Design

• James Dyson Launches his new Ball Vacuum Tomorrow (Private only - open to the public Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
  • We will be there with camera in tow not only to see a cool new design, but also what the Dyson PR machine has cooked up as it tries to conquer America
  • Thursday, April 21
  • West 62nd Street, off Columbus and Amsterdam

• Dutch Designer Gerard van den Berg
  • Get acquainted with Gerard van den Berg,the engaging and visionary co-founder of Dutch furniture design company Label. Event is in partnership with Dwell magazine.
  • Thursday, April 28, 7-9pm
  • DWR SoHo, 142 Wooster Street (212.475.0001)

• Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape
  • 23 landscape-design projects that reclaim and transform urban spaces—many derelict and in need of rehabilitation—into public parks and gardens.
  • February 22 – May 16, 2005
  • MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street (212.708.9400)

• XXXL - Monumental Work by Gaetano Pesce for Fish Design
  • "Revolutionary collection of bowls, vases, jewelry, mirrors and clocks, created in gently pliant, vibrantly colored techno-resins by the visionary architect, designer, and fearless social poet Gaetano Pesce."
  • Through Sunday, May 8.
  • Moss Gallery, 146 Greene Street (866.888.6677)

• New York Eleven
  • Eleven New York schools including the Pratt Institute, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York School of Interior Design, and Cornell University have contributed to this exhibition of students' interior-design work for the fields of retail, hospitality, and health care.
  • April 18 - 21, 2005
  • New York Design Center, 200 Lexington Ave., New York. (718) 672-0513; http://www.ny11.com