...In collaboration with the Eames Office, Vitra has now revised the Eames Collection with a focus on sustainable production, materials, and colors... Vitra developed new color variants for this in close collaboration with the Eames Office...
...Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era the Jewish Museum, Berlin, seek to approach alternative perspectives on, and thereby a more probable telling of, that narrative, those narratives, and in doing also enable alternative perspectives on the nature of, the function of, (hi)story of, and importance of, defiance... 20 year old student of the Kunstgewerbeschule Berlin, was instructed to adorn with a Swastika, a reminder of that way, as discussed by and from Design of the Third Reich at Design Museum Den Bosch, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, via an array of inlayed tables, monogrammed radios, cigarette cards, etc that the NSDAP dictatorship never knowingly missed a chance to add their malignant CI to objects of daily use...
...With whom over a coffee they spoke about his work, the poetic power of his work, the story behind the iconic La Grange barn — and, of course, the new Vitra Mynt chair... How did the project for the Mynt chair for Vitra come about?...
...Answer Thee — Me —* Our five recommendations for new architecture, design and art exhibitions opening in July 2025 for bees, blushes, hays, and you, can be found in Berlin, Remagen, New York, London and Chemnitz... Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era" at the Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany As noted from Design of the Third Reich at Design Museum Den Bosch, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the 1920s weren't just years of International Functionalist Modernism, nor just of technical advances, nor just of the Charleston, but were also years of female emancipation and of a dismantling of political, social and culture borders, processes of civil change that more often than not were the result of long, arduous campaigns...
...students from Berlin International University explored approaches towards the Designing Spaces of Assembly and Participation of the subtitle, explored processes and structures to enable all to take their place at the table and thereby to enable all to contribute to contemporary discourses... Non-Human Perspectives & Cohabitation, a proposal located in/on/over/under Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld, the former Tempelhof Airport that now exists as a public green space, and runway, and which seeks and sought to remind us that the human species is not the only species on the planet, that there are a great many others we need to consider, admonished the need to sharpen our focus on the environments we occupy and thus, in our reading, through introducing non-human species force us all to query if contemporary design processes are inclusive not only in context of non-human species but of the human species as a whole, or if they tend to reinforce dominant groups; Sex Workers in Dialogue, undertaken in cooperation with the Frauentreff Olga, a shelter, drop-in centre, advice centre for not just the sex works of the title but all females outwith conventional definitions of society, and that resulted in a redesigning of the interior of the Frauentreff in context of reflections on, arguments in context of, safety, dignity and visibility, three of those things conventional definitions of society tends to take from those women who make use of the Frauentreff's service; Migration, Diaspora and a Right to Stay which considered how in an increasingly hostile environment those organisations dedicated to supporting refugees and migrants can achieve a meaningful visibility, and that resulted in a mobile, responsive, auction platform, and associated urban furniture, intended to be staged and employed in different Berlin Kieze...
...As discussed in context of Berlin Design Week 2024, not only is the (hi)story of design weeks in the German capital looooong, complex and entertaining, if at times very painful so, but so is our relationship with design weeks in the German capital... We refer you therefore to our post from Berlin Design Week 2024 for more detail, or at least the degree of detail we're prepared to publicly expose at this stage in our lives, and dive here straight into Berlin Design Week 2025...
...Diaries which contain some of the most complete and detailed descriptions of Swiss society, and in which one also finds the earliest descriptions of the earliest (hi)story of the contemporary Switzerland, a, as Heidi records, nation constituted from a loosely bound collective, a cantonation, of ancient peoples, including, and amongst many, many others, the Röthlisberger, the Horgenglarus, the Usm, the Wohnbedarf, the Embru, or the Vitronians whose contemporary Commonwealth of Vitra was initially established across a number of fields on the banks of the river Birs in the north-western corner of the Toblerone cordillera... Yet it was, inarguably, the Vitronians, for all under the leadership of the benevolent Fehlbaum der Jüngere, who were the most active in terms of international exchange; not only cooperating with an American Miller by the name of Herman to introduce works and positions by the likes of, for example, Eames Office, I Samunoguchi, George Nel-son or Alexander Gi Rard into Switzerland, but also expanding the Commonwealth of Vitra to the neighbouring regions of Germany and from where they introduced the furniture of the American Miller Herman to the many peoples of Europe...
