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Initiators of The Great Indoors Award are:
Launched in December 1997, Frame is the world’s leading international trade magazine about interior and product design. Frame fuses British and American journalism with the aesthetic flair of an Italian publication and addresses to interior designers, architects and product designers, as well as their clients. Frame is a bi-monthly magazine and is part of Frame Publishers BV.
Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture occupies a spacious gallery in an 18th-century mansion in Maastricht. The cultural centre invites artists from the Netherlands and abroad to exhibit their work on the premises. The emphasis lies on the presentation of new developments in the international world of contemporary art. Marres’s programme of exhibitions, video shows, lectures, performances and debates is intended to stimulate discourse among artists, intermediaries and public.
As an addition to the programma, Marres publishes essays on contemporary art, design and interior on a regular basis.
Download the essay that was published for exhibition A l'Interieur here. (Written by Nils van Beek)
Since April 1st 2009 the NAi Maastricht operates independently as NAiM/Bureau Europa, an organisation for architecture and design.
The perspective of this new initiative is focused on Europe and the Euregion, in correspondence with its social and geopolitical agenda.