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Berlin Design Week Pepe Heykoop Tiny Miracles Foundation at DAD Galerie Berlin Photos
Designer | 27.05.2014

(smow) blog compact Berlin Design Week Special: Pepe Heykoop & Tiny Miracles Foundation at DAD Galerie Berlin

Very much in keeping with the DMY Berlin 2014 focus on "Social Design" the DAD Galerie Berlin is currently presenting an exhibition devoted to works by the Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop created in context of the Mumbai, India, based Tiny Miracles Foundation. Founded in 2010 by Laurien Meuter the Tiny Miracles Foundation works with the Pardeshi community, a community of some 700 individuals who live rough in Mumbai's red light district, on a range of projects with the aim of helping them move

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Berlin Design Week Who is Mari Enzo Mari und die Meisterwerkstatt der KPM
Designer | 27.05.2014

(smow) blog compact Berlin Design Week Special: Who is Mari? Enzo Mari und die Meisterwerkstatt der KPM

Established in 1751 by Wilhelm Caspar Wegely and taken under royal control by Prussia's King Frederick II in 1763, the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin - the Berlin Royal Porcelain Factory - is not only Berlin's oldest handwork business but an undeniable symbol of Prussian pride and the unrestrained luxury of the fabled "white gold" And as such not the sort of place one would expect to find an old agitator such as the Italian designer, designer theorist and general design disdainer Enzo

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Architecture | 27.05.2014

Supermodels - 100 Years of Dutch Design and Iconic Architecture at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Over the weekend June 6th - 9th the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is hosting the exhibition "Supermodels - 100 Years of Dutch Design and Iconic Architecture" Conceived by Amsterdam based design agency Concern as a response to the question how best to present the variety of Dutch design and architecture in a representative yet compact touring exhibition format, Supermodels presents scale models of important and/or iconic examples of Dutch architecture and design. Premièred at Milan 2014

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Berlin Design Week 2014 Berlin Glas
DMY Berlin | 26.05.2014

(smow) blog compact Berlin Design Week Special: Berlin Glas

At the risk of being accused of wilful and negligent generalisation, contemporary industrial design arose from traditional crafts, driven by a desire to make the products of the artisan available to a wider public and at a more affordable price. Yet despite this desire to separate itself from crafts, design keeps looking to craft for inspiration. Almost as if it doesn't fully trust itself to break free. Scared of its independence. Or as we noted in context of the exhibition Le Feu Sacré at

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Berlin Design Week STANDBY Vom Leben mit Geräten at the Werkbundarchiv Museum der Dinge Berlin Schlüssel des Wissens Ly Nguyen
Designer | 26.05.2014

(smow) blog compact Berlin Design Week Special: STANDBY - Vom Leben mit Geräten at the Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge Berlin

As the new exhibition Die Form ist nur Teil des Ganzen at the Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus Bremen makes very clear, Wilhelm Wagenfeld was firmly of the opinion that those objects with which we surround ourselves should be created so as to make them not only functional but to make their use a relevant, natural and self-evident part of our daily routine. Form not so much following function as use. While remaining an attractive, aesthetically agreeable, indispensable part of every object. Wagenfeld was

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Berlin Design Week Special 4+1 by Mark Braun at SOX
Designer | 25.05.2014

(smow) blog compact Berlin Design Week Special: 4+1 by Mark Braun at SOX

SOX is, in all probability, Berlin's smallest gallery. SOX is a circa 2m by 3m window. An oversized display cabinet in the heart of Berlin Kreuzberg. During Berlin Design Week 2014 SOX is hosting 4+1, the latest project from Berlin designer Mark Braun. A shelving/storage element constructed from pear, oak, ash and walnut the individual 4+1 units are accessible from both front and back and can be stacked on top of/next to one another to create the desired landscape. Each unit houses an

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Berlin Design Week 2014 Studio Rygalik Show Room at the Polnisches Institut Berlin Dub paged
Designer | 24.05.2014

(smow) blog compact Berlin Design Week Special: Studio Rygalik Show Room at the Polnisches Institut Berlin

If we’re honest we’re not entirely sure where or when we first saw the work of Gosia & Tomek Rygalik a.k.a Studio Rygalik, but it was certainly before their near legendary Baguette Table project at Vienna Design Week 2011 – yes, tables made from bread – and long before they shot their delightful short film celebrating 20 years of the Vitra Design Museum miniatures collection. What we are sure about is that the logical, uncomplicated nature of the products they create, the pairs commitment to

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Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus Bremen
Bauhaus | 22.05.2014

Wilhelm Wagenfeld: Die Form ist nur Teil des Ganzen, Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus Bremen

"The purpose of an object is of secondary importance" claimed the German designer and artist Wilhelm Wagenfeld, "the use however is more relevant, explains the multi-faceted relationship of individuals to those objects which surround them. With use develops culture, the overcoming of a perceived raison d'etre"1 To celebrate their 20th anniversary the Bremen based Wilhelm Wagenfeld Foundation are currently hosting "Die Form ist nur Teil des Ganzen" - "The Form is Only a Part of the Composition"

