smow Blog Interview: Thomas Gerber, CEO Wilde+Spieth – A good chair is an important part of ensuring professional orchestra musicians remain fit and enjoy themselves
In our post The Sedentary Workers: Orchestra Musicians we explored the unique world of orchestra musicians’ chairs. One of Europe’s largest, and most experienced, manufacturers of orchestra and musicians’ chairs is Esslingen based Wilde+Spieth. Who thus seemed an ideal address to learn more about the orchestra chair and the orchestra chair market…..
The Sedentary Workers: Orchestra Musicians
Although the evidence is not, yet, conclusive, recent years have seen an increasing confidence in the theory that sitting for too long can have a negative impact on health, and that all whose job involves prolonged sitting should regularly stand, move and generally change their body position.
But what about those workers who can’t? What about those workers whose job is defined by long periods of sitting?
Orgatec Cologne 2016: High Five!!
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On March 10th 2015 a jury at the Central District Court of California in Los Angeles concluded that Pharrell Williams
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Older readers will be aware that we have often held up the absence of some of Germany’s most important designer
Egon Eiermann – New Chairs for New Churches. The SE 119 and SE 121
On December 17th 1961 the New Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche in Berlin was officially consecrated. Designed by Egon Eiermann the new
Design for Use, USA
“Wooden spoon for pickled vegetables by John F. Kennedy” ? ? ? John F. Kennedy. Green Mountain Woodcrafters, Vermont. And
(smow)offline: Herbert Hirche, Strahlend Grau
Because our article on the new London bus has been delayed by a broken water main at Tooting Bec, we’ve
(smow)offline: Leipzig Buchmesse – a designer furniture perspective
For people who spend most of their working lives sat at desks, publishers and authors have a frightening disregard for