... Luddites! Not a phrase normally associated with (smow) To the best of our knowledge no (smow)employee has ever smashed an iPad or capped a WiFi service in protest at the creeping and increasingly obsessive proliferation of technology into our lives. Despite that, the early summer weeks in the...
... Be it economically, ergonomically or ecologically. The days of furniture design as pure product design are numbered. NAP by Kasper Salto for Fritz Hansen being a wonderful example. The concept of the moulded synthetic shell chair effectively began with Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames in the...
... Arne Jacobsen's Ant chair, for example, began life as a canteen chair for a factory Jacobsen was working on. Through contact with Fritz Hansen the project developed, largely driven by an interest in creating a product to compete with Charles and Ray Eames plywood furniture range. Which brings...
... In addition, while working for Arne Jacobsen Verner Panton made his first contact with Fritz Hansen. But everything in turn. In 1951 Jacobsen was commissioned to design a canteen chair as part of a project with the company Novo, and from this project arose a cooperation with Fritz Hansen to ... In 1955 Pantons' relationship to Fritz Hansen developed further when they brought the very first commercial Verner Panton product onto the market; the Bachelor chair, quickly followed by the...
... Following Verner Panton's red card against Fritz Haller, Denmark were forced into a change and so Arne Jacobsen lined-up against Maarten Van Severen. And although this was never going to be a high-tempo encounter the crowd in Johannesburg did become somewhat impatient at the incredibly slow pace...
... 14 or the Ant Chair by Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen onto objects that are less well known - if every bit as interesting - such as Stephan Schulz's concrete bowl or Marcel Wanders' Knotted Chair for Capellini. Good design needn't be complicated, less but more, form follows function - the number...
... Although this encounter was never going to be as extravagant as the opening match, Fritz Haller and Maarten Van Severen fought a tense, minimalist battle in Durban. Fritz Haller's style has changed little since he broke onto the international design scene in the 1960s and his trademark mini,...
... Fachhochschule Potsdam with a tribute to fellow Brandenburger Egon Eiermann. Eiermann table frames from Richard Lampert and SE 68 chairs from Wilde + Spieth. And perhaps most impressive of all the students of Bauhaus University Weimar who had, in our eyes, a stand as dedicated to Block...
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