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Candle Holder by AU Workshop
Architecture | 01.01.2015

smow blog 2014. A pictorial review: September

Following on from the relative inactivity of August September saw us wind back up towards the 2014 autumn design festival season. But before everything kicked of in Vienna, we enjoyed the exhibitions Okolo Offline Two – Collecting at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden, Useful Exhibition by Sanghyeok Lee at the DMY Design Gallery Berlin, Alvar Aalto – Second Nature at the Vitra Design Museum and enjoyed a lovely chat with architect Eberhard Lange on the restoration of Egon Eiermann's Wohnhaus

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Vienna Design Week 2014 Passionswege mathak mahlknecht Stani-Polsterei
Designer | 29.09.2014

Vienna Design Week 2014: Passionswege – mathak + mahlknecht @ Stani-Polsterei

In our post from the launch of the Tools for Life collection by Rem Koolhaas and OMA for Knoll during Milan Design Week 2013 we noted that the highlight for us was the so-called "11 Floor Seating" legless chair. For all we commented that with ever more time, professional and personal, being spent working with tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices, the requirements of chairs was slowly evolving and that there would be an increasing need for high-quality furniture which allows one to,

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Vienna Design Week 2012 Mathak Mahlknecht Best by about built-in obsolescence
Designer | 06.10.2012

Vienna Design Week 2012: Mathak + Mahlknecht. Best by … about built-in obsolescence

The outer edges of the (smow)blog galaxy recently witnessed some pretty ugly scenes. A new, Windows Seven, laptop was bought. The unfortunate purchaser's printer however wasn't Windows Seven compatible. And the manufacturer had no plans to release the necessary driver. Consequently a functional, reliable printer was rendered useless. And a new machine had to be bought. Manufacturer 1 - Consumer 0 Much wailing and gnashing of teeth ensued. But it's not just software alone that is

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