Switzerland A Confoederatio; A Range; A Context For a great many centuries the lands of the contemporary Switzerland were unknown, locked as they were behind and between the towering, daunting, peaks of the Toblerone cordillera; but then a fearless explorer...
...Urban Green – Art – Design" at the MAKK – Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Cologne, Germany For all that trees primarily exist in forests and woodlands, unless that is they are being felled to make way for railways, motorways, or open-cast coal mines, trees are also components of urban spaces, and long have been... However, as the MAKK – Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Cologne, tends to opine, these days we don't always either notice urban trees or give them the attention and recognition they deserve, these days it isn't so much that we can't see the wood for the trees, but have lost sight of the trees as well...
...Increasing Rhein trade which continued increasing throughout the 20th century and saw Cologne's port move in 1970 some 12 kilometres downstream to a much larger facility in Köln-Niehl; a move which saw the Rheinauhafen become largely redundant...
"Everything is sculpture" opined once Isamu Noguchi.1 But is it? The exhibtion Isamu Noguchi in the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, allows one to engage with, reflect on, immerse yourself in Isamu Noguchi's life and work, and thus to better approach your own...
...[gallery link="file" ids="64948,64942,64940"] USM Haller Bacon Settle One of the problems with the traditional bacon settle is that while your situation, your needs, will invariably change, your wooden bacon settle can't really... A modular system, such as that offered by the USM Haller Bacon Settle, can...
...Originating in context of the German/Dutch design project Maken/Machen, and premiering at Dutch Design Week 2017, Generation Köln shouldn't be confused for a formal group, far less a collective, but much more is a platform for presenting some of Cologne's local designers, or localish designers, designers with a connection to Cologne, and which in its current, and most recent, incarnation features Karoline Fesser, Klemens Grund, Tim Kerp and Thomas Schnur... A quartet who for the 2019 Generation Köln project cooperated with carpentry businesses in Austria's Bregenzerwald, Bregenz Forest...
...Staged under the title "Ambassadors of Creative Innovation" the Swiss Embassy 3daysofdesign 2019 showcase presented works from established Swiss brands such as Vitra, USM Haller, Création Baumann, Caran d'Ache or Laufen, who presented their new SAVE urine directing toilet concept realised in conjunction with Vienna based studio EOOS and Eawag, the aquatic research institute at the ETH Zürich; younger brands such as Viu eyewear or Zürich based Qwstion with their bags crafted from Bananatex, a textile made from, well, banana plants, not yet Zürcher Bananas, but if we're not all careful it may only be a matter of time, and no-one wants that; and students from the Architecture and Wood & Civil Engineering departments at the Berner Fachhochschule, who, in inter-disciplinary teams of two, considered under the title "Furniture for a Pop-up Embassy", representative, temporary, variable, momentary furniture...