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Fritz Haller Architect and Researcher Swiss Architecture Museum Basel USM Pavillon
Architecture | 17.05.2014

Fritz Haller. Architect and Researcher at the Swiss Architecture Museum Basel

Until August 24th the Swiss Architecture Museum, SAM, in Basel is staging "Fritz Haller. Architect and Researcher", an exhibition devoted to one of the most important architects and architectural theorists of the 20th century, albeit one who is all too often overlooked and misunderstood. Or simply known for his USM modular storage system. Born in Solothurn, Switzerland in 1924 Fritz Haller trained as an architectural draughtsman before undertaking a series of jobs in architecture firms

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Neues Museum Staatlichen Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg Fernsehgeräte Television Teleavia P111

Fernsehgerät. Television Design in the Neues Museum Nürnberg

When Gil Scott-Heron announced that "The revolution will not be televised" he was of the opinion that this was because the revolution would take place at the grass roots of contemporary society, far removed from the corporate glare of popular global culture. The fact that television may have become an obsolete remnant of times past never occurred to him. And quite frankly why, in 1969, should it have? But today we know, the revolution won't be televised. The revolution will be streamed. And

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Staatlichen Museums für Archäologie Chemnitz smac
Architecture | 15.05.2014

(smow) blog compact: New State Archaeology Museum in Chemnitz Opens

When Erich Mendelsohn's new Schocken department store opened in Chemnitz in 1930 Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst, one of the leading architecture periodicals of the age, were unsparing in their praise "With his new Schocken department store in Chemnitz Erich Mendelsohn has achieved a new peak in his creativity", they announced.1 With the conversion of Mendelsohn's construction to the new Staatlichen Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz - the State Archaeology Museum in Chemnitz - the responsible

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ess.tee.tisch t-6500 by Jürg Bally updated by Daniel Hunziker through Horgenglarus at Werkbund Berlin Galerie
Designer | 14.05.2014

ess.tee.tisch t-6500 by Jürg Bally updated by Daniel Hunziker through Horgenglarus at Werkbund Berlin Galerie

As previously noted the Werkbund Berlin Galerie is currently hosting an exhibition devoted to the ess.tee.tisch t-6500 from Swiss manufacturer Horgenglarus. Originally designed in 1951 by Jürg Bally the ess.tee.tisch is a height adjustable table operated by an ingeniously simple mechanism and a product that was awarded a Gute Form Award by the Swiss Werkbund in 1955 for its combination of practicality, functionality and aesthetic charm. The exhibition in Berlin presents an updated version of

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Niek van der Heijden Assemblage DAD Galerie Berlin Living Forum
Designer | 12.05.2014

Niek van der Heijden – Assemblage at DAD Galerie Berlin. Reprise

In our original post about the exhibition Niek van der Heijden – Assemblage at the DAD Galerie Berlin we noted that Niek was planning completing his "Living Forum" object during the recent Berlin Gallery Weekend. He nearly did. Very nearly. However, a healthy flow of interested and inquisitive visitors meant progress was slower than anticipated. A situation which means that in the DAD Galerie Berlin one can currently experience not only a partially completed Living Forum, but a partially

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Weltstadt Who creates the city at the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum DAZ Berlin
Architecture | 08.05.2014

Weltstadt - Who creates the city? at the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, DAZ Berlin

Who creates the city? Who shapes its future? asks the introduction to the exhibition "Weltstadt - Who creates the city?" currently showing at the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, DAZ in Berlin. Hang on.....? Haven't we seen similar questions somewhere else recently.....? Of course...... at Konstantin Grcic - Panorama at the Vitra Design Museum, in the context of which we wrote "How each of us responds and reacts to such challenges will ultimately affect the nature of our cities, and so

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Milan Furniture Fair 2014 USM Haller
Designer | 04.05.2014

(smow) blog compact Milan 2014 Special: USM Haller

We round up our Milan 2014 coverage with a company we admire, but about whom we find it all but impossible to write. Because their products and their collection so rarely change. Ever since commencing with the commercial production of the modular USM Haller furniture system in 1969 USM have done little else. Save the introduction of the USM KITOS system in 1989. But that's it. That's all they do. Which is also one of the principle reasons we admire them. They do what they do, do it well

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Niek van der Heijden Assemblage at DAD Galerie Berlin Window in Vice
Designer | 03.05.2014

Niek van der Heijden - Assemblage at DAD Galerie Berlin

Following on from former Nacho Carbonell intern Pascal Howe at the DMY Design Gallery Berlin, an exhibition by a designer whose work we first saw in a hall about 25 metres from Nacho Carbonell's atelier in Eindhoven's so-called Sectie C - one of several former industrial areas in the city that now serve as reservations of creatives and so help fuel Eindhoven's reputation as one of Europe's creative capitals. It was Dutch Design Week 2012 and our photos of Eindhoven Design Academy graduate Niek

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Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden WerkStadt Vienna Design Engaging the City Tomas Kral Mühlbauer Hutmanufaktur
Designer | 02.05.2014

Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden. Summer Season Programme 2014. Or, Tulga Beyerle's New Broom.

