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Moorwerk by Jan Christian Schulz, as seen at ein&zwanzig, Milan Design Week 2018
Awards | 19.04.2018

Milan Design Week 2018 Compact: Moorwerk by Jan Christian Schulz

We're great believers in Fate, in the guiding principle that if it is meant to be, it will be: not least because it protects us from the expectations of achievement. Further proof of the veracity of Fate was provided by our meeting during Milan Design Week 2018 with the project Moorwerk by Jan Christian Schulz. Moorwerk by Jan Christian Schulz, as seen at ein&zwanzig, Milan Design Week 2018 If you compare our claim to have visited 27 design schools on our 2017 #campustour with the number

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Vitra -Typecasting, as seen at Milan Design Week 2018

Milan Design Week 2018 Compact: Vitra - Typecasting

Whereas exhibitions in which designers show prototypes and discontinued projects by way of explaining who they are, where they come from and how they work, are a, relatively, regular occurrence, exhibitions in which manufacturers do such are much, much rarer: with the exhibition Typecasting Vitra make a very rare and very welcome exception And in doing so don't just present an image not only of Vitra past, but also take a look into the future..... Vitra -Typecasting, as seen at Milan Design

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Unsighted, Milan Design Week 2018
Architecture | 16.04.2018

Milan Design Week 2018 Compact: Unsighted

Curated by Carwan Gallery Beirut co-founder Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte, Unsighted presents projects by eight international designers; the title making reference to the fact that the designers weren't told for what they were being commissioned, had no external context; were working, as it were, Unsighted. During Milan Design Week 2018 all became clearer... Unsighted, Milan Design Week 2018 As we've oft noted in these pages, in terms of furniture and lighting design, context is important,

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Milan Design Week and Furniture Fair 2014: Preview

"Okay so is there ANYTHING interesting happening in Milan this year?" asked dezeen founder and Editor in Chief Marcus Fairs in a recent tweet, "Judging by my inbox so far, the answer is no" The real answer of course is: ignore your inbox. As a Marcus Fairs must surely know. But which is admittedly easier said than done. With Milan design week, as with life, the best, most interesting, most enjoyable discoveries are invariably to be made on the by-ways. And often as the result of

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#milanuncut : A few thoughts

Billed as being an "... experimental, collaborative journalism project that aims to lift the lid on the design world to coincide with next week’s Milan furniture fair." #milanuncut appears to have come down to an article in the Guardian by Justin McGuirk and a side discussion about unpaid interns. Sadly. Because there is without question an urgent need for a more open discussion about the "design" industry. However what #milanuncut does beautifully prove is that before the discussion can

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Fuorisalone Milan Design Week 2011: Time to say goodbye?

As you know we're no huge fans of Milan. Love the city. Don't love the size and cost of their furniture fair and design week. A couple of months ago we spoke to Giulio Cappellini, one of those who have been part of "Design Legend Milan" since the earliest moments, and he told us that, in his opinion, Milan had to be careful that it didn't all become too big. For us a design festival where it is physically impossible to see everything is pretty close to our definition of "too big."

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Triennale Design Museum Milan: Dream Factories

The Triennale Design Museum Milan opened their exhibition "Dream Factories: People, ideas and paradoxes of Italian design" a week before Fuorisalone Sadly they didn't use the week to test drive it - and then reduce the volume. Intended to explore those producers who have contributed to the rise of Italian design since the end of the Second World War "Dream Factories: People, ideas and paradoxes of Italian design" is simply too much input in too small a space. As Everything Everything so

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Designer | 15.04.2011

Fuorisalone Milan Design Week 2011: Stephan Schulz and Paul Evermann

Burg Giebichenstein graduates Stephan Schulz and Paul Evermann are presenting a joint show at this years Salone Satellite with each presenting one and a half new products. That's one new product each. And a joint creation. The joint project is called wardrobe bench - and does pretty much what it says on the tin. Its a clothes hanger. And a seat The bench element is made from one piece of plywood, cut by water jet and then the outer element is set a little lower. Through this displacement,

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