5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for February 2023

According to Germanic folklore: A wet February brings a fruitful year.

And that, we’d argue, not only in terms of vegetation, but also in terms of your individual personal development: a wet February meaning more time spent in museums and thus an enhanced opportunity to engage in meaningful and relevant and motivating discourses and discussions. An ideal environment in which to allow your appreciations of and positions to the world around you to optimally develop, swell, ripen and nourish.

So come on February…… Rain!!!

Our five recommended growth stimulating shelters for February 2023 can be found in Cologne, Stockholm, Hornu, Hamburg and Montréal…….

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 2015. A pictorial review: January

January being what it is we spent most of the month in Cologne attending the 2015 IMM Cologne Furniture Fair

smow blog Design Calendar: September 18th 1981- Inaugural Memphis Exhibition, Milan

Celebrated as the salvation of design. Denounced as kitsch. Fresh & invigorating. Vain & hifalutin. A watershed in design history.

Passagen Cologne 2015: A&W Designer of the Year 2015 – Michele De Lucchi. The Exhibition.

Much as we tend to shy away from “Designer of the Year” awards, the presentation of German architecture and design

Orgatec 2010: Vitra

Although the public face of Vitra is unquestionably their “Home Collection”, for decades the backbone of the company has been

IMM Cologne: New Classics

To celebrate their 50th birthday the German furnishings magazine “Schöner Wohnen” have produced a small book entitled “Das Buch der

Artemide “Best design brand Home and Living 2009”

Although we’ll probably always have problems with design and branding Awards, we do appreciate the value and importance that many