... Back in October one of our highlights at Vienna Design Week 2011 was the exhibition kidsroomZOOM! Essentially a mid-town Vienna apartment kitted out entirely in furniture for children, we were not only impressed by the objects on display, but by the concept. Forget adults! We're doin' it for the...
... Until September 16th the Grassi Museum Leipzig is showing the Vitra Design Museum exhibition The Essence of Things: Design and the Art of Reduction. And so keeping with the theme, we'll keep our post reduced and simply link to our post from The Essence of Things: Design and the Art of ... Paul Weller is famously of the opinion that it's ludicrous to expect him to sing songs today that he wrote as an 18 year old. His world view having, naturally, changed since then. Similarly, we...
... Passenger Terminal Expo 2012 is being hosted by Vienna Airport, and ahead of the show we spoke to Pascal Berberat, Head of Vitra's Airport Division, about airport furnishings, their collaboration with Alberto Meda and, most important for us, why seats in airports always have armrests? But started ... Where, for example, the choice of home furnishings is often affected by cultural aspects; airports are very similar and have similar requirements regardless of where they are. And so where...
... Ostensibly established as a location for presenting and archiving Vitra CEO Rolf Fehlbaum's private collection of designer furniture, the Vitra Design Museum has developed into one of Europe's most important centres for design, design history but for all, for explaining design ... And at the moment we can say numbers are steady, tending to positive. It is of course strongly dependent on what we are showing, but in principle there are two distinct types of visitor. Those who...
... Today goods can be produced abroad. And the creations of the leading contemporary designers largely are. Barber Osgerby currently work with Vitra, Magis, ClassiCon, flos. Benjamin Hubert with De Vorm, De La Espada, &Tradition. Doshi Levien with Moroso, Cappellini, Richard Lampert. We...
... Designer furniture is however meant to be used everywhere, everyday, by everyone. Such as the Tom Vac by Ron Arad for Vitra. You could just use it in your dinning room or on your balcony. Or..... ...
... At least for the German market. At the opening of Album in the Vitra Design Museum Gallery we spoke with Vitra Germany CEO Rudolf Pütz, and before we got on to subjects such IMM Cologne or where the potential for future growth was to be found, we asked if he was confident that ... Specifically however, in the office sector we are noticing that many large companies are investigating how they can make the step from a conventional office organisation into a modern office world....
... We're thinking here especially of works such as the Slow Chair for Vitra, Steelwood for Magis or Facett for Ligne Roset. We've not visited the exhibition in Copenhagen and so can't comment on it. However we are huge fans of Finn Juhl's work and are generally of the opinion any exhibition...
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