Category: Office Furniture
NeoCon Chicago 2016: High Five!!
At the risk of getting political, the term “neoconservative”/”neocon” hasn’t always had the best reputation, especially not in Europe where
DMY Berlin 2016: High Five!!
We’re not going to claim that DMY Berlin 2016 was a vintage year, for us the 14th edition of the
smow blog compact: To work sitting or standing, that is, still, the question….
As we noted in a previous post, spending long periods sitting can result in shorter telomeres and thus a greater
smow Blog Interview: Glen Oliver Löw – I have always been of the opinion that design begins with a problem.
Born in Leverkusen Glen Oliver Löw initially studied Industrial Design at the University of Wuppertal before moving to Milan in
Passenger Terminal Expo 2016 Cologne: USM Airportsystems
The Swiss architect Fritz Haller famously developed a space colony as a means to allow him to explore his ideas
DMY Berlin 2015: The Shrinking Office Project by Roy Yin
As we have often noted in these pages, a combination of increasing automation, advancing technology, the changing nature of industry
5 New Design Exhibitions for June 2015
“The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler”, confided the American author, ecologist and conservationist Aldo Leopold
smow blog compact Milan 2015 special: Thonet
Back in the hazy mists of 2014 the Grassi Museum for Applied Arts, Leipzig presented Sitting – Lying – Swinging.
smow blog compact Milan 2015 Special: USM Privacy Panels
For reasons far too abstract, intangible, and potentially libellous, to go into, we didn’t report on the inaugural presentation of
IMM Cologne 2015: Müller Möbelfabrikation
Contrary to popular legend, a change is not as good as a rest. It’s better. For whereas after a rest
smow blog compact IMM Cologne Special: Drawers Table by 45 Kilo for My Kilos
As regular readers will be aware, for us there are two characteristics which define a proper desk: drawers and an
Passagen Cologne 2015: Rem Koolhaas – OMA: Tools for Life at Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft
Following on from system design at the MAKK and the more autonomous product design featured at Objects in Between, we
SYSTEM DESIGN. Über 100 Jahre Chaos im Alltag at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln
The history of civilisation is in many respects a history of man understanding natural systems, for example, the inner workings
smow blog compact: The End of Sitting by RAAAF & Barbara Visser
We recently posted on current research which suggests that not only is sitting for long periods detrimental to our health,
Orgatec Cologne 2014: Concept Kitchen by Kilian Schindler for Naber
Explaining the background to their contribution to Stylepark’s Being Home 4+4 installation programme at Orgatec Cologne 2014 Marcel Besau and
Orgatec Cologne 2014: Stylepark – Being Home 4+4
We don’t consider ourselves slouches when it comes to the effort we make in regards of presenting ourselves at Orgatec
Orgatec Cologne 2014: Thonet
For just about as long as Thonet have been producing furniture one of the company’s most important designers has been
Orgatec Cologne 2014: New Order by Stefan Diez for Hay
At the risk of overusing the phrase “a concept that grows on us the more XXXX adds to it” and
Orgatec Cologne 2014: Vitra
In comparison to the annual IMM Cologne furniture fair the corridors and halls of the Messe Cologne always seems curiously
(smow) blog compact: To work sitting or standing, that is the question….
Whether ’tis nobler in the muscles to suffer The slings and arrows of short telomeres, Or to rise up against
(smow) blog autumn tour 2014: preview
We’ve spent a lot of 2014 travelling backwards on trains, racing towards the future with our eyes fixed firmly on
(smow) bookcase: A Taxonomy of Office Chairs by Jonathan Olivares
As we recently noted, summer is slowly giving way to autumn and with it the realisation that long sunny days
The Kramer Principle: Design for Variable Use @ Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
If we were to be completely honest we would have to admit that although we were aware of the name
A USM window on the world ….. or at least on the Berner Oberland.
If you visit the Bussalp restaurant above the Swiss resort town of Grindelwald you can experience a curious, inconspicuous, almost
(smow) blog compact IMM Cologne Special: Müller Möbelfabrikation
It may have been because at IMM Cologne 2014 they were given a larger stand than in previous years. It