And by testing out, I mean selling. (Interesting side story: Takeshi Miyakawa, the Brooklyn-based designer who provided a light installation for the exhibition, was arrested during NY Design Week for suspicious, light installation-related activities).

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Like his biomorphic fortification studies, also in the exhibition, his design for San Giovanni anticipates spatial and geometric ideas that would not be fully explored for centuries.

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In fact, it is among several examples of his work selected by a Munich museum for its permanent exhibition on packaging design.

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In 2011, for his "Beautiful Sunflower Panerai Painting, " he used hundreds of black Panerai watch faces, without their hands, to create a spin painting for the "O'Clock" exhibition at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan.

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Although the museum is not set for completion until 2018, it is already holding events, such as the Design in Motion exhibition, which will celebrate seven contemporary Scottish artists on the 13th February.

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Farther uptown, an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, "Finnish Modern Design, 1930-1997" (up through June 14), is a perfect complement to the Aalto retrospective.

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