Against the background of an ongoing climate emergency, rising nationalism, ever more politically active religious fanaticism of all hues, a Covid pandemic that refuses to go quietly, the return of War to Europe, amongst a great many other contemporary existential ills, there are a myriad questions we'd all rather be asked than if you believe in the future? We'd all like to believe, but, well.......hhhmmm....... you know....... The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg however considered the
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Tulga Beyerle, Director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden, once gave us a piece of advice, the context of which we've long since forgotten, but not the content "only work with people you like" Much as we have tried to follow Tulga's sage advice, such are the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune under which we suffer, we haven't; unlike, we presume, Tulga who has now gone one step further and transformed the premise into the exhibition Friends + Design. Friends + Design at the
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