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Grassimesse smow-Designpreis 2024 winner Nadja Schulze (photo courtesy Nadja Schulze)
smow | 02.12.2024

smow Blog Interview: Nadja Schulze - My goal is to always break down my designs so that they are easy to understand for all

Nadja Schulze once opined that "Licht ist die tollste aller Sprachen", 'light is the greatest of all languages', and the light her lamps LiLa and Bow spoke at Grassimesse 2024 so enamoured the Grassimesse Jury they awarded Nadja the 2024 Grassimesse smow-Designpreis....... Grassimesse smow-Designpreis 2024 winner Nadja Schulze (photo courtesy Nadja Schulze) Born and raised in Leipzig, Nadja Schulze completed her Bachelor in Innenarchitektur at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle in the

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2024 smow-Designpreis Winner Nadja Schulze
Awards | 25.10.2024

Grassimesse Leipzig 2024: smow-Designpreis Winner - Nadja Schulze

Grassimesse Leipzig 2024: smow-Designpreis Winner - Nadja Schulze Following on from the co-winners of the inaugural Grassimesse smow-Designpreis Hevesi Annabella/Line and Round and Cornelius Réer the winner of the 2nd edition is Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule, Halle, Interior Architecture Masters student, Nadja Schulze for her lighting projects LiLa, Bow and 360°. The latter a wall mounted lamp, family of lamps, that can be rotated through, well... 360°. A rotation that not only results

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Grassimesse Leipzig 2024 - Grassipreis Winners. Congratulations to all!!
Awards | 24.10.2024

Grassimesse Leipzig 2024: Grassipreis Winners

The 2024 Grassimesse Leipzig jury have two important tasks: selecting from the myriad international applications received those creatives entitled to exhibit within the exhibition halls of Leipzig's Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, and thereby maintaining the ongoing quality claim of the Grassimesse in context of contemporary craft, design and applied art, and awarding amongst those selected exhibitors six of the seven Grassi Prizes.* Their first task was completed in late summer. Their

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smow | 12.07.2024

Grassimesse 2024: Meet the selected exhibitors…….

While the rest of the international design museum community retreat from the warmth of the summer sun, taking shelter in the cool of their depots and archives, Leipzig's Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst are busy preparing for one of its annual highlights: Grassimesse. A craft, applied art and design fair instigated in 1920 which has witnessed, and survived, the highs and lows of the past century in Leipzig and environs. And which since 1920 has been by invitation only: anyone and everyone can

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Morari by Jesse Altmann, Valentina Lenk and Klara Schneider, as seen at Berlin Design Week 2024
Architecture | 05.05.2024

Berlin Design Week 2024 Compact: Morari by Jesse Altmann, Valentina Lenk and Klara Schneider

Morari by Jesse Altmann, Valentina Lenk and Klara Schneider, as seen at Berlin Design Week 2024 If we're going to entice and encourage ever more individuals in urban spaces to give up their private cars, and, we'll argue, that is desirable not only in terms of tackling the myriad problems of our contemporary urban spaces but also in exposing the fiction of, and the egoistic stupidity of, autonomous cars and flying taxis, we not only need public transport vehicles and networks that are

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Badekarren, Katwijk by Wilhelm Gutmann, 1908 (Image Public Domain, courtesy of Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main)
Architecture | 24.04.2024

Grassimesse Leipzig 1920 Compact: Wilhelm Gutmann – Interior Design and Furniture

Badekarren in Katwijk by Wilhelm Gutmann, 1908 (Image Public Domain, courtesy of Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main) ... ... Wilhelm Gutmann used the occasion of Grassimesse Leipzig 1920 to present...... .......we no know. Or more accurately, in terms of Wilhelm Gutmann generally we no know hardly nothing. Certainly we no know an awful lot more than the we no know about the other Grassimesse 1920 designers featured thus far in these dispatches. Despite the fact that, arguably, there should

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A living room design by Gertrud Lincke featuring two Arbeitskojen, Work Bunks/Berths, on the left and right (undated, but before 1927, possibly 1925)
Architecture | 17.04.2024

Grassimesse Leipzig 1920 Compact: Gertrud Lincke - Interior Design and Furniture

A living room design by Gertrud Lincke featuring two Arbeitskojen, Work Bunks/Berths, on the left and right, home office à la the 1920s (undated, but before 1927, possibly 1924/5) In 1926 the Dresden based architect Gertrud Lincke will opine that "women are decisive, paramount, when it comes to setting up a home", and that not because of what you think, but because, "they are the most negatively impacted by the housing crisis and all that comes associated with it". However, she will lament

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An interior (and possibly furniture) by Dr Josef Frank
smow | 11.04.2024

Grassimesse Leipzig 1920 Compact: Dr. Josef Frank - Furniture

An (early) interior (and possibly early furniture) by Dr Josef Frank, undated, but before 1915 "Living rooms intended to serve more than purely representational purposes are not works of art or well-coordinated harmonies in colour and form, whose individual components (wallpaper, carpets, furniture, pictures) comprise a finished whole in which they are inextricably linked", opined Dr Josef Frank in 1919, and that not least because, "any new item added would be perceived as awkward,

