According to our pictorial review of March 2013 it was “a month of travelling: Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Weimar, Dessau….. its amazing
For just about as long as Thonet have been producing furniture one of the company’s most important designers has been
“When”, we asked in context of the Grassi Leipzig exhibition Sitting – Lying – Swinging. Furniture from Thonet, “does an exhibition
By way of a 1st of May, International Workers’ Day, special…… in Milan Ronan Bouroullec told us that the brother’s
Standing in the Leipzig Grassi Museum for Applied Arts, surrounded by 150 years of Thonet chair history, Peter Thonet, x-times-great
April 2014, as every April we can ever remember, means Milanese purgatory. Apparently it is meant to cleanse the soul,
If we were to be completely honest we would have to admit that although we were aware of the name
Our coverage of IMM Cologne 2014 may be reaching its conclusion, but we still have a few gleaming gems to
When in our preview of IMM Cologne 2014 we referred to it as marking the opening of the European design
On Monday January 13th the European design circus rolls into the new year with the opening of IMM Cologne 2014
Those still looking for a New Year’s Resolution could do worse than to promise to try to maybe visit more
January 2013 was, as every January, dominated by IMM Cologne, and all that that entails. In particular IMM Cologne 2013
One of the biggest challenges facing product designers in coming years will undoubtedly be the question of planned obsolescence. For
In 1808 Napoleon had a problem. Or better put, in 1808 Napoleon had a whole continent of problems. Spain, Austria,
There are only very few furniture manufacturers who can claim to have been major players in two fundamental furniture design
As many of you know we officially gave up reporting on private design awards a couple of years ago –
As we’ve said before, and will never tire of repeating, the Thonet back catalogue harbours an unparalleled treasure trove of
At the risk of upsetting furniture historians, wood is probably the longest serving material in furniture design. It is also
This past week it’s been hard to escape images of a bentwood bike purporting to have been created by a
Was it not Pulp who in 1995 prophesied that the world would soon be dominated and controlled by mis-shapes, mistakes
Until October 31st 2012 Bauhaus Dessau is showing the exhibition “Marcel Breuer – Design and Architecture” Presenting a wide-ranging look
Much as Gerrit Rietveld‘s career is publicly reduced down to the Rood-blauwe stoel, so too is it all to easy
Until September 16th the Grassi Museum Leipzig is showing the Vitra Design Museum exhibition The Essence of Things: Design and
In addition to showing “From Aalto to Zumthor Furniture by Architects” the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln is also showing
We’ve long since accepted that there are more design weeks in a year than actual weeks. But we still can’t