Category: Design Calendar
(smow) blog Design Calendar: July 19th 1933 – Bauhaus Closes. For ever.
“Herr Mies van der Rohe proposed to close Bauhaus. The proposition was unanimously approved”.1 With this sober protocol dated July
(smow) blog Design Calendar: May 19th 1929 – Barcelona International Exposition Opens. Barcelona Chair Premiered.
“The design is not the result of any especially deep consideration, but much more of random form finding through sketching.”1
(smow) blog Design Calendar: April 28th 1925 – L’Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes opens in Paris
“What is the Paris Exposition?”, asked Roger Gilman in the September 1925 edition of The Art Bulletin, “It is a
(smow) blog Design Calendar: April 22nd 1964 – New York World’s Fair Opens
“We have a World’s Fair opening in New York again today and it will, as always with fairs, offer the
(smow) blog Design Calendar: April 12th 1919 – Official confirmation of the name “Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar”
Herewith we inform the directors of the Hochschule für bildende Kunst that the Provisional Republican Government has approved the request
(smow) blog Design Calendar: April 8th 1901 – Happy Birthday Jean Prouvé!
Whereas, generally speaking, those designers we feature in these pages have trained as either an architect or carpenter, Jean Prouvé
(smow) blog Design Calendar: April 2nd 1914 – Happy Birthday Hans J. Wegner!
Born on April 2nd 1914 Hans Jørgensen Wegner is without question one of the most important designers of the so-called
(smow) blog Design Calendar: March 4th 1951 – The exhibition “Models for industrial design from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden” opens in Leipzig
“It is simple to prove that despite all distractions to the contrary from the cultural community in western Germany that
(smow) blog Design Calendar: March 1st 1896 – Louis H. Sullivan defines “Form Follows Function”
There are, we would argue, three phrases that have come to popularly define modernist architecture and design: “Ornament is crime”,
(smow) blog Design Calendar: February 13th 1926 – Happy Birthday Verner Panton!
It is almost certainly more by chance than design, but in the week that Verner Panton would have celebrated his
(smow) blog Design Calendar: February 10th 1932 – Modern Architecture: International Exhibition opens at the MoMA New York
On the 10th February 1932 “Modern Architecture: International Exhibition” opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Much
(smow) blog Design Calendar: February 3rd 1898 – Happy Birthday Alvar Aalto!
“One of the typical activities in modern architecture has been the construction of chairs and the adoption of new materials
(smow) blog Design Calendar: 31st January 1961 – Charles Eames Granted Patent for a Side Flexing Shock Mount
“In the development and designing of furniture one prevailing problem is the means for securing parts of the furniture together
(smow) blog Design Calendar: 25th January 1970 – Visiona 2 by Verner Panton Opens in Cologne
“Wood will be driven out of living spaces; even metal and glass, although much newer in domestic situations, are losing
(smow) blog Design Calendar: 18th January 1949 – Happy Birthday Philippe Starck!
A few years ago the (smow) blog telephone rang….. “Good morning is it possible to speak to Philippe Starck please?”
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There are those, charlatans one must say, who claim that design only exists in the here and now, that design