Category: smow blog compact
(smow) blog compact Dutch Design Week Special: Sectie C
Proving that Eindhoven is full of old factories, but that they are not necessarily all former Philips factories, Sectie C
(smow) blog compact Dutch Design Week Special: Blumenampel Edition by Zascho Petkow and Birgit Severin for Atelier Haussmann
It is very rare that one comes across an object where a manufacturer has combined two independently developed products into
(smow) blog compact Dutch Design Week Special: Lumist by Teresa van Dongen
In 1951 the German designer Wilhelm Wagenfeld created a glass punch bowl for Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik, WMF: the clou of which is
(smow) blog compact Budapest Design Week Special: Lola Women’s Boudoir by Helena Dařbujánová
Ever since Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec released their Alcove Sofa for Vitra in 2006 ever more furniture objects have appeared
(smow) blog compact Dutch Design Week Special: Design Academy Eindhoven – Graduation 2014
Despite what popular myth may have you believe, the Design Academy Eindhoven is not alone responsible for Eindhoven’s current status
(smow) blog compact Vienna Design Week Special: Servant by Katharina Wernig
At an otherwise disappointing presentation of projects by students from the TU Graz Institute of Spatial Design during Vienna Design
(smow) blog compact Budapest Design Week Special: Cardboard Room Divider by János Terbe
Much like crisps, cardboard furniture is something with which we have a very troubled relationship. However whereas with crisps the
(smow) blog compact: Made in Germany – Politik mit Dingen. Der Deutsche Werkbund 1914 at the Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge Berlin
In 1907 a loose association of German architects, artists and industrialists joined forces as the Deutsche Werkbund – the German
(smow) blog compact Budapest Design Week Special: Table and Desk Chair by AU Workshop
Just to be clear: Despite posting twice about them in little over week, we’re not paid to do PR for
(smow) blog compact Bratislava Design Week Special: Transmission Lights by Studio deFORM
At Bratislava Design Week 2014 Jakub Pollág and Václav Mlynář a.k.a. Studio deFORM re-premièred their Transmission light family; “re-premièred” because
(smow) blog compact: Bauhaus. The Art of the Students. Works from the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau Collection
Although it is probably fair to say that today Bauhaus is best remembered for its architects and designers, art played
(smow) blog compact Bratislava Design Week Special: Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava Studio of Industrial Design
Having announced in our introductory Bratislava Design Week post that we are in favour of a global network of regional
(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 compact Vienna Design Week Special: TU Wien present Light Thing
In context of a 2014 summer semester project students from Vienna Technical University’s Department for 3D Design and Model Construction
(smow) blog compact: Stadt-Land-schafft. smow Cologne present Waidblicke 2014
“What was the best moment of your life?” ask Cologne based Pell Architekten in the introduction to their contribution to smow
(smow) blog compact Bratislava Design Week Special: Fidelio by Christian Spiess
According to Christian Holmsted Olesen, Hans J. Wegner’s famous JH540 Valet Chair with its coat hanger shaped backrest and pop
(smow) blog compact Vienna Design Week Special: Frugal Collection Cape Town at harald bichler_rauminhalt
In context of Cape Town’s tenure as World Design Capital 2014 Franco-Austrian design and architecture studio Celia-Hannes spent six weeks
(smow) blog compact: David Chipperfield. Sticks and Stones at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
In our 5 New Design Exhibitions for October 2014 post we noted the revolutionary construction techniques Ludwig Mies van der
(smow) blog compact Vienna Design Week Special: chmara.rosinke present “Private Room”
As we alluded to in our post from Vienna based design studio chmara.rosinke’s Passionswege 2013 project with Wäscheflott, we’ve not
(smow) blog compact Vienna Design Week Special: Candlestick by AU Workshop
Time was when the candlestick maker was an important profession. No candlestick. No light. Or at least no secure light.
(smow) blog compact: Beyond the Senses – Design Column #8 at Hôtel Droog Amsterdam
As we’ve often noted in these pages, the future will be analogue. That’s not to say that we will turn
(smow) blog compact: Constructing Worlds – Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
As many of you will be aware, among the myriad of things that regularly get our goat, architecture photography is
(smow) blog compact: O.M. Ungers – Morphologie – City Metaphors at Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft Cologne
Following the assimilation of the Cooper Union Design Museum in New York into the Smithsonian Institution as the Copper-Hewitt Museum,
(smow) blog compact: Berlinische Galerie present Küchenmonument by raumlabor Berlin
Am Anfang war der Pneu – first there was air – so hypothesised the German architect and master of lightweight
(smow) blog compact: aed Stuttgart present Zukunftslabor Weißenhofsiedlung
Erected in 1927 in context of the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition “Die Wohnung” the Weißenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart aimed to achieve “….