... Older readers will remember how last year one of the Vitra Senior Manager's quoted from this blog in his pre-fair pep talk to the assembled Team Vitra. Having reached the zenith of our careers we contemplated retiring. Fortunately we didn't. For at Milan ... But only for a year. Vitra's re-issue sadly doesn't include the sofa and armchair that so moved us to pen that particular post, but does include the Colour Wheel Ottoman. A joyful piece of well...
... One of the first telephone calls Mateo Kries and Marc Zehntner made upon assuming leadership of the Vitra Design Museum in 2011 was to Konstantin Grcic to discuss the possibility of an exhibition. Grcic was, in principle, open to the idea, but, "I didn't ... Presenting some 200 objects divided across four thematic sections, Panorama is, in effect, two exhibitions in one. The first, staged downstairs in the museum, addresses design themes of...
... An exhibition of drawings, sketches, shapes, colours. By designers. ? ??? Since then the foresightedness of the project has become apparent and ever more texts, books and exhibitions are devoting themselves to the analogue creative process and for all the ... "Konstantin Grcic - Panorama" at the Vitra Design Museum aims to do both. Part of the exhibition promising an overview of Grcic's canon, the second part his vision of the future. And this vision...
... Presented as part of the warm up to the forthcoming "Panorama" exhibition from and by Konstantin Grcic, "Visiona 1970: Revisiting the Future" explores the background to and realisation of the Visiona 2 showcase, including an accessible, usable, sitonable...
... "In the development and designing of furniture one prevailing problem is the means for securing parts of the furniture together particularly when the parts are made of thin materials such as plywood or metal. This problem is particularly difficult when a...
... Panton's Pop Art heavy 1968 showcase took the Visiona concept further than Bayer had intended and while he did devote part of the space to a presentation of Bayer's fabrics, through the integration of lighting and furniture he transformed the majority of...
... Philippe Starck is however more than furniture. A prodigious creator, Philippe Starck's canon is as diverse as it is incessant: buildings, hotel interiors, water fountains, lamps, motorcycles, televisions, telephones, toothbrushes, glasses, wind turbines,...
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