smow Song Contest 2017
It’s early May and once again the party ship we call the smow song contest is ready to set sail……
International Marianne Brandt Contest 2016 – Winners and Exhibition
The winners and nominated projects from the 2016 International Marianne Brandt Contest can be viewed in an exhibition in Chemnitz.
Geld @ smac – State Museum for Archaeology in Chemnitz
Money, famously, makes the world go round. The world go round. Money makes the world go round How that came
Chemnitz Creative: Offspring @ GALERIE Angewandte Kunst Schneeberg
The Faculty of Applied Arts Schneeberg is by no stretch of the imagination Germany’s largest design school; however, that in
smow Blog Interview: Ansgar B. Heickmann, Auktionshaus Heickmann, Chemnitz … Or, How One Sells a Marcel Breuer Chair for Euro 55,000…
“The starting point for the chair was the problem of comfortable seating combined with a simple construction. A problem which
Ambiente Frankfurt 2016: Feinserie
In our interview with Marcel Kabisch, founder of and creative force behind German label Feinserie, he told us that what
smow blog 2015. A pictorial review: March
Browsing in our Pictorial Review archive it appears March 2013 was “a month of travelling: Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Weimar, Dessau….. its
International Marianne Brandt Contest 2016 – Open for Entries
Since 2000 the International Marianne Brandt Contest has been searching for the Poetry of the Functional in art and design.
Chemnitz Creative: Marcel Kabisch
As we’ve often noted in these pages the eastern German town of Chemnitz markets itself as the “City of Modernism”,
Andy Warhol – Death and Disaster at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. Reprise.
Until February 22nd the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz is presenting the exhibition Andy Warhol: Death and Disaster, according to the organisers “the
smow blog 2014. A pictorial review: November
Such was the quality of the new products we saw during our autumn tour they kept us going well into
smow blog 2014. A pictorial review: August
August being holiday month our principle focus was board sports: Woody Skateboards for the summer and silbærg snowboards for the
smow blog 2014. A pictorial review: May
May may have been slow in the past. May. For aside from DMY Berlin, Fritz Haller in Basel, Niek van
smow blog 2014. A pictorial review: February
Cold as February 2014 unquestionably was, we managed to warm ourselves with exhibitions looking at the 1920s medial representation of
Andy Warhol – Death and Disaster at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Much as Andy Warhol predicated we’d all be famous for 15 minutes, he also understood we’d all be dead forever.
(smow) blog compact: Saxony Design Award 2014 – Winners
On Friday October 24th the winners of the Saxony Design Award 2014 – the Sächsischer Staatspreis für Design 2014 –
Chemnitz Creative: silbærg snowboards
In the past we have, admittedly, been “somewhat” harsh on Chemnitz. Unfairly so considered some. Many. “C’mon! Chemnitz isn’t all
(smow) blog compact: New State Archaeology Museum in Chemnitz Opens
When Erich Mendelsohn’s new Schocken department store opened in Chemnitz in 1930 Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst, one of the leading
Marianne Brandt at Villa Esche Chemnitz
By way of an addendum to our addendum to our “5 New Design Exhibitions for February 2014” post…… Until June
(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: November
With autum’s algid wind in our faces and the promise of mince pies and Glühwein in our tails we approached
(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: March
March 2013 was a month of travelling: Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Weimar, Dessau….. its amazing we found time to actually write anything…….
International Marianne Brandt Contest 2013: Exhibition
We’re not going to pretend everyone is enamoured with our constant pops at Chemnitz. Truth is for the majority our
International Marianne Brandt Contest 2013: Winners
On Saturday September 7th the winners of the International Marianne Brandt Contest 2013 were unveiled at an awards ceremony in
International Marianne Brandt Contest 2013: Nominations and Awards Party
Having already been to Chemnitz once this year we really are loathed to go a second time. It somehow feels
Eames by Vitra, Wasserschloß Klaffenbach Chemnitz
A couple of years ago N.W.A. frontman Ice Cube shot a short celluloid tribute to Charles and Ray Eames. Without