Wilhelm Wagenfeld A to Z at the Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus, Bremen
As we all know, the key to reading is learning your ABC. Once you’ve learned the letters, and combined them in simple words, you can approach more complex words, then sentences, paragraphs, essays and finally let that which you read discourse with your observations and experiences to help you better develop your understandings and appreciations of the world around us and those with whom we share it. But can learning the ABC of a designer help us to better approach understandings and appreciations of their work, their relevance, their legacy? With the exhibition Wilhelm Wagenfeld A to Z the Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus, Bremen, attempt just that, in context of an eminently interesting and informative, if at times very difficult to read, designer…….
Wilhelm Wagenfeld: Lamps @ the Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus, Bremen
“I assure you that you and your work are the model case for what the Bauhaus has been after” wrote Walter Gropius to Wilhelm Wagenfeld in April 1965.
Just how Wilhelm Wagenfeld developed that “model case” “after” Bauhaus is explored, at least in terms of one design genre, in that genre for which Wilhelm Wagenfeld is most popularly known as a Bauhaus model, in the exhibition Wilhelm Wagenfeld: Lamps at the Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus Bremen.
5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for May 2019 – Bauhaus Special
More or less……
…..while 3 of the 5 have a direct connection to Bauhaus, 5 of the 5 are very much in the spirit of the attempts of inter-War architects and designers to reform architecture and design, to establish a new architecture and design for the new society, attempts in which Bauhaus played an important role.
And for those seeking escape from Dessau and Weimar, figuratively not physically, we refer you to our more general 5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for May 2019 recommendations….
Welt aus Glas. Transparentes Design @ Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus Bremen
The first metaphors may, or may not, have been animal based, but materials are just as adaptable. And few are as adaptable as glass. The Glass Ceiling as the impenetrable, yet invisible boundary. The Heart of Glass as a state of extreme emotional weakness. While in most glass metaphors the focus is an inherent property of glass: transparency.
With the exhibition Welt aus Glas. Transparentes Design the Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus Bremen abstract that metaphor to explore the link between transparency in design and architecture, and transparency in society.
#campustour 2017: 777 – The truth lies within @ Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Germany
The donkey, dog, cat and cockerel featured in the Brothers Grimm’s retelling of the traditional folktale Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten never made to it to Bremen, never worked as musicians, and thus never enriched the cultural heritage of the Hansa port.
But would any of the Hochschule für Künste Bremen’s 2017 Integrated Design graduates augment the city’s long history?
Would any rise to the post of Bremer Stadtkreativen……?
Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus Bremen presents Stapeln. Ein Prinzip der Moderne
With the exhibition Stapeln. Ein Prinzip der Moderne the Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus in Bremen celebrate the complex diversity of one of design’s simplest principles …. Stacking.
smow blog 2015. A pictorial review: October
Normally October is all about design festivals, October 2015 wasn’t. On the one hand we weren’t at that many this
smow blog Interview: Walter Schnepel, Tecnolumen – It is the reduction of a lamp to its basic elements that fascinates me most about the Wilhelm Wagenfeld Lamp.
The WA 24 table lamp by Wilhelm Wagenfeld is without question one of the most instantly recognisable pieces of Bauhaus
smow blog 2014. A pictorial review: May
May may have been slow in the past. May. For aside from DMY Berlin, Fritz Haller in Basel, Niek van
Wilhelm Wagenfeld: Die Form ist nur Teil des Ganzen, Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus Bremen
“The purpose of an object is of secondary importance” claimed the German designer and artist Wilhelm Wagenfeld, “the use however
Pascal Howe – VDI 2860 at the DMY Design Gallery Berlin
Standing in the shadow of his gargantuan lamp, “The Worker”, Pascal Howe is well aware of how easily his work
(smow) blog compact: Create with Aarhus at the Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus, Bremen
Although these days talk of necessary redevelopment, renewal, reinvention and change of function in Bremen is often undertaken in context
Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft Cologne: Ex Libris – Ex Loco with Volkwin Marg and Hartmut Frank.
On September 3rd the Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft Cologne present the latest edition of their Ex Libris series. This time Ex
Tecnolumen WG 24 “No Fake” Promotion Succesfully Ended
With over 100 members of the public getting in touch and 59 fake Wilhelm Wagenfeld WG 24 lamps being exchanged
“No Fake” – Tecnolumen Exchange Your Fake Wagenfeld WG 24 for an Original
Irritating as they are, forgers are rarely daft. You only very occasionally find one purveying, for example, fake Billy Ray
(smow)offline: Wilhelm Wagenfeld “Weiterwirken in die Zeit hinein”
While we are in Milan enriching the good and fair minded hoteliers of the north-Italian Metropolis; life here in Germany