smow Blog Design Calendar: April 30th 1993 – Opening of Citizen Office at the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
With the exhibition Citizen Office the Vitra Design Museum staged not only their first conceptual, research based, exhibition, but also one of the first museal reflections on “the world of the office”.
Reflections which not only pointed towards new directions and understandings then, but which offer insights and lessons for today…….
(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: February
IMM Cologne kept us busy into February, but the month also saw the opening of an Eileen Gray retrospective in
James Irvine 1958-2013
We once started, but never quite got round to finishing, a post in which we extolled the joys of a
(smow) late summer 2010: Thonet Wohnshowroom, Museum and Biegerei
On the last Sunday of the school summer holidays over 35 production companies in and around Kassel stage an annual
James Irvine, Jasper Morrison, Nils Holger Moormann and… Victoria Beckham?
You know how it is. You arrive early in the office….. Make a coffee….. Turn the computer on…….. Check out
(smow) Interview: “The thing that would be amazing to try to do is to work with recycled material” James Irvine at Saloni Milano 2010
For 26 years James Irvine has been quietly and unassumingly influencing European industrial design. Immediately after graduating from the London
(smow) in Milan: James Irvine on the worst thing about Milan design week
Last week we vented our spleen on the ridiculous hotel prices in Milan during design week. And against an international