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Atelier Van Lieshout, Studio Job, Marc Quinn and Nendo, whose work has been part of the High Museum in Atlanta and the Victoria & Albert in London, both of which acquired Nendo artworks for their permanent collections. New York's Museum of Arts and Design also featured a show earlier this year entitled "Ghost Stories: New Designs from Nendo." (For the show, four new designs by Nendo were shown for the first time at MAD.) And of course, Nendo, rAndom International and the rest of the Carpenters Work- shop Gallery stable will be at Design Miami/. One of the most important design history shows in recent years is "California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way," at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which is on view until March 2012. The exhibition, featur- ing more than 350 works by Charles and Ray Eames, Richard Neutra and many others, takes its title from a 1951 Greta Magnusson Grossman quote about California design, "It has developed out of our own preferences for living in a modern way." R 20th Century Gallery in New York owns the Gross- man archive, and was instrumental in the creation of the show as consultants, helping to procure Grossman pieces for the show and offering access to her design sketches. They've also curated a museum show of Grossman's work, which has traveled between Stockholm and the Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art. Next up is a Wendell Castle show, scheduled for the fall of 2012 at the Aldrich Con- temporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and then on to other venues. To Evan Snyderman, co-owner of the gallery, the inter- action between museums and design galleries has steadily increased: "Museums are calling us more and more, and there's a greater appreciation of design now. To do a show here, or at a museum, is the same process, a labor of love. And many times, a show at the gallery isn't about selling things: it's about education and discovery, just like a museum show." Thoughtfully designed jewelry is also part of the de- sign gallery meets museum equation. Hudson, New York- based dealer Mark McDonald loaned a piece to the recent California Design show at LACMA, a circa 1955 Margaret De Patta silver pin, "Generally, having your things in a mu- seum is more fun for your family than anything else, but at the LACMA show, it was great to see the artists—Flo- rence Resnikoff, Merry Renk—clustered around their pieces at the jewelry tables: I'd worked with all of them at the gallery. And at the Met recently, I slipped out of the Alexander McQueen show and showed some friends an ice crusher I'd loaned—this Buck Rogers-style piece. Usu- ally it's in my kitchen, but there it was, part of a museum." 88 CULTURED Moss collaborated with Materialize.MGX to produce the first exhibition at the V&A Museum to solely feature 3D pieces.