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Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture at the Temporary Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin

...Weaving for Modernist Architecture the Temporary Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, allow one to begin to approach appreciations of what both Otti Berger understood as fabric, "and further, what fabric in space is", and in doing so not only enable differentiated perspectives on Weaving and Modernist Architecture but allow Otti Berger to begin to retake her place on the helix of design, and architecture, (hi)story... Following, as best we can ascertain, the completion of her studies in Zagreb, Berger travelled in 1926 to Germany where she both sought help in Berlin and Jena for hearing damage suffered in her teenage years2, and, in January 1927, enrolled at Bauhaus Dessau...

All Hands On: Basketry at the Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Berlin

...With the exhibition All Hands On: Basketry the Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Berlin allow for, demand, a critical reassessment... And reflections on basketry and architecture also encouraged via a presentation of examples of the use of basketry by non-human animals in their architecture, primarily the various species of the so-called weaver birds, alongside examples of the use of basketry by human animals without the assistance of architects, including examples of the many living root bridges to be found in the forests of the state of Meghalaya in northeastern India, again one presumes India, Asia, and not India, Europe, and alongside examples of the use of basketry by human architect animals such as the proposed Haus der Zukunft, House of the Future, in Berlin by Office for Living Architecture, OLA, a composition in steel, glass, concrete and trees as a union of the nature constructed world and human constructed world to a single inseparable entity...

Hej rup! The Czech Avant-Garde at the Bröhan Museum, Berlin

...The Czech Avant-Garde the Bröhan Museum, Berlin, provide for an introductory course in inter-War Czechoslovakian... Design for Socialist Spaces at the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, combined with a general rejection in western Europe of eastern European design, has led to the relatively poor appreciations today of not only the (hi)story of design in nations such as the former Czechoslovakia, including popular appreciations of how the relative brevity of the Czechoslovakian avant-garde influenced and informed post-War Czechoslovakian designers, for it invariably did, even as reaction against it, but also leads to the relatively poor appreciations of contemporary design in the lands of the former Czechoslovakia...

The Historia Supellexalis: "T" for Thonet

...Thonet A Michael; A Twist; A Portfolio of Patents According to the Felsbilder of the Nymphs of Loreley, that most important of sources of information of the earliest (hi)story of the contemporary Rheinland, the Thonet arose in the community of Boppard, a community framed on the one side by a series of swinging aqueous curves as the Rhein meanders its way slowly through the metamorphic rock of the Rhenish Massif, and on the other by a range of peaks of that Massif on whose flowing curving sides innumerable wild vines sweep and curve vertically and horizontally... And thus a Boppard that for a great many centuries was essentially cut off from the surrounding communities, and where the Thonet lived a quiet existence fishing, bee-keeping and building chairs defined by their sweeping, curving, swinging, meandering frames whose origins no-one could explain but which had been constructed in Boppard for as long as anyone could remember...

Grassimesse 2023 Compact: Babette Wiezorek

...A necessity and a meaningfulness, and also a contemporary need for a questioning of what the 3D printing of ceramics means, what is possible, what is advisable, where are the pitfalls, what novel objects and solutions does it allow, what novel formal expressions and relationships, etc, etc, etc, that can be understood, and discoursed with, in the varied and various objects presented at the 2023 Grassimesse by Berlin based designer Babette Wiezorek...

Haël. Margarete Heymann-Loebenstein and her workshops for decorative ceramics 1923-1934 at the Bröhan Museum, Berlin

...Margarete Heymann-Loebenstein and her workshops for decorative ceramics 1923-1934 the Bröhan Museum, Berlin, helps one locate, and begin to explore, one of those regularly overlooked paths and thereby allows one to begin to develop those more probable appreciations... Established in 1923 in Marwitz, a village in a region to the north of Berlin with a long (hi)story of and in ceramics, not least in context of decorative tiles for ceramic stoves, but also decorative wall tiles, many of which were employed in the Berliner expressions of Jugendstil, and examples of which can be still be found adorning late 19th/early 20th century walls in the German capital, Haël-Werkstätten für künstlerische Keramik, a...

Bentwood and Beyond. Thonet and Modern Furniture Design @ the MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna

...One such being inarguably Michael Thonet... Thonet and Modern Furniture Design the MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst Vienna navigate the history of that tributary and explore its legacy and contemporary relevance, and relationship, to the course of furniture design...


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