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Chairs by Elisabeth von Baczko realised by Korbmacher Kapsch, Bremen
smow | 09.04.2024

Grassimesse Leipzig 1920 Compact: Elisabeth von Baczko - Interior Design and Furniture

Chairs by Elisabeth von Baczko realised by Korbmacher Kapsch, Bremen Just a few short years ago Dr. Karl Schaefer, the new Director of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, opined that furniture and interior design required "a clear, well-disciplined architectural appreciation for the corporeal and its dimensions, for the tectonic and for the material, a certain dryness and an unapologetic sincerity" and for all "penetrating, deliberative understanding more than unbridled fantasy",

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smow | 08.04.2024

Grassimesse Leipzig 1920, Morschn!

After several years of preparation, and a lot of, at times (very) heated, discussion, this past March saw the staging of the inaugural Grassimesse Leipzig in the city's Rathaus. Instigated by Dr. Richard Graul, Director of the Leipzig Kunstgewerbemuseum by way of a response to, an answer to, the increasing concerns amongst many professional creatives regarding the quality of contemporary objects of daily use presented at the bi-annual Leipzig Fair, for all the quality of the novel machine

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Grassimesse 2024
smow | 28.02.2024

Grassimesse 2024: Call for Entries

As Europe begins to ardently shake of the last remnants of winter and the first green and blue and yellow and white specks appear in parks and gardens, as the chance that summer might just arrive becomes tangible.... October can seem a mighty long way away. Unimaginable. But it is approaching. As is the 2024 Grassimesse. The path thereto has been laid and until Wednesday May 15th are all called upon to apply....... Staged in and by the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig, and

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Cornelius Réer at work in his Nürnberg studio
Awards | 26.01.2024

smow Blog Interview: Cornelius Réer - Honing the good ideas so that they result in fantastic products, that's the task

Born in Coburg, Franken, in 1961 Cornelius Réer took his first steps in the world of glass via an apprenticeship at Glashütte Süßmuth, Immenhausen, near Kassel, followed by periods working in Austria and Sweden and a nine month course at Brierley Hill Glass Center in Dudley, England, before returning to Franken and establishing his own studio in Fürth in 1992. If a return to Franken punctuated by long absences: the next 11 years seeing Cornelius lead an, essentially, nomadic life, travelling

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Annabella Hevesi & Gábor Bella a.k.a Line and Round I O
Awards | 24.11.2023

smow Blog Interview: Line and Round - It is a bit of a mission impossible to try to make a career as a furniture designer in Hungary

Line and Round, I O, was established in Budapest in 2017 by Annabella Hevesi, a Masters graduate from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design and Gábor Bella, a Masters graduate from the "School of Life", with a background in carpentry and numerous years experience in a variety of construction/interior/design fields, including the creation, development and realisation of escape room games, a concept that enjoys a particular popularity in Hungary, and in which context Annabella and Gábor

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Grassimesse 2023 Grassipreis Winners
Awards | 19.10.2023

Grassimesse 2023: Grassipreis Winners

While in many regards being selected to participate at the Grassimesse can be considered an accolade in itself, the event also awards a number of prizes: some specific, others general, all well worth winning. Ahead of the opening of the 2023 edition the winners of the seven Grassi Prizes were announced on Thursday evening in the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig. Selected by the 2023 Grassmesse jury from the 80+ exhibitors, the victorious seven are....... Grassipreis der Carl und

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A selection of projects by design schools as presented at the Grassimesse Leipzig between 1920 and 1941
Awards | 01.10.2023

Campus Grassimesse

For all that the annual Leipzig Grassimesse is and always has been as a sales fair, a place to peruse, discourse with and purchase, contemporary craft, applied art and design, and thereby an opportunity to support contemporary craft, applied art and design practitioners, or perhaps more accurately an opportunity to support those practitioners whose practice you most enjoy, it has also always been a platform for creative schools and their students to present their works and approaches and

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smow | 23.07.2023

Grassimesse 2023: Meet the selected exhibitors.......

Unlike a great many international craft, applied art and design fairs, entry to the annual Grassimesse Leipzig is strictly by jury selection. And has been since the first edition in 1920. 'twas, in many regards, one of the pillars on which the event established its reputation. And one which helps it maintain that reputation. The 2023 Grassimesse jury recently convened to review the abundance of applications for this year's edition, up some 33% on 2022, and, and perhaps more satisfyingly,

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A selection of works that did, or could have appeared at the Grassimesse between 1920 and 1941, and could have won the smow-Designpreis, had it existed.......
smow | 02.05.2023

The Grassimesse smow-Designpreis - Don't miss out like Reich, Wagenfeld, László, Brandt et al

Although the Grassimesse has been staged, with readily understandable pauses, since 1920, the Grassimesse smow-Designpreis is being staged for the first time in 2023. Which means a highly impressive roster of innovative, intelligent, imaginative, informative, designers from back in the day can't win it. Have, if one so will, missed out But you can win it and the associated €2,500. Or can if your reading this before Friday May 12th Sunday May 21st, the new extended, deadline for entries.

