UMBC’s Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture’s 2018 installation of “A Designed Life,” featuring The Knoll Pavilion’s “Textiles from the USA,” curated by Professor Peggy Re/ Photo: Dan Meyers
A Designed Life: Contemporary American Textiles, Wallpapers and Containers & Packaging, 1951-1954 (Design Museum of Chicago) Design educator, practitioner and researcher, Margaret Re recreates three historically significant exhibitions of contemporary, mass-produced, American-designed consumer goods—Contemporary American Textiles, designed by Florence Knoll; Contemporary American Wallpapers, designed by Tom Lee; and Containers and Packaging, designed by Will Burtin—in an effort to look early Cold War America with a contemporary perspective.
Greek-born Vasia Rigou is a journalist, editor and multimedia content producer largely on the subjects of visual art, culture, architecture and design. She currently serves as an Editor at Newcity, Chicago’s leading culture publication, as Writer and Copy Editor at the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) HQ, and regularly contributes to international architecture and design magazines OnOffice and ICON. She has experience creating content for brands and building conference speeches and influential TEDx talks. Simply put: she’s fascinated by finding out the great stories behind the people, places and objects that surround us, and by sharing those stories with the world. When she’s not writing about art or looking at art—wine in hand—she makes lists for pretty much everything, drinks immense amounts of coffee and takes cross-country road trips every chance she gets.
