Passagen Cologne 2020: USM Haller HomeWork @ smow Cologne
Our increasingly networked, digital, virtual society is not only changing our relationship to innumerable everyday activities, activities such as personal communication, shopping or watching television to name but three, and thereby activities which a few short years ago seemed destined to remain unchanged for ever, but is also changing our relationship to work, be that in terms of what we do, where we do it or how we do it.
Changes which invariably place both new demands on our furniture, and our understanding of the term “functional” in context of furniture; an understanding which a few short years ago seemed destined to remain unchanged for ever.
With the showcase USM Haller HomeWork smow Cologne consider responses to such evolutions with the assistance of the USM Haller modular furniture system.
smow Blog High 5 Special: When fashion meets design…..
As regular readers will be well aware, here at smow blog HQ we’re very much of the opinion that fashion isn’t design. Never was. Never will be. Design, and without wanting to wade too deep into the definition quagmire, arose from applied craft/applied art, fashion is applied craft/applied art. And so while unquestionably a creative discipline, isn’t design. Neither is Graphic.
Design can however inspire and influence fashion, past decades recalling numerous occasions of fashion houses being motivated by designers’ works, a particularly apposite recent example being the news that Swiss fashion house Akris have based their Spring/Summer 2018 collection on the works of Alexander Girard, news which motivated us to retrieve a few classic items from the smow blog wardrobe……
smow blog Design Calendar: October 23rd 1924 – Happy Birthday Fritz Haller!
Before Fritz Haller achieved international recognition for the USM modular furniture system, he was…….. a steel construction system! Born in
smow blog compact Milan 2015 special: USM – Rethink the Modular
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fritz Haller and Paul Schärer’s USM Haller modular furniture system USM instigated a series
smow blog compact Milan 2015 Special: USM Privacy Panels
For reasons far too abstract, intangible, and potentially libellous, to go into, we didn’t report on the inaugural presentation of
SYSTEM DESIGN. Über 100 Jahre Chaos im Alltag at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln. Reprise
In our 5 New Design Exhibitions for January 2015 post we noted with dismay, and an unmistakable hint of accusation,
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
Fritz Haller. Architect and Researcher at the Swiss Architecture Museum Basel
Until August 24th the Swiss Architecture Museum, SAM, in Basel is staging “Fritz Haller. Architect and Researcher”, an exhibition devoted
5 New Design Exhibitions for May 2014
Mayday! Mayday! Don’t panic. It’s just a public holiday. You’ll survive. Barbecue something…… And afterwards, when everyone else is back
(smow) blog compact: USM open new powder coating facility in Münsingen
As a general rule we ignore rules. Especially those rules that start with “don’t” However, when we were told not
A USM window on the world ….. or at least on the Berner Oberland.
If you visit the Bussalp restaurant above the Swiss resort town of Grindelwald you can experience a curious, inconspicuous, almost
Passagen Cologne 2014: System USM Haller “Facetten” @ (smow) Köln
Aside from death, taxes and heartbreak, the only other certainty in life is that you will, with an unnerving regularity,
Fritz Haller: Designer of Systems. An Interview with Georg Vrachliotis
Imagine you spent your entire career researching and developing modular building systems. Imagine you gave the world radical new approaches
ETH Zürich Symposium: Fritz Haller. Architect and Researcher
On Thursday and Friday March 15th/16th the ETH Zurich is holding a two day symposium looking at the life and
The curious film career of USM Haller
A few weeks ago we premiered our new film featuring USM Haller in the leading role. This however was not
USM (smow)blog and DOK Leipzig …. sadly no happy end
Sadly we must report that our critically acclaimed short animated film “usm_highboard_m_rubinrot” will not be featured in the 2009 DOK
(smow)blog and usm_highboard_m_rubinrot … soon at DOK Leipzig?
(click to play) As a few you have noticed (and thanks for the mails by the way, always appreciated) we’ve
The many faces of USM Haller
For a lot of people USM Haller make units where you can store lever arch files. True. They do. And
Wheely good designs: Trolleys for all occassions
The dollop of cream atop the perfect office is a practical, aesthetic and user friendly trolley. In general an office
Designer furniture: More than just aesthetically pleasing
Occasionally, just occasionally a curious glance at the price of a piece of designer furniture is enough to take your