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May

11

2017

It’s early May and once again the party ship we call the smow song contest is ready to set sail……

May

04

2017

There is one song missing from the smow blog playlist: missing for the simple, regrettable, and thoroughly avoidable, reason that it isn’t on spotify.

For din skyld by the Danish singer Birgit Brüel. Denmark’s entry for the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest. And featuring lyrics by Poul Henningsen.

Yes, that Poul Henningsen.

Apr

20

2017

It’s not quite radio smow. Not yet. But we hope it is another way to enjoy, and understand, the smow blog…….

Jul

10

2016

After four weeks of competition at venues throughout France the 2016 Design EM prepares to bid adieu, au revoir and

Jun

05

2016

We’re not going to claim that DMY Berlin 2016 was a vintage year, for us the 14th edition of the

Nov

30

2015

Ever since supermarkets started filling their shelves with Christmas foodstuffs in September, view-on-demand has allowed us to watch “It’s a

Nov

26

2015

On Leipzig’s Augustusplatz one can currently enjoy the wonders of the Leipzig Märchenland, the Leipzig Fairytale World. Alternatively, some 500m

Nov

23

2015

It only seems like five minutes since two tall, neatly coiffured, strangers strode, self-confidently, across the floor of the old

Jun

12

2015

When making biscuits, after having cut out the required shapes you invariably have a lot of dough left over, dough

Apr

23

2015

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

Apr

18

2015

Given that all we have too many household accessories and our planet too few natural resources to justify continually producing

Apr

17

2015

For us one of the few genuine joys of Milan Design Week is observing visitors to the furniture fair perching

Apr

07

2015

Michael Geldmacher Eva Paster Neuland Industriedesign

It being early April Milan furniture fair once again stands before us and with it the promise of untold column

Feb

18

2015

Name: smow introducing Born: Leipzig, 2010 Alma mater: University of life Featured designers: Christoffer Martens Erik Wester Christian Lessing Eva

Jan

19

2015

The nature of product design, and for all furniture design, being what it is, we all have a predisposition to

Jan

18

2015

Following on from the success of smow Cologne‘s Passagen Design Week début in 2014 with the USM Haller exhibition Facetten,

Jan

08

2015

Back at the end of 2014 we mused as to whether or not this might be an apposite moment to

Dec

28

2014

… had things not continued apace in June. A month which saw us trawl trough Berlin with Niek Wagemans looking

Dec

26

2014

May may have been slow in the past. May. For aside from DMY Berlin, Fritz Haller in Basel, Niek van

Dec

25

2014

As all old thesauruans know “April” is merely a synonym for “Milan” And lo despite all promises to the contrary

Dec

24

2014

According to our pictorial review of March 2013 it was “a month of travelling: Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Weimar, Dessau….. its amazing

Dec

23

2014

Cold as February 2014 unquestionably was, we managed to warm ourselves with exhibitions looking at the 1920s medial representation of

Dec

22

2014

Whereas in years past we would have just blithely stated that January, as ever, saw us in Cologne for IMM

Dec

01

2014

Time was when there was nothing nobler than a Christmas market. And no finer way to wile away the adventtide

Nov

07

2014

“The belief that New York needs a Museum of Modern Art scarcely requires apology. All over the world the rising

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