Category: Weil am Rhein
Vitra Schaudepot: A New Home for the Vitra Design Museum Collection
With the opening of the Vitra Schaudepot the Vitra Campus has not only grown by a further building, but the Vitra Design Museum has realised a long held dream, that of an exhibition space in which to present their collection in its full extent; or at least in a much fuller extent than has currently been possible.
Vitra Design Museum present Alexander Girard. A Designer’s Universe
Clearly vexed by a critical review in Architectural Forum of his friend Alexander Girard’s Santa Fe house, Charles Eames wrote
Depot Basel present Forum for an Attitude
As we’ve often opined in these pages, design is a way of thinking, not a profession. An opinion we inevitably
Vitra Design Museum: The Bauhaus #itsalldesign
One of the biggest problems with Modernism is the name. It was unquestionably modern. Which is why it became known
5 New Design Exhibitions for September 2015
As old Mother Goose, allegedly, once claimed: Thirty days hath September, and the following five enticing new design and architecture
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
5 New Design Exhibitions for February 2015
Much as the hardest move in yoga is unrolling your yoga mat, so to is the most challenging facet about
smow blog 2014. A pictorial review: September
Following on from the relative inactivity of August September saw us wind back up towards the 2014 autumn design festival
Alvar Aalto – Second Nature at the Vitra Design Museum
Everyone knows Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto. Everyone knows his flowing, free-formed buildings and his moulded plywood furniture. What
Architektur Design Industrie – Vitra Campus. Ein Jubiläum at Aedes am Pfefferberg, Berlin
1989. A year of social, culture and political upheaval whose effects are still being felt today. The Berlin Wall falls. George
5 New Design Exhibitions for September 2014
The inescapable chill in the morning air and the deep-seated boredom in the eyes of school aged children can only
(smow) blog compact design tourism special: Weil am Rhein – City of Chairs
Any self-respecting modern conurbation needs a moniker. An evocative tag line on which to hang its city marketing strategy and
Vitra Campus Expands: Vitra Slide Tower and Álvaro-Siza-Promenade Open
Back in 2011 we took umbrage at the fence surrounding the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein and so, taking
(smow) blog compact: Verner Panton – Visiona 1970. Revisiting the Future at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery
Parallel to the exhibition Konstantin Grcic – Panorama, the Vitra Design Museum is revisiting perhaps the daddy of all explorations
Vitra Design Museum Talk: Raumlabor – Temporary Architecture
As part of the accompanying fringe programme to the exhibition Konstantin Grcic – Panorama, the Vitra Design Museum is hosting
Konstantin Grcic – Panorama @ Vitra Design Museum
One of the first telephone calls Mateo Kries and Marc Zehntner made upon assuming leadership of the Vitra Design Museum
5 New Design Exhibitions for March 2014
The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow, And what will poor robin do then, poor thing? He’ll
Vitra Design Museum: Lightopia Talk. Richard Sapper – Lifetime Oeuvre.
With the winter solstice behind us and the days growing noticeably longer, the Vitra Design Museum exhibition Lightopia draws slowly
(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: June
Following the pains and tribulations of Milan, June is a time to relax. To enjoy design once again. This year
(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: February
IMM Cologne kept us busy into February, but the month also saw the opening of an Eileen Gray retrospective in
(smow) reading: The Vitra Campus – Architecture Design Industry
There is an old adage about turning problems into chances, of every cloud having a silver lining, of every thorn
Designtage Brandenburg 2013 Design Conference: Mateo Kries
At the recent Designtage Brandenburg Design Conference Vitra Design Museum Chief Curator Mateo Kries held the opening keyword speech. Under
Sphere Table by Hella Jongerius for Vitra
Back in October one of the joys of Orgatec 2012 in Cologne was watching visitors reactions to Hella Jongerius‘ Sphere
Vitra Design Museum Lightopia: Fringe Programme
When we spoke to Marc Zehntner and Mateo Kries, the joint heads of the Vitra Design Museum, they told us
Vitra Design Museum: Lightopia
“My, my, my, Delilah! Why, why, why, Delilah!”
The morning of Friday September 27th 2013 was one of those misty autumn occasions that cause SANAA’s immense new Vitra Factory Building in Weil am Rhein to merge, almost unseen, with the grey background. Even Herzog & de Meuron’s new Basel Messe complex was reduced to nothing more grand than a continuation of the uncaring monotonous sky. The glitzing, shimmering palace of high summer just the weak shadow of a memory.
And so it was perhaps fitting that the Vitra Design Museum choose this dank September morn to open their latest exhibition, “Lightopia”, an exhibition devoted to light.
For today was a clear warning, in the coming months we will all be in need of a little light.
