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Wow Shelf by Aveva Design, as seen at Ambiente Frankfurt 2016
Ambiente | 18.02.2016

Ambiente Frankfurt 2016: High Five!

As a "consumer goods" trade fair devoted to tableware, accessories, gifts, light-bulbs with filigree filaments, and the like, Ambiente Frankfurt is not a trade fair to which we feel a particularly empathy. Indeed one could go as far as to say that with its hall upon hall of products who's reason for existence we question and the hollow echo of "Lifestyle", "Trend", "Innovation" and "Buy me! Buy me! Buy me and you'll rise to a social status you could previously never dream of attaining" which

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T Chair by Kai Linke (Photo: Alexander Böhle Courtesy Studio Kai Linke)
Creative Frankfurt | 13.02.2016

Creative Frankfurt: Kai Linke

Internationally known for its financial district, airport, financial institutions and sausages, Frankfurt am Main is less well understood as a city of design. Or at least not a city of contemporary design. That however wasn’t always the case. The 1920s and 30s saw the likes of Ernst May and Christian Dell help the city develop a reputation as a centre for modernist innovation, while the Viennese architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky gave it an internationally renowned kitchen concept in which to

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