Since 1823 the good folks of Cologne have taken to the streets on the Monday before Ash Wednesday to mark the approach of Lent with one last day, (and night) of earthly, secular, celebration before resigning body and soul to the sanctity of abstention; the...
...High-Density Chair by Thomas Schnur for Magnus Mewes In the interests of transparency, had we not see the High-Density chair at the 2019 Generation Köln showcase, it probably wouldn't have featured in this list...
...Thus, summing all the bravery we could muster, we descended into the unknown of the Bunker am Bahngleis and the exhibition Generation Köln... In context of Generation Köln 2019 each of the four presents a briefest of brief glimpses as to just what those directions may, possibly, be...
At Orgatec Cologne 2016 Vitra staged, in effect, their own trade fair, renting an entire hall and inviting family and friends along to share the space and their ideas on the future of work. And obviously had a lot of fun and/or success with the concept. For...
...In Köln, as in most city's, small independent shops struggle against not only the increasing number of large supermarket chains encroaching into urban spaces, but also evolving demographics, social practices and urban planning which all to often sees them either physically forced out by reconstruction or priced out by gentrification...
...Rookie by Konstantin Grcic for Vitra In the interests of full disclosure, at Orgatec 2014 Vitra launched the low-tech Allstar office chair by Konstantin Grcic, which kind of passed us by...
...Moving Away: The Internationalist Architect opens at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, 9/32 Krymsky Val, 119049, Moscow on Wednesday September 12th and runs until Friday November 30th "Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design" at the Vitra Design Museum, Weil Am Rhein, Germany "There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them", thus opened Victor Papanek his 1971 book Design for the Real World And spent the next 350+ pages not only expounding on why that is, but also that it needn't be... The first ever Victor Papanek retrospective The Politics of Design at the Vitra Design Museum promises not only to explore Papanek's life, work and legacy but also present contemporary projects considered by the curators to be very much in keeping with Papanek's positions and principles...
