As we step into 2026, we’re excited to share a look ahead at a major exhibition, upcoming lectures, and a summer design workshop celebrating design, culture, and creative practice. We hope you’ll join us for another year of thoughtful dialogue and meaningful experiences.

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Lella e Massimo Vignelli

March 25 – September 6, 2026

A major retrospective dedicated to the life and work of Lella and Massimo Vignelli, this exhibition explores their lasting impact on international design and graphic culture. Featuring a wide range of objects, drawings, models, publications, and archival materials, the exhibition traces the Vignellis’ creative journey between Milan and New York and highlights their enduring influence across disciplines.

 

Egeværk is a design studio based in Elsinore, Denmark, established by artists Mette Bentzen and Lasse Kristensen. Trained at the rigorous Danish joinery PP Møbler, Bentzen and Kristensen develop hand-carved furniture inspired by the natural forms and muted tones of the Scandinavian landscape. Many of their designs appear frozen in moments of flux, drift, and erosion, embracing the fluidity and incremental transformation of the tides, the strata of slow-melting ice made visible in a disintegrating glacier, the gradual buildup of lime deposits that form stalagmites, or the undulating motion of marine life.

As a duo, Bentzen and Kristensen have been awarded the Carpentry Prize, Danish Design Awards (Best in Arts & Crafts), the Peter, Ingrid and Ralph Hernoe Honorary Grant, and other marks of honor. Egeværk’s work is in the collections of the Trapholt Museum, Imagine Museum, Lune Rouge Collection, and the collection of Thierry Barbier-Mueller. In addition, Kristensen was selected as the winner of the Danish and Nordic championships in cabinetmaking and has represented Denmark in the World Cup in Japan, for which he received the Mærsk Grant and the Poul & Gurli Madsen Grant.

Angela Yeh is a talent strategist and career coach whose work is shaped by her experience across design leadership and recruitment. Trained as an industrial designer with a background in psychology, she advanced from designer to associate design director within five years. She later moved into recruiting, where she spent over two decades gaining a behind-the-scenes view of how talent is evaluated, advanced, and often misunderstood. This work led her to establish her own recruitment and talent strategy firm, Yeh IDeology, now in its 20th year. Through this experience, Angela developed a proven career strategy methodology that has helped hundreds of professionals clarify their value, make more intentional career decisions, and move into roles with greater scope and impact.

Emanuela Frattini and Carl Gustav Magnusson bring decades of international experience across architecture, interiors, product design, and brand development. Frattini is the founder of EFM Design and former Global Head of Design at Bloomberg LP, with work spanning residential, hospitality, retail, and product design for leading institutions including Knoll and MoMA. Magnusson, founder of CGM Design and former Director of Global Design at Knoll, has collaborated with some of the most influential designers of our time and has created award-winning products for brands such as Knoll, BMW, and Spinneybeck. Together, they offer a multidisciplinary perspective shaped by practice, leadership, and design advocacy.

Join us for an immersive summer experience focused on design thinking, experimentation, and creative exploration.

More details coming soon.

The Vignelli’s Design is One philosophy leaves us with a universal message that design is a lens through which we can envision a more inclusive tomorrow.

- Josh Owen

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