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smow Blog Interview: Nadja Schulze - My goal is to always break down my designs so that they are easy to understand for all

...Born and raised in Leipzig, Nadja Schulze completed her Bachelor in Innenarchitektur at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle in the spring of 2023, before beginning an Interior Architecture Master's at the Burg in the autumn of 2023, a Master's in the course of which three lamps, three lamp families, arose, LiLa, Bow and 360°: the lattermost, wall lamps that you turn like an olde worlde telephone dial and as you do the cable rolls in and out thereby providing for both cable storage and a graphic element; the middlemost a flexible, positionable, wall lamp inspired by, and constructed from, tent poles; the foremost Lightweight Lamps, a modular lighting system inspired by tent poles, developed from Bow, that can exist as a wall, floor or ceiling version, and can not only be extended or reduced as a wall, floor or ceiling version, but switched between a wall, floor or ceiling version... Nadja Schulze: I'm from Leipzig and as a child began competing in gymnastic competitions, later training in Halle where I got to know the Burg...

Grassimesse Leipzig 2024 Compact: Aleksander Rasztawicki - Leichtigkeit

'Do we still need wood, metal and plastic?' asks Hochschule Wismar graduate Aleksander Rasztawicki in context of his Diploma project Leichtigkeit, Lightness. A rhetorical question for Aleksander doesn't believe that we necessarily do. For Aleksander all we...

Grassimesse Leipzig 2024 Compact: vondingen

...vondingen and all other projects selected or invited to participate in the 2024 Grassimesse Leipzig can be enjoyed, viewed, engaged with until 6pm on Sunday October 27th at the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Johannisplatz 5-11, 04103 Leipzig...

Grassimesse Leipzig 2024 Compact: Faculty of Angewandte Kunst Schneeberg - Me and My Chair

...The exhibition A Chair and You at the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig, may have ended but its traces can still be felt at Grassimesse 2024, being staged as it is to a large degree in the A Chair and You scenography... Me and My Chair and all other projects selected or invited to participate in the 2024 Grassimesse Leipzig can be enjoyed, viewed, engaged with until Sunday October 27th at the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Johannisplatz 5-11, 04103 Leipzig...

Grassimesse Leipzig 2024: smow-Designpreis Winner - Nadja Schulze

...LiLa, Bow and 360° by Nadja Schulze and all other projects selected or invited to participate in the 2024 Grassimesse Leipzig can be enjoyed, viewed, engaged with until Sunday October 27th at the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Johannisplatz 5-11, 04103 Leipzig...

Stühle zum (Be)Sitzen, a smow Pop-up at the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig

...As is the synthetic plastic employed in the Eames RAR that stands, rocks, literally and physically, next to Rietveld's Crate Lounge Chair; a RAR, a member of an Eames' 1950 plastic shell chair family, whose (hi)story is also a succinct overview of the use of synthetic plastics in furniture: originally in fibreglass, at that time an achingly novel material, and, arguably, the first synthetic plastic to enable the production of durable furniture in synthetic plastics, before considerations on the ecological sustainability and impact of fibreglass saw production switch to polypropylene, which itself began to be increasingly questioned in context of its ecological sustainability and impact, questioning which saw Vitra switch production of the Eames plastic shells in 2024 to a novel synthetic plastic won from recycled waste... A 1950s Denmark that also saw the origins of considerations on the possibility of a chair that it would be 1967 before it was realised and 1968 before it became a series product: Verner Panton's eponymous chair through Vitra...

Diogene by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Vitra

..."You can't lose ideas in a small space" with this simple piece of almost Confucian wisdom Italian architect Renzo Piano explains part the deeper philosophy behind Diogene, his collaboration with Vitra... And the latest object on the Vitra Campus...


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