Category: smow blog compact
smow blog compact Milan 2017 special: Konstantin Grcic
Backrests appeared to be a major feature of those new products Konstantin Grcic presented at Milan Furniture Fair 2017. Or perhaps better put, from those new product we saw by Konstantin Grcic, we interpreted the backrest as being central components. But it wasn’t all about backrests, a few thoughts on new products for Magis, Plank, Flos and Mattiazzi.
smow blog compact Milan 2017 special: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
Much as we moan, moan, and moan about Milan Furniture Fair, it is a rare opportunity to get a snapshot of where individual designers are currently at: differing products for differing manufacturers being displayed in relatively proximity allowing for a nice overview. A few considerations on the latest projects by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Vitra, Magis, Flos and Mattiazzi.
smow blog compact: Ursa by McKenzie & Keim
Being principally an office furniture fair NeoCon doesn’t really attract “fringe events” the way home furnishing focussed trade fairs do;
smow blog compact: Hangout by Proof of Guilt
In our recent conversation with Birgit Severin and Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo about their Heimat Lamp project they told us that 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 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 compact: Bauhaus Archiv Berlin present Textile Design Today – From Experiment to Series
Mild-mannered and polite as we are, we still occasionally find ourselves causing offence, arousing feelings of mild outrage and generally
smow Blog Compact: Studio Plus @ Architekturgalerie am Weissenhof Stuttgart
“This is a job of work whose goal is precision, delicacy, amiability and attentiveness: being attentive to people, uses, buildings,
smow blog compact: Staged Design Award @ Room + Style, Dresden
Since 2014 the Room + Style “lifestyle” fair in Dresden has been extended, if not enhanced, through the presentation of
smow blog compact: Women Pioneers – Swedish Design in Between the Wars @ Nationalmuseum Design, Stockholm
Horribly denigrating as the term “Swedish Grace” unquestionably sounds, it is a well meant phrase coined to refer to the
smow blog compact: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: 17 Screens @ Tel Aviv Museum of Art
In our 5 New Design Exhibitions for October 2015 post we recommended, amongst other exhibitions, the Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
smow blog compact: Jean Prouvé – vom System zum Haus @ Architekturgalerie Kaiserslautern
By way of an addendum to our 5 New Design Exhibitions for November 2015 post, the Kaiserslautern University of Technology’s Architecture
smow blog compact: Kölner DESIGN Preis 2015
On Thursday October 29th the winners of the Kölner DESIGN Preis 2015 were announced in a ceremony at the Museum
smow blog compact: Ateliers J&J – Collection 01 Evolution & Collection 02
“I want to make the most simple furniture possible“, so described Jean Angelats a.k.a Ateliers J&J his intentions in our
smow blog compact: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis present Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia
In our post from the exhibition Art Nouveau. The Great Utopian Vision at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
smow blog compact: Ateliers J&J – Gamme Tubulaire Collection Launch
These past few months we have made no effort to disguise the fact that one of our favourite discoveries of
smow blog compact: Le Corbusier – The Measures of Man at the Centre Pompidou, Paris
On days when his sketches didn’t meet with his own, self-critical, approval, the Swiss architect and urban planner Le Corbusier
smow blog compact: Design for the Soviet Space Programme – Galina Balashova @ Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt
Space is, as any Trekkie will tell you, the final frontier. For designers and architects it is certainly a very
smow blog compact: The Maker Library Network at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery
In his review of Chris Taylor’s book “How Star Wars Conquered the Universe” the American film critic Tom Shone makes
smow blog compact: Depot Basel present The Collective Intention
As previously reported, Bauhaus Dessau are currently presenting “The coop principle – Hannes Meyer and the Concept of Collective Design”,
smow blog compact: D’Days Paris 2015
From June 1st until June 7th the 15th D’Days Paris will be staged under the theme “Experience” Which is hopefully
smow blog compact: bauhaus re use @ Bauhaus Archiv Berlin
Given that Bauhaus is often perceived as having been an incubator for the creative talents of the 1920s, it is
smow blog compact: URBAN LIVING – Strategies for the Future at the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum DAZ, Berlin
How can the urban environment be improved with new housing? Which spatial constellations foster interaction? Which strategies reduce costs but
smow blog compact: Tools for A Break – Korean Crafts and Design at Orangelab, Berlin
Shium is the many ways the Korean antipode to our modern world: Shium is decelerate, rest, relax, pause, reflect, slow
smow blog compact: 2.5.0. – Object is Meditation and Poetry. Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig at the Grassi Museum for Applied Arts Leipzig
The (hi)story of applied arts is, we believe it’s not too impetuous to claim, very closely connected with that of