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"Some New Items for the Home, Part I" and All Plastic Chair for Vitra, as seen at Jasper Morrison. Thingness, Bauhaus Archiv Berlin
Designer | 21.03.2017

Jasper Morrison. Thingness at the Bauhaus Archiv Berlin

Thingness. Noun. [ˈthiŋ-nəs] The quality or state of objective existence or reality1 Thingness. Exhibition. [ˈthiŋ-nəs] A comprehensive Jasper Morrison retrospective currently on show at the Bauhaus Archiv Berlin. Jasper Morrison. Thingness @ Bauhaus Archiv Berlin Originally conceived by and presented at the Centre d’innovation et de design, CID, Grand-Hornu, Belgium, Jasper Morrison. Thingness presents a chronological excursion through three decades of Jasper Morrison design. We first saw

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philippe starck portrait Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Alias | 18.01.2014

(smow) blog Design Calendar: 18th January 1949 - Happy Birthday Philippe Starck!

A few years ago the (smow) blog telephone rang..... "Good morning is it possible to speak to Philippe Starck please?" enquired the caller. "I'm sorry he's not here at the moment" we replied, truthfully, if not altogether helpfully. "When will it be possible?" came the inevitable follow-up. "We're not really sure, he's not here in Leipzig that often", we responded, truthfully if, again, not altogether helpfully, "you're probably better phoning the Paris office they tend to be better

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Spaghetti Chair by Giandomenico Belotti for Alias Design
Alias | 03.10.2012

Spaghetti Chair by Giandomenico Belotti for Alias

Ask the person next to you to quickly sketch a "Bauhaus Chair" And? What have they drawn? We're guessing the result is relatively quadratic, reduced and, assuming the person next to you is au fait with the works of Mart Stam, Marcel Breuer et al, it will have at least one semi-circular bracket, either on the back or under the seat. And it almost certainly closely resembles the Spaghetti Chair by Giandomenico Belotti for Alias. A chair that, ironically, is born of a tradition at contrast to

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