Stühle zum (Be)Sitzen, a smow Pop-up at the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig
In the exhibtion A Chair and You at the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig, there is more than A Chair and You can look at them, study them, explore them, converse with them. But not sit on them.
In the presentation Stühle zum (Be)Sitzen on the first floor landing of the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig, there is more than A Chair and You can look at them, study them, explore them, converse with them. And sit on them.
Thirteen chairs which unite more than just thirteen definitions of ‘A Chair’, and more than just thirteen different seating experiences…..
5 New Design Exhibitions for March 2017
For George Orwell nothing heralded spring quite like the re-appearance of toads, emerging from their subterranean hibernation and setting off, once again, on life’s great cycle.
Our toads are the flurry of new design and architecture exhibitions which open globally every March, as the international museum and gallery community awake from their winter slumber.
Our highlights for March 2017, featuring new exhibitions in Bielefeld, Helsinki, Weil am Rhein, Utrecht and Paris
Klaarhamer according to Rietveld. Craftsman, frontrunner and innovator at the Centraal Museum Utrecht
As we noted in our post from the exhibition Der entfesselte Blick – Die Brüder Rasch und ihre Impulse für
5 New Design Exhibitions for December 2014
One of the advantages of having been running our “5 New Design Exhibitions” series for over a year is that
Design Miami Basel 2014
While the art world is awash with anecdotes of cleaners disposing of installations having confused them for rubbish, we’re not
Vitra Design Museum: Lightopia
“My, my, my, Delilah! Why, why, why, Delilah!”
The morning of Friday September 27th 2013 was one of those misty autumn occasions that cause SANAA’s immense new Vitra Factory Building in Weil am Rhein to merge, almost unseen, with the grey background. Even Herzog & de Meuron’s new Basel Messe complex was reduced to nothing more grand than a continuation of the uncaring monotonous sky. The glitzing, shimmering palace of high summer just the weak shadow of a memory.
And so it was perhaps fitting that the Vitra Design Museum choose this dank September morn to open their latest exhibition, “Lightopia”, an exhibition devoted to light.
For today was a clear warning, in the coming months we will all be in need of a little light.
Vitra Design Museum: Confrontations – Contemporary Dutch Design Live
Parallel to “Gerrit Rietveld – The Revolution of Space” the Vitra Design Museum Gallery is staging an exhibition exploring some
Vitra Design Museum: Gerrit Rietveld – The Revolution of Space
If your going to organise an exhibition called “The Revolution of Space”, there is probably no more fitting location than
Spring: Excellence, Talent and Inspiration in Design. Premsela at Designhuis Eindhoven
During Dutch Design Week 2011 Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion, opened an exhibition in the Designhuis Eindhoven
new at (smow): Cassina
Italian design is, if we all close our eyes for a minute or two and be brutally honest, a lot