Category: Belux

The Historia Supellexalis: “S” for Switzerland

Switzerland

A Confoederatio; A Range; A Context

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

A&W Mentor Prize 2016: Michel Charlot

In addition to the exhibition of their work in Cologne, the A&W Designer of the Year crown also allows the

(smow) intern: welcome (smow) cologne

Expansion. It’s not always good. Waistlines. Overdrafts. Weeks since you last phoned your mother. For example wouldn’t be good. Business

Vitra Design Museum: Lightopia

“My, my, my, Delilah! Why, why, why, Delilah!”

The morning of Friday September 27th 2013 was one of those misty autumn occasions that cause SANAA’s immense new Vitra Factory Building in Weil am Rhein to merge, almost unseen, with the grey background. Even Herzog & de Meuron’s new Basel Messe complex was reduced to nothing more grand than a continuation of the uncaring monotonous sky. The glitzing, shimmering palace of high summer just the weak shadow of a memory.

And so it was perhaps fitting that the Vitra Design Museum choose this dank September morn to open their latest exhibition, “Lightopia”, an exhibition devoted to light.

For today was a clear warning, in the coming months we will all be in need of a little light.

Orgatec 2012 Interview: Markus Jehs and Jürgen Laub

Since establishing their own design studio in Stuttgart in 1994 Markus Jehs and Jürgen Laub have quietly gone on to

Swiss Design Awards 2013

If you thought you’d seen the epitome of kitsch, we give you….. An olive bowl in the shape of Celine

Orgatec 2012 Interview: Michel Charlot over U-Turn for Belux

Wandering round the Vitra spaceship at Orgatec there was one product that you simply couldn’t fail to notice. On every