...And that not least because in context of the 2025 edition of Pasasgen Interior Design Week Design Post played host to a presentation of the results of the project Find Your Footprint staged at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, under the guidance of Prof...
...The result is a collection of some 80 chairs at various locations throughout the Dessau Bauhaus building and in the foyer of the Bauhaus Museum Dessau; some 80 chairs composing a juxtaposition of licenced works through Knoll, Thonet and Tecta, including the B3 'Wassily' club chair by Marcel Breuer, the S533 R by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe or the D4 by Marcel Breuer, of plagiarisms of those licensed works, and also of alternative interpretations of those licensed works by furniture retail chains such as Ikea or XXXLutz and designers such as Jasper Morrison... The latter a question also posed by the inclusion in Mehr als echt (More than real) of the S 43 cantilever chair by Mart Stam through Thonet, a work without question of importance in context of the (hi)story of furniture and of Functionalist Modernism, but a work, as with all works of Stam, that has as much to do with Bauhaus as this blog...
..." Our locations for taking advantage of all 31 glorious days of December 2024 can be found in Herford, Philadelphia, Bratislava, Berlin and Caesar's native Rome... sk "Dessauer Strasse and other stories on emancipatory housing" at the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, DAZ, Berlin, Germany As preparations were being made for the 1987 International Building Exhibition, IBA, in West-Berlin, a group of female architects and planners questioned the male dominance of not only the projects being planned for IBA 87, but of architecture and urban planning in general that the male dominance of IBA 87 reflected, and mobilised themselves as Feministische Organisation von Planerinnen und Architektinnen, FOPA, by way of demanding a less male centric architecture and urban planning...
...With the exhibtion Design for Children the Bröhan Museum, Berlin, explore the relationships between design, children and childhood over the century and a bit of their co-existence... A focus on playgrounds the curators very satisfyingly locate in Berlin, including mapping where examples of Beltzig's designs can be found in the German capital, and thereby encouraging you to get out and explore the works in situ, and in the hands of children not of museum curators and custodians...
...The latter being the case with Berlin based manufacturer vondingen a...
...Our five locations for a party of the spirit, intellect, soul and for improving your understanding of the world material and immaterial around you in October 2024 can be found in Brussels, New York, Hornu, Berlin, and, once the beer tents have been packed away for another year, Munich... be "Design for Children" at the Bröhan Museum, Berlin, Germany There is an argument to be made that 'childhood' as it is popularly understood today is a relatively novel phenomenon; that while all adults were without question once children, not all went through a childhood as understood in the contemporary sense...
...A brief tour through the recent (hi)story of chair design, or certainly western European chair design, that opens with Michael Thonet's 1859 Chair 14, the contemporary Thonet Chair 214, a... , but a work that also redefined chair production: Thonet's warm bentwood process negating the need for skilled carpenters, relying instead on a workforce of highly trained but otherwise unskilled labour, and thereby, essentially, marking the dawn of industrialised furniture production...
