I am now back in freezing Chicago from Miami. I am trying to gather up my thoughts to post a little more info. I have some photos you can view my photo page or at flickr. Also I am keeping track of interesting galleries and design studios I encountered using google maps. You can see it here: map

One of my favorite exhibitions was Fragiles curated by Die-Gestalten Verlag. I have to thank Mike and Maia for taking me to this one. The $28,000 AK-47 chandler by Hans van Bentem was amazing (his website is cool too). Also cute little porcelain creations from Lola Goldstein.

On the last day I made it to the Miami Convention center. It was totally overwhelming and huge. I was really into a piece by artist Arcangelo Sassolino presented by Von Senger. It is a hydraulic-concrete-scraping robot or something. I found this video actually taken at the Art Basel Miami Beach convention center this past weekend.

Of course one of my favorites was the Artek pavilion positioned in an empty lot in the Design District. Back in my Copenhagen days I spent time studying Artek and even visited their flagship store in Helsinki Finland. So it was especially interesting to see the Artek: Sustainability as an Attitude exhibition. The entire structure was constructed from the UPM-developed wood-plastic composite.