... 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...
... Charles Eames employing it for his fibreglass/plastic chair series; while Saarinen used it in his works for Knoll International, most notably the Womb Chair and the Tulip Chair - arguably his two most important designs. Eames and Saarinen's architectural careers also involved an early ... At Cranbrook Saarinen had met Florence Schust. In 1944 Florence married the young German furniture producer Hans G. Knoll and became the Knoll International "in-house interior...
... A recurrent theme, not only here in the (smow)blog but also in general throughout the (smow) global network is the subject of illegal copies of design classics. Or better put when is a design classic a design classic? At the HGB Leipzig Rundgang in February we were confronted with an...
... After the strenuous match against Alexander Girard, France decided to rest Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for the match against Eero Saarinen. Their replacement, the enfant terrible of contemporary French design Philippe Starck however failed to match the old Finnish master; too often Philippe Starck...
... Richard Lampert himself was also present and he told us how he came to Herbert Hirche; and fortuitously it was not through long research in a stuffy archive while looking for commercial opportunities in forgotten designs. No, Richard Lampet's introduction to Herbert Hirche was during a long...
... The upholstery. Especially in fakes of chairs such as Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair from Knoll is the quality of the upholstery and the stitching an important indicator. Equally important is the base. With copies of Eames Chairs from Vitra, for example, the bases often only have...
... The so called "Barcelona Chair" by German architect and designer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is without question one of the true classics of 20th century furniture design. And one of the most copied. On the 80th anniversary of its first public appearance during the Ibero-American Exposition of...
... The right to the Bauhaus works are spread across a wide-range of producers such as Thonet, Knoll and Tecnolumen, and it is always important to check that the product you want to buy is from the correct producer. Or you buy from smow. We can supply a wide range of designs from Bauhaus...
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