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smow blog compact Milan 2016 special: Studio Daphna Laurens – Prototipi

Unbelievably, Eindhoven based design studio Daphna Laurens have never, ever, participated at Salone Satellite, that section of the Milan furniture

(smow) blog Dutch Design Week Special: TAB Studios – Studio Mieke Meijer, Daphna Laurens, OS ∆ OOS, Studio Maatwerk and Bogaerts Label

For us the passion, indeed interest, for living in a shared flat ended approximately 18 months before we moved out

At first glance by Daphna Laurens at “Trading Places. Designers meet the collection”, Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden

Back in February the participants of the exhibition “Trading Places. Designers meet the collection” at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden spent two

Vienna Design Week Passionswege 2012: Daphna Laurens at Wittmann Möbelwerkstätten

Pretty much ever since we first saw Tafelstukken by Daphna Laurens at DMY Berlin 2010 we’ve had a bit of

Daphna Laurens – Cirkel

As reported last week we sadly couldn’t make it to the opening of Cirkel by Daphna Laurens at Galerie Gosserez

Cirkel by Daphna Laurens at Galerie Gosserez

Although we beef a lot about the amount of time we have to spend travelling to ensure that the (smow)blog

Dutch Design Week Eindhoven 2017: Dutch Invertuals

As we believe we’ve noted before, the joy in that exhibition format in which designers present objects which are important and/or relevant to them, is that no matter how often it is repeated it is always new.

Same, same, but different.

For their 2017 show Dutch Invertuals are presenting collections of objects from 45 alumni which have an importance to/relevance for them, or which simply represent an object of wonder and inspiration to the relevant designer. And because it’s Dutch Invertuals they have taken things a step further and each collection is also the starting point for the development a personal container.

Exposing yourself and then using that as the basis for visibly enclosing yourself. A double encapsulation, If you will.

Dutch Design Week 2016: High Five!!

It goes without saying that picking a “best of” from an event such as Dutch Design Week is impossible. Too

Milan Furniture Fair 2016: High Five!

To the casual observer selecting five outstanding products from the Milan Furniture Fair is a neigh on impossible task, so

DAD Galerie Berlin present Highlights of Dutch Design Week 2015

Obviously defining a “Best of” Dutch Design Week, or indeed any design week, is impossible, one can only hope to

smow Interview: Annemoon Geurts, Kazerne Eindhoven – One of our principle objectives is to explain the added value of creative industries.

As we noted in our post on the exhibition Open World at Kazerne Eindhoven, for a city that is often

Milan Design Week 2015: Dutch Invertuals – Body Language

As a general rule, what you don’t say is more important than what you do say: your body language famously

Design from the Country of The Potato Eaters – Designers meet van Gogh at Het Noordbrabants Museum, ’s-Hertogenbosch

Throughout 2015 some thirty European museums and cultural institutions will mark the 125th anniversary of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh’s

IMM Cologne 2015: llot llov

We remember very clearly the first time we saw the work of Berlin design studio llot llov: it was at

smow blog 2014. A pictorial review: October

……and continued over Budapest and on to Berlin – where amongst other delights we partook of the exhibitions Sensing the

smow blog 2014. A pictorial review: August

August being holiday month our principle focus was board sports: Woody Skateboards for the summer and silbærg snowboards for the

(smow) blog compact Dutch Design Week Special: Dutch Invertuals – Cohesion

Cohesion is a concept with which we are very familiar. Largely because it is a state we never achieve. Much

(smow) blog Dutch Design Week Special: Leaning Bench by Izabela Bołoz

The presentation of Dirk Vander Kooij’s current collection during Dutch Design Week 2014 took place at Kazerne – the new

Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden: Trading Places. Designers meet the collection

Strolling through the corridors of the Dresden Museum of Decorative Arts, the Kunstgewerbemuseum, one comes across a presentation called “Thronfolge”

Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden. Summer Season Programme 2014. Or, Tulga Beyerle’s New Broom.

Introducing Tulga Beyerle as the new Director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden, Hartwig Fischer, General Director of the executive Dresden State

(smow) blog compact Milan 2014 Special: Dutch Invertuals – Happy Future

Many people, if not peoples, could currently be forgiven for reacting somewhat sceptically to the notion of a “Happy Future”.

Milan Design Week 2013: Werkstadt Vienna

Although as a general rule we don’t want to think about Vienna Design Week during Milan Design Week – as

Corky Bowl by Tiago Sá da Costa through Vicara.

Cork. At the moment there is simply no getting away from it. A couple of weeks ago Ronan and Erwan

Milan 2012: Dutch Invertuals – Untouchables Retouched

As we’ve already admitted the first time we saw a Dutch Invertuals exhibition we didn’t hang around very long. Since

Dutch Design Week: Onomatopee – Copy Nature #2: Elementary Sentiments

During Dutch Design Week the Eindhoven based design platform Onomatopee is hosting an exhibition looking at ways of adding cultural