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Vitra Campus Expands: Vitra Slide Tower and Álvaro-Siza-Promenade Open, 19.06.2014
... Back in 2011 we took umbrage at the fence surrounding the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein and so, taking up Ronald Regan's mantle, issued a challenge to Vitra's Chairman Emeritus Rolf Fehlbaum "Mr Fehlbaum! Tear down this wall" we demanded, "Or at least move ... The result is the Vitra Slide Tower, an object that does pretty much what it sounds like it should. The decision to invite Álvaro Siza to landscape the promenade was, according to Rolf...
(smow) blog compact DMY Berlin Special: Flowers for Slovakia. Lost & Found by Vitra, 30.05.2014
... Such an occasion, at least for us, is the project Lost & Found by Vitra from the Bratislava based design platform Flowers for Slovakia. Essentially the project asked 15 young Slovakian designers to combine forlorn items of traditional Slovakian folk ... We suspect the project works so well because the Vitra elements, removed as they are from the context of the objects they normally contribute to, appear at first even more lost and forlorn than...
(smow) blog compact Milan 2014 Special: Vitra @ Salone del Mobile, 09.04.2014
... 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...
Konstantin Grcic - Panorama @ Vitra Design Museum, 24.03.2014
... 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...
5 New Design Exhibitions for March 2014, 28.02.2014
... 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...
(smow) blog Design Calendar: February 13th 1926 - Happy Birthday Verner Panton!, 13.02.2014
... 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...
(smow) blog Design Calendar: 31st January 1961 - Charles Eames Granted Patent for a Side Flexing Shock Mount, 31.01.2014
... "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...
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