With autum's algid wind in our faces and the promise of mince pies and Glühwein in our tails we approached November and a design tour through Brandenburg, met Napoleon in Erfurt and discovered that the Eames plastic armchairs and plastic side chairs used to be steel......
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At the recent Designtage Brandenburg Design Conference Vitra Design Museum Chief Curator Mateo Kries held the opening keyword speech. Under the title "Open Design! Why we need to reinvent design" Mateo Kries extended the thoughts presented in his 2010 book "Total Design" to explore where design is going, what are going to be the important themes in the future, and so by extrapolation explore the contemporary nature of the term "design". For as the spray paint on the walls so often says: "How
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Ostensibly established as a location for presenting and archiving Vitra CEO Rolf Fehlbaum's private collection of designer furniture, the Vitra Design Museum has developed into one of Europe's most important centres for design, design history but for all, for explaining design and making design accessible. A large part of the museum's success can be credited to founding Director Alexander von Vegesack who led the institution from its opening in 1989 until the end of 2010. In January 2011 Marc
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