Dallas Museum of Art Presents First Overview of Its Modern and Contemporary Design Collections

DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art presents Form/Unformed: Design from 1960 to the Present, a new installation drawn largely from its growing collections of iconic furniture and related objects from the past 50 years. On view through January 29, 2012, in the Museum’s fourth floor Tower Gallery, Form/Unformed reflects the vibrant transformation of ideology and style that shaped international design over the last half-century. The installation features work by such renowned designers as Verner Panton, Frank Gehry, Aldo Rossi, Ettore Sottsass, Robert Venturi, Donald Judd, Zaha Hadid, Louise Campbell, and Fernando and Humberto Campana. From the technological and formal ideals of modernism to the influence of the handmade, the more than 30 works in Form/Unformed reflect increasingly complex and vibrant relationships between concepts of function, aesthetics, and material

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