DESIGN LECTURE: JASON MILLER
Never I imagined agreeing Jason Miller on anything conceptual. His pieces are beautiful, yet a little too maintream-design for me (well.. it's sort of expected from someone who worked for names like Koons, Ogilvy, Rashid). Regardless, I just read an invitation to tonight's lecture "OK As Is" by Miller at the Museum of Arts & Design, and couldn't agree more.
"Jason Miller will talk about those personal objects in our houses that we don’t display and yet can’t discard. Some are beloved, but unfit to show. They may be old, worn or broken, haphazardly fixed or homemade. It is their imperfections that give them their charm and soul. They have transformed from impersonal necessity to intimate relic, which is why we keep them. They are our ersatz heirlooms, objects we use to furnish our most personal spaces: the basement, the garage, the attic. And we enjoy them without consideration. Miller believes design does not exist in a vacuum: “I don’t believe in utopias. I think perfection is a pretentious and pessimistic goal. Accident, imperfection and specificity are much more interesting...”
The lecture will be today, Thursday Sept 28 6-7.30 pm with a reception following. It is free with museum admission.
posted by In Casa at 9:12 AM
5 Comments:
You seem to have this love-hate relationship with Jason Miller. Anything more than a professional design opinion there? :)
But I agree. Utopia is imaginary, perfection is pretentious, Miller's design is well.. revolving way too fast, thus a pretention for its own fanatics.
I almost bought Miller's Antler chand, but I heard this nightmare (not sure true or not) about his giant chandelier collapsed and crushed into pieces (it was in a design party or smtg big like that).
Again, not sure it's true or not. My source is pretty dependable and I trust him with all my heart when it comes to design.
Omg! I heard the same thing. Wasn't it a while back though?
I'm with ya jonathan!
I found Miller's stuff rather non-attractive, actually (as the rest of those Brooklyn designs). What he mentioned about contra-utopias/ perfection is pretentious etc were off since his stuff are pretentious (well for all those digits)
Idealistic-thinking though..
I couldn't make it to the lecture, too bad.. over-hour AGAIN.. sigh..
Not sure what you guys are talking about. I love Miller's stuff. I think they are brilliant.
Anyway, I don't see the pretention at all. I think an item is pretentious because you want to see it that way.
I think we should see design from many angles so we can appreciate it more whole-ly. And that requires open-mindness.
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