Denver Design District’s Spring Market
The Event
Dakota Jackson
Dakota Jackson, “a truly world-renowned designer of our time whose modern high style, vision, and influence in the Art Furniture movement is undeniable” gave the keynote speech at the recent Spring Market at the Denver Design District. The title of his presentation was Hearing Light / Seeing Sound – Designing with All of Our Senses.
An entertaining speaker, Dakota spoke to the designers about his background and the beginning of his career as an American furniture designer. His early furniture involved moving parts and hidden compartments and collaborations with Steinway & Sons piano company. The son of a magician, Jackson also began to build his own props, including large boxes for sawing a woman in half and small boxes from which doves would emerge in full flight. A commission from Yoko Ono to build a desk with hidden compartments for husband John Lennon and the design of a bed for fashion designer Diane Von Furstenburg further garnished Jackson’s reputation and started him in a long career designing innovative furniture.
“Poetry, as we know, achieves its effect through a maximum of meaning with a minimum of means.
A perfect design is like that, too.” – Dakota Jackson
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