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Graph by Jehs+Laub for Wilkhahn
Designer | 22.07.2016

smow blog Interview: Markus Jehs - Discourse is the most important aspect of design

Although Stuttgart based design studio Jehs+Laub are in many respects best known as the winners of the inaugural Moormann Bookinist Cup, they are also one of Germany's most prolific and successful furniture design studios. Markus Jehs and Jürgen Laub met while studying Industrial Design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd, their friendship developed over the course of a practical semester in New York, led them to complete a joint Diploma Project and ultimately saw the

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Limerick Chair by Tom Newhouse for Herman Miller (Photo © and courtesy Herman Miller)
Designer | 14.07.2016

smow Blog Interview: Tom Newhouse - aesthetics, sustainability, ergonomics and economy must be in equilibrium, if they aren't the design isn't finished

Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a town famous for some 150 years as a, if not the, centre of American furniture production, it is perhaps not surprising that Tom Newhouse choose to pursue a career in furniture design. Upon graduating in 1972 from the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Tom Newhouse took up a position as a staff designer with Herman Miller, a situation he himself refers to as a "marvellous beginning", before in 1978 he established his

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The Vitra Design Museum Weil am Rhein à la Alexander Girard
Designer | 12.03.2016

Vitra Design Museum present Alexander Girard. A Designer's Universe

Clearly vexed by a critical review in Architectural Forum of his friend Alexander Girard's Santa Fe house, Charles Eames wrote a short letter on December 26th 1956 to the magazine's editor Walter McQuade: "Alexander Girard is interested in the quality of everything and does not hesitate to act on this interest, personally and immediately. Such action could not possibly result in a cliche; and not being cliche demands an explanation. The answer perhaps is in Girard's total involvement in

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kkaarrlls First Exhibition Milan 2009
Architecture | 03.01.2014

(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: October

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.......

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