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Ung Svensk Form/Young Swedish Design 2019 Exhibition, ArkDes Stockholm
Awards | 06.03.2019

Ung Svensk Form/Young Swedish Design 2019 Exhibition @ ArkDes Stockholm

For the fifth year in succession ArkDes, Sweden’s national centre for architecture and design, is hosting the Ung Svensk Form/Young Swedish Design award/platform exhibition: a showcase of 25 projects providing for 25 understandings of contemporary design in/from Sweden. Ung Svensk Form/Young Swedish Design 2019 Exhibition, ArkDes Stockholm As noted in our post from Ung Svensk Form/Young Swedish Design 2018, inaugurated in 1998 by Svensk Form (the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design) and

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1st Prize: Unfolding Space by Jakob Kilian (KISD), as seen at Kölner Design Preis/Toby E. Rodes Award 2018 Exhibition, MAKK Cologne
Awards | 26.10.2018

Kölner Design Preis/Toby E. Rodes Award 2018: Winners & Exhibition

With a new name, but a familiar format, the 2018 Kölner Design Preis once again celebrates the city's design students and creative colleges, including an exhibition of all nominated projects in the Cologne Museum für Angewandte Kunst. 1st Prize: Unfolding Space by Jakob Kilian (KISD), as seen at Kölner Design Preis/Toby E. Rodes Award 2018 Exhibition, MAKK Cologne Inaugurated in 2007 the Kölner Design Preis/Toby E. Rodes Award is a by-nomination award, every creative college in Cologne

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Moorwerk by Jan Christian Schulz, as seen at ein&zwanzig, Milan Design Week 2018
Awards | 19.04.2018

Milan Design Week 2018 Compact: Moorwerk by Jan Christian Schulz

We're great believers in Fate, in the guiding principle that if it is meant to be, it will be: not least because it protects us from the expectations of achievement. Further proof of the veracity of Fate was provided by our meeting during Milan Design Week 2018 with the project Moorwerk by Jan Christian Schulz. Moorwerk by Jan Christian Schulz, as seen at ein&zwanzig, Milan Design Week 2018 If you compare our claim to have visited 27 design schools on our 2017 #campustour with the number

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Ung Svensk Form/Young Swedish Design 2018 Exhibition, ArkDes Stockholm
Architecture | 09.02.2018

Ung Svensk Form/Young Swedish Design 2018 Exhibition @ ArkDes Stockholm

Organised by the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design, IKEA, the City of Malmö and ArkDes, Sweden's national architecture and design museum, the annual Ung Svensk Form/Young Swedish Design award/platform, premiers young design talents not only of Swedish birth, but non-Swedes currently based in Sweden, regardless of genre, but who, in the words of outgoing Swedish Society of Crafts and Design CEO Ewa Kumlin, "experiment freely, venture without fear, believe in their ideas and have the strength

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Diploma Selection 2017 winners, nominated, jury, Uncle Tom Cobley and all at Designblok Prague 2017
Awards | 29.10.2017

Designblok Prague 2017 - Diploma Selection

In context of Designblok Prague 2017 the winners of the fourth edition of the pan-European design graduate competition Diploma Selection were unveiled at a ceremony in the city's Palace of Industry. Diploma Selection 2017 Winners, Nominated, Jury, Uncle Tom Cobley and all, at Designblok Prague 2017 Diploma Selection 2017 Initiated in 2014 as a joint initiative by Designblok and the European Union National Institutes for Culture, EUNIC, Diploma Selection is open to all students graduating in

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Kölner Design Preis 2017 exhibition at Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, MAKK
Awards | 27.10.2017

Kölner Design Preis 2017: Winners and Exhibition

Algorithms as dance, a tactile architecture guide and a future-proof flat sharing platform. On Thursday October 26th the winners of the 2017 Kölner Design Preis were unveiled at a ceremony in the city's Museum für Angewandte Kunst, MAKK; and where until Sunday November 19th the three winning, and all nominated, projects, can be viewed in a specially conceived Kölner Design Preis 2017 exhibition. Kölner Design Preis 2017 exhibition at Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, MAKK Celebrating its

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Albert Clock by Axel Schindlbeck, as seen at the Designpreis Halle 2017 exhibition
Awards | 24.05.2017

Designpreis Halle 2017 - Time. Exhibition and Winners.

'tis a curious thing time. It has accompanied our universe since the instant of its creation, has allowed for the development of our civil and social society, is the bedrock of our economic, industrial and commercial systems, guides us through every day, week, month, year, life. Yet it is questionable if it actually exists. And if it does exist. In what form? How can we visualise and document it? Does it have an inherent value? Clues towards some possible answers are provided by the

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