May
19
2023

For all that the Schwarzwald is popularly known for its cuckoo clocks, as Mythos SABA – Memories of a Global Company at the Franziskanermuseum, Villingen-Schwenningen, helps elucidate, such aren’t the only noise emitting precision technical objects, nor indeed the only harmonies, rhythms, melodies and metres, associated with the (hi)story of, and the cultural contribution of, the Schwarzwald.

If alternative noise emitting precision technical objects and alternative harmonies, rhythms, melodies and metres that are all too often masked by the call of the cuckoo.

And also an elucidation, an enunciation, of the alternatives by the Franziskanermuseum that begins, somewhat inevitably, with clocks…….

Mythos SABA – Memories of a Global Company, Franziskanermuseum, Villingen-Schwenningen

Jan
16
2016
Volksempfänger VE 301 Wn by Walter Maria Kersting, as seen at Radio Days. Tube Radios, Design Classics, Internet Radio, the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Cologne

Radio is without question the most universal and democratic of all media, in many ways we are all raised on

Dec
31
2015
Wega Stereobar 3300 by Verner Panton for Wega Radio (Photo © Saša Fuis Photographie, Köln, Courtesy of MAKK)

We know. We know. It’s January. Everyone just wants to sit at home feeling poor, fat and unloved……. Much more

#campustour Bauhaus Berlin Brussels Charles and Ray Eames chemnitz cologne DMY DMY Berlin Dresden Egon Eiermann eindhoven Frankfurt Hamburg imm cologne Jasper Morrison kartell Konstantin Grcic köln Le Corbusier Leipzig lighting London Milan Milano Moormann Munich München New York Nils Holger Moormann Paris Passagen Cologne Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec smow Stockholm Stuttgart Thonet USM Haller Verner Panton Vienna Vienna Design Week Vitra Vitra Design Museum Weil am Rhein Wien