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A New Layer Taiwanese lacquer art seen through Swedish eyes at The Röhsska Museum Gothenburg Sweden

5 New Design Exhibitions for August 2015

As Noël Coward famously observed, only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun, and it takes a similarly laissez-faire approach to life to open an exhibition in August. Everyone, but everyone, it would appear is on holiday. Or has at least like Coward's caribous, lain down for a snooze. Which is probably why the majority of the following five exhibitions open in late August, so after the sun has ceased to be much too sultry such that one must avoid its ultry-violet ray. "Shelter:

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Rudolf Horn conferstar club chair
Designer | 29.12.2014

smow blog 2014. A pictorial review: July

Thanks to a unnecessarily long journey through Sachsen-Anhalt in an unnecessarily warm bus, July 2014 will remain indelibly scorched in our collective memory. On a professional note, July 2014 also saw the exhibitions Unter Zwischen im Ampelhaus, Oranienbaum and Summer Break VA / Neue Arbeiten at Direktorenhaus Berlin, and of course the flood of student exhibitions that arise every summer.

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Accidental Carpet Tejo Remy René Veenhuizen Unter Zwischen im Ampelhaus Oranienbaum
Designer | 23.07.2014

Unter Zwischen im Ampelhaus, Oranienbaum

In 2011 a group of Dutch artists and designers established the Orangemann Trust and set about converting an old, abandoned house in the centre of Oranienbaum into a gallery for contemporary art and design. That Oranienbaum is a village of some 3000 inhabitants situated 150 kilometres south of Berlin, 80 kilometres north of Leipzig and 4 light years from the next railway station, the location could appear somewhat questionable. Could. Were it not for the fact that modern Oranienbaum was

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Pierre Charpin at L'Appartement 50, Marseille

5 New Design Exhibitions for July 2014

Tradition being the predictable beast that it is, July and August tend to be quiet months in the design universe – most everyone taking themselves off to their Gîtes, Dachas, Ferienwohnungen, Vakantiehuis and lakeside bungalows for a few weeks of quiet reflection ahead of the autumn trade fair and design week season. Most. But not all. A few hardy souls remain, stocking the furnaces of creative culture with architecture and design based exhibitions intended to inspire, excite and entertain.

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DMY Berlin 2013 Pothole Lamps diefabrik
Architecture | 31.12.2013

(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: July

Visiting the HfG Karlsruhe Sommerloch exhibition was not just a memorable highlight of July 2013 - but also fitting as it marked the start of our own summer pause. Our own Sommerloch. In addition July 2013 saw us visit the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart Rundgang, Art & Design Fit for a King @ Ampelhaus, Oranienbaum and Aus allen Richtungen. Positionen junger Architekten im BDA at Wechselraum Stuttgart......

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King Size Art and Design Fit for a King Ampelhaus Oranienbaum

King Size: Art & Design Fit for a King @ Ampelhaus, Oranienbaum

One of the oldest and most rigorously applied global corporate identities is without question the use of the colour orange by the Dutch. The "Orange" in "The House of Orange" may have arrived by accident of marriage, but the Dutch instantly recognised its value and since the 16th century have ensured that everything, but everything, with even the vaguest relation to Nation and/or royal family is identified by a uniform colour. Even going so far as renaming the towns where they built their

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