...The central element of the workshop was the new, height-adjustable Eiermann 1 M by Tim Schütze for Richard Lampert, while the living area featured the elegant LC4 chaise longue by Cassina, the delicate B 9 a+b nesting table set by Thonet and the purist L25 table lamp by Tecta...
...Take Jil Sander, for example, who teamed up with Thonet to give Marcel Breuer's famous cantilever chair an elegant new look – celebrated above all in Milan...
...In addition Ferdinand Kramer realised numerous furniture projects in cooperation with Thonet, most famously arguably being his B403 bentwood chair, while in context of his tenure at Frankfurt University Ferdinand Kramer designed, pretty much, all the furniture and furnishings... This process, which today is particularly important, is not only historically interesting: it alone explains the immense sales of the Thonet industry, and provides a very interesting reference for the further development of rationalisation in the furniture industry...
The 1973 film Ceremony by Italian architecture group Superstudio features individuals who inhabit the "Invisible House", a house devoid of not only a physical structure but, we are told by the narrator, all forms of furniture. The inhabitants of the invisible...
Passagen Design Week Cologne 2017 is playing host to Naked Objects, the fifth edition of the exhibition series "Nieuwe German Gestaltung" - and an exhibition which as with the previous four is an unashamed celebration of the diversity and vitality of...
With the exhibition 21 Common Things designer Thomas Schnur explores his personal relationship with everyday objects. And in doing so the concept of functionality. "The whole world's going home with blue plastic bags" observes Malcolm Middleton in his 2008...
Our pick of the new architecture and design exhibitions opening in January 2017, with showcases in Cologne, New York, Rotterdam, Atlanta and Helsinki. 5 New Design Exhibitions for January 2017 Offering as it does the perfect opportunity for reflection on what...
