Beyond Geometry. Frei Otto x Kengo Kuma at the Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz
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...Presented during Munich Creative Business Week 2025, but not part of the official Munich Creative Business Week, MCBW, 2025 programme, which is cheeky; not that guerilla cheeky Nils Holger Moormann, man and company, are known, rightly celebrated, for, rather just plain cheeky, approaching rudeness cheeky... And that not only because Nils Holger Moormann, man and company, are amongst those from whom we've learned the most over the years, to whom we will always be grateful and whose developments we keenly follow, thus our querying of, disappointment at, the plain cheeky not guerilla cheeky of Gaga Dada 2's timing, nor only because Nils Holger Moormann, man and company, are very much associated with the early development of smow, without whom smow would be a very different beast today, but primarily on account of the subtitle, on account of the promise contained within the subtitle: Objekte zwischen Kunst und Design, Objects between Art and Design...
...Together with Nils Holger Moormann Marie Luise Stein developed the Liesl shelving system – a minimalist and sophisticated storage solution for modern living, and which seemed a good place to start, for all with the question, how the idea for the Liesl wall shelf came about?... Over the years I worked on it repeatedly until the first 1:1 prototype was created and from there I developed the concept further until I finally worked with Nils Holger Moormann to make Liesl what it is today...
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...Stühle zum (Be)Sitzen's brief tour through the (hi)story of chair design in western Europe ends with Harry Thaler's 2011 Pressed Chair through Nils Holger Moormann, a chair that as Harry once told us began as "a small fork made from one piece of wood", became a desire to create a chair in one material, and which through the choice of pressed aluminium not only neatly translates the moulded plywood of, for example, Arne Jacobsen, Aino and Alvar Aalto or Charles and Ray Eames into metal, but reminds that the plastic shell of the RAR that rocks next to the Pressed Chair in Stühle zum (Be)Sitzen began life as pressed steel, before that was deemed too expensive and the, then, novel fibreglass was used... And a Pressed Chair produced by Nils Holger Moormann, a manufacturer, a furniture publishing house, who arose from the ferment of 1980s Neue Deutsche Design, that questioning, challenging, provoking and polarising of and with furniture design and relationships to furniture of that period, by the eponymous Nils Holger Moormann who as a designer took the impulses and experiences of Neue Deutsche Design and began developing furniture that for all it appears very far removed from the brashness, insolence, humour, questioning, challenging, provoking and polarising of the 1980s, is but an alterative expression of that brashness, insolence, humour, questioning, challenging, provoking and polarising...