Sentence examples for design collectors from inspiring English sources

December is big-ticket time for 20th-century design collectors.

Predictably, the first wave of contemporary design collectors tended to be attracted to the showiest, though not necessarily the most thoughtful or demanding, works.

Ian Kelleher, a car specialist at RM, said that the intention was to draw a wider set of art and design collectors.

Ambra Medda, the co-founder and director of Design Miami and Design Miami/Basel, the annual design fairs started in 2005, has brought together an international A-list of design galleries — and design collectors — under one roof (or, as was the case last year, under one Aranda/Lasch-designed tent).

"I wanted to show it is possible for a design collector to own a major piece of graphic design," Mr. Zemaitis said.

"Mark's modernism is the modernism of an existence -- he does have a mission, with a high moral tone," said Mitchell Wolfson, the noted design collector who created the Wolfsonian design museum in Miami Beach with Mr. McDonald's help.

Arrayed on the kitchen counter is a deceptively random mix of design objects and everyday things (a bag of pasta, a few artichokes and a clove of garlic sitting on a papier-mâché and willow wood centerpiece they created for the Dutch design collector and retailer Thomas Eyck).

FLY'S EYE DOME RESTORED Craig Robins, the Miami real estate magnate and design collector, has acquired a walk-in antique: a Fly's Eye Dome, a white fiberglass hemisphere that Buckminster Fuller proposed in the 1960s as a solution to the world's housing crisis.

The Boyds, who live in Santa Monica, Calif., in a house designed by Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect, are perhaps the most conspicuous of the modern-design collectors.

Whilst providing details for the construction of cost-effective collectors, we also advocate a 'hands on' approach to designing collectors based on materials readily available to prospective farmers.

This can be used in designing collectors for places where the available land strip does not align with any of these two directions.