IMA European Design Symposium

Not sure if you heard of this or not, but the IMA is hosting a two-day symposium on contemporary European design, March 6-7. This is the kickoff to their major exhibit on this theme. This event is going to feature a slew of bigtime people like Alberto Alessi, Nasir Kassamali (owner of Luminaire), and Richard Wright of Chicago's Wright Auction House.

The IMA just dramatically reduced the price of admission, which is now $100 for both days, or $50 for one - and the prices are half that for students.

I don't have any proprietary insights as to how many people are registered, but I think you can gather that if the IMA is slashing prices it's because they aren't getting the takeup they hoped for. Listen up, people. I hear complaints about not having nice stuff in this town. Well, this is nice stuff. If you actually want to have more nice stuff in the future, you might want to, I don't know, go or something. It's a shame that too often people don't recognize what is right in front of them. I didn't put this together so can't make any promises on what it will be. But IMHO, if you are at all into design, you need to think twice before you skip this event.