As Heinrich Heine so very, very nearly wrote in 1827, May is here with its golden lights, And silky breezes and spiced scents, And it beckons with a friendly plenitude of new architecture and design exhibitions.1 Our recommendations from the plenitude opening amidst the golden lights, silky breezes and spiced scents of May 2025 can be found in Frankfurt, Ljubljana, Vienna, Rome and Amberg....... "Yes, we care. The New Frankfurt and the Pursuit of the Common Good" at Museum Angewandte
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As the, then, still plain Walter Scott, so nearly opined in 1806: "November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, I thought, what an excellent month to visit an architecture or design exhibition."1 Our five retreats from the chill and drear of November 2024 can be found in Chemnitz, Brussels, Winterthur, Krefeld and New York....... "Reform of Life" at the Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz, Chemnitz, Germany
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In 1947 the American designer Edward J Wormley reflected in the New York Times on what contemporary furniture could, should, be, and amongst his thoughts on beds, chairs, storage units et al, opined that "an ideal table would be a flat plane suspended in space", and that not least because "it's the legs that are the big nuisance". "Can we find this kind of furniture in today's market?", he asked his readers, albeit, rhetorically, "You know we can't."1 Which tends to imply Wormley didn't visit
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