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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……

Oct

05

2016

The winners and nominated projects from the 2016 International Marianne Brandt Contest can be viewed in an exhibition in Chemnitz.

May

27

2016

Money, famously, makes the world go round. The world go round. Money makes the world go round How that came

Apr

12

2016

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

Feb

26

2016

Slatted-Armchair, Lattenstuhl by Marcel Breuer, 1924 (Photo ©/ courtesy of HEICKMANN KG, Chemnitz)

“The starting point for the chair was the problem of comfortable seating combined with a simple construction. A problem which

Feb

15

2016

In our interview with Marcel Kabisch, founder of and creative force behind German label Feinserie, he told us that what

Dec

23

2015

Browsing in our Pictorial Review archive it appears March 2013 was “a month of travelling: Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Weimar, Dessau….. its

Nov

03

2015

Since 2000 the International Marianne Brandt Contest has been searching for the Poetry of the Functional in art and design.

Mar

19

2015

Marcel Kabisch Sessel Diplomarbeit Kabisch 2002_2

As we’ve often noted in these pages the eastern German town of Chemnitz markets itself as the “City of Modernism”,

Jan

13

2015

Andy Warhol Death and Disaster Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz Skull 1976

Until February 22nd the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz is presenting the exhibition Andy Warhol: Death and Disaster, according to the organisers “the

Jan

03

2015

Such was the quality of the new products we saw during our autumn tour they kept us going well into

Dec

30

2014

August being holiday month our principle focus was board sports: Woody Skateboards for the summer and silbærg snowboards for the

Dec

26

2014

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

Dec

23

2014

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

Nov

23

2014

Andy Warhol Death and Disaster Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz Skulls

Much as Andy Warhol predicated we’d all be famous for 15 minutes, he also understood we’d all be dead forever.

Oct

29

2014

On Friday October 24th the winners of the Saxony Design Award 2014 – the Sächsischer Staatspreis für Design 2014 –

Aug

20

2014

In the past we have, admittedly, been “somewhat” harsh on Chemnitz. Unfairly so considered some. Many. “C’mon! Chemnitz isn’t all

May

15

2014

Staatlichen Museums für Archäologie Chemnitz smac

When Erich Mendelsohn’s new Schocken department store opened in Chemnitz in 1930 Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst, one of the leading

Feb

06

2014

Marianne Brandt Villa Esche Chemnitz Tastlicht 1929-1932

By way of an addendum to our addendum to our “5 New Design Exhibitions for February 2014” post…… Until June

Jan

04

2014

With autum’s algid wind in our faces and the promise of mince pies and Glühwein in our tails we approached

Dec

26

2013

March 2013 was a month of travelling: Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Weimar, Dessau….. its amazing we found time to actually write anything…….

Sep

11

2013

We’re not going to pretend everyone is enamoured with our constant pops at Chemnitz. Truth is for the majority our

Sep

09

2013

On Saturday September 7th the winners of the International Marianne Brandt Contest 2013 were unveiled at an awards ceremony in

Aug

21

2013

Having already been to Chemnitz once this year we really are loathed to go a second time. It somehow feels

Feb

25

2013

A couple of years ago N.W.A. frontman Ice Cube shot a short celluloid tribute to Charles and Ray Eames. Without