5 New Design Exhibitions for May 2017
On May 1st 1851 Queen Victoria opened The Great Exhibition in Hyde Park London: the first “World’s Fair”, an event which celebrated the advances of the industrial age, and whose influence on industry, engineering, science, architecture and society was to resonate globally for decades, acting as it did as the motor for the quickening technological advances of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. While the profit generated from the 6 million visitors allowed for the construction of London’s Science Museum, Natural History Museum and neighbouring Victoria and Albert Museum.
If any of the numerous architecture and design exhibitions opening globally in May 2017 will become quite so pivotal remains to be seen. Our top five can be found in Hamburg, Atlanta, Amsterdam, London and Stuttgart.
(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: August
A summer silly season with 360 degree product images and handmade bottle openers explaining the difference between craft and design
Happy Birthday Weißenhofsiedlung Stuttgart!
On July 23rd 2012 the Weißenhofsiedlung Stuttgart celebrates its 85th “birthday”. An anniversary which provides a near-perfect excuse to relive one