Introducing Tulga Beyerle as the new Director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden, Hartwig Fischer, General Director of the executive Dresden State Art Collections, confidently predicts that with Tulga Beyerle they have "...someone who can help bring the museum into the 21st century." We're not 100% certain if the good folk of Dresden are aware of the force with which they and their, until now, somewhat sleepy applied arts and crafts museum are about to be catapulted into the 21st century......

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Unsichtbare Dinge Typisch chinesisch Typisch deutsch at the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg Germany erledigt

5 New Design Exhibitions for May 2014

Mayday! Mayday! Don't panic. It's just a public holiday. You'll survive. Barbecue something...... And afterwards, when everyone else is back at work and things have calmed down a little, why not enjoy one or more of the following design and architecture exhibitions opening around Europe this coming May. "Fritz Haller. Architekt und Forscher" at the S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum, Basel, Switzerland Everyone knows Fritz Haller. He designed one of the few truly iconic and genuinely

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Transformationen Konzepte der Umnutzung von Dingen Werkbundarchiv Museum der Dinge Berlin Tub-Chair Michael Kapfer
Designer | 29.04.2014

Transformations - Concepts of Re-using Things at Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge Berlin

The best form of recycling is not to produce things in the first place. However, until every one understands that, things will continue to be produced in senseless quantities, and senseless quantities of things will eventually reach the end of their useful life. And then? Largely, though not exclusively, based on projects submitted for the annual Recycling Designpreis, the exhibition "Transformations - Concepts of Re-using Things" currently showing at the Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge in

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Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modernes Paris 1925
Architecture | 28.04.2014

(smow) blog Design Calendar: April 28th 1925 – L'Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes opens in Paris

"What is the Paris Exposition?", asked Roger Gilman in the September 1925 edition of The Art Bulletin, "It is a new world of the applied arts. It is a new world of reality, reality in the square mass of concrete construction, reality in the smooth surfaces of machine products, reality in wonderful new materials offered by our mastery of science and transport, reality in the severe plainness of our practical age, reality in a marvellous effort to design everything and copy nothing. And it is a

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Pascal Howe VDI 2860 at the DMY Design Gallery Berlin Music
Designer | 25.04.2014

Pascal Howe - VDI 2860 at the DMY Design Gallery Berlin

Standing in the shadow of his gargantuan lamp, "The Worker", Pascal Howe is well aware of how easily his work can be misunderstood. "Many people think it is just a lifestyle product or similar", he smiles, "but it has a strong concept behind it and isn't just about the aesthetic, the material or the functionality" The exhibition "Pascal Howe - VDI 2860" at the DMY Design Gallery Berlin is part of process to correct such misinterpretations and to introduce the real Pascal Howe. Following a

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Sarah Böttger & Hanna Emelie Ernsting at Salone Satellite
Designer | 24.04.2014

(smow) blog compact Milan 2014 Special: Sarah Böttger & Hanna Emelie Ernsting at Salone Satellite

Milan is awash with churches. Milan is awash with monasteries. Basilica. Friaries. And other suitable locations for submitting penitence. We go to Salone Satellite. Last year you may remember we had to apologise to Karolin Fesser for our failure to publish a post on the from Karolin co-curated Objects for the neighbour exhibition. Not that we were obliged to publish anything on the exhibition; it was just so good it deserved one and we were negligent in not doing such. This year it was

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Design Calendar | 22.04.2014

(smow) blog Design Calendar: April 22nd 1964 - New York World's Fair Opens

"We have a World's Fair opening in New York again today and it will, as always with fairs, offer the opportunity for looking forward into the future and backward into the past", announced the New York Times on April 22nd 1964 with the unmistakable self-confident bluff of a journalist racing to meet a deadline and struggling to make the patently obvious sound anything but. Although not officially sanctioned as a "World's Fair" the 1964/65 New York World's Fair attracted some 66 nations -

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Verner Panton Visiona 1970 Revisiting the Future at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery
Designer | 19.04.2014

(smow) blog compact: Verner Panton - Visiona 1970. Revisiting the Future at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery

Parallel to the exhibition Konstantin Grcic - Panorama, the Vitra Design Museum is revisiting perhaps the daddy of all explorations of our possible futures, Verner Panton's 1970 Visiona 2 exhibition. Lacking a three story Rhine cruiser on which to present the complete exhibition, the Vitra Design Museum are instead presenting a recreation of the fabled Fantasy Landscape installation from Visiona 2 in the Vitra Design Museum gallery. A recreation which one can enter and so experience with all

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