Following on from the relative inactivity of August September saw us wind back up towards the 2014 autumn design festival season. But before everything kicked of in Vienna, we enjoyed the exhibitions Okolo Offline Two – Collecting at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden, Useful Exhibition by Sanghyeok Lee at the DMY Design Gallery Berlin, Alvar Aalto – Second Nature at the Vitra Design Museum and enjoyed a lovely chat with architect Eberhard Lange on the restoration of Egon Eiermann's Wohnhaus
read moreAs we alluded to in our post from Vienna based design studio chmara.rosinke's Passionswege 2013 project with Wäscheflott, we've not always been the biggest fans of the work of chmara.rosinke. Or better put Ania Rosinke and Maciej Chmara a.k.a. chmara.rosinke have regularly produced projects which have, in one way or another, caused us to roll our eyes helplessly skywards. On the other hand chmara.rosinke have also regularly impressed us. The aforementioned project with Wäscheflott being one
read moreWe must admit to having had our problems with Vienna based design studio chmara.rosinke Not in a physical, fisticuffs sort of way you understand, and certainly not in a screaming insults across a crowded bar way, but in a pure critical styleee. With their project "Mobile Gastfreundschaft" chmara.rosinke, as far as we understand the whole madness, helped convince the t**** researchers and their lazy media morlocks that "nomadicity" would be a good horse to back. That's obviously not
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