Jan-Feb 2005
Free Radicals 4 The Hub Sleaford UK. 8 April to 30 May 2005
Rhetorical Design from the UK Spring Gallery New York. May 15 to June 12, 2005
Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts London 7 June-15 August
News from Nowhere Visions of Utopia William Morris Gallery London September/October
Christmas Show Contemporary Applied Arts London Nov/Dec
New Work: Contemporary Applied Arts Nov. Dec.
2006 The Poetics of the Everyday Maxine Naylor and Ralph Ball Oct- Nov, 2005. Podium Gallery Mackintosh School of Architecture Glasgow School of Art 9-28Jan2006
The Poetics of the Everyday. Maxine Naylor and Ralph Ball, Podium Gallery, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art  9-28 Jan.
Sièges avec vue Chairs with a View. International Festival of Design Villa Noailles, Hyeres France
2007 In construction with Ball and Naylor book signing Spring Gallery New York  May to July  
Lifeztore Shanghai China from 12 to 25 April with book signing.
Climate Cool British Council touring Exhibition China from Nov 2007 to Feb 2008.
2008  Secret Life of the Office Arts and Business London from 10 May to 12 September
Bring It to the Table Spring Gallery New York from 18 May to 30 June
Indeterminate Cases. Ralph Ball and Maxine Naylor La Sala Vinçon Barcelona from16 Oct to 15 Nov

 

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