The 1985 Alchimia Manifesto proclaims, "Per Alchimia le discipline non interessano quando sono considerate al l’interno delle loro regole", 'For Alchimia, disciplines are of no interest when considered within their rules', rather, and much as the alchemists of yore advanced, "è importante indagare nei grandi spazi liberi esistenti fra di essere"1, 'it is important to explore the vast free spaces existing between them'. With Alchimia. The Revolution of Italian Design the Bröhan Museum, Berlin,
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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 Kunst,
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Until the introduction of the Julian calender in 45 BCE December had but 29 days, meaning two less days to explore, challenge and enjoy architecture and design exhibitions. Imagine! How horrible!! We don't say it often, but Thank You Julius Caesar!!!" Our locations for taking advantage of all 31 glorious days of December 2024 can be found in Herford, Philadelphia, Bratislava, Berlin and Caesar's native Rome....... "Luigi Colani – Shapes of the Future" at Marta Herford, Germany While never
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As Letitia Elizabeth Landon so very, very, nearly wrote in 1823, Of all the months that fill the year Give April's month to me, For the architecture and design museums are then so filled, With sweet variety! Our sweet variety in April's month of 2024 can be found in Dessau, Brussels, Rome, Paris and Dresden....... "The Gesture Speaks" at the Bauhaus Museum, Dessau, Germany For all that the Bauhauses were, without question, art and design and craft and architecture, they were also movement;
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Italy A Peninsula; A Commonwealth; A Context Striding out into the Mediterranean Sea the contemporary commonwealth of Italy, for all its apparent unity, and for all its superficially stable, pastoral, political landscape, is very much a volatile, fervid synthesis of innumerable independent Stati and Popoli; independent Stati and Popoli whose individual characters and perspectives helped form not only the contemporary Italy, but together define the (hi)story of furniture design in the
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"Monsieur, with these Rocher you are really spoiling us!" Ever since Ferrero brought a touch of self-congratulatory kitsch to the savoir-faire of international diplomacy, we've felt a great empathy for the concept of the Embassy. And while the years since we first heard those words may not have seen us follow an illustrious, freely debonair, diplomatic career, we do have as a substitute the embassy design exhibition. 3daysofdesign Copenhagen 2018 offered such a wealth and variety of embassy
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