What with the sweet afterglow of Vienna Design Week behind us we entered October 2013 full of enthusiasm - not least because it meant the opening of the new (smow) Cologne store. The month nearly nose-dived on account of a hideous plagiarism in Leipzig, but was more than rescued by Alison and Peter Smithson at the AIT ArchitekturSalon Cologne.......
read moreIn our post from the exhibition Made in Slums – Mathare Nairobi at the Triennale Design Museum Milan we referred to the Belgian author and curator Max Borka and his theory that the unique accent of Berlin design is largely a result of the near continual crisis the city has had to endure over the decades; a reality that has resulted in a very site specific response from designers and architects alike. During Vienna Design Week 2013 Max Borka launched a new book that explores where such